RIP OJ: The Start of the Modern Media Era Before the OJ Simpson verdict, blacks had no confidence in the legal system. After OJ’s verdict, no one had confidence in the system. But June 1994 commemorates the start of the “stupendous and stupefying media: That is the network anchormen and anchorwomen.” “I’m Not Black, I’m […]
Inflation: The Blame Game
Real Hourly Wages, Up Seven Lousy Cents While Washington and the press continue to obsess over the abortion issue, the consumer price index came in hot in March, for the third straight month, reports the WSJ. The CPI rose 0.4% in March for the second month in a row after a 0.3% increase in January. […]
A Death Wish for Western Civilization
There is a current proposal from members of The British establishment that this country should ban arm sales to Israel, reveals Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson, writes in the Daily Mail, denouncing that idea: If you want an example of the death wish of Western civilization, I give you the current proposal from members of the British establishment […]
Bureaucrats Rule!
Biden Empowers the Unelected Has anyone ever sympathized with bureaucrats for having too little power and no job security? President Joe Biden, is essentially saying it right now, reconsiders James Freeman, as the president implements a new policy intended to further insulate government employees from the decisions of free people making democratic choices. For anyone who […]
Blinken’s Shameful Smear
On this day, six months ago, Hamas barbarically attacked Israel. Of the roughly 250 people taken as hostages on 7 October, 34 are known to be dead, and 130 remain in captivity. Anthony Blinken has his share of worries. Evidently, not so much about the remaining hostages. One concern of President Joe Biden’s secretary of […]
Mistakes: They’ve Made a Few
Will Policy Align with the Real World “The cult of fossil fuel suppression presents itself as an orthodoxy from which no dissent is permitted,” writes Francis Menton in his Manhattan Contrarian. In the U.S., there has been substantial and growing resistance to the enforcement of that orthodoxy, among Republicans in general and particularly from red […]
Joe Biden: a Bigger Threat to Democracy
Donald Joe Trump vs Biden Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, apparently shocked a CNN reporter when he said in a recent interview that he could make the argument that President Joe Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than former president Donald Trump. From RFK.Jr.: “Him (Trump) trying to overthrow the […]
Respectful Arguments Rooted in Facts
Teaching Students How to Think Mr. Diermeie,,chancellor of Vanderbilt University, defends Vanderbilt’s position that free speech is alive and well at Vanderbilt. Its teaching includes (if not stresses) an appreciation from students from a range of perspectives—”to learn how, not what, to think.” The university remains one of the last places in society where people […]
Your Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses
Immigration, a Hot Topic The U.S. is not the only country where immigration is a concerning hot topic. Border security is heating up in the Dominican Republic, where the country is building a 250-mile wall across the island of Hispaniola to seal off its border with Haiti, reports Walter Russell Meade in the WSJ. Prime […]
Joe Biden’s Transgender Day of Visibility Bye Bye Easter
“The White House on Friday announced ‘transgender day of visibility’ for March 31, which this year falls on Easter Sunday,” reports NRO’s Caroline Downey. President Joe Biden issued an official proclamation: 31 March is now to be known as a Transgender Day of Visibility. Farewell Easter! You just got superseded by the latest freak show […]