Category Archives: Political Commentary

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Happy Easter

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…to all of my Christian followers.

And on that note, jeez, NPR, I don’t even believe in God, but I’m not this clueless about the meaning of the day.

[Update a while later]

Related thoughts from Rod Dreher:

If we can’t count on leading journalists to understand the most basic facts about Christian practice and belief, how on earth can we trust them to report fairly and accurately about something as complicated as Christian sexual teaching? How can they trust themselves? How can they even begin to understand why we believe what we believe on all kinds of issues?

The rock band Van Halen was famous for putting a rider in their contracts requiring that a bowl of M&Ms be backstage for them, and that there be no brown M&Ms in the bowl. It sounds like typical rock star vanity, but there was actually a good reason for it. The band had this provision buried in their contract as a trick to see if the local crews assisting the band had actually read the contract. In a similar way, minor mistakes like these are the brown M&Ms of journalism about religion. They reveal a fundamental carelessness that might have more serious consequences.

The “brown M&Ms of journalism” is an interesting metaphor on a couple levels.

Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Youth, And Gun Control

News outlets ignore millennial skepticism about it.

And some students do a walk out in support of the Second Amendment.

But that doesn’t fit the narrative.

[Update a few minutes later]

Yeah, you can bet the administration at the Rockledge high school would have loved to punish the students for the walk out, but they knew the wrath that would descend upon their hypocrisy if they’d done so.

[Update a few minutes later]

The teenage demagogues.

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

The New Special Counsel

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Why Sessions didn’t appoint one.

It makes sense to me to put a seasoned prosecutor on the case within the department. With the I.G. report, they probably already have plenty of evidence to pursue. And McCabe is clearly worried. Good.

And yes, the FBI needs a thorough overhaul.

[Late-morning update]

McCabe lied four times to investigators.

[Update a couple minutes later]

What did Comey know about the Pulse nightclub terrorist, and when did he know it?

[Update a few minutes later]

Now here’s a former FBI agent worth providing funding for:

“I went through hell for a year and a half,” she said. “Andy made sure I couldn’t get out of the division.”

Gritz said that McCabe additionally made “nasty, false” comments about her in a meeting — “lying,” she said. “which is why he just got fired.”

“Andy” sounds like a real peach.

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Comey And Mueller

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McCabe just made life tougher for them. As though it wasn’t tough enough. And note: Turley is a life-long Democrat.

At this point, I’d be happy to see McCabe, Comey, and many others do time in Club Fed. It’s probably too much to ask, though.

[Monday-afternoon update]

A higher loyalty to their inflated sense of virtue.

I think a lot of leftist heads are going to explode when Horowitz’s report comes out, and they’re not even anticipating it, continuing to focus on the Trump/Russia chimera.