The Brett Kavanaugh Snowflake ‘Emergency’
Akhil Reed Amar is a prominent professor at Yale Law School, and a noted liberal. He wrote a piece for the NYT yesterday in praise of Brett Kavanaugh’s qualifications for the US Supreme Court. Excerpt:...
View ArticleA Republican Is Born
A reader writes: I’m a middle-aged (45) white male, married with 3 young children. For my entire adult life, I’ve known – and I would guess that most of the men in my demographic cohort would, too –...
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When They Came For Kavanaugh’s Kid
From editorial cartoonist Chris Britt. How can a man do this to another man’s child? How can editors allow this to pass? What corrupt and wicked hearts they have. UPDATE: For some reason, this image...
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Rachel Mitchell: Ford Has No Case
Rachel Mitchell, the veteran sex crimes investigator hired by Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to question Christine Blasey Ford, has written an assessment of Ford’s claims. It is...
View ArticleTale Of Kavanaugh & Two Catholic Universities
Christine Fair is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University, and a troubled person, judging by her Twitter feed. For example: Look at thus chorus of entitled white men...
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Kavanaugh & The Elites’ Civil War
Ross Douthat, who graduated from Harvard, has an interesting column up this morning about the Kavanaugh fight as a civil war among America’s Ivy-covered elites. His basic point is that everybody...
View ArticleKavanaugh And American Elites
Reader Annie comments: My father-in-law went to one of the top Ivy schools back in the 70s. He was a poor kid from rural Appalachia. Back then there were quite a few of those guys, and they bonded...
View ArticleKavanaugh Fight & Declining Institutions
Here’s a link to the letter signed by over 1,700 law professors (“and counting”). I find it hard to imagine that a single conservative mind will be changed by this. In fact, it’s likely to make us even...
View ArticleProgressive 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...
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