“This kid exhibited every single known red flag, from killing animals to having a cache of weapons to disruptive behavior to saying he wanted to be a school shooter. If this isn’t a person who should have gotten someone’s attention, I don’t know who is. This was a multi-system failure, “ stressed Howard Finkelstein the […]
Breaking Paris Intelligence from David Lebovitz
On his blog davidlebovitz.com, David Lebovitz, our friend and favorite Paris food expert, lets the sun shine on a newer cafe named Echo Deli. He writes: I was a little bouleversé (bowled over) by the drink selection on the wall, not knowing what a Dirty Chai was, and a few others things. But there’s also turmeric-ginger beer, cucumber-rose […]
Laura Ingraham Blasts Back at LeBron James
In what is now becoming an ongoing feud between the conservative TV host and the NBA basketball player, Laura Ingraham blasts back at LeBron James. Originally posted on Yoursurvivalguy.com.
Happy Presidents’ Day
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” – Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson to James Madison, January 30, 1787. Boyd, Julian P., ed. Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 11. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955, p. 93.)
Is Nikolas Cruz a Product of America’s Moral Decomposition?
The shooter in Parkland, Florida’s recent massacre was the product of broken homes. His adoptive parents had both passed away. Pat Buchanan asks at The American Conservative, where was Cruz, in an America falling further away from its Christian moral traditions, supposed to learn right and wrong? Among the reasons gun-owners prize the AR-15 is […]
To Survive, it Pays to “Know a Guy”
Rhode Island is often referred to by its citizens as the “I know a guy,” state. When facing the bureaucratic quagmire that is state and local government here, sometimes people can get things done faster if they “know a guy.” The phrase works great for other situations as well, such as getting tickets to a […]
Norman Mailer’s Small-Scale Communities
David Masciotra explains the ideas novelist Norma Mailer thought would save New York City. Writing in The American Conservative, Masciotra details Mailer’s focus on how the city had changed from his boyhood to his adulthood. Mailer thought small-scale community was the best way to organize the politics and operations of the boroughs. Masciotra writes (abridged): […]
Speaking of Immigration…
Would it surprise you that half of illegal households in America rely on some sort of government assistance? But there is some bright news. Because of widely mechanized advances in farming, agriculture now accounts for about 10-20 percent of illegal alien labor. Crops such as nuts, olives, raisins and delicate Napa Valley wine grates, once considered […]
Shiffrin Wins Gold
Congratulations to Mikaela Shiffrin on her come from behind second run to win the gold medal in the giant slalom. Earlier this year I wondered, just how good is Michaela Shiffrin? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone better. What makes Shiffrin masterful on course is the impeccable form she developed on the icy slopes […]
Have You Heard? The Tea Party is Dead
Matt Purple explains at The American Conservative that, after many throes of death, the Tea Party has finally expired. Building off of a post written by Matt Kibbe, formerly of Freedom Works, Purple declares the Tea Party dead with the recent passage of the two year budget. The budget killed the spending caps the Tea […]
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