Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
On a warm morning in July of 2020, FBI agents and local sheriff’s deputies converged on a farmhouse just outside the tiny town of Glenford in central Ohio. They led away a blue-eyed man wearing a gray Carhartt T-shirt and baggy jeans. He was heavy around the middle, clean shaven, with closely shorn white hair. … Read more
WASHINGTON, DC — Last Wednesday night, a woman was attacked while she drove with her 11-month-old child, just three blocks from Union Station and five from the Supreme Court. The criminal held her at knifepoint as he forced his way into her car, brushing past the bright “Baby On Board” sticker. Video surveillance recorded her … Read more
The scientists who dared to question the diet-heart hypothesis were ignored, silenced, or canceled. A survey from spring of 2021 found that the 42 percent of American adults who reported gaining weight during the pandemic put on an average of 29 pounds. Another 10 percent of those surveyed reported a gain of more than 50 … Read more
Donald Trump has made clear time and time again that, in his view, the worst thing that can happen to a person is to be judged a “loser.” In the 2020 presidential election he was, in fact, a loser, but his narcissism and the incredibly fragile self-esteem that undergirds it won’t allow him to accept … Read more
PITTSBURGH — Just moments after the press reported there had been no fatalities in the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge, the tragic event instantly turned into a political spectacle. “Shame on the Republican lawmakers who didn’t support the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,” tweeted Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. “Pennsylvanian lives are on the line. It’s long … Read more
In the dead of winter, thousands of Canadians have been streaming into Ottawa, led by a massive convoy of truckers protesting draconian Covid mandates that have harmed their ability to earn a living. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to meet with the protesters and slammed the freedom convoy as “an insult to memory and truth.” … Read more
With violent crime skyrocketing across America and the blame at the feet of the Democrats where it rightly belongs, President Joe Biden went to New York on Thursday for an urgent presidential clean-up mission. He had to do something about the Democrat Party’s mess on crime as the November mid-term elections approach. So Biden decided … Read more
Statistically they’re more dangerous to children than Covid. We must close schools and lock down all of society Today’s school-aged students are in grave danger. A murderous virus is ripping through the population, leaving a tragic body count in its wake. We need aggressive preventative measures. Classes need to go online, indefinitely if necessary. The … Read more
PITTSBURGH — Word travels fast in places like this city’s iconic small-business district filled with third- and fourth-generation family-owned businesses, the majority of which are centered on two things: relationships and food. Relationships and food, but not politics. At least not usually, thank goodness. The relationships come not just from the generational loyalty of people … Read more
Former President Donald Trump was the Democratic MVP of the 2020 election cycle, giving Joe Biden the presidency before helping Democrats win the Georgia runoffs, handing them control of the Senate. Now, he wants to help them out again in 2022 — this time in New Hampshire. Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski says Trump … Read more
A dozen years ago, those of us watching with a skeptical eye couldn’t decide which troubled us more: the fifteen-year-olds averaging eight hours of media per day or the adults marveling at them. How could the older and wiser ignore the dangers of adolescents’ reading fewer books and logging more screen hours? There should have … Read more
Someone should tell Pete Buttigieg that local governments use speed cameras more for revenue than for safety. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s new National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS) promotes speed cameras nationwide to make our roads safer. But research shows that speed cameras are subject to error and actually end up serving as a means … Read more
Everybody hates inflation. Except when everybody loves inflation. But right now, everybody hates inflation. Joe Biden? That guy is hating inflation most of all. He looks in the mirror and sees Jimmy Carter with raggedy hair plugs. The Democrats have figured out, after a period of painful discovery, that they have an inflation problem, a … Read more
Older men and women continue to bear the brunt of sickness, death and isolation. They are weary but holding steady. NEW YORK — As the COVID pandemic enters its 22nd month, elderly men and women continue to bear the brunt of sickness, death and isolation. They are weary but holding steady, whether at home or … Read more
Liars, Damned Liars, and Statisticians Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish caudillo, is surely a typical politician of our times — our very, very, very stupid times. Faced with high inflation caused in part by his illiterate crackpot regime’s loosey-goosey monetary policy, he ordered an even loosier-goosier policy, cutting interest rates even further on the theory … Read more
The managerial class props up the devalued diploma. Only a paradigm shift can end the grift. Although taken for granted by millions of Americans, the choice to obtain a college degree mystifies economists. Teenagers making the first significant financial decision of their lives are paraded through prospective student tours—essentially timeshare presentations for minors—and finally make … Read more
Everyone is ignoring why the magazine became so corrupt Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who died in 2017 at the age of ninety-one, is facing renewed allegations of sexual misconduct thanks to the new A&E documentary Secrets of Playboy. Former Playmates said they were subjected to cult-like conditions at the Playboy Mansion. Hefner reportedly plied them … Read more
Millennials look for meaningful existence in false gods of social justice, unable to find it where they should, in church, in tradition, in humanitas, in country. Something has happened to Millennials, a change deep in their hearts. When they first became a national story in the mid-00s, surveys and commentators tallied their habits, goals, and … Read more
On one level, it’s obvious: If someone asked you to pay $60,000 in tuition to stay at your parents’ home and take in some video lectures and sit through daily Zoom seminars, would you buy? Some of us would pay to get out of such an arrangement — forget about paying for the “privilege” of … Read more
“Government is simply the name we give to things we choose to do together.” That’s an old favorite line of Democrats, especially former congressman Barney Frank. It’s wrong in about a thousand ways that all encapsulate the errors of progressivism, but most importantly, that statement ignores community, civil society, and family. A church potluck is … Read more
“Totalitarian paranoia runs deep in American society, and it now inhabits the highest levels of government.”—Professor Henry Giroux Once upon a time, there was a government so paranoid about its hold on power that it treated everyone and everything as a threat and a reason to expand its powers. Unfortunately, the citizens of this nation … Read more
NY Can’t Teach Kids To Read on $30,000 a Year Inflation-adjusted revenue per student in public schools is up 68 percent in the Empire State—and 24 percent nationally—over the past two decades. Time for School Choice. One of the perennial defenses of mediocre public K-12 schools is that they just don’t have enough … Read more
Does anyone truly believe that our government — which consistently creates monopoly privileges for companies with its own cronyism — can be trusted to ensure that private markets remain competitive? Apparently so. Consider the resurgence of antitrust efforts against “Big Tech.” If history is our guide, going after disfavored companies will result in less competition, … Read more
Despite receiving billions of dollars in tax breaks to provide free or discounted health care to patients, some of North Carolina’s charity care hospitals billed the poor at an average rate up to almost three times the national average, a new report shows. The report by the National Academy of State Health Policy (NASHP) and … Read more
COVID-19 hysteria has done more to embolden the power-mad than a massive terrorist attack. Once content to whisper among themselves about the danger of “too much freedom” (any amount, in the final analysis, being too much for them), they slither out of the shadows now to champion every new idea or policy that treats people … Read more