November 24, 2024

Innocents knifed to death in the United Kingdom

Are the authorities covering up the circumstances of this horrific crime? On July 29, 2024, in Southport, United Kingdom, 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana (A.R.) allegedly knifed to death three girls (Bebe King, six; Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven; and Ali...

June 22, 2023

What would Andy Warhol have made of The New Yorker's Pride month issue?

The New Yorker magazine publishes great writing on many subjects other than politics. Of those in that latter category, the articles serve as a weathervane for leftism.   Perusing my copy each week, I focus on the form...

April 6, 2023

A leading leftist pens a book on White racism in America in which she judges people based on their skin color

Wanting to study modern leftist thought, I decided to read Heather McGhee's bestseller The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.  After all, it was festooned with blurbs by the likes of Th...

August 22, 2014

Legacy Media: Guard Dogs or Attack Dogs?

Officer Darren Wilson's shooting of Michael Brown聽has caused the legacy media聽guard dogs to聽metamorphose into attack dogs. 聽 The legacy media devotes most of its time to serving as guard dogs protecting their masters聽in the White House, "Justic...

September 13, 2013

Socialized Medicine Anyone?

When it comes to health care, I want a system that provides high quality care at a reasonable price with significant patient choice.  (The pre-Obamacare American one was far from the ideal.)  Then there are Left-wingers like Bill Mah...

July 15, 2013

Holder's Hold on Office

In the history of the Republic, there have been 82 Attorneys General.  Eric Holder has lasted longer than all but five of them despite losing the support of the people and the commentariat.  What accounts for his longevity in office? ...

July 15, 2013

Now Obama and Holder are stuck

With racialist political motives, President Obama and Attorney General Holder attempted to railroad George Zimmerman.  When President Obama said that if he had a son, the child would look like Trayvon Martin, the President was really saying...

June 6, 2013

Proof of Guilt in the IRS Scandals

A regulation (28 CFR 600.1) exists requiring that the Attorney General shall appoint an outside Special Counsel when the Attorney General determines that: criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted; the Attorney General's Department of...

May 29, 2013

The Obama Administration Scandals Are About to Explode

The Obama Administration scandals have reached critical mass.  There will be fission and an explosion.  No one can stop it.  Various commentators have speculated about how the Obama Administration scandals will unfold.  Who...

May 21, 2013

Time for Holder to appoint a special counsel

Attorney General Eric Holder should appoint an outside Special Counsel of sterling reputation to investigate the various scandals that have emerged in the past fortnight. A regulation (28 CFR 600.1) provides that the Attorney General ...

April 18, 2013

Eyewitness to history: A report from Dame Thatcher's funeral

Outside the entrance to Saint Clement Danes Church in London, England, hundreds of us gathered and quietly waited for the hearse carrying Margaret Thatcher's flag-draped coffin.  We greeted its arrival with the sort of unbidden, hushed a...

January 21, 2013

Some questions for Secretary Clinton when she testifies on Benghazi this week

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to testify on the Benghazi debacle before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, January 23, two days after President Obama is inaugurated.  I d...

December 25, 2012

A Christmas Story

The movie The Hunt is set in a Danish village. Lucas works at a nursery school. One of his students is Klara, the daughter of his best friend Theo. Her parents do not have enough time for her, so she increasingly relies on Lucas, especially with rega...

November 18, 2012

Susan Rice will not be nominated for Secretary of State

After the 9/11/2012 murders of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama Administration was in full covereup mode. They required that someone go on five 9/16/2012 Sunday talk shows to make the case that our diplomats had died because of a You...

July 25, 2012

Gun Control and the Murder Rate

James Holmes's rampage in Aurora, Colorado has led to more of the same tired gun control debate that has been going on for decades.  The commentators would have performed a greater service for the country if they had addressed a m...

July 14, 2012

Spot the racist

Various politicians, such as Congresswoman Maxine Waters, have called the Trayvon Martin shooting a hate crime.  (As a matter of fact, numerous politicians and members of the media have garnered publicity by portraying the tragedy as an example ...

April 2, 2012

George Zimmerman and the Hate Crime statute

What will it mean if President Obama and Attorney General Holder decline to prosecute George Zimmerman?With regard to Trayvon Martin's death, I have no idea what happened, but various individuals such as Congresswoman Maxine Waters have called the sh...

August 28, 2010

'Free' Speech in the U.K.

Picture this: Mr. Astor and his wife are British. On a Sunday, they enter their local London pub for lunch. Before ordering, they hear an elderly, bearded Mr. Brooks opine, "Health care in America is a fascinating, complicated subject....