Little Brendan Mulvaney, from Ballston Spa, N.Y., was doing what seven year-olds have been doing way before Matt and Becky and a long line of cousins were doing on the Cliff Walk in Newport, RI in the 70s: selling lemonade from a homemade stand. Aiding and abetting the cousins were shameless culprits: their grandparents. Back […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: the Future of the Democratic Party?
Is free health care, free college, free money for everyone (aka “universal basic income) the new mantra of Democrats? During an interview on The Daily Show, Ocasio-Cortez muddled through how the government would pay for all the free stuff she is proposing. This is an excellent, excellent question — and, in fact, there’s a lot […]
Caving In to Academic Bullies
After a University of Georgia professor congratulated an old friend on becoming Georgia’s Republican candidate for governor, he issued an apology to those he had “offended.” How dare he say something nice about a Republican. Charles Davis, dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at UGA, sent the offending tweet shortly after […]
Renowned BU Diplomacy Prof Rates Trump/Putin Meet A+
How many times since 2016 have you read something that goes like this: “Although not a fan of Donald Trump, I voted for him”? That’s pretty much how Angelo Codevilla starts his assessment of the Trump/Putin Helsinki summit – an assessment that sharply contrasts with the “obloquy by which the bipartisan U.S. ruling class showcases […]
Is Tribalism All That Bad?
In a lengthy article in The American Conservative, Matt Purple, managing editor, discusses innocuous tribalism and puzzles over why it can’t coexist with liberalism. When rooting for the New England Patriots or defending America to skeptical foreigners, Matt Purple admits that he is indulging his own inner tribalism in that he is irrationally siding with […]
Hillary, Obama, Trump—the Russian Connections
In October 2016, President Obama emphatically dismissed the notion that Russia could change the way people voted in an election: There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America’s elections, there’s no evidence that that has happened in the past or that it will happen this time. […]
Avoid “Own the Libs” Style Online Behavior
Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, kicked off a conservative conference of high school students on Monday by urging attendees to avoid inflammatory language in favor of demonstrating real leadership, reports The Hill. At the High School Leadership Summit at George Washington University, Ms. Haley asked, “Raise your hand if you’ve ever posted anything […]
The Justice Department and FBI’s Embarrassing (and Disgusting) Document
Francis Menton, the Manhattan Contrarian, readily admits that many others have beaten him to the punch in commenting on the Carter Page FISA Warrant Application. But Sunday morning, while in a public space, Mr. Menton was forced, as so often we are in public spaces, to watch CNN, thankfully muted, he reports. CNN’s main focus […]
More Good News on President Trump’s Judicial Confirms
In what should have been headline news this week, the Senate confirmed Mr. Trump’s 23rd appellate nominee. Instead, we have been treated to, as Victor Davis Hanson notes, nonstop coverage on: hysteria over the Russian summit Mueller collusion probe and unsupported allegations and rumors Strzok and Page testimonies ongoing congressional investigations into improper CIA and […]
How John Brennan Used His Position to Assist Hillary Clinton
Former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan has accused President Donald Trump of “venality, moral turpitude and political corruption.” This week Obama’s former CIA director Twittered that Mr. Trump’s press conference in Helsinki was “nothing short of treasonous.” “This is rough stuff, even for an Obama partisan,” writes Kimberley Strassel in the WSJ. That’s what […]
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