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Category Archives: Political Commentary
California’s Falling FOrtunes
The Democrats (including Newsom) continue to take a battle ax to the state.
I fear that with the departure of the sensible, the place is in a political death spiral.
If They Can Do It To Trump
…why can’t they do it to Biden?
The Democrats never seems to think ahead to what happens when the Republicans decide to play by their new rules.
“The Adults are Back In Charge”
Time for a factory reset at the Pentagon.
We’re not going to get one until we get a new president.
Prospects For Nuclear Power
The Justified Backlash Against DEI
On how it expanded from the hothouse of the universities to society at large.
How Hamas Hid Their October 7th Planning
I often wonder what country the State Department is working for.
What Next For Harvard?
Having Gay step down as president doesn’t solve the problem.
[Update a few minutes later]
A Gay fisking (cue whining from Paul in comments that he doesn’t like fisking, so he’s forewarned).
[Update a couple minutes later]
It occurs to me that one of the absurdities that the DEI religionists attempt to impose on normal people (successfully at places like the NYT and AP) is to capitalize “black” as though it is some special privileged status. How does one determine whether a person is worthy of such a prestigious designation? Is Rachel Dolezal? As with being a man or a woman, is it simply a matter of claiming one’s status?
I refuse.
[Update a while later]
Carol Swain’s attorney demands answers from Harvard.
Apropo of nothing, I had lunch with Carol Swain in the fall of 2020 in Omaha (same event where I met Jay Bhattacharya).
[Update a few more minutes later]
Claudine Gay and the great DEI grift.
[Late-morning update]
The real scandal of the Harvard/Gay affair.
Yes, the lengths they were willing to go in defending the indefensible (almost) solely because they couldn’t bring themselves to provide a “victory” to a political opponent is sort of amazing.
Elon Musk
…is not understood.
A long, but thorough defense from Casey Handmer.
Sympathy For Claudine Gay
She is a piece of work. Be sure to get to the end where he roundly fisks her resignation letter.
[Update a while later]
Link fixed now, sorry.