Unofficial data shows that the worst 13 states by “death rate“are all Blue States run by progressives. The probability of hitting heads 13 times in a row is .000122 or 1.2bps. That’s even lower than government bond yields. That’s one out of every 8,192 attempts. On the plus side, Texas is in the bottom dozen. […]
Living the Summer of Love without the Love
With the killing of George Floyd, Americans are forced to face a hard reality. “In just three months it has become clear that modern urban progressivism is politically incompetent and intellectually incoherent,” writes Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. Media Picking at Scabs The media and press have served an arbitrating function among competing urban forces. […]
Media Keen to See People Die in Red States to Prove Themselves Right
Melissa MacKenzie targets the macabre media fascination with potential death from COVID-19 for ridicule. She writes at The American Spectator (abridged): It’s time to shut down the shutdown, everywhere and for all the things. It’s done. Over. If people can be trusted to march with 100,000 of their best friends and scream chants, they can […]
Vienna a Museum City of Ghosts and Magnificent Past Splendors
Taki Theodorocopulous writes in Taki’s Mag: With its baroque streetscapes and rambling imperial palaces, its winding cobbled lanes and art-filled museums, the Austrian capital is a natural for invading tourists ….Last week, though, I had the whole place to myself, walking up and down the pedestrians-only Karntner Strasse, along with a few bikers and some […]
Bolton Ready to Start Another War That Can’t Be Won
Originally posted January 29, 2020. At Spectator USA, Daniel McCarthy explains that, rather than condemning President Trump, John Bolton’s book “suggests that President Trump is innocent of the charges on which Democrats are trying to impeach him.” Bolton is starting a war against the president, but McCarthy believes it “is just another war in which […]
Bill Kristol, John Bolton, Joe Lieberman—All on the Wrong Track
Originally posted June 1, 2012. The Iraq and Afghan wars have been a mistake for America, just as were the Korean and Vietnam disasters.Almost without exception, the entrenched politicians in Washington, bullied by big industry and Wall Street lobbyists, toe the military/industrial complex line. Bill Kristol is the leading cheerleader, and John Bolton and Joe […]
Is Appointing John Bolton Trump’s Worst Mistake?
UPDATE 6.18.20: After leaving the Trump administration in disgrace, John Bolton has chosen to stab the President in the back with a “tell all” memoir. The answer to the question “Is appointing John Bolton Trump’s worst mistake?” which I put to you in this post on March 28, 2018, is an emphatic, “yes!” According to […]
John McCain & John Bolton—Neocons Ablaze
Originally posted July 23, 2014. Here is just a small taste of why it was never a good idea to consider John McCain a quality presidential candidate. He and fellow War Dog John Bolton, as Pat Buchanan notes, are calling for punitive sanctions, declaring Russia an adversary, putting defensive missiles and U.S. troops in Eastern […]
John Bolton, Most Often Dead Wrong but Never in Doubt
Originally posted September 14, 2017. At The American Conservative, Jerrod Laber asks publicly the question many foreign policy realists asks themselves routinely, “Why are we still listening to John Bolton?” Laber says Bolton’s repetitive calls to war are like a “bad broken record,” and that he’s been proven wrong so often he shouldn’t be listened […]
The Second War on the Confederacy
Pat Buchanan suggests at LewRockwell.com that America is witnessing a second war on the Confederacy. He notes that liberals will fight for the right of Marxists to burn the American flag, but not for the rights of people flying the battle flag of the Confederacy. He writes (abridged): A second war on the Confederacy is […]
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