American Jews Need to Stop Being Stupid About Politics
And start taking policy seriously In the aftermath of Oct. 7, the assault on American Jewish liberal reality has come from all sides: from universities, favored media outlets, Hollywood, and the political leaders for whom many American Jews had voted and donated large sums of money. The day following the attack, the Biden White House […]
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, December 2023 Update
Down from 2022 highs: San Francisco -12%, Seattle -11%, Portland -6%; Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas -5%; Dallas -4%, San Diego -2%, Los Angeles -1%. But new highs in 8 metros. Today’s S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index for “October” is a three-month moving average of home prices whose sales were entered into public records in August, September, […]
Authoritarian? Conservatives Want to Restore the Constitution. The Left Can’t Handle It.
The Constitution created three branches in the federal government: the legislature to make the laws, the executive branch to enforce the laws, and the judiciary to settle disputes about the laws. Yet the federal government we know and very much do not love doesn’t operate the way the Constitution says it should. Instead, unelected bureaucrats write more […]
Pima County Should Listen to Elvis Presley
“Don’t be cruel” was good advice that should have been heeded long ago. Elvis Presley released “Don’t Be Cruel” in 1956. Within a couple of decades, Pima County and the City of Tucson began adopting cruel political systems, economic policies, industrial policies, and social policies that set the Tucson metropolis on a course to be […]
Anti-Zionism and the Bolshevik Jihad
Why would Islamist Jihadists and leftwing progressives make common cause concerning Israel and the Jews? The answer is: why not? Both are ideologies, carefully crafted by shrewd political warriors who use age-old tactics. Exploiting ambiguities in texts held sacred, they distort reality and glorify “righteous” violence, engaging in zealous asymmetric warfare. Radical ideologues are dualists […]
The Mainstream Against Democracy
Why win votes when you can engage in lawfare? Mainstream parties could have responded in one of two ways to the populist wave that began to sweep through developed nations on both sides of the Atlantic in the mid-2010s. They could either offer attractive policy alternatives that answered ordinary people’s anxieties and rallied them away […]
Can New Chef Melei Change Argentina’s Recipe?
I have had the great privilege of knowing folks who worked in the Reagan White House. Their recollections of that speech-making process help to illustrate the completely revolutionary approach to public communication that President Javier Milei is using in Argentina. Milei is facing far worse economic problems than Reagan did as he enters office. The […]
The West Mourns Jihadis, Not Jews or Christians
Woke Westerners—and even some conservatives—are weeping and wailing over the “Palestinian” jihadis and terrorist-loving “civilians” killed in Gaza. But where is the mass outcry over the attempted genocides of Jews and Christians around the world? On Oct. 7, more Jews were killed in a single day than at any time since the Holocaust. Christians are […]
Grand Inquisitor Says Oops [A Covid Story]
Francis Collins was head of the National Institutes of Health – Anthony Fauci’s parent bureaucracy – during the wreckage caused by the Covid response. Ultimately, Dr. Collins bears a huge measure of the responsibility for the disaster, even if he played the role of the stooge. It was he who wrote Fauci with the demand […]
DEI Resistance Is Advancing
Editors’ Note: As we move into 2024, let us call out DEI for what it really is. The Marxist agenda being pushed by the radical left (i.e., today’s Democrat party) with their long standing goal of taking over American institutions and forcing everyone into tribal collectivism, is branded by the meaningless and shallow words Diversity, […]