Category: Current Affairs
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Gavin Newsom’s a Disaster for California and Beyond
"We will not open or operate retail stores in California." (Marcus Lemonis, Bed, Bath, and Beyond) Even Scarborough sees through the clown. Now if you really want to learn something, please pay close attention to this nine minute video by Victor Davis Hanson entitled Gavin Newsom's 250 Mil Redistricting Power Grab.
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Just How Safe is Washington, D.C.?
Opinions differ. On a podcast last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D–NY, claimed, “I walk around all the time. I wake up early in the morning … And I feel perfectly safe.” He dismissed Republican concerns about safety as “full of it,” but, of course, Schumer doesn’t go anywhere without his security detail. In a similar vein,…
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Epstein and Trump: Nothing to See Here
Alan Dershowitz: Open records show an acquaintance between Epstein and Mr. Trump many years ago. That relationship ended when Mr. Trump reportedly banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, long before becoming president. I have seen nothing that would suggest anything improper or even questionable by Mr. Trump. It is clear from the evidence that Epstein committed suicide.…
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Trump has Made News Great Again
Politics in hyperdrive. Who can keep up? And to what extent should one keep up? Here are a couple of articles that caught my eye: The Islamic Republic's New Lease on Life. Mercifully brief, and very interesting. In Foreign Affairs, by one Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar. I'd be interested in Caiati's and Soriano's comments. Elon Musk…
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Is ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ a Concentration Camp?
It is according to the author of a TNR article. I don't disagree. After all, the bad hombres are being held against their will in one place prior to their deportation. The conclusion to draw, of course, is that some concentration camps are morally justified. This one is also legally justified. President Trump is merely…
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Trump, Nukes, and Nation-Building
It is blindingly evident that Ayatollah Khamenei and the rest of the radical Islamists in control of Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Donald Trump has been clear and consistent about this during the ten years he has been in the political spotlight. He may speak of diplomacy and agreements but he…
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Rosie O’Donnell
The corpulent cow's self-deportation has put many a mile between her and the object of her hatred, and many a smile upon conservative faces. Curiously, her spatial distance from the Orange Man seems only to have exacerbated her animosity. Given the quality of the Dem field, she should be considered for 2028.
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Luigi Mangione and the Death Penalty
Justice demands the death penalty in certain cases. Anyone who opposes said penalty in principle I consider morally obtuse. As for Mangione, he deserves it. The editors of the Boston Herald demur: The death penalty should be off the table for Luigi Mangione, accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. And not for any reason…
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J. D. Vance at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast
The Veep's performance was impressive. The man has excellent public speaking skills, is considerably more articulate than his boss, and displays natural political talent. He will make a fine successor. On the down side, he, unlike Trump, is a professional politician. I don't have to explain what that means. Trump's astonishing effectiveness is in large…
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Donald J. Trump’s First 70 Executive Orders
Here. From 20 January through 18 February. Beautiful. This tsunami of common sense will swamp the Swamp Critters and drive them to blind reaction. Flailing about, they will sink deeper into the cesspool of their futile negativity, to their despair while we who are sane and reasonable sit back and enjoy the show. Can you…
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A Coordinated Assault on All Fronts in a Fight to the Death
I don't pretend to understand Trump's battle plan, but it may be that this guy does: The Trump Team fooled everybody, including me. As last week’s various lawsuits sprouted restraining orders like early buds emerging all over the willow trees in springtime, most commenters expected Trump to take a necessary pause for defensive retrenchment. Surely,…
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Trump’s Gaza Proposal
Donald Trump seems incapable of qualifying his statements, a fault that may be connected with his tendency to exaggerate. And so he needlessly inflames his enemies, who, given their biases, naturally took him to be advocating ethnic cleansing with his talk of "taking over" Gaza. Anthony Flood here skillfully rebuts the suggestion. I…
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An Intra-MAGA Contremps
I need to bone up before I weigh in. If I ever do. Civil War in MAGA-Land? A House Divided Steve Sailer puts the point with pith and precision: America First or Americans First? (Sailer via Malcolm Pollack). But see Roger Simon, The Great Fake H1-B Controversy.
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Musk Derangement Syndrome
Political pathologies are not to be multiplied praeter necessitatem, but given the praeter-natural lunacy of the Left, a certain amount of quasi-psychiatry is tolerable, and perhaps even helpful unto political salvation and national sanitation. Move over, TDS. I now hand off to Roger Kimball.