Hodgepodge: Five easy pieces
[Links to the full articles embedded in the headlines.] The Navy needs more ships, not more politics (Aug.19): The estimable radio host and columnist Hugh Hewitt is, alas, dead wrong to […]
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Fifty years ago, Camille rocked our worlds
For the rest of the country, the eventful summer of 1969 was not a Bryan Adams song, but it was the summer of Woodstock, the moon landing, Chappaquiddick and the […]
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Trump still lies about ‘very fine people’ in Charlottesville
Let me make this clear: This isn’t about whether Trump said Nazis were fine people. He didn’t. It’s about whether he invented the existence of such fine people where there […]
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Miscellany: Conservative ideas better than liberal ones
For these four pieces, the full article is linked within the headline of each. New group wisely tries to dissuade the young from socialism (Aug. 16): It is all too […]
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Key perspectives on white supremacy
If anyone doubts that white supremacy/neo-Nazism is a threat,just read this piece from Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, and the first piece of mine, below, from the Examiner. It is absurd […]
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Four pieces defending parts of Trump-world
Readers of this site will know I am hardly a fan of Donald Trump, but fair is fair: When he or his people are wrongly criticized or treated, I will […]
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A challenger must rebuild civil society eroded by Trump
August 8: When I launched a virtual candidacy to challenge Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination, it made an appeal based on “debt, decency, and diplomacy.” As the parts […]
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Hollywood’s ‘intimacy coordinators’ give audiences a raw deal
August 6: Hollywood still can’t get sex right. The September issue of the Atlantic features a lengthy article on newly #MeToo-ish Hollywood suddenly hiring “intimacy coordinators” and formalizing other protections so that semiexplicit sex […]
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Three-fer: Fed rates, the wall, and crazy California
[Three unrelated pieces. For the full articles, follow the links embedded in the headlines.] Crazy California attacks both democracy and capitalism (July 30): No earthquake has yet sent California crashing […]
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As race-obsessed media cries wolf, Trump gains in polls
(July 22) The media is helping President Trump’s reelection effort by its constant, obsessive, nearly unhinged determination to tell their audience for the 2,965th time that Trump’s tweets about four […]
