The War on Kavanaugh and the End of Honor Culture
In the 2000 political drama “The Contender,” an opposition research attack is launched against a woman named Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) who has been nominated for the vice presidency.
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Americans Surrendered Their Liberties on the Bill of Rights’ 230th Anniversary
Have Americans finally yielded their liberties on the 230th anniversary of the Bill of Rights?
Jussie Smollett and the Left’s Obsession with Black Male Victimization
Jussie Smollett and his generation believe that for a black man, the highest form of human existence (self-awareness) can only come through victimization. Consider the adulation of the martyrs (both real and supposed) Martin Luther King, Jr., George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, and Colin Kaepernick. Jussie, understandably, coveted some of that exaltation. He had it for … Read more
Vaccine Mandates Abroad Suggest Ominous Lessons
Britain shines bright when you are far from home. Even more so when the continent is fast sinking into a dystopian nightmare. So it was particularly heartbreaking to hear Boris Johnson, a few days ago, saying that the country needs to have a “national conversation” about vaccine mandates. While he refrained from the topic in … Read more
The Rise and Fall of Biden’s Marxist Banking Nominee
Democrat President Joe Biden’s banking nominee has withdrawn he nomination after much criticism of her communist background and Marxist leanings. Biden’s pick, Saule Omarova – the proud Komsomol who wrote about Karl Marx on a Lenin scholarship – withdrew her nomination last week and will not be the next comptroller of the currency in the … Read more
A Peevish Review Misunderstands ‘Claremont Conservatism’
The Bulwark, which has indeed become the last-ditch defense of neoconservative anti-Trumpism and Republican establishmentarianism, published a review last month of Glenn Ellmers’ biography of his teacher Harry V. Jaffa. Looking at the remarks of the reviewer, Thomas Merrill, I had to wonder whether he was commenting on the same biography I had read and … Read more
Smollett, Rittenhouse, and the Big Lie Eating Away at America
Magnify the Kyle Rittenhouse prosecution and it is easy enough to see how our enemies, those I call the “woke communists” (comms, for short) are turning America into a totalitarian police state. Woke communism operates somewhat differently than 20th century totalitarian regimes. In those regimes, the government used arbitrary violence to control every aspect of … Read more
The New Yorker’s Collapse into Leftist ‘Resistance’ Journalism
The New Yorker magazine is another outlet that has fallen from its highs of a respected outlet into its recent lows of leftist “resistance” journalism.
Wuhan’s Deafening Silence
“Where is coronavirus research conducted? What level of biocontainment? How many different laboratories actually handle live virus? Where are coronavirus stocks stored?” That was James LeDuc, director of the Galveston National Laboratory (GNL) in a February 9, 2020 email to Juan Zhiming at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in the People’s Republic of China. … Read more
Escape to a Better State, But Don’t Ruin It
My elementary and high school teachers never did a good job of explaining American federalism. They left me and, I suspect, many of my fellow students confused. Perhaps they were a little confused themselves: If the federal government’s laws are supreme and can overrule state’s laws, why not just have all laws uniformly adopted at … Read more