The Saudis Gambled And Texas Won in a game that command economies should never play. Even the rapidly disappearing vestiges of capitalism we have in the United States is enough to smack the Saudis around. Innovation, risk, profit. Lovely words for a free people. I just hope that Texas doesn’t keep that kind of attitude for…
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Breaking News: Pope is Catholic
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/638738666316283904 What this guy said. The media is having another one of those weird fawning moments over something Pope Francis never said that they wish he had said. The tweet above is CNN’s reaction to the Pope’s recent “move” with regards to abortion. Here’s Reuters: He has shown no intention of retracting the Church’s opposition…
On Language: Humpty Dumpty Was Wrong, But He Is Winning Anyway
Welcome To The United States of Alice is an excellent article in The American Spectator about the manipulation of language. It resonates with me because of its clear condemnation of our current rejection of objective meaning. But it goes even farther, suggesting that it is representative of, and responsible for (at least in part) the…
It Depends On What Your Definition of the Word “Navigable” Is
“Politics ends at the waters edge!” Many years ago, I saw a fairly large graffito scrawled on a wall somewhere in Manhattan stating “U.S., OUT OF MY PANTS!” and for whatever reason, it just stuck with me. I guess I must have just appreciated the author’s mashing up the evils of Yanqui imperialism with misogyny and…
The Laws are for little people, not politicians
I’m posting from my class today, so this will be short so my boss and students don’t see that I’m slacking. Via the AP we have the nugget that punishment for Hillary! is unlikely. So much of this seems to hinge on the idea that nothing was marked classified, even though people I know who had…
Great Moments in Leftist History
Ever wonder where that hyphenated American rubbish started? You know, where seemingly everyone describes himself as a [fill in the ethnicity]-American? Whatever happened to the melting pot? The story is both fascinating and disturbing. It involves Bella Dodd, who was sort of a distaff version of Whitaker Chambers, a one-time functionary of the Communist Party…
Paddy, We Hardly Knew Ye.
“A real mad prophet.” 39 years ago, as my senior year of high school was just kicking off, I wandered into the converted classroom that served as the office of our school paper. Desks, chairs, a cabinet, a few typewriters and our mascot, a deer head which we called “the moose” mounted over the blackboard. Not exactly…
Freedom Is Often Rather Stupid Looking
The artistic tradition in Israel is strong and, because it is a modern country beset with all of the usual post-modern cultural crap, it has performances like the one above; from a street fair in Bat Yam a bunch of “artists” dressing up in onesies and prancing about like children. I have contempt for most…
Alaska’s Mount McKinley to be renamed Denali: Thank You Barack Obama For Continuing Your War On America
Alaska’s Mount McKinley to be renamed Denali by the Secretary of The Interior Sally Jewell who is, by the way, about as ugly and mannish looking as a woman can be. “Generally believed to be central to the Athabaskan creation story, Denali is a site of significant cultural importance to many Alaska natives,” the White…
Speaking of Academic Craziness …
Professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as “illegal alien,” “male,” or “female.” Source: Professors threaten bad grades for saying ‘illegal alien,’ ‘male,’ ‘female’ Further proof, if any were needed that the inmates have taken over the asylum in higher education. If there were…