The number of American soldiers who’ve died in Iraq since George W. Bush declared victory from the deck of that aircraft carrier has been many times the number who died before that declaration of victory. So it’s not always clear that victory… Read More ›
Editorials
THE PIVOT
A servant serves a master. A public servant serves the public. Dr. Deborah Birx was quintessentially that. Note the ‘was’, because yesterday, May 7, she pivoted. You can tell she pivoted from public servant to servant of Donald Trump when,… Read More ›
STACEY ABRAMS AND THE I-BELIEVE-YOU CAMPAIGN
It would be oxymoronic of me to complain about something having gone unreported, since if it went unreported I wouldn’t know it. The same applies to something that is reported but is then ignored, since if I’m complaining about it being… Read More ›
COVID 19 AND PRIVILEGE
On the assumption things don’t get so bad that we descend into anarchy, those of us with protected incomes have a much better chance than those who don’t of coming out of this thing financially intact, but also physically intact…. Read More ›
HEY, I’M JUST SPECULATIN’
People complain about the cold. So what does God do? He warms it up a little. And then they get hysterical about global warming. Can you blame Him for getting a bit miffed? “Here, let me give you something to… Read More ›
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
‘cuz you just might get it. Truer words may never be spoken if it turns out the coronavirus delivers on precisely what the environmental movement has been yearning for lo this last half century. In this one fell swoop that… Read More ›
PUSHBACK
There are no Italian restaurants in Italy. They’re just restaurants. Similarly, until the late Sixties there was no ‘conservative’ radio. There was just radio. The conservative media became ‘conservative’ only when the mainstream turned to the left. As a result,… Read More ›
QASEM SOLEIMANI AND 2020
I’m beginning to suspect that, given who he’s likely to be up against in November, Trump is going to be re-elected in 2020. But as one of his advisers – and I guess in a sense I am, since I… Read More ›
BLACKFACE
Should there be a statute of limitations? For some crimes, yes, for others no, and we can argue about which is which. But should there be a statute of limitations on purely moral accountability for saying and doing stupid things?… Read More ›
IN DEFENSE OF BERNARD VALCOURT
At the risk of sounding racist … oh what the hell, I can just play my J-card – ex-Tory MP Bernard Valcourt was dead right to object to the MMIWG enquiry calling the murder of indigenous women “the Canadian genocide”…. Read More ›
