Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
I know the Left is all about education and “the science,” so I figured I’d throw this idea out there: What if, since abortion is such a hot button issue, we taught about it, in a very detailed fashion, in our public schools? Considering the fact that many in the electorate are voting simply based … Read more
It was a deal with the devil to begin with. The precise wording of the Vatican–China Provisional Agreement, signed on Sept. 22, 2018, remains a closely guarded secret, but its dire effects are plain for all to see. By affording legitimacy to the Chinese Communist Party–dominated Patriotic Catholic Church — theretofore deemed schismatic due its … Read more
There’s almost a surprising bit of good news in there if you squint: As hard as it is to believe, Eric Adams is the first sitting mayor of New York City to be indicted on federal charges. I’d have thought he’d be the fifth or the sixth or something. New York, our greatest city, is … Read more
In 1974, the writer Jean Genet, an uncontested celebrity of the French Left, whose works extol the beauty of hoodlums, assassins, Black Panthers, the S.S., and Yasser Arafat’s Fedayeen, explained his attachment to the Palestinian cause: “It was completely natural for me to favor not only the most disadvantaged but those who distill hatred for … Read more
LAST OCT. 7 was the deadliest day of violence against Jews since the end of the Holocaust. It was also the start of the most virulent eruption of antisemitism in the West since World War II. To mention but a single statistic, in the first three days following the ghastly Hamas pogrom, online calls for … Read more
In just 10 days we will mark one year since the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel — the deadliest day for the world’s Jews since the Holocaust and the most catastrophic assault on the West since the 9/11 attack that brought down the Twin Towers. Make no mistake, the same evil movement is responsible for … Read more
The most memorable nugget I mined from counseling was this admonition: What doesn’t get talked out gets acted out. Perhaps it’s predictable, coming from a profession that charges by the hour for talk. I am what those in The Professions more broadly call a cynic because I regard the counsel of doctors, therapists, lawyers, management … Read more
The story in this town is not about cats or dogs. It’s about mules. It’s a twin tragedy of migrant workers from Haiti exploited and locals from Springfield marginalized. Just about every week since 2019, First Diversity Staffing Group Inc. has shuttled vulnerable Haitian migrants in unmarked white Ford and Chevy vans from Florida to … Read more
We previously discussed Shellyne Rodríguez , the machete-wielding former Hunter College professor. Rodríguez is back with a large following shown in a video with protesters chanting with her about “slitting the throats of the masters.”We previously discussed a videotape of Rodríguez trashing a pro-life student display in New York. Before attacking the table, she told … Read more
[1.] California recently enacted a new law banning election-related “materially deceptive content” 120 days before and 60 days after an election. “Materially deceptive content” is defined as audio or visual media that is intentionally digitally created or [significantly] modified, which includes, but is not limited to, deepfakes, such that the content would falsely appear to … Read more
When a private company is failing at its core mission, investors do not throw more money at the problem. Why, then, would anyone accept Fairfax County Public Schools’ argument that it would be more successful if only the state and local government allocated more funds to it? From fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2025, the district’s … Read more
Let’s not forget who was on the other side of those pagers. This morning, while perambulating the canines, I listened to this segment on NPR’s Morning Edition, where I am an occasional guest. Leila Fadel interviewed an eye surgeon who has been doing gruesome work in the wake of Israel’s “Paging Hezbollah” attack. Here’s the … Read more
As if our culture weren’t already coming apart at the seams, there could be a new battle line emerging soon: Blue states seem to be trending toward childlessness while red states are becoming more fecund. A future culture war that pits the parental class against the child-free class will not be pretty. We’re not there … Read more
Recreational Catholicism? Let me explain. It is an attribution identifying the current stage of collapse in the Roman Church. Its coinage is meant to convey the tangled knot of the therapeutic, political, theatrical, and ego-massaging trend besetting the Church, all of which produces a kind a zombie Catholic, who is daily fed on what Huxley … Read more
Scammers are flooding Facebook with groups that purport to offer video streaming of funeral services for the recently deceased. Friends and family who follow the links for the streaming services are then asked to cough up their credit card information. Recently, these scammers have branched out into offering fake streaming services for nearly any kind … Read more
Clinton might want to think twice before proposing prosecutions for spreading Russian propaganda. No one has done that more than she has. Hillary Clinton went on MSNBC this week and told Rachel Maddow that she thinks Americans who spread “misinformation” and Russia propaganda should be prosecuted. In a conversation about the recent Justice Department indictment … Read more
His documentary exposes the DEI industry by letting practitioners discredit themselves. Robin DiAngelo, author of the bestselling “White Fragility” and a leading authority on diversity, equity and inclusion, doesn’t want you to see “Am I Racist?,” a new documentary about the DEI industry. If you see it anyway, which I strongly recommend, you’ll understand her … Read more
My late father spent his entire 30-year professional career at Bethlehem Steel, a once-iconic American industrial giant. The company bore the name of the eastern Pennsylvania city where it was headquartered. Only cross-state rival and competitor U.S. Steel of Pittsburgh was larger. Sadly, Bethlehem Steel closed down in 2003, and its former headquarters were demolished … Read more
ROME — Sources close to Pope Francis confirmed that the 87-year-old Bishop of Rome has just challenged Jesus Christ to a debate on how people can get to heaven. According to Francis, the debate has been in the works for quite a while, though he’s hoping that Jesus will finally take him up on the … Read more
An anti-Israel panel event held during a conference hosted by the US Congressional Black Caucus in Washington, DC on Thursday urged the audience to show “solidarity” with the Palestinian cause while rejecting Zionism and justifying the Hamas terror group’s atrocities against the Israeli people. The event, titled “Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free: The Struggle for … Read more
Over the last five years, American, British, Canadian and Brazilian governments unleashed unprecedented waves of repression against political opponents using martial law, military occupations of major cities, government censorship of the internet, nationwide manhunts, televised raids and extended detentions without trial. Most of those arrested were guilty of political speech and protests generally far less … Read more
There are two aspects of Donald Trump’s character that are important to understand in September 2024: First, that he is a lunatic; second, that he is a coward. Trump’s personal cowardice is, of course, legendary. His campaign has worked very hard to find something disqualifying in Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz’s 24-year military career, and it … Read more
Candace Owens, a Catholic convert and former pundit at the Daily Wire, has come under fire for anti-Semitic rhetoric, including promoting the “blood libel” charge and linking Judaism to pedophilia. She is not alone among Jew-bashers with large online followings trying to claim the label of “Catholic right” these days (notorious anti-Semite Nick Fuentes and … Read more
The extent of Chinese government infiltration of our governing system is appalling. Even more than usual, everyone should read Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt from Wednesday, about the appalling extent of Chinese government infiltration of our governing system (at the state and federal levels) and society. Jim is right, of course, to observe that few publications … Read more
Bowing to overwhelming evidence and political reality, Hunter Biden finally pleaded guilty to tax charges on the day his trial was to begin with jury selection in Los Angeles federal court. Even now, already scheduled for sentencing for federal firearms felonies of which a Delaware jury found him guilty, the president’s 54-year-old son exhibited the … Read more