Sasse’s last speech showed why he should have stayed in Senate
(Jan. 3) Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), who this week is leaving the U.S. Senate to become president of the University of Florida, gave valedictory remarks on Tuesday that reminded some […]
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Who will be the most fascinating U.S. politician this year?
(Dec. 27) The most interesting politician to watch in 2023 will not be Donald Trump or Joe Biden, and it won’t be upstarts Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) or Minority Leader-elect Hakeem Jeffries […]
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Tulane drowns in Wave of wokeness
(Dec. 18, Nola.com) The situation: Tulane University under national fire for issues relating to “diversity,” to its claims that “racism and sexism are fundamentally present in all American institutions,” and […]
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Eleven more examples of the Left being terrible
Modern political liberalism is often wrong but respectable — unlike today’s Left which predominates in our culture and isn’t within what were ordinary bounds of what once was liberal discourse […]
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The First Amendment also protects liars
Every once in a while, the unbiased application of consistent principles and values such as those embodied in the First Amendment requires an honest columnist to defend the rights even […]
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Ukraine, Patriot missile defense… and David Letterman?
Two pieces on Ukraine’s struggles and needs (with help from, yes, David Letterman). To read each full column follow the link embedded in each headline. Zelensky does Letterman, Dec. 19: […]
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At New Year’s, looking back and ahead
Five books to read in 2023, Dec. 25: If you are like me, you have more books on the shelves than you can ever read, which also means that when […]
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Trump awful, times two
The ‘Trump effect’ was poisonous for Republicans in 2022, Dec. 7. Herschel Walker’s 100,000-vote loss in Georgia puts the exclamation point on the “Donald Trump is electoral poison” narrative. If the former president had deliberately attempted to […]
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Miscellaneous posts: Griner, R.E. Lee, Sinema, plus….
Take 24 hours to welcome Britney Griner home, Dec. 8. — The prisoner swap that is bringing basketball player Brittney Griner home from Russia should spark invocation of a “24-hour […]
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Trump’s advocacy of constitutional evasion should be the last straw
(Dec. 5, 2022) Now that former president Donald Trump has called for the suspension of the Constitution when it suits his ends, every elected Republican should finally denounce Trump as […]
