It was just over a week ago that a group of pro-Hamas extremists at the University of Washington occupied the brand new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building in order to protest the school’s connection to Boeing. I wrote about it when it happened and there was lots of video of what was happening outside the building including...
Mean old Marines. At least that’s the impression you get from the headline the communists at Military.com put on their story. A Woman Drove into a San Diego Military Facility by Mistake. She Now Faces Deportation. Aw, jeez. Well, sometimes life just comes at you the wrong way. The ‘military installation’ in question just happens...
After the wildfires that swept through LA neighborhoods of Altadena and Pacific Palisades, State Farm (California’s top home insurer) requested an emergency rate hike of 22%. They didn’t get that but yesterday a judge did approve a 17% hike. Administrative Law Judge Karl Frederic Seligman, who oversaw an unusual three-day hearing on the matter last...
Better late than never, I guess. The New York Times has finally acknowledged that American boys aren’t doing so well. It’s Not Just a Feeling: Data Shows Boys and Young Men Are Falling Behind. Boys’ educational achievement, mental health and transitions to adulthood indicate that many are not thriving. https://t.co/QLdBA3ht41 via @NYTimes — Carl Hindy...
Yesterday, Judge Hannah Dugan was indicted by a federal grand jury. She is set to enter a plea in response to that indictment tomorrow. But before that happens, her attorneys have filed a motion to dismiss the case, claiming that she has complete immunity from prosecution for any “official acts.” If that sounds familiar it’s...
This is the kind of update, ooooh, don’t I just lurves me to be able to write. You know – as opposed to ‘Starmer locked up another Granny’ or ‘Merz’s polizei raided another AfD supporter’s home’ or ‘car rams festival crowd in [insert European city]’. This is a good one for all of us. Remember...
For the last several years, the United States has undergone a migration pattern based on political preferences. It began when the pandemic produced significantly different public-policy responses by red and blue states, and accelerated until mortgage rates finally returned to historic norms. The Wall Street Journal became one of the first media outlets to take...
Remember “Volt Typhoon?” That was the name given to a group of Chinese hackers who were identified last year by Microsoft. Volt Typhoon was a state sponsored effort to gain access to US infrastructure including communications and utilities. At the time, FBI Director Christopher Wray said this about the effort. “The fact is, the PRC’s...
What a depressing poll. The Heartland Institute’s poll, done in conjunction with Rasmussen Reports, shows us a couple of things we wish we could unsee. First, that a third of Democrats want the US to lose its trade war with China, and another third aren’t sure whether they want the US or China to win. ...
I should say up front that I don’t really care about Sean Combs in any of his various incarnations as a rapper or a business mogul. In fact the only music I can associate him with is some song he did for the terrible 1998 Godzilla movie where he appeared with Jimmy Page. My thought...
Second thoughts, eh? They’re very useful … when pandering politicians sense that the winds have changed. And they are all the more remarkable when first thoughts should have sufficed to deduce the obvious. Case in point: Gavin Newsom, who has run California into the ground in every way imaginable, but especially on fiscal stability. Despite...
I like Megan McArdle. A lot. She is one of the better columnists in the Pravda Media, writing from her perch at the Washington Post in a generally dispassionate manner, which is rare these days. But…there is always a but, isn’t there…she has developed blind spots that baffle me. Perhaps it comes from spending so...
This is a public service announcement from me, resident cynic, and I don’t give a s**t who it is when I have something that’s torqued me off. As has this ERMAGERD BOMBSHELL-laden exercise in hubris, cover, and concealment by none other than the saintly, always holier-than-thou Jake Tapper. I’m not even going to link to it...
To quote my good friend and VIP Gold chat partner Cam Edwards: Everything is stupid, and it’s only getting worse. Not surprisingly, House Democrats make for very good exemplars of Cam’s evergreen observation. The DNC is already humiliatiing itself on the Altar of Woke to impose “gender balance” rather that accept election results. Meanwhile on...
You can’t make this crap up, can you? After decades of “partnering with”–read “getting big bucks from”–the federal government to aid with the resettlement of refugees, the Episcopal Church has decided that it can no longer do so because…they were asked to help resettle white people. Episcopal Church Bishop Sean Rowe: It’s against what we...