Many social conservatives excel at diagnosis of our social ills, but often fail or stop short of prescription. They can tell us where we’ve gone wrong, but haven’t a practical plan for going right once more. Instead, in the words of Anthony Esolen, they “brandish popguns against the family-dissolving forces,” or seek distractions
Socialist savant Bernie Sanders has propounded, and Senator cum footwear model Kamala Harris has endorsed, the notion that felons ought to be able to vote. After all, to deny the vote to anyone at all is, in Sanders’ memorable phrase, “running down a slippery slope.” Perhaps this is so. If it is
Northam says he’s very sorry; also says, “That wasn’t me!” Fairfax finds the facts unfair, and also says—“Eff that B!” Bobby Scott knew quite a lot, but chose to “wait and see,” Unlike the erring Herring, who confessed pre-emptively. Photo credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images
They’re tromp, tromp, tromping, across social media — (And if you judge them, you are a chauvinist) Boots, boots, boots, boots, strollin’ cross the Senate floor, There’s no dignity, anymore. I turned on the cable news last week to see, An obsession with a certain Senatrix And boots, boots, boots, boots, strollin’ cross the
In a now familiar scenario, a man with a cherished sense of identity, understanding himself to be something that he’s not, threw a tantrum because someone else refused to play along. It’s true that the experience of “playing pretend” can be diminished, when someone else refuses to be part of your fantasy world.
If logical argument is the Right’s “Maginot Line,” a defense against attacks from other directions entirely; if winning rational argument doesn’t actually help much in our Society of Feelz, then how do we counterattack the Left in ways that matter? What can an individual do to check this so-called progress and even roll
One of the greatest feats of 20th-century military engineering, has gone down in history as a byword for futility. During the 1930s the French government, preparing for a resurgent Germany, created a massive system of fixed fortifications along its border with Germany that became known as the Maginot Line. All of the lessons
As the college football season heats up, it’s time for our military academies to take an important step forward into the 21st century. Since the Obama-era gender integration of combat arms personnel, our military has worked hard to make sure women are represented among the fighting me . . . er, troops. The
Sung to the tune of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”) *** The Devil wrote a note to Feinstein, he was lookin' to have some fun... “Heard you're in a bind, gettin' way behind, and I remembered I owe you one... “So here's an old somethin’, which didn't happen and nobody saw— “You
This is the closest I’ll get to an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.” Thus spake U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who “violated (a) rule knowingly” in an attempt to obstruct the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. Or, if we want to be more realistic in understanding what he did, he turned his party’s futile gestures
