Did Joe Biden’s handlers photoshop the Easter family photo released yesterday? We wish everyone celebrating today a peaceful and joyful Easter. pic.twitter.com/GQNsdZNaw1 — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 20, 2025 Enquiring minds want to know. As much as I love photography, I use Adobe Lightroom instead of Photoshop to edit my photos. I do so because...
Earlier this month a group of Jewish students chained themselves to the gates of Columbia University to make demands related to Mahmoud Khalil’s case. After a few hours, campus security cut the chains and removed the protesters. This was presented as a sign of the school’s new, tougher approach to civil disobedience. Today, another group...
Well, it’s kind of a bummer that winged hussars are few and far between these days – at least the heroes on horseback are. I guess there are still plenty of feathered ones in drag shows. It’s hard to say if the Austrians are aware of what’s happened to their country in the ‘Holy CRAP,...
The American Academy of Pediatrics is e prime example of a broader phenomenon: “expert” organizations’ tendency to hew the Party Line superseding their commitment to promoting the cause to which they are nominally committed. Not long ago, I wrote about the American Heart Association coming out strongly in favor of using SNAP benefits to pay...
I would not be surprised to see a denial of this report, probably before I’m done writing about it. NPR is reporting that, according to an anonymous US official, the White House is now looking for a new Secretary of Defense to replace Pete Hegseth. The White House has begun the process of looking for...
We have some pretty darn good relations with El Salvador’s charismatic and effective president, Nayib Bukele. Leave it to Democrats to possibly threaten a good thing, and why? Where they didn’t give two figs about the tiny country a month ago, all of a sudden you can’t keep the whiny camera Hoggs…oh. Sorry. Can’t keep...
You would never know it, given my writings here, but I used to be an enthusiastic, totally unabashed believer in higher education. I thought that, for all its flaws and quirks, American higher education institutions contributed far more to society than the trouble they caused and the expense they cost. What a difference a few...
There was a protest in London Saturday against the recent UK Court decision which concluded that trans women are not in fact the same as biological women under the law. Organizers are claiming 20,000 people attended but as usual that number is likely inflated inflated. But it’s fair to say there were several thousand people....
Secret weapon? Thus far, the Trump administration has deployed plenty of public weapons in the fight to end anti-Semitism and illegal discrimination in Academia, and especially in the Poison Ivies. The most obvious weapon has been money, and that was enough to get Columbia’s attention, if not its full cooperation. For Harvard, Donald Trump and...
At the moment, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s attention is focused on wrestling with his courage in an effort to burp up some sort of statement on the recent United Kingdom Supreme Court ruling that legally defines the intent of the original Equality Act as the sex one is born is the sex one...
Say what? Shot: Four House Democrats were scheduled to land in El Salvador Monday to demand the release and return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who lived in Maryland and was deported by the administration to a prison in El Salvador due to what the Trump administration an “administrative error.” The group — Rep....
David Brooks, a “conservative” columnist for The New York Times, famously reminisced about how he knew Barack Obama would become President of the United States right after he was elected Senator from Illinois. He even knew that Barack Obama would be a good president. What gave him this semi-prescient insight? (He was half right–Obama did...
2025’s Barabbas, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, got full representation on Easter as his chief advocate, United States Senator Chris Van Hollen, was booked and appeared on all five Sunday shows, becoming the 39th person to pull off the full Ginsburg. Ben Ginsburg, the former attorney for Monica Lewinsky, set the precedent on February 1, 1998 in...
After twelve years as the Pontiff and head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has passed away at the age of 88. The pope had nearly passed away weeks earlier but made what seemed to be a nearly miraculous recovery, and insisted on returning to work. The Holy Father made it through Easter before slipping...
Democrats have been searching for some issue with which they could get political purchase, given how adrift they have been and how their popularity has plummeted. They needed something…anything…around which they could rally their party, get their ground troops mobilized, and most importantly, get some politically powerful group or another to come to their defense. ...