Progressive Politics Permeate, Poison
What must it be like to work in such a lunatic environment? From the NYT: “I want to apologize,” the Facebook executive wrote last Friday in a note to staff. “I recognize this moment is a deeply...
View ArticleAfter Kavanaugh’s Destruction, Who Is Safe?
David Brooks is back from book leave today, and he’s disgusted by the Kavanaugh debacle, which he calls “a complete national disgrace.” Excerpts: What we saw in these hearings was the unvarnished...
View ArticleSusan Collins’s Strong Speech
Sen. Susan Collins, the pro-choice moderate Republican from Maine, gave a great speech on the Senate floor, explaining at length why she intends to vote for Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation. In it, she...
View ArticleKavanaugh 4-Ever
Even if he’s confirmed today, that’s not going to be the end of it, according to a top House Democrat: House Democrats will open an investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct and perjury...
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Lindsey Graham FTW
The Bee Gees pic.twitter.com/Iu6SGQgjFl — Peter Cozy (@PeterCozy) October 6, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js John Podhoretz has a very good column about how Brett Kavanaugh turned his...
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Progressive Tribalism Beats The War Drums
I would like fair-minded liberal readers to take a look at this op-ed from The New York Times, and consider that this is exactly the kind of left-wing racist rant that drives many of us white people...
View ArticleCatholic Thoughtcriminal Forced Out At OU Law
A reader writes: Just wanted to put this story on your radar, which, surprisingly to me at least, hasn’t blown up beyond local and a few Catholic outlets. Brian McCall, a professor and dean at the...
View ArticleThe Media & The Mob
There ought to be a word for this phenomenon. Earlier today, I blogged about a progressive Catholic who is appalled that conservative Catholics cite homosexual priests as a cause of the abuse scandal....
View ArticleA Deal For Social Conservatives?
Elizabeth Dias of the NYT writes today about the political future of social and religious conservatives, after the recent elections. This part jumped out at me: In a divided Congress, social...
View ArticleDrowning Cultural Conservatism
From time to time in this space, a fellow religious conservative will attempt to cheer us all up by claiming that our tribe is more fecund, and will outbreed secular liberals. It’s a nice thought, but...
View ArticleCultural Socialism In The Law
You want to talk about “social justice”? Here’s what the identity politics mentality is doing to the law in Canada. Take a look at this Quillette essay by Murray Klippenstein, a progressive Toronto...
View ArticleInside The Poverty Palace
A lot of people on the right have known for a while that the Southern Poverty Law Center is an extremely effective grifting operation. You might have even called it “a marketing tool for bilking...
View ArticleBC Judge Gags Thought Criminal Dad
In an interview with me published yesterday, Polish academic and European parliamentarian Ryszard Legutko compared Communist era to today’s atmosphere on many college campuses: Each time the results...
View ArticleKansas: Now The Abortion State
The Kansas Supreme Court issued a stunning 6-1 decision today that guarantees expansive abortion rights in the state, no matter what happens at the federal level. To make this clear: even if Roe v....
View ArticleKnifing Liberalism At Harvard
This is a big deal: Harvard said on Saturday that a law professor who is representing Harvey Weinstein would not continue as faculty dean of an undergraduate house after his term ends on June 30,...
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