Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
Trump may bluster and pound the table, but he isn’t the only signal-sender. Bond markets and credit-rating agencies do not respond that much to the present fiscal situation of the United States as much as to their expectations about where federal spending and debt are going—to the signal, in this case, a particularly loud one. … Read more
Such was the commitment of the international press to the notion that Israel is deliberately engineering a famine in the Gaza Strip that it accepted at face value a claim so logically deficient that an elementary school student should be able to identify the sophistry in it. “Around 14,000 babies could die in the next … Read more
With student loan debt surpassing $1.7 trillion, more Americans are questioning whether a four-year college degree is the only route to success. In fields like cosmetology and practical nursing, some are discovering a faster, more affordable path to financial stability, reshaping traditional notions of social mobility. After graduating with a marketing degree, Katherine Millar of … Read more
A new study shows the number of children and adults diagnosed with autism has increased by 175% over a decade. That’s just…astonishing. There’s a lot of disagreement as to why this is happening, and this episode will not shed any new light on the potential reasons…nor will it delve into the surrounding controversy. It will, … Read more
Pope Pius IX recognized the moral and spiritual deception at the heart of communism. On November 9, 1846, Pope Pius IX issued an encyclical titled Qui Pluribus, a Latin phrase that translates as “to the many.” Pius was writing during a period of great political and social upheaval. Across the continent, food shortages, unemployment, and … Read more
Thank God for the Jews! God the son, God almighty, the Christ – the Messiah, Jesus was a Jew, is now a Jew, and will be ‘til forever. Mary, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, Theotokos-the God-bearer, was a Jew, is now a Jew and will be ‘til forever. Joseph, spouse of Mary, … Read more
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico? Bullying Canada? Threatening war against Denmark over Greenland? To me, these are not expressions of greatness but signs of a smallness. They diminish America. This “might makes right” business is unexceptional — bog-standard throughout history — rather than exceptional. ‘True Patriot Love’ Full blown idiocracy Related PostsC.S. Lewis – Tyranny … Read more
Everyone is familiar with the negative argument for DEI, affirmative action and similar diversity programs which claim that our country and its institutions suffer from “systemic racism” that has to be remedied through equity programs that discriminate in favor of underrepresented groups and against those groups deemed to be overrepresented. Mostly white people and Asians. … Read more
“If a Greek family starts a pizzeria, if a Chinese family straight from Beijing opens a hot dog shop, are they appropriating or are they just smart?” says the Food for Thought author and former Good Eats host. Alton Brown has spent years demystifying cooking on his Food Network show Good Eats. Now he’s brought … Read more
The Oracle of Omaha may be retiring from Berkshire Hathaway, but he won’t give up his other title — the biggest funder of abortion in history. After six decades, Buffett is retiring from a legendary career that’s made him the most famous investor in the world. With just six years until his 100th birthday, we … Read more
Pope Leo XIV: Say This at Communion or Miss Heavenly Graces When recieing Communion: Jesus, stay with me, for without You I am lost. Stay with me Lord, for without You I can not bear this cross. Lord, You are my strength, free me from my chains. Jesus. make my heart Your home. … Read more
“DEI,” the woke religion’s hellish moniker, is in fact a blasphemous facsimile of the Catholic Church, in word and in deed. In another example of the culture co-opting and distorting something holy, DEI has become a popular acronym for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. And it’s no coincidence when we say this movement is not of … Read more
In a May 8 letter to Rabbi Noam Marans, director of interreligious affairs at the American Jewish Committee, the Pope conveyed his wish for continued positive Catholic-Jewish relations. On the day he was elected the 266th successor to St. Peter, Pope Leo XIV pledged to strengthen the Catholic Church’s dialogue and cooperation with the Jewish … Read more
The first of May for most people means flowers and springtime, but for Communists it’s May Day, a time to wear red, scrawl something on a poster and shout at people at a big rally. And perhaps block traffic. May Day 2025 is being billed as a major protest turnout event. In New York City, … Read more
NEW YORK, NY — In a desperate move to evade Trump’s Department of Justice, New York Attorney General Letitia James painted herself bronze and is standing very, very still in Times Square. Thus far the gambit appears to have paid off, with people believing James to be a statue of an obese, unkempt woman who … Read more
Trump can’t put names to faces for half of the people who work directly for him and invents imaginary countries from time to time. But, somehow, he knows what imported bananas from country X absolutely should cost relative to those from country Y—because neither a sparrow nor a drop of rain in Ecuador falls without … Read more
“Gaza Is Starving,” a headline in The New Yorker declared in early January 2024, pushing a harrowing narrative that took hold during the first six months of the war. In March, The Washington Post asked: “Is Gaza Heading Into Famine?” A headline in the Post the next day answered: “Israel’s War on Hamas Brings Famine … Read more
If Obama had said that . . .” “If Obama had done that . . .” We often heard those lines during Donald Trump’s first term as president. The lines had grown tiresome by March 2017 or so (a couple of months into that term). But they regularly applied. I thought of them last week. … Read more
Former vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz recently told an audience at Harvard’s Kennedy School that former Vice President Kamala Harris chose him as a running mate because of his uncanny ability to connect with the average Caucasian cisgender dude “I could code talk to white guys—watching football, fixing their truck,” he explained. “I was the permission … Read more
The first degrowth president of the United States, President Trump, recently defended his tariffs with this gem: “They have ships that are loaded with stuff we do not need” and “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they … Read more
Recent news from Harvard: (1) Harvard, under a lot pressure from both the government and internal constituencies, released a lengthy report about antisemitism at the university since October 7. It’s pretty devastating, and pretty much should shame all those who have been claiming that complaints about antisemitism there have been exaggerated “Zionist” propaganda. (2) There’s … Read more
Today is May Day. Since 2007, I have advocated using this date as an international Victims of Communism Day. I outlined the rationale for this proposal (which was not my original idea) in my very first post on the subject: May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. … Read more
Aggressors on both sides of the civil war commit sexual violence against civilians Duria, 37, was traveling on public transportation in Khartoum, Sudan, in January 2024 when a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) soldier stopped the vehicle. After confirming Duria had no passport, he accused her of being a military spy. He then forced her to … Read more
The genuflecting yellowbellies of the Cowards’ Caucus in Congress—which is to say, Republicans as a whole—have groveled mightily in seeking to curry favor with Donald Trump and have, subsequently and ironically, done Trump no favors. John Thune, the Republican leader in the Senate, seems determined to follow the worst examples set by his predecessor, Mitch … Read more
AMERICANS HAVE expressed distress over the demise of manufacturing in this country for as long as I can remember. Often that distress has been reflected in popular culture. In “My Hometown,” a hit from his blockbuster album “Born in the U.S.A.,” Bruce Springsteen lamented the economic decline of small-town America and the disappearance of working-class … Read more