Your PC Exchange of the Day — Please Tell Me This Sausage Party Apology Is a...
I’m pretty sure this is real, but at the far edges of political correctness it’s sometimes hard to tell. A publication called Autostraddle just published a self-flagellating article begging reader...
View ArticleBritain's Most Infamous Islamist Preacher Convicted for Supporting ISIS
Anjem Choudary may be an unfamiliar name abroad, but he has become well known in Britain for his contempt for the country and its people. Aged 49, he was actually born and brought up in England. At...
View ArticleDo We Still Need the Commission on Presidential Debates?
This week the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the polls that they will use to determine which candidates will be invited to this fall’s presidential and vice presidential debates. To be...
View ArticleFacebook Breaks the Law
The Wall Street Journalhad an article yesterday about how Facebook, in an attempt to increase its workforce “diversity,” gave its in-house recruiters a paid incentive to encourage applications from...
View ArticleBrexit Vote Represented Will of the British People
I often peruse the website “Conservative Home” for analysis of what is happening in Great Britain; it’s a Conservative Party website, and therefore partisan, but also quite thoughtful.There was a...
View ArticleThe GOP Needs to Tie Evan Bayh to Hillary Clinton in Indiana
One of the few bits of good news for the Republicans this week is Monmouth’s poll indicating that despite some concerns, Mike Pence’s home state of Indiana doesn’t appear to be in danger of going blue...
View ArticleUp From White Identity Politics
Jonah Goldberg and Jeremy Carl have had an interesting exchange this week on the role of white identity politics in Donald Trump’s coalition. Jonah rightly notes that to call Trumpian nationalism a...
View ArticleTrump on the Clinton Foundation: 'Let's Give Them the Benefit of the Doubt.'
Sean Hannity and Donald Trump discuss whether it’s appropriate to accept donations from Saudi Arabia:HANNITY: Would you have a — would you ever take money from a country that treats gays, lesbians,...
View ArticleThe War on Fishing
Animal rights activists don’t want us eating fish or catching them recreationally. Fish may feel pain, don’t you know. Thus fishing is too cruel,When the usual suspects advocate destroying a trillion...
View ArticleThe Folly of White Identity Politics
Jeremy Carl has offered a kind of rebuttal to my column on white identity politics, but I’m not positive we disagree all that much. This is not a topic that’s going away any time soon, so I will stick...
View ArticleImplicit Bias at the Washington Post
Joe Davidson, the “Federal Insider” columnist for the Washington Post, recently published a fawning article about the “implicit bias” training that has been ordered for all Justice Department “law...
View ArticleBesides Being Illegal, Obama’s $400M Cash Payment to Iran Was a Ransom...
Despite weeks of Obama administration stonewalling of refreshingly persistent media inquiries about its outrageous – and, I believe, illegal– transfer to Iran of $400 million in foreign currency in an...
View ArticleIs It Too Early for Trump to Focus Relentlessly on Key Swing States?
In today’s Morning Jolt, I spit-balled a strategy to at least get Trump back in the game.To have any shot, Trumps got to win four states: North Carolina, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.They supposedly...
View ArticlePew: 41 Clinton, 37 Trump Nationally
This is the best national poll in while for Trump from a respected outlet. Is it just at the lower end of the range of what has been Clinton’s national lead, or the first sign that the lead has...
View ArticleAmerica Sure Does Have a Department of Sports — We Just Call It ‘Education’...
Paul Crookston made the quite valid point last week that it’s impressive that the U.S. dominates the Summer Olympics (winter, not so much) without the massive sports bureaucracy other countries have....
View ArticlePivot Alert
Trump said tonight, “Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that. And believe it or not, I...
View ArticleKrauthammer’s Take: Clinton Foundation ‘Is a Racket’ and Needs to Be Shut Down
The Boston Globe called for the Clinton Foundation to stop taking donations and make plans to shut down by the November presidential election, and Charles Krauthammer agrees, finding the foundation’s...
View ArticleEqual Justice, White Identity Politics, and the Battle for the GOP’s Future
I’m delighted that my most recent article on white identity politics, Trump, and the GOP drew responses from Jonah Goldberg (whose fine initial piece prompted me to write) and the equally prolific and...
View ArticleFriday links
Australian weird wildlife update: football-sized goldfish invading waterways (with bonus Aussie wildlife links).Why hackers are so obsessed with picking locks. Related: The MIT Guide to Lock...
View ArticleCrazy Theory: This Year the Right Is Winning the Culture Wars
A perhaps-crazy theory, from the last Morning Jolt of the week.Crazy Theory: This Year the Right Is Winning the Culture WarsAllow me to throw out a theory, that I’m not entirely sure I believe myself....
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