I am a pretty much a First Amendment absolutist. People should be allowed to say whatever they want within the well-understood boundaries of the law. This applies very much to American citizens and, within reason, to Green Card holders. I tend to think that guests of any kind should be required to meet minimum standards,...
This is all this buffoon has to do? BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson backs plan to eliminate Columbus statues from Chicago’s parks pic.twitter.com/fzXK5745B1 — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 7, 2025 It’s pretty amazing how, in the hands of Democrats, what is often promised as a ‘temporary’ solution to soothe ruffled feathers (read: mollify their peevish or...
Stanford is one of the leading universities in the Unites States and naturally that makes it a target for China. I’ve written about China’s attempts to infiltrate American universities before. Back in January 2020, the head of Harvard’s chemistry department, Dr. Charles Lieber, was arrested for lying about his connections to a Chinese program that...
Bingley sent me this interesting little email he got yesterday. Seemed noteworthy at the time, but there wasn’t a lot of information besides what was actually IN the announcement itself. The government’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulates the commodities and derivatives markets. Their mission statement… The mission of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is...
Here we go again. It’s apparently reading week at Columbia University which means lots of students are preparing for final exams in the quiet campus library. No doubt that’s why a group of Hamas supporters decided to take over the library today. They want to create maximum disruption on campus. Here they are shoving their...
Earlier today I wrote about another Biden-era scandal related to human trafficking. It turns out that the hotline set up to report incidents to law enforcement simply took down the information and essentially deposited it in the circular file. The situation was so bad that 40–that is 4-0–attorneys general are begging RFK, Jr. to force...
Remember Walter Duranty? We certainly do — not personally, of course, since Duranty died nearly 70 years ago, but Duranty left an indelible stain on journalism before he left. And unfortunately, also helped establish its current model. Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize as the Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times, whose journalistic work consisted...
About a year ago there were anti-Israel protests on the campus of the University of Michigan similar to the ones taking place at other schools. Some of those protests resulted in arrests but in a pattern familiar to anyone who follows left-wing activists, charges against those involved were either never filed at all or were...
For old times’ sake, let’s do a quick flashback to only a year ago, when stalwart local independent Seattle journalist Jonathan Choe was documenting the goings-on at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. The Hamasholes, much as they were on campuses across the country, had set up little tents and were camping out on university...
As its cardinals gather for their conclave today at the Vatican, the Catholic Church and other faiths find itself under assault — not just in China and North Korea, but in the state of Washington. Despite impassioned opposition, Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed a new law stripping members of the clergy of their ability to...
Ed wrote about New York Magazine’s hit piece against Sen. John Fetterman last Friday. Yesterday, Fetterman pushed back on it in comments to several reporters. He called it a “once source story, with a couple anonymous sources.” He added that it was “a hit piece from a very left wing publication.” The Left eating their...
One of the many, many proofs that the media does a horrible job of keeping Americans informed is that most people never had a good sense of just how feckless Biden’s Gaza policies were. To be fair, most people’s opinions were driven by ideological/sympathetic commitments that existed prior to any of Biden’s actions, but even...
A business owner in Queens named Anthony Della Vecchia owns an industrial lot that is home to his business, Michael Della Vecchia & Son General Contractor. The backside of his building runs along 19th Road and Della Vecchia says he frequently finds all sorts of garbage including used needles, condoms, beer bottles, etc. There would...
‘Like no other’? A few media outlets have made that argument today, but it’s actually much more of a conclave like most of the others. The true anomaly came in 2013 when the conclave took place under the nominal guidance of a living pope, after Benedict XVI unexpectedly took the first papal retirement in 600...
There are few more powerful examples of how disconnected from reality many liberals are than the fact that they are sympathetic to Antifa–it is “anti-fascist!”–and think that people who attend Turning Point USA events are the fascists. No doubt, most liberals would say that the Antifa activists’ tactics do go too far, but that they...