Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
“We must keep pursuing peace. We must keep pursuing a path so that Israel and the Palestinian people can both live safely, in security, in dignity, and in peace. For me, that means a two-state solution,” Biden lectured Israelis during his visit. A two state solution dividing up Israel into a state for the Jews … Read more
Newspaper headlines proclaim that President Biden has issued a “massive, sweeping, wide‐ranging” executive order on artificial intelligence. And no one seems to be saying that whatever the content of the order is, “massive, sweeping, wide‐ranging” regulations should not be issued by one man. President Biden, members of Congress, and the judiciary should take a look … Read more
The Mineta Institute — named after a San Jose congressman who was Secretary of Transportation in 2001 through 2006 — has a new report claiming that high-speed rail will produce huge economic and environmental benefits. Rather than being based on any careful analyses, it basically repeats old claims that are even less valid today than … Read more
In today’s Martin Center article, Rhodes College professor Patrick Gray finds a lot of similarities between today’s college experience and being in a cult. Cults demand compliance, and Gray sees a lot of that on campuses these days, writing, “Compliance is maintained through a system of bureaucratic and curricular sticks and carrots, nudges, and social … Read more
Check out the pictures, LOL! All across the world, there are millennials sitting in their parents’ basement, hoping and praying that someone will come along to sponsor their lifestyle. Look at these heart-wrenching pictures of nine millennials that you could begin sponsoring TODAY: . . . Judith suffers from Zero Tesla syndrome, where she lives … Read more
President Joe Biden would never come out and say, “We value illegal migrants more than we do members of our military.” But considering how much more his administration is spending to house migrants who came here illegally than those who defend us — and the conditions both are living in — he might as well. … Read more
Biden spent 12 minutes on the UAW picket line. “You guys, the UAW, you saved the automobile industry back in 2008 and before,” he told the striking automotive workers. “Wall Street didn’t build the country. The middle class built the country.” And then he flew off to San Francisco for a fundraiser at Atherton, California, … Read more
It’s the start of a new college semester — with leaves starting to turn, football stadiums filling up, and a new generation taking their seats in classrooms all over America. Thus, this is as good a time as any for our nation’s students, parents , and school administrators to ask themselves one crucial question: What … Read more
The Clintons are back in Manhattan, baby. Once again random celebrities, Orlando Bloom, Matt Damon, Patrick Dempsey, Karlie Kloss, will rub shoulders with random foreign leaders like Mia Mottlev, the Prime Minister of Barbados, Irfaan Ali, the President of Guyana, Biden administration officials, the heads of nonprofits with made up titles like “intersectional environmentalist”, heads … Read more
Chicago has long been infamous for graft and corruption., but it had a reputation for at least being functional. That’s not the case today. The city already is ranked in the bottom 10 for economic liberty and local politicians seem determined to pass NYC, LA, and Oakland and claim last place. Lori Lightfoot, the previous … Read more
[H]umans don’t like to be lied to, and that’s a problem for Joe Biden, who lies a great deal. He always has. On his podcast, John Podhoretz floated a useful heuristic for spotting many of Biden’s lies. If Biden begins a story in which someone calls him “Joey,” you can be pretty sure what comes … Read more
Below is my column in The Hill on the impeachment inquiry and one striking pattern among the alleged crimes facing Hunter Biden: they all served to conceal the influence peddling efforts to sell access or influence to his father. The investigation and charging of Hunter Biden has, thus far, been strikingly surgical in avoiding this … Read more
When Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) ran for office, he was propelled to victory by a growing socialist movement allied with the Democratic Party. The Socialist movement has elected a record number of socialists in Congress. However, Johnson now has one of the largest American cities to implement such policies with the support of the … Read more
The more I think of him, the more I am driven to the conclusion this is an unserious Pope. There is still more gibberish emitting from the Pope as he travels to and from the Far East. Now he is safely home in the Vatican, so only his close advisers will hear the claptrap that … Read more
“You know, when it is 110 degrees outside, your body has to work overtime to cool itself off,” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the Department of Homeland Security began his address to the ‘Extreme Heat Summit’. With 8,000 attempted invasions by illegal aliens a day and even major cities like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago … Read more
We need to be more human about it. Politics is the absolute worst place to talk about abortion. And yet that’s the primary arena in which we debate it. Life after Roe v. Wade means that just about every election is about abortion. And that hurts people — because many people have been involved in … Read more
Adults who keep secrets with other people’s children violate commonsense safeguards of minors and must be stopped. Shamefully, this is exactly the kind of behavior California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, seeks to enable. Last Monday, Bonta sued a Southern California school district over its new policy that sensibly requires schools to notify parents within three … Read more
Antisemitism is a rotten term for the “longest hatred” that targets the Jewish people. For a start, there is no such thing as “semitism” to be “anti.” The word “antisemitism” was invented by a 19th-century Jew-hater, Wilhelm Marr, who wanted to invest this prejudice with the spurious characteristic of race in order to appeal to … Read more
The protestations were loud, angry, and widespread. When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis excoriated Democrats for their bizarre and macabre obsession with expanding the right to kill a living human up until the moment of birth, progressive ministers, progressive pols, and progressive trolls alike came up for air. . . . You’ll excuse the Right for … Read more
Plenty of Democrats online argue that former President Donald Trump poses enough of a threat to democracy that even conservatives such as me should vote for Joe Biden in the 2024 election. I know plenty of right-of-center folks who voted for Biden in 2020 and probably some who would vote for Biden over Trump again … Read more
The latest self-inflicted blow to the Vatican’s China policy came in mid-July, when the Holy See announced that Pope Francis had “recognized” Bishop Joseph Shen Bin as Bishop of Shanghai—despite the fact that the bishop had been “transferred” to China’s most important and prestigious diocese by the Xi Jinping regime, not by the pope. A … Read more
There is no way to describe California’s energy grid and the state’s vision of an all-renewable future other than pathetic. On Tuesday, California officials finalized their decision to extend the life of three gas-fired power plants through 2026. The state had originally planned to shut them down later this year. In fact, California had originally … Read more
President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is corrupt on so many levels. Not only are they co-conspiring with the president to keep him and his equally evil son out of trouble, but they are also looking to lock up peaceful pro-life protestors. This week, a case against five anti-abortion activists that the DOJ indicted went … Read more
Aversion to punishing misbehavior has left teachers and students unsafe Christian Educators is a professional organization that offers legal counsel and liability insurance for teachers who bristle at typical union politics and agendas. Of every phone call that the organization has received this year, executive director David Schmus has recorded a one-sentence summary for his … Read more
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — It’s 10:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning and a homeless man is curled up against the decorative angled brick below the archways of the large pane windows that line the office building known as the Fort Pitt Commons. For context, it is important to understand that 40 years ago this building was … Read more