Too tired to post
I’m so sorry, but it’s been a long day (a good and productive day, but still a long one), and I’m just too tired to post. I’ll be back tomorrow, though, I promise. Until then, it’s Open Thread time. FacebookTweet
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Trump has baited the cognitive test trap
Democrats think Trump is stupid because he claims to have found the cognitive test hard. They don’t even see the trap into which they’ve willingly walked. Trump has a larger than life personality (I don’t think anyone can dispute that), and his own way of getting things done. Some of
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New Documents Raise The Issues, What Did Comey Know & When Did He Know It?
The Senate Judiciary Committee released two documents strongly indicating that, by March 2017, when Comey publicly announced that the FBI was investigating President Trump and his administration for conspiring with Russia, the FBI leadership, including James Comey, knew that there was no reasonable basis for continuing that investigation. Background &
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Bookworm Beat 7/19/20 — the crazy times illustrated edition
No matter how bad things are, there’s always room for wisdom and laughter, and there’s plenty of that in this crazy times illustrated edition. FacebookTweet
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I’m finding mystifying the left’s war on re-opening schools
Teachers’ unions do not want to re-open schools. I can think of some benefits for them from this stance, but mostly I think closed schools will hurt them. I can think of three short-term reasons for leftists, in the form of teachers’ unions, to wage war on public schools: 1.
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Prof. Glen Loury on BLM, Structural Racism, & Equality of Opportunity
At City Journal, a wide ranging interview with black professor of economics, Glen Loury, a fact-driven contrarian in the mold of Thomas Sowell. Glen Loury is a professor of Economics at Brown Univ. — and since we are playing in a world of racial politics, let’s take note that he
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This Week in the Race Hustling of America
It has been a big week for the race hustlers as they try to foist their toxin on America as both received wisdom and law. The photo at the top of the page is a crop from this photo, part of a satirical post from The People’s Cube. It certainly
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Scott Adams: The coming election is an extinction event *UPDATED*
Conservatives are right to take the coming election seriously, for a Biden victory could be a true “extinction event,” rather than the usual shift leftward. A friend recommended that I watch the last few minutes of Scott Adams’ July 13 show. Her recommendation was illuminating, for Adams had a very
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Movie Review: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Instead of politics, today I want to recommend Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, a sweet, funny, melodious movie. I was introduced to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1982 when I was an exchange student in England. All of my friends were British and none was too
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Dr. Sowell, Systemic Racism & America’s “Point of No Return” Updated
Dr. Sowell recently observed that the term “systemic racism” is meaningless and that we are rapidly approaching a point of no return, much like ancient Rome. Below is was the entirety of Mark Levin’s July 12 interview of Thomas Sowell. In the first several minutes, Levin asks Dr. Sowell about
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Defund the Police: the speed of degradation
The speed with which the Defund the Police movement is breaking American cities is a dangerous harbinger of the totalitarianism that always follows anarchy. Entropy: A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system not available to do work. As a physical system becomes more disordered, and its
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The Nazi . . . American Eagle?
The USA Today fact checks as “True” that “Trump campaign shirts feature the imperial eagle, a Nazi symbol.” From the USA Today: The claim: Trump campaign shirts feature imperial eagle, a Nazi symbol Our ruling: True https://t.co/3eCiYdgQvK — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 12, 2020 From Broadway, circa 1972: The Claim:
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Bookworm Beat 7/11/20 — the 2020 is really strange edition and open thread
This is smorgasbord illustrated edition, with 84 illustrations in no particular order on everything from Wuhan virus to BLM to to silly stuff, and more. FacebookTweet
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Cancel culture: Absolute power corrupts absolutely *UPDATE*
The cancel culture of the campus outrage mob has burst into the wider world and it is daily revealing the truism that absolute power corrupts absolutely. When it comes to cancel culture, conservatives have been the canary in the coalmine. Because they’ve been paying attention to what’s been happening on
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The site’s back up and I’ll post on Friday
I’m sorry for the absence of new content. I was going to post on Thursday evening, but the site went down, apparently from another bot attack. I try to tell myself that these bot attacks mean I’m doing something right, but it’s still very disheartening when they happen. I’m just
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