Only For a Moral and Religious People
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Remedying the Right’s disastrous forays into culture. The short clip from The New Norm Show that’s been circulating almost seems perfectly timed to prove Spencer Klavan’s point: the Right’s approach to culture is an abysmal failure. Nearly universally panned, the “anti-woke sitcom” is everything wrong with the Right’s typical incursions into the aesthetic realm. […]
Families Are Fed up with Big Labor-Dominated Schools
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes American parents of school-aged children have long understood it’s a bad idea for politicians to grant government union bosses monopoly-bargaining power over how teachers and other school employees are compensated and managed. Over the years, millions of mothers and fathers have expressed their considered views on this question by voting […]
‘Breadcrumbs Lead to Speaker’s Office,’ Rep. Jim Banks Warns as GOP Slams Capitol Police Leadership Over Capitol Riot
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Rep. Jim Banks heavily criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her failure to hand over key documents related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, saying in a Monday interview that Republican lawmakers believe the severity of the riot was due to a “systemic breakdown and failure at the highest levels […]
‘Lockdowns Had Little to No Effect on COVID Mortality’: New Johns Hopkins Study
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes But the costs of these draconian measures weren’t minimal at all. We’re into year three of the COVID-19 pandemic. From mask mandates to vaccine passports, government restrictions on our liberties remain in place. But, thankfully, at least in the US, the era of lockdown orders confining Americans’ to their homes […]
Making Schools a Logic Free Zone
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Liberals and Progressives continue in their belief that the presence of guns causes crime rather than the presence of criminals causes crime. It appears no amount of evidence or logic can dissuade them. It is a purely emotional position devoid of logic and experience. This is the assumption behind almost all […]
Jewish Parents Again Acting Stupid
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes If you have a conversation with Jewish parents of teenagers, typically their overwhelming focus is not just that their children attend college, but they must attend the “right” college. That college may have a history of educating children like theirs, but today it is more interested in two things: Extracting […]
Understanding the Covid Odds
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’ve been vaccinated and still feel mortally threatened by the virus, please read this. It’s obviously not easy to give up fear of Covid-19, to judge from a recent survey showing that the vaccinated are actually more frightened than the unvaccinated. Another survey found that most Democratic voters are so worried that they […]
A Perspective on Social Justice
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Consider the expression “social justice”. What does it actually mean? Presumably, everyone is in favor of justice, as opposed to unfairness. But let’s consider what the people bloviating most strongly actually mean by the expression. What do they really want? In the broadest sense the expression suggests that someone (or […]
The Insecurity in Social Security
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes One of the few things where there is widespread agreement is about the fact that Social Security and Medicare are going broke unless something is done to stem the financial drain as the retirement rolls swell. Choices are raising taxes or cutting benefits. Neither alternative is palatable politically, so the […]
Election Revelations From Time Magazine
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Normally, we would not send you rushing to read TIME MAGAZINE, a publication that has long since lost its reputation for honesty in reporting. But we urge all readers to absorb “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” by Molly Ball. The piece goes some […]