Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
One solution to bad politics would be to make politicians suffer the consequences of their own laws and initiatives. But for real. I mean to really suffer from them. I propose a constitutional modification: Before voting for anything, it must be experienced in the flesh. The Democrats’ passion for anything transgender comes to mind, for … Read more
The Supreme Court took the easy way out when it first heard a dispute between Jack Phillips, a baker, and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Justices sidestepped the fundamental issue, which was whether the state could compel speech from private citizens, and instead impugned the commission’s actions by pointing to the bigoted statements that its … Read more
It was a common occurrence on the streets of one of New York City’s Jewish neighborhoods: A man dressed in the long black coat and broad hat worn by Hasidic Jews was walking in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, his two young children in hand, when suddenly a black man ran up behind him … Read more
It is because they are more Catholic than the Catholics. Last Friday night, I attended as a journalist an all-night evangelical prayer service in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The event lasted from 10 p.m. on Friday night and ended at 5 a.m. on Saturday morning. Attending the event proved very useful to my study of religions … Read more
I don’t worry much about budget deficits. Simply stated, it is far more important to focus on the overall burden of government spending. To be sure, it is not a good idea to have too much debt-financed spending. But it’s also not a good idea to have too much tax-financed spending. Or too much spending … Read more
George Santos is a liar. George Santos is a ridiculous liar. George Santos is a habitual liar. George Santos is a liar who lies about things that it doesn’t make sense to lie about, apparently just to keep in practice. George Santos lies about lying, and then he lies about having lied about lying. George … Read more
You may remember Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who built her career on pretending to be black and was then outed by her two white parents and became a “transracial” woman who identified “mentally, emotionally, physically and culturally as black” — whatever that means. Well, the GOP now has its own Dolezal. PRESSURE BUILDS ON SANTOS: … Read more
Liz Warren hates billionaires. Just ask the millionaire leftist. Or don’t, she’ll be happy to virtue signal to you anyway. The Elizabeth Warren official store even sells a “billionaire tears” mug for only $28 bucks: a profit margin that would be obscene if a capitalist billionaire were doing it. Who actually funds Warren’s political ambitions? … Read more
Many people are rightly concerned about the federal government spending us into bankruptcy. We being the ones who get the bill — plus interest — for whatever the federal government decides to spend. The latest $1.7 trillion installment having been made with the complicity of the current Republican leadership in the Senate. Plus another $44 … Read more
he economic outlook in New York (both the state and the city) has been very depressing in recent years. New York is ranked #50 in the Economic Freedom of North America. New York is ranked #48 in the State Business Tax Climate Index. New York is ranked #50 in the Freedom in the 50 States. New York is next-to-last in measures of inbound migration. New York … Read more
With the restoration of free speech protections on Twitter, panic has grown on the left that its control over social media could come to an end. Now, some of the greatest advocates of censorship in Congress are specifically warning Facebook not to follow Twitter in restoring free speech to its platform. In a chilling letter from Reps. … Read more
During the long hot summer of Black Lives Matter race riots, Providence’s Mayor Jorge Elorza announced a truth and reparations commission, accusing the city and all of Rhode Island of perpetrating “generations of pain and violence and systemic oppression”. The leftist racist, who has been steadily sending the city down the drain, urged the 33% … Read more
An Ohio middle school teacher sued her school district Monday, accusing the district of violating her First Amendment rights after she was abruptly fired for refusing to affirm students’ stated gender identity or use their preferred pronouns. In a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Vivian Geraghty, a … Read more
When Americans make lists of the persecuted, downtrodden groups in our society, college graduates rarely top the ranking. But President Joe Biden is offering one bribe after another to convert college graduates into perpetual dependents of the Democratic Party. Biden’s handouts helped prevent a “red wave” of Republican victories on Election Day and he appears … Read more
Hurray for investigations! If they are, you know, investigations. Congressional Republicans have promised to look into the shady business dealings of Hunter Biden, the drug-addled-but-just-remarkably-successful-in-business son of President Joe Biden. At the same time, the Justice Department—the boss of which reports to President Biden—has announced the appointment of a special counsel to oversee investigations into … Read more
Some conservative commentators fear that the “Respect for Marriage Act,” which won approval in the US Senate this week, would allow for infringements of religious freedom. They are wrong. The bill does not allow for infringements; it authorizes a frontal assault. Liberal activists pushed forward this legislation after the Supreme Court, in its Dobbs decision, … Read more
He’s the living embodiment of the Democrat Party. They should own him. ’ll confess that I’m co-opting and changing a meme that popped out onto the internet after the Pennsylvania Senate race was called for the candidate who cannot speak beyond rank gibberish. The meme reads: “Biden-Fetterman 2024: It’s a no-brainer!” But with the cultural … Read more
How else to explain the surge in gender dysphoria among American youth? Since 2017, cases of gender dysphoria among 6-year-olds to 17-year-olds have increased by over 170 percent. How permanent will the rather sudden embrace of transgenderism be? No one knows. But the longer it lasts, the more powerful the transgender movement will become. And … Read more
On the eve of the midterm elections, in which voters will hand President Biden his report card, the White House has settled on a message: Shut up and take whatever we give you. You don’t get to accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic loans and then attack my Administration for helping working folks … Read more
A quarter billion dollars in losses later, it may be time to give up on Beto O’Rourke Democrats across the country should be grateful for what Republicans are about to do: rid them of a nagging disease known as Betoism. Beto O’Rourke, the erstwhile congressman from El Paso, Texas, who has far more glossy national … Read more
Actress Anne Hathaway appeared on ABC’s The View this week to promote her films, including The Devil Wears Prada, a movie that is now 16 years old. The discussion quickly turned diabolical as Hathaway mused about the importance of killing unborn children to young career women in fashion and other industries. Illustrating George Orwell’s observation … Read more
A zombie is shambling down the street, one leg dragging, arm waving at the sky before collapsing on a discarded cardboard refrigerator box. A thin trail of blood can be seen on the back of his dirty shirt. It’s not Halloween yet. It’s just Thursday. But in the America of Drag Queen Story Hour, of … Read more
No one who has worked in Washington for more than four decades, as I have, can possibly imagine Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. as one of the sharper knives in the drawer. Even in the retrospect of thirty-one years, his attempt to instruct future-Justice Clarence Thomas in natural law theory during Thomas’s confirmation hearings is still … Read more
Americans without bachelor’s degrees outnumber college grads 2 to 1. But if you and most people you know and have ever known are college graduates, you might not realize that most Americans are not like you and your cohort. As a result, you’re likely to think your class of people is much, much larger than … Read more
Progressive philanthropies are driving a wedge between nonprofits and the folks who want to support them. ‘The bottom is falling out.” That was what Woodrow Rosenbaum, chief data officer for GivingTuesday, told the Chronicle of Philanthropy recently. Rosenbaum, who is one of the authors of a new report showing that the number of small donors … Read more