My former (and perhaps future) editor Adam Keiper reviews Jonah Goldberg’s new book
Category Archives: History
Juanita Broaddrick
…commemorates a terrible anniversary.
There is a whole young generation that has no idea how immoral and corrupt Bill and Hillary Clinton are. Now that the ice has been broken with Chappaquidick, I’d like to see a mini-series on their crimes in the 90s that the media refused to cover at the time.
The Hidden Legacy Of Columbine
…is ignorance about school violence, that has resulted in more of it.
Trump And The Foreign-Policy Swamp
An…interesting perspective from David Goldman. The notion that “Russia Russia Russia!” is a strategy by the establishment to prevent a rapprochement with Putin is one that hadn’t occurred to me.
Waco, A Quarter Of A Century
The Branch Davidian massacre was probably the first scandal of the Clinton administration, and like all Clinton scandals, the media refused to cover it with any honesty Which is one of the reasons that they got away with so much for so long.
Related thoughts from James Bovard.
It’s Not Enough To Prevent Climate Change
We must restore it.
It’s nuts to think there was some benign past in which the climate was ideal. The only benign climate is one that we’re wealthy enough to deal with.
California’s Illegal Voting Law
I’d love to see Trump do this, and force the state out of the Union, as happened the last time the Democrats defied the federal government to deny citizens their rights. And it shouldn’t be allowed back in as a single state. Let most of the territory in as multiple states, but force the coast to get its act together before being allowed back into the Union.
Anti-Semitism
The German government struggles with a new form of it.
As the article notes, it’s because they declare it “right wing” by definition, which obscures the true source, as demonstrated by the fact that it takes seven paragraphs before the appearance of the M word.
Repealing The Second Amendment
Good luck with that.
Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds.
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Yes. There is no chance that two thirds of both houses of Congress would pass such an amendment, and even less that three quarters of the states would ratify it.
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Related: The ignorant Parkland kids don’t speak for their dead classmates. David Hogg is the new Cindy Sheehan, and her fate will be his when the media tires of him.
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You can attempt to repeal the Second Amendment, but you can’t repeal history.
As Stephen Green notes, people like Stevens are relying on the ignorance of the American people, deliberately fomented by our public-school system and universities for the past several decades.
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This seems related somehow: Trump and the great unmasking of the Left:
I think that long before he even dreamed of entering politics, Donald Trump realized that by outraging his opponents, he could provoke them into saying and doing things that would prove harmful to their goals by exposing their motives, assumptions, and real intentions.
Yes, even though they pretend they haven’t been doing it:
In the age of social media, reaching irrelevant conclusions is a competitive sport. Nevertheless, tossing red herrings about like chaff from an aircraft under fire does little to dispute the fact that conservatives have been subjected to an absurd gas-lighting campaign over the last few weeks.
It’s enough to drive you crazy. That is, it would be if you were to take any of this performance art seriously.
I haven’t taken the Left’s performance art seriously for decades.
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Bad link fixed, sorry.
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Yes, they are coming for your guns.
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[Monday-morning update]
New Democrat senator: “A gun ban is not feasible right now. Or ever, in America.
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Gun control leaves the most vulnerable defenseless. The Australia buy-back myth is particularly pernicious.
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Why the Stevens gun manifesto is so irresponsible.
Marx
He didn’t replace old ideas about commerce and money; he intensified them.
I assume that this is an excerpt or adaptation from Jonah’s new book.
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This seems related. From the brilliant Sarah Hoyt, who understands the Left as well as anyone: The Russians don’t understand America enough to successfully hack our election.