UC Social Workers to Procure Death Doctors
As assisted suicide becomes legal in California, social workers will be used as death doctor procurers. From the UCSF patient information release:What Steps Do I Take to Use the Act? 1. If you ask for...
View ArticleClinton's Anti-Trump Speech
Time has the transcript. A few thoughts on it:1) Clinton’s basic argument is that Trump is unfit for the presidency because he is impulsive, reckless, ignorant, unserious, and bigoted. Last week I...
View ArticleA Note On Perez
Jim Geraghty yesterday recounted the hard-left ideology of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, rumored to be on Hillary Clinton’s shortlist for VP.There also are several concerns about Perez’s record as the...
View ArticleSome Questions about What Republicans Who Endorse Trump Are Thinking
I never write about politics, mostly because I don’t know enough and it’s not my job. But I do have a lot of questions at this point, which I hope someone can answer.Donald Trump is the presumptive...
View ArticleAmerican Dilemmas
In our new Need to Know, Mona talks to Walter Olson, of the Cato Institute. Their subject is the Libertarian party and its ticket: Gary Johnson and William Weld. The Libertarian convention, as our Ian...
View ArticleOn Hiroshima, Etc.
A few years back, because of a book I was working on, I wanted to consult an authority on Japanese fascism, and Japan in the 20th century generally. I was led to a brilliant historian: Christopher...
View ArticleKrauthammer’s Take: Trump’s ‘Menacing’ of the Judiciary Is Worrying to...
Charles Kruathammer explains the consequences of Donald Trump’s comments about the judge in the Trump University case being of “Mexican heritage.”There are two disturbing elements in this. The first...
View ArticlePolitico Sells Zachary Taylor Short
Gil Troy, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, has a piece in Politico drawing some fairly blunt parallels between Zachary Taylor and Donald Trump. It’s worth reading, because there are some...
View ArticleRemembering Tiananmen Square, Etc.
As regular readers know, two of my favorite people are Jianli Yang and Ted Cruz. The former is a Chinese democracy hero; the latter is a senator from Texas who understands what tyranny is, and what...
View ArticleQuestion for the House GOP: What Gives?
In a post below, I spoke of Ted Cruz, Tiananmen Square, etc. Here is an additional note.In 1984, President Reagan did something typical of him. With Congress, he renamed the street outside the Soviet...
View ArticleDeath Doctor to Charge $2000 for Suicide Prescription
Lonny Shavelson is–or was–a part time emergency room physician and photo journalist.Now, he’s going to be a death doctor for pay. From the San Francisco Chronicle story:Berkeley physician Lonny...
View ArticleBob Corker’s Extremely Uncomfortable Turn as a Trump Surrogate
Bob Corker has been talked about as a potential Trump VP. If Corker’s performance on ABC’s This Week this morning isn’t enough to get him bounced from the short-list forthwith, assuming he’s on it, I...
View ArticleNewt for Trump’s Veep Pick
Newt does nothing for Trump electorally and brings his own temperament and loose-cannon problems. But this morning has me thinking he makes some sense. What Trump is really going to need above all, it...
View ArticleMonday links
Today is the anniversary of D-Day: quotes (Shakespeare, Eisenhower, Churchill), videos (footage, FDR’s and Reagan’s speeches), lots of links. Related: The Gear, Gadgets and Weaponry of a D-Day...
View ArticleAn Invitation to a Rip-Up
On the homepage today, we publish the last installment of my “Oslo Journal” — notes from the Oslo Freedom Forum. I mention Danilo Maldonado, known as “El Sexto.” He is a Cuban street artist, dissident,...
View ArticleCaution: Some Position Shifts on Trump Can Cause Whiplash
A portion of the first Morning Jolt of the week:Caution: Some TV Host Position Shifts on Trump Can Cause WhiplashJoe Scarborough, April 1:Even after the passing of Antonin Scalia and the Paris and San...
View ArticleAbout One Quarter of Sanders Donors Are Unemployed or Retired
The Los Angeles Times finds that a significant portion of Bernie Sanders donors have no income:Condit, who has several physical disabilities, is among the largest single group of Sanders’ donors —...
View ArticleJudges and Ethnicity
Yes, it’s a really bad idea to suggest that the way a judge does his job is inevitably determined by his skin color or national origin. I’m just surprised that people who have long urged that judicial...
View ArticleClinton Conservatives
More than one fourth of voters who identify as conservative intend to vote for Clinton, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted May 30 through June 3. The level of support for her is almost even...
View ArticleRemembering D-Day
D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history since King Xerxes’ 480 bc combined sea and land descent into Greece. The Americans, especially General George Marshall, had wanted to invade France...
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