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I’ve always enjoyed watching Jen Psaki work, because it seems like it is always her first day on the job. Asked why Joe Biden was flouting his own...
Some illiterate jabroni over at RedState is in a lather about my farewell to Trump, so mad that he’s holding down the shift key and writing in ...
I was on Morning Joe today, and I mentioned a point also made in this morning’s column — that Joe Biden’s decency-and-honesty shtick is baloney....
Lady Gaga has a tremendous voice — she is just an enormously talented singer. Somebody should send her the sheet music for “The Star-Spangled...
For those still (still!) wondering whether Donald Trump is a con artist, Mr. “Drain the Swamp”’s last acts as president included opening up the...
To Alex’s very interesting “Capital Matters” column on corporate-tax-depreciation reform — and don’t roll your eyes; it is an interesting...
I’m starting to think that Donald Trump is not actually going to release that health-care plan. SAD!
This New York Times profile of a QAnon cultist might as well be headlined: “My God! It happened to one of us!”
Jim, the current orthodoxy among the Q cultists is that all those security fences and troops we are seeing in D.C. is a prelude to the mass arrests...
I enjoyed Michael’s piece on high-tech cosmopolitanism this morning. But I wonder if he doesn’t have it backward. Twitter et al. are very...
I am perplexed by John Yoo’s column today. Yoo repeatedly asserts that one of the reasons to forgo convicting Donald Trump on the charge of which he...
A paltry ten House Republicans mustered the guts and the patriotism to vote to impeach Donald Trump. By way of comparison, 139 Republicans in the...
From Franz Lidz, writing in the New York Times: The fourth of the 12 Caesars, Caligula — officially, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus — was a...
If the Democrats don’t have to fight Republicans, they’ll fight each other. And you know who’s going to lose that ugly Democrat-on-Democrat...
About that silly reworking of Handel’s Messiah, Dan Bilefsky of the New York Times writes: Writing in The National Review, the American...
I would like to direct your attention to an excellent column by Virginia I. Postrel about the crucial role of middlemen — market intermediaries —...
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), a traditionally conservative industry group currently run by a former head of the Republican...
This is why police have guns, no? We should treat this episode like what it is. If this rabble had been wearing turbans instead of MAGA hats, the mob...
Joe Biden says he wants to “heal America” as president. The problem for Biden is that the president and, perhaps more important, the presidency...
. . . I am going to do a thorough writeup of a particularly irritating journalistic genre: “I was raised Catholic, and I was taught [x, which is not...
If you feel like you haven’t been exposed to enough stupidity today and would like to remedy that, the New York Times is here to deliver. “Big...
In my Sunday column, I argued that our attitudes toward college debt are, like our attitudes toward higher education itself, in part a culture-war...
Andy McCarthy writes: Already under indictment for securities fraud, [Texas] Attorney General [Ken] Paxton is currently caught up in yet another...
. . . is a dead conservative. This is a funny little journalistic genre unto itself. The people who hated — who positively despised — William F....
Sixty-one combat missions. Shot down over occupied France. Yelled at Eisenhower until he agreed to let him go back and fight some more. Countless...
In response to College General Education: Cut the Fluff and Include Useful Stuff George Leef sniffs that North Carolina State University...
In his interesting post on the “corporate-woke complex,” John Loftus writes of “our largest multinational corporations, such as Apple,...
John freakin’ Kerry. Again. After a summer of discontent driven in part by protests against racial injustice and in part by the...
You will not be surprised to learn that it was Mitch McConnell, not Donald Trump, who took the lead in putting Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme...
. . . but I’m pretty sure it’s not John Kerry. Many conservatives believe that there isn’t much to be done, or that should be done, on climate...
Noah Rothman’s excellent piece in Commentary, “The Dumbest of Coups,” deserves to be widely read. I’ve been writing about conspiracy theories...
The headline Slate wrote: “North Carolina’s First Black Female Chief Justice May Lose Her Seat to Aggrieved White Colleague.”The actual news:...
In response to Diebold Redux Frankly, Rich, I’m starting to worry a little about the guy in charge of the Trump recount effort.
I was pleased to read Alexandra’s post on abortion groups scrubbing the names of eugenicists such as Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes from their...
Having nuked the development of a U.S.-led Asia-Pacific trade bloc designed to counter the influence of Beijing, our so-called nationalists made room...
If people living in Trump country seem like they live in a different world from that inhabited by Silicon Valley executives and the editors of The New...
Richard Nixon had a good friend in Barry Goldwater. At the height of the Watergate scandal, Goldwater led a small delegation of Republican senators to...
It looks probable that in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Nevada, the share of the vote won by the Libertarian Party candidate, Jo Jorgensen (of...
The only incontrovertibly true sentence I can remember Donald Trump ever having spoken is: “Bad things happen in Philadelphia.” (There may be...
Does anybody at the New York Times speak English? The Times reports: In a reprise of the violent street altercations that erupted at times in New...
A reader writes: “For once, I got what I wanted: Cocaine Mitch plus president with no juice (whoever he is) weakened Nancy constitutionalist...
Raising the voting age to 40 would really shorten up those long lines.
A Slate headline: “Most Slate Staffers Are Voting for Biden—but Not All of Us.” Another way of writing the same headline: “Not One Slate...
A longstanding theme of mine is this: The policymaking conversation is always dominated by elite interests and elite obsessions: Ivy League admissions...
A man walked into a French church and began knifing people to death while screaming, “Allahu akbar!” The crack squad over at The Associated Press...
I think I first really felt impending mortality sometime in the 1990s when I was standing in line at a coffeeshop in Lubbock, Texas, and noticed that...
The headline over Kyle Smith’s column describes Joe Biden as the “would-be leader of the free world.” Is that a typo? It is true that Angela...
The New York Times has really outdone itself, managing to write a full news story about a mob of blackshirts attacking Jews in New York without...