Things went much better when we called the shots in Latin America We’re not “nation-building” in Venezuela. We’re “puppet-government-installing.” And not a moment too soon. Our complete withdrawal from the Western Hemisphere over the past fifty years, while we concentrated on turning distant hellholes like Somalia into “a proud, functioning and viable member of the […]
Even white public school teachers don’t celebrate it, anymore Now that my triumph over Kwanzaa is nearly complete, I’m continuing the tradition of writing about it this time of year, merely to dance on its grave. According to Google N-gram, book mentions of “Kwanzaa” got off to a roaring start around 1980 — or about […]
My handy guide to spotting them. In honor of Christmas, this week we’ll discuss the worst advertisement for my religion: Christians. Sometimes it seems as if there are more fake, phony, fraud Christians than real Christians, but that’s because I read The New York Times (my North Star, which I believe implicitly). While not dispositive, […]
Man Bites Dog: NYT’s Rules for Covering Crime The New York Times must have thought it had died and gone to heaven when it discovered a group of violent high school bullies — and they weren’t all black! Members of Arizona’s “Gilbert’s Goons” were not only multiracial — white, Hispanic and black — but they […]
The ones that (almost) got away. No matter how much I try to ignore the Democrats’ latest “The Walls Are Closing In” spectacle, it has come to my attention that liberals are hopping mad about our military killing two Venezuelan drug traffickers. Cocaine has killed 100,000 Americans in the last 20 years. Venezuela is a […]
Forget blue states, Mr. Trump. Save the Tarheels! Although the media are not typically interested in helping Republicans win elections, they seem awfully concerned that Donald Trump’s immigration raids in Charlotte, North Carolina, could hurt the GOP’s electoral prospects. The New York Times reports, for example, that the raids “brought one of the Trump administration’s showiest […]
This thing about illegal orders could be trouble for them If you’ve been buried in Jeffrey Epstein’s emails advising Harvard professors how to cheat on their wives, you may have missed the video put out by six Democratic lawmakers last week, somberly instructing members of the military to “refuse illegal orders” from the commander in chief, one […]
