1+ hour, 7+ min ago  (289+ words) Col. Thorsness recounted his experiences in Surviving Hell: A POW's Journey. If it's possible to give something beyond "the last full measure," he gave it. Thinking of Memorial Day in the context of the controversies of 2009, Leo wrote the following…...

10+ hour, 41+ min ago  (211+ words) We no longer have a firm grasp of the obvious. Louise Perry writes (paywall) in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) weekend edition, Falling birthrates are a mystery Really? A mystery to whom? Perry writes, There's no shortage of explanations, but…...

12+ hour, 16+ min ago  (246+ words) One of those bad candidates is billionaire Tom Steyer, one of the world's greatest hypocrites, now running as a faux environmentalist and general far-leftist. Among other things, Steyer has advocated racial reparations, one of the worst policy ideas of modern…...

13+ hour, 20+ min ago  (236+ words) Two weeks ago I gave a talk at a symposium on anti-Semitism on the right in New York. One of those who attended the symposium was Dr. Randall Bock. Dr. Bock has a podcast and a Substack. After the symposium,…...

18+ hour, 50+ min ago  (393+ words) Price fixing is a terrible idea, pretty much always and everywhere. That goes for fixing the price of labor as much as anything else. This old lesson is now being re-learned in Britain: Rishi Sunak: What I got wrong on…...

23+ hour, 4+ min ago  (983+ words) This site has now been around for 24 years. In Internet time, we are like Mel Brooks's 2000 Year Old Man. Borrowing from and supplementing previous anniversary posts, I want to highlight themes that continue to resonate with me. As these reflections…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (283+ words) Who is on the left these days, and who is on the right? Who can tell? Hunter Biden appeared as a guest on the Candace Show, illustrating the new political alignment'not so much left vs right, as crazy vs sane....

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (165+ words) From the New York Post, Gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ opened fire on White House checkpoint, neutralized by Secret Service. Given the result, his belief was mistaken. These incidents occur with such frequency that they hardly even produce…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (170+ words) Stephen Colbert is finally off the air. We and CBS can both breathe a sigh of relief. Although'I am happy to say'I have never spent a single minute watching Colbert, one of the Left's several faux comedians. Colbert has been…...

2+ day, 14+ min ago  (192+ words) I might have overlooked Sean Trende's Real Clear Politics column about his developmentally challenged son if it weren't for Tim Alberta's post on X (below). The headline on Trende's column doesn't give a clue to its riches: "Judson's last ride....