He will leave his successor with more Middle East disasters than he inherited.
To be fair, he had a lot of help from Hillary and Kerry.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Imperial First Lady
The government is threatening to fine schools for not following Michelle’s child-abusive lunch program.
I wonder if someone could file a lawsuit demanding to see the science behind her recommendations? Because there is none.
The Cover Up Continues To Unravel
Another federal judge has ruled against the State Department and Hillary.
“Most transparent administration in history.”
The California Crazy Train
The latest on the fiscal insanity, from the LA Times. This is driven by religion, not rationality.
In A Republic
…the people ultimately decide. Some of my expanded thoughts on what the Senate’s “job” is, over at Ricochet.
What’s Happening At Emory University?
It’s a culture of victimhood.
[Update a couple minutes later]
An open letter to the administration from Emory alumni. I’d be embarrassed myself.
[Update early afternoon]
Schools like Emory trivialize education by empowering little student dictators.
And this is Harvard. “Cost of attending Harvard College: $64,400 per year.”
Space Property Rights
A (relatively) new paper. If the space-settlement bill has hearings and is discussed on the floor, this will become a key issue.
The Republican Race In CA
The latest polling of likely voters shows a dead heat between Cruz and Trump.
It’s worth noting (as the article doesn’t) that CA is winner-take-all by Congressional District. So if that polling holds, Cruz would probably pick up about half the delegates. But we don’t know what the race will look like by the time CA has come around. Trump may have already taken enough delegates, or there may be a last-minute push on to prevent him.
Ancient Warfare
I’m always amused by things like this:
Before the 1990s, “for a long time we didn’t really believe in war in prehistory,” DAI’s Hansen says. The grave goods were explained as prestige objects or symbols of power rather than actual weapons. “Most people thought ancient society was peaceful, and that Bronze Age males were concerned with trading and so on,” says Helle Vandkilde, an archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark. “Very few talked about warfare.”
Because they bought into Rousseau’s “noble savage” BS.
I suspect there’s still a lot more that we don’t know about human history than we do.
TSA Pre-Check
I’ve been getting randomly assigned it on my boarding passes for years, but I’d never understood why. For instance, I got it on my flight back from IAD this week, but not on my flight out from LAX. So here’s the story, sort of.
Anyway, they say it’s going to end, so if I want to get it, I have to actually sign up and pay the 85 bucks. So I decided to finally do it. I have to go to LAX with my passport and fingers on Monday morning to complete the process.