Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A film clip from 2007 shows that at least one Hollywood writer understood basic military strategy and geopolitical realities. This is from 2007’s Lions for Lambs. Tom Cruise is a Republican Senator explaining to a reporter how to get out of Afghanistan. (And you’ll hear the reporter, played by Meryl
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The hypocritical climate-change virtue signaling at Cost Plus would be funny if it didn’t weaken America and strengthen China. I grew up as a Cost Plus child. We used to shop at the original store in Fisherman’s Wharf (where it opened in 1958), although beginning sometime in the 1960s, we
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Sic semper tyrannis (“thus always to tyrants”) means tyranny gets punished. Neil Oliver says that today’s tyrants know this and are worried. The same friend who wrote me the letter about life in modern England included a link to a statement from Neil Oliver about the fear he sees in
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A friend says England is quite a bit the worse of COVID wear. I believe that because no country can survive endless, cyclical lockdowns. One of the joys of the internet is that I’ve reconnected with a very dear friend of mine from England. She is an incredible letter writer
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I may have an opportunity to ask questions of a physician from Iran. He’s willing to talk about COVID as well as medicine in general. If this comes to anything, I need to use this opportunity wisely and ask the most intelligent questions I can. To me, figuring out how
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Uma Thurman normally wouldn’t interest me but her pro-abortion message actually made three excellent points (that she didn’t mean to make). Uma Thurman occupies a place on the list of Hollywood actresses in whom I have no interest. I believe I last saw her in Pulp Fiction, almost thirty years
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Some of the things the National Archives sells are wonderful. As for other things…well, read this and see. We’ve decided to fill our home with a few of America’s most important documents. So far, we’ve gotten ourselves copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights,
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Readers of James Taranto’s “Best of the Web Today” will recognize the title of this illustrated edition. Y’all know what it means.
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If you believe in a constitutional America, the daily news in Biden’s American can be depressing, but there are ways to stave off the blues. I spend my day reading the news and then writing about it. In Biden’s America, that’s not a cheerful job. I sometimes worry that America
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Just because I’m traveling doesn’t mean I don’t have thoughts about Milley’s unconstitutional, possibly treasonous, conduct. I’m on the road, so have missed out on some news–and the ability to comment on some news. The big story yesterday, of course, was about Mark Milley and his assurance to his Chinese
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It’s wrong to let the 20th anniversary go without remembering ordinary Americans who faced sure death with extraordinary courage. I had forgotten about this amazing phone call. I think we all need to read it again so that we can fully comprehend both the evil on that day and the
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This post honors Rick Rescorla, an amazing man who saved thousands of lives but lost his own on 9/11. True immortality being the Divine’s purview, we humans are limited to only two types: genetics and remembrance. It is the latter that concerns me. Almost every year on 9/11, I remember
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This post honors Lt. Brian G. Ahearn, one of New York City’s heroic firefighters on 9/11. True immortality being the Divine’s purview, we humans are limited to only two types: genetics and remembrance. It is the latter that concerns me. Almost every year on 9/11, I remember three people who
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This post honors Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas, one of the heroes of Flight 93. True immortality being the Divine’s purview, we humans are limited to only two types: genetics and remembrance. It is the latter that concerns me. Almost every year on 9/11, I remember three people who died that day:
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Sherlock Holmes’s famous premise about things impossible or improbable applies with unnerving accuracy to the Democrats’ actions in 2021. Sherlock Holmes famously told his sidekick, Dr. Watson, that “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” This is not strictly accurate,
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