Unlike poor ol’ Kim K., the guy who forced his way into our room was not masked, did not tie us up in the bathroom, and didn’t take anything. Our intruder only wanted to help. Especially making coffee. I was startled on our 5th floor balcony when something furry seemed to be bumping into my leg. Sans […]
A Radical Concept: Boys and Girls Are Different
From the WSJ’s Notable & Quotable: Jonathan V. Last explains how kids who are given gender-neutral toys will, on their very own, “gender the heck out of them.” When he was four, our eldest, a boy, discovered that sticks make for highly effective swords. . . . His sisters, meanwhile, gravitated toward decidedly less aggressive […]
Tune Out the Talking Heads; Tune In a $130m Extravaganza
Are you going to the polls on 8 November with one hand on the lever and the other holding your nose? With six weeks to go and inane droning on the presidential election intensifying, you might want to tune out the talking heads and tune into Netflix’s latest release, The Crown. At $130 million, the […]
Lester Holt and the Liberal Media’s Bias
Why were all the antagonistic questions during the first presidential debate directed toward Donald Trump and not one toward Hillary Clinton? “Donald Trump was asked about his tax returns, his role in promoting the birther controversy, whether he flip-flopped on the Iraq War, and what he meant when he said recently that Clinton does not […]
Unions or Children–Which Way Will Massachusetts Vote?
In a state that takes great pride in education, Massachusetts has become ground zero for the national charter school debate, explains Roger Lowenstein in the WSJ. State laws limit charter school capacity in the Bay State, which means 32,000 children, most of them minorities, are on waiting lists. But that could change in November when […]
Greetings from a Car-Free Day in Paris
On Sunday, 26 September about one-half of Paris was off limits to autos and limited exclusively to pedestrians. Exceptions were made for buses, taxis, and emergency vehicles. Under grey skies and light showers, areas around the Louvre and Champs Elysees were inundated with cyclists, prams, scooters and pedestrians. The 2nd car-free day in Paris is part […]
Why You Are Right to Be Disgusted with the Political Class
Here are a few programs the Political Class has dumped on Americans, spelled out by Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian: “Anti-poverty” programs that cost a trillion dollars a year without ever ameliorating poverty. “Affordable housing” programs (“the worst possible public policy”) that trap the “beneficiaries” in poverty for life. Healthcare programs that cost hundreds […]
Is Hillary Competing with Saturday Night Live?
The U.S.—Tumbling to #16 in Worldwide Economic Freedom?
That’s right. We are seeing a broad long-term trend that is leaving us both less free and poorer as a nation, writes Cato’s Michael Tanner. As recently as 2009, we were still in the top ten. Now we are tucked between Lithuania and Malta. The top four positions are held by traditional free-market economies Hong […]
The Bumptious Unwashed, Gun-Toting, Churchgoing Rabble
“There was something in the “deplorables” comment that went beyond the familiar hauteur of left and right and profoundly rankled,” writes Conrad Black in National Review. What Mrs. Clinton was deploring was the ingratitude to the ruling elite of these bumptious unwashed, the updated dismissal of the gun-toting, churchgoing (Republican) rabble that so irritated Obama […]
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