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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Diversity and the Democratic Debate

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A quick thought on the Democratic debate tonight. There will be five participants, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O...
Monday, July 27, 2015

The Contenders for 2016

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UPDATE:   I'm looking back at this post from 6.5 months ago, and I wanted to update my list.   Here's my list as of today.  My Ja...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Hayek

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Probably the smartest single sentence I've read in many years, from Friedrich Hayek: “If we wish to preserve a free society, it is es...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Elizabeth Moss Just Stole the End of Mad Men

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Which otherwise hadn't been very good this spring.   But then...

Those Balls Are Perfect

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Haven't posted for awhile, but this seemed like something to share. By the way, I read a significant part of the Wells report...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

ISIS Explained

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A great, great article by Graeme Wood in The Atlantic that deserves and is getting a lot of attention, explaining ISIS as a medieval/millen...
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Netanyahu

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Netanyahu on the reason why he's speaking to Congress.   Very powerful, very impressive.   Makes you wish he could run for President of ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Calling for a Declaration of War Redux

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Only a few days ago, I wrote this after the beheadings of four young Christians in Iraq by ISIS.   Now, after the cowardly murders of cartoo...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

While I'm On the Subject... Why Isn't Pete Rose In the Hall of Fame Yet?

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Just sayin'.
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My Hall of Fame Ballot (Updated)

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UPDATE:    Well, I hit on three of my picks -- the Big Unit, Pedro, and Smoltz -- and missed on Biggio.    Bonds and Clemens remain at ...
Monday, January 5, 2015

They're All in On the Joke

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A Downton Abbey parody starring the folks from Downton Abbey: My favorite part:   where the telegram comes and Grantham has lost the ...

Girl of the Day - January Jones

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Her birthday (today) may account for her first name.   Anyway, she's a terrific 37, and it will be interestin...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Girl of the Day - Lee Remick

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She would have been 79 on Sunday.   It's hard to imagine there could be a sexier performance by an actress than a young Lee Remick tur...
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Calling for a Declaration of War

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Here's a chilling headline .   We've seen this sort of thing for months; we're going to see a lot more, I'm afraid: Four y...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Update to the Update on the UVA Gang Rape Hoax

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Well, although it was somewhat predictable, I didn't think it would happen quite so fast.   The UVA rape sto...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Update on the UVA Story/Hoax

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It appears that the UVA story is officially falling apart.   Here is a letter published today by Rolling Stone: To Our Readers:  Last m...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

The UVA Story

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By now you may have heard of the sensationalist Rolling Stone article about sexual assault at UVA.   The article, ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Quote of the Day - Victor Davis Hanson

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From his piece today in NRO : Eric Holder – with his jet-setting to sporting events on the public dime, spouting inflammatory racialist r...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Obama as Failed ConLaw Professor

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Arguably, the two great sea changes of the Obama Administration will end up being the legalization of gay marriage and the quasi-legalizatio...

Quote of the Day - Detroit!

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From Kevin Williamson of NRO : The Democrats, if they had any remaining intellectual honesty, would hold their convention in Detroit. ...

Notes on Obama's Remarks on the "Tragic Events" in Ferguson

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The real problem with Obama's remarks on Ferguson last night was that he gave them at all. He should have said...

Fisking Eric Holder's Statement on the "Tragedy" of Michael Brown

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Eric Holder, the United States Attorney General, had this to say last night after a St. Louis County...
Monday, November 24, 2014

The Scandal of Ivy League Quotas

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Glenn Reynolds has a column up highlighting the scandal of the Ivy League's reverse quota system, in which high-achieving Asian student...

Girl of the Day - It's A Gray Day In Milwaukee Edition

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It's a gray day in Milwaukee.   Sunshine would be nice.   But you'll need an umbrella: Or maybe a...
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The Right Thing in the Wrong Way

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One aspect of the genius of our Constitution is that it requires that, if our rulers -- the tripartite structure of the executive, legislati...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Girl of the Day - Scarlett Johansson

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After becoming an icon in the popular culture, she appears to have decided to use her talent in some interesting ways in recent movies like ...
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A Thought Experiment on Grubergate

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Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online recently offered this observation on what has become known as Grubergate: ...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Quote of the Day

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From a George Will column about Wisconsin's school choice program , and the federal government's attempts to harass religious school...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

More on Grubergate

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A terrific piece on the Jonathan Gruber Obamacare lies from Jake Tapper, one of the few journalists left who can reasonably be described as ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Girl of the Day - Megyn Kelly

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She's fallen in the honey pot at FoxNews, of course, but I suspect she would have made it big in ...
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