I was reliably told that if Donald Trump got elected president, democracy itself was at risk. And sure enough, the warnings were correct. Without the unanimous consent of every federal judge, it turns out that elections can be nullified, the Constitution torn up, and the Executive Branch paralyzed. At the outset of his administration, President...
Wow. This turned around quickly. So, there was this fellow in New Mexico, Dona Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano. It turns out his wife had a soft heart and, when a young lad who had helped around their place as a handyman needed a roof over his head, she invited him to live in...
Fantasy Conclave can be fun and informative, when not taken too seriously. The mainstream media that barely covers the Catholic Church looooves to engage in tea-leaf reading to suss out how 135 electors will choose between 135 — and maybe more — potential candidates for Pope. They are usually very good at creating “short lists”...
I read a lot of articles every day. A LOT. I do because following the news and opinion writing is integral to my job. And while I love my job, I have to admit that without blood pressure medications, I would burst a blood vessel several times a day. I don’t always get things right....
The week started with a bang. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, it ends with — well, not a whimper, but only a tired lament from Bill Maher about Larry David’s intellect. For a man who got called a Nazi stooge by his (former?) friend in the pages of the New York Times, it seems like he’s...
The phrase “hoist on his own petard” comes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A petard was a crude explosive device–essentially a crude grenade–and being hoisted on one’s petard meant being harmed or killed by one’s own weapon. Well, the Ivy League has been using DEI petards against disfavored groups–whites, Jews, Asians–and their chosen weapons are about the...
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy.” The basic point of this is to undermine what is known as disparate-impact theory. Here’s how the executive order describes it. A bedrock principle of the United States is that all citizens are treated equally under the law. This principle guarantees...
BWAHAhahahaha! Holy smokerdoodles, this is epic. Yes, THE Atlantic and THAT Goldberg, and it happened (or is happening) today. ????BREAKING: Trump is sitting down with Jeffrey Goldberg today. “I am doing this interview out of curiosity, and as a competition with myself, just to see if it’s possible for The Atlantic to be ‘truthful.'” pic.twitter.com/IxVGtaWJVt...
Yesterday we learned that pro-Hamas extremists at Columbia are planning to erect a new encampment on the school’s campus sometime today. Planning for the new encampment has been taking place in secret. The coordinating meeting took place at a community center on Tuesday night in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, approximately 12 miles from campus, according to...
Last week in Minnesota a state worker named Dylan Bryan Adams was arrested for vandalizing multiple Teslas. As David pointed out here, Adams is not a college student who got over-excited, he’s a 33-year-old man who did this over and over, resulting in about $20,000 in damage to six different cars owned by complete strangers....
I read the saddest little letter today, almost as if Charles Dickens had come back to life, and conjured up another orphan with an outstretched bowl, begging for one more, tiny dollop of a spoonful. PLEASE, SIR – MAY I HAVE ANOTHER? It arrived in Tony Seruga’s inbox with the subject line ‘Not Great!’ You...
Second Third Fourth Fifth look at John Fetterman? The Senate Democrat from Pennsylvania sounds tougher on Iran than many of the Senate Republicans, and possibly tougher than Donald Trump himself. Today, the news about negotiations over the Iranian nuclear-weapons program sounds at least somewhat promising. We’ll get to that shortly, but Fetterman ain’t buying it,...
New York AG Letitia James has hired attorney Abbe Lowell to respond to the allegations that she was involved in some sort of mortgage fraud on her various properties. If Lowell’s name is familiar it’s probably because he was Hunter Biden’s attorney last year. He has also worked for Sen. Bob Menendez, Jared Kushner, Gary...
I almost – ALMOST – didn’t write about this because listening to the whining of these people was so Gott-danged painful, I was near the end of my tether. But then I remembered two things – pain is best shared, and I have y’all. YOU WIN! Actually, though, I think I’m performing some sort of...
David French’s latest newsletter/column is titled “The Anti-Woke Right Has a Lot to Answer For.” The gist of the argument is that the anti-woke right are hypocrites on free speech because Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump have pushed their agenda though legislation aimed at limiting woke speech rather than competing in the marketplace of ideas....