David Brooks: “What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.” As a card-carrying member of the liberal-left, substantially Jewish elite, neocon David Brooks of the very Establishment New York Times is worried, and rightfully so: We live in a country with catastrophically low levels of institutional trust. University presidents, big law […]
Bottom line: What lesson do we draw from the “incipient crisis” in Little Rock? In my view, courts lack the power to solve all problems. Even where there is jurisdiction and law on their side, judges run out of authority. Despite what Brown said, the Warren Court couldn’t integrate schools. They barely tried after Cooper. That task fell […]
McNamara’s Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War Hamilton Gregory Infinity Publishing, 2015 In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara were desperate to find additional troops for the Vietnam War, but they feared that they would alienate middle-class voters if they drafted college boys or sent Reservists and National […]
Russia has the same problems with its bureaucracy as the U.S. and the West general have. In the U.S. the vast majority of federal bureaucrats are Democrats and, if the first Trump administration is any indication, they will again do all they can to sabotage the policies of the elected government. Trump and Musk are […]
The UK is the worst of all Western countries in self-destruction. The powers-that-be hate the White British. Here are two things the British people learned about their National Health Service (NHS) in recent weeks. First, rats and cockroaches are invading hospital beds and wards, the sick and elderly are being treated in corridors and car […]
The writer describes a totally dysfunctional society still dependent on the U.S. for basic services and still sending migrants to the U.S. Then he threatens that it will get worse if U.S. aid and willingness to import Haitians stop. Since last spring, when gangs in Haiti banded together to attack the government, they have mostly […]
