Steamed Over Rice
Chivalry is not dead, at least when certain women are concerned. Consider the case of Susan Rice, whose honor has lately been defended with a zeal not seen since the age of heraldry. Rice is America’s...
View ArticleHappy Equal Pay Day
Tuesday was “Equal Pay Day,” by presidential proclamation, but we did not mark the occasion an appropriate observance. By habit we try not to pay anybody for anything, and on those occasions when we...
View ArticleAn Ink-Stained Wretch
Even by the melodramatic standards of newsroom intrigue, the latest dust-up at The New York Times is noteworthy for its nastiness. The acrimonious departure of executive managing editor Jill Abramson...
View ArticleThe Divided States of America
Once upon a time a little-known state senator from Illinois gave a speech to the Democratic National Convention and wowed the delegates with a speech that famously declared “There’s not a black America...
View ArticleSecond Thoughts on a Sexual Revolution
One of the compensating advantages of growing older is that one’s sex drive eventually diminishes to a point it no longer overwhelms dignity, dispassionate analysis, common sense, simple courtesy, and...
View ArticleA Gay Old Time in Kenya
Modern liberalism has so many rules, with new ones constantly being added by both the bureaucracy and the the more unofficial social justice warriors, that it’s hard to keep up. Oftentimes the rules...
View ArticleHillary and Sanders and Sexism
Although we keep reading in the respectable press that Hillary Clinton’s Democratic presidential nomination is once again inevitable, and her ascension to the presidency more or less a fait accompli,...
View ArticleIf You Win a Fight in the Gutter, You’re Still in the Gutter
One of the arguments most frequently made for the presidential candidacy of Donald J. Trump, the Republican front-runner, is that he’s the party’s only candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton, who is...
View ArticleBiting the Ears Off the Race
The likely presidential nominee for the Republican party has proudly accepted the endorsement of a convicted rapist, the disgraced boxer Mike Tyson, gloating that “You know, all the tough guys endorse...
View ArticleThe News Makes News
Maybe it’s just a post-holiday lull in what surely be a more news-making year, but for now all the big papers are treating Megyn Kelly’s move from Fox News to the National Broadcasting Company as a big...
View ArticleThe Fast Food Nominees Goes Fast
Although we can’t for the life of us think of the name of the last Secretary of Labor, we’re momentarily aware of the fellow who won’t be the next one. President Donald Trump’s choice for the post,...
View ArticleTrump “Tweeting” Away a Promising Day
Thursday should have been a much-needed favorable news cycle for President Donald Trump. There weren’t any new bombshell revelations about the Russia thing with Trump and Russia, the president had...
View ArticleOur Ambivalent Endorsement of Gina Haspel
In the extremely unlikely case we found ourselves a United States Senator we’d be inclined to vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the Central Intelligence, Gina Haspel, but...
View ArticleThe Reality Show Goes On
President Donald Trump is now calling Omarosa Manigault Newman a “low-life,” and we can’t argue with the description. Newman is now saying that Trump is a racist and sexist with diminished intellectual...
View ArticleOn the Idea of a Woman as President
On Monday we ran into a young woman friend of ours who’s a staunch Democrat, and were slightly surprised to learn that she’s not running for president. We joked that pretty much every other woman who’s...
View ArticlePartying with Cheerleaders
These are the lazy, hazy days of summertime, when the cotton is high and the living is easy and the news cycle usually slows down. In the age of President Donald Trump there’s always something to talk...
View ArticleOn Trump and Christianity Today
Since its founding by Rev. Billy Graham in 1956 the magazine Christianity Today has been an influential voice in evangelical circles, but little noticed by the rest of the world. That changed on Friday...
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