Talks with Harvard are ongoing and despite hints that some kind of compromise might be reached soon, nothing has been formally announced yet. Meanwhile, the Trump administration does seem to be turning its attention toward California. Yesterday Trump’s education department said California was in violation of federal civil rights law. The Trump administration declared on...
Things between the European Union and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán have never been especially warm, but they are downright chilly at the moment. The bombastic Hungarian prime minister, along with being an enormous nationalist thorn in Ursula Von der Leyen’s best-laid plans for total EU domination of every country within their purview, has also rattled nerves...
At the end of last month Mayor Lurie proposed a new budget for the city of San Francisco. It came in just under $16 billion dollars. That included a bunch of cuts to try to eliminate a projected deficit of $782 million. One way to cut those funds is to cut back on city jobs....
We don’t yet know the timeline, but the Trump administration appears to be planning to use the power the Supreme Court just acknowledged to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a third-party country. 🚨 #BREAKING: ICE will be removing Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a third party country after an activist judge tries to put him on the...
Jamaal Bowman is most famous for being the school principal-turned-congressman who didn’t know what a fire alarm was. He claims he thought it was a door knob, which aptly describes him, if so. Bowman is no longer a Congressman, thank God, and hasn’t found his way back into our schools–not that it matters, since so...
Hmmm. Earlier today, rumors swirled that Donald Trump told Benjamin Netanyahu that he wanted to end not just the war with Iran but all of the conflicts in the region. Nothing firm emerged yet from those rumors, but this video message from the Israeli PM certainly sounds as though Netanyahu may be looking for the...
Andrew Sullivan has an excellent opinion piece in the NY Times today about how the gay rights movement became too radical for its own good. If you read this story last week offering a history of the trans movement then you already know what Sullivan is going to say. But he says it as someone...
Oh, my goodness gracious. What ugly, fugly people these Democrats and progressives are. For all their virtue-signaling and lecturing and weeping at podiums about norms and decency, in point of fact, none of them would have the first clue what any of those concepts really were if they were smacked in the face with them....
In a sane world, the bomb damage assessment that would tell us whether key elements of Iran’s nuclear program were destroyed would be based on empirical evidence. We don’t live in a sane world. The argument has everything to do with whether you like Donald Trump or hate him. If you like Trump, the nuclear...
Today’s decision by the Supreme Court is a big and potentially fatal loss for Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider. Scanning the headlines about this decision, Axios’ gets it right: “Supreme Court ruling on patients rights’ could devastate Planned Parenthood.” The case decided today is called Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and it arose...
In 1993, Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn starred in a pretty awful avant-garde movie called Boxing Helena. As the movie progressed, the psychotic obsession an Atlanta surgeon had for his neighbor resulted in amputating both her legs, and then, her arms so that she would be completely under his control. It was a horrible movie,...
Zohran Mamdani glorified Hamas members in his rap music, embraces a podcaster who insists that America deserved 9/11, wants to “globalize the Intifada,” and is a proud anti-capitalist socialist. Obviously, if you have a problem with that, you are Islamophobic. That is the message being blared out by the Pravda Media, which, when forced to...
This is one of those stories you sort of hear about a couple of weeks before, and maybe forget about unless some little nugget of information comes along that makes you want to dig a little deeper into it. Which is exactly what happened to me this morning. I do recall maybe even commenting on...
“Operation Midnight Hammer was the culmination of those 15 years of incredible work,” General Dan ‘Razin’ Caine told reporters this morning in a briefing on the strikes in Iran. The Pentagon developed the GBU-57 bunker-buster in part for this mission, modeled its effects ‘extensively,’ and applied it directly on target. Gen. Cain made sure everyone...
From the outset, all the evidence suggested that COVID-19 was deadly to the old and infirm, and a bad flu for everybody else. Focused protection for the vulnerable and developing a vaccine to alleviate the burden on them were policies that made the most sense. And given that only a small fraction of the population...