1+ hour, 9+ min ago  (151+ words) This is justifiable, but perhaps the most radical idea the Trump administration has floated so far: " HUGE DEVELOPMENT: Sec. Markwayne Mullin announces DHS is drawing up plans to BLOCK ALL international flights into sanctuary cities by ending Customs screening there…...

5+ hour, 34+ min ago  (215+ words) Over the Memorial Day weekend this past Sunday, Margaret Brennan hosted two Medal of Honor recipients on the CBS News gabfest known as Face the Nation. Rush used to refer to it as Deface the Nation. Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel…...

4+ hour, 34+ min ago  (362+ words) Yesterday we took a look at the unahappy scientific cranks of Laputa in Part III of Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver observed the "continual disquietudes" that upset their peace of mind, but he didn't leave it there. He also observed their political…...

16+ hour, 45+ min ago  (138+ words) Observers have wondered where this opposition'seemingly grass roots, but also remarkably well-organized, consistent, and well-funded'comes from. Kevin O'Leary put a data science team on the question, and came up with startling conclusions: the opposition to data centers comes largely from…...

18+ hour, 59+ min ago  (355+ words) As US stock market hits new highs, 2 of 3 Americans are cutting back on spending, survey shows. The construction of the headline implies causality, rather than coincidence. Stock market records are producing widespread suffering amongst the general populace, as fat cats…...

19+ hour, 49+ min ago  (300+ words) The sorting of America into red and blue zones is one of the most important developments of our time, about which we have often written. People are leaving blue states for red states, in part in search of lower taxes....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (181+ words) Yesterday I posted the full video of Aaron Mac Lean interviewing Niall Ferguson for Aaron's School of War podcast in "The rise of anti-history." As I always do, I watched the video its entirety before recommending it here. You had…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (187+ words) Sylvia Weiser Wendel writes in response to my celebration of Bob Dylan in two posts " "Not dark yet" and "Chimes of freedom" " this past Sunday. Dylan's 85th birthday provided the occasion of my posts. Ms. Wendel's personal site is Joseph Conrad…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (144+ words) I studied Gulliver's Travels in Jeffrey Hart's course on early eighteenth-century English literature, from Dryden through Pope. Hart was a great teacher and this was a great course. In Part III of the book Gulliver recounts his voyage to Laputa....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (94+ words) Begs the question" does not mean raises the question." Imply" does not mean infer." Affect" does not mean effect." Discrete" does not mean discreet." Flaunt" does not mean flout." See if you can spot the error in Mike Davis's Fox…...