Category: Mr. D
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Biden Gets the Full Torricelli
No surprise that Joe Biden has ended his campaign. He’s been a fugitive from Madame Tussauds for a long time now and even when he was at the height of his powers, he was at best a 10-watt bulb. He has been a horrible buffoon and genuine menace to the body politic for a half…
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December 8, 1980
Haven’t posted here in a while. About time I did. So herewith, a memory. True story: on the day John Lennon was killed, I had turned in a paper I wrote for my high school sociology class concerning gun control. And as a young smartass and White Album fan, I had titled the paper,…
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The Social Event of the Season/Your Morning Piñata
It’s the Woodstock of perfidy! Hail, hail, the gang’s all here*: *Kinda disappointed that ol’ Klaus Schwab couldn’t make it, but there’s hope George Soros will appear in animatronic form.
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Tuesday’s Gone
Fleshing out my first thoughts on the most recent election: In Minnesota, the age-old wisdom prevails: money talks, bullshit walks. Tim Walz is sputtering fool, but he will be governor for the next four years. Unless his A1C level approaches triple digits, it’s highly likely he’ll complete his term and step aside for another sideshow…
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Place Yer Bets
It’s finally Election Day and we can all breathe easier now that we won’t have to see Angie Craig’s alternating rictus grin/contorted face of rage multiple times a day on television, social media and other media. But will we see Craig going forward? While I sincerely hope not, it’s difficult to know. So let’s hazard…
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Buyin’ Time
You knew it was coming. And here it is — student loan “forgiveness,” baby: President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will forgive $10,00 in federal student debt for most borrowers, fulfilling a campaign pledge and delivering financial relief to millions of Americans. Biden will cancel up to $20,000 for recipients of Pell Grants. “Both…
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Faith Heeling
Where we are now: Many common social-justice phrases have echoes of a catechism: announcing your pronouns or performing a land acknowledgment shows allegiance to a common belief, reassuring a group that everyone present shares the same values. But treating politics like a religion also makes it more emotionally volatile, more tribal (because differences of opinion…
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Our Betters Know It
We are living in a meritocracy that is utterly lacking in merit. And our betters know it. If the current leadership in Washington were confident in their abilities and in their support, you would not see FBI raids on political opponents and political show trials on national television. You are under no obligation to like…
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You’ll Get Nothing And Like It
Former Trump hand Michael Anton, writing for Compact, offers a bracing view of the various pathologies of Trump haters, whose numbers are legion, at least among the chattering classes. I am going to pull a few quotes; this article is a festival of pull quotes, truly a “read the whole thing” special. But a few…
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Breaking News (Breaking Wind) From Seven Years Ago
Deep thoughts from Chris Cillizza, circa 2015: Joe Biden’s unique trait as a politician is — and always has been — his honesty. Sometimes that honesty gets him into varying degrees of trouble. Sometimes it makes it seem as though he’s the closest thing to a real person you could possibly hope for in politics.…
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Dobbs
Dobbs finally arrived: “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” wrote Justice Samuel Alito for the majority. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected…
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Rationalization Du Jour
So the economy’s in the crapper and you’re a worried Democrat? CNN has found the silver lining: All of this could pose problems for Biden and Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.But if there is any consolation for Biden, the market implosion during the early stages of his presidency is not as bad as those…
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Horrible If True
If the story presented in this Wall Street Journal article is true, what happened at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, could have been prevented or greatly mitigated: Local residents voiced anger Thursday about the time it took to end the mass shooting at an elementary school here, as police laid out a fresh timeline…
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Carry On Wayward Renegade, All Along The Watchtower
It’s not something I think about that much, but I do from time to time — why do Classic Rock stations sound the same, year after year? I wrote about this on my moribund blog a number of years ago and, based on recent listening to market-dominant KQRS, this list of faves hasn’t changed a…
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Happy Days Are Here Again
So how to stop Dobbs? Declare a sex strike: Some on the left have come up with creative ways they think will encourage people to save Roe v. Wade. Earlier this week on The View, co-host Joy Behar floated the idea of a sex strike. “Women in the world have conducted sex strikes in history,”…
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Roe No Mo
So we have a leak and it appears the Supremos are sending Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood to the dustbin of history. A few very brief thoughts: Justice Alito is right: Roe was always built on a foundation of nothing. Justice White was also correct when Roe was decided. Roe was an…
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Signal To Noise
I’ve spent the majority of my career in the employ of Fortune 500 corporations, including my current employer. In the early years, those companies would sometimes make a show of their social goodness but they weren’t particularly wedded to a lefty agenda. That’s changed in the last 10-15 years, but recent events have some C-suite grandees…
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Gotta Have A Joe For This, A Joe For That
But this runnin’ with the Bidens, boy, just ain’t where it’s at: Hunter Biden’s closest business partner made at least 19 visits to the White House and other official locations between 2009 and 2015, including a sitdown with then-Vice President Joe Biden in the West Wing. Visitor logs from the White House of former President…
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Musk In The Wind
An Inigo Montoya moment: Democracy. They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means. Of course, what frightens Max Boot is having anything he says face a challenge. Content moderation is especially cool if it means you don’t have to face any discontent. Boot’s preferred usage is a…
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I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
Let’s start with a little music: The facts we hateWe’ll never meetWalking down the roadEverybody yelling, “Hurry up, hurry up!”But I’m waiting for youI must go slowI must not think bad thoughtsWhen is this world coming to? Can’t speak for anyone else, but it’s tough avoiding bad thoughts these days. The larger question isn’t having…
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Suss This
Given the glacial pace of John Durham’s investigation, it’s easy to assume that nothing is really going to come of his efforts; it’s a drill we’ve all seen before. Before Lucy pulls the football away yet again, let’s note that Durham did establish something long suspected: John Durham released a potential smoking gun in the…
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Panic in Donkville
It’s almost impossible to put enough lipstick on the porcine Biden administration. All the polls are in the crapper and the only numbers that are going up are in the grocery aisles. Meanwhile, as Joel Kotkin notes, Biden and the rest of the party are doing their best Thelma and Louise imitation, especially where the…
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Rules Of The Game
Most readers of this feature knew the truth in 2020 — Hunter Biden, the uber-prodigal son of the now Leader of the Free World, abandoned a laptop computer at a repair shop in Delaware. The laptop was filled to the brim with embarrassing and yes, incriminating evidence of financial malfeasance and videotaped debauchery. It was…
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Vlad All Over, Or The Fog of War
The Soviet Union, as formidable as it once appeared, has been a dead letter for over 30 years. While Vladimir Putin may have one reliable client state in Belarus, the rest of the former Soviet republics and the entirety of the Eastern Bloc have little interest in getting the band back together, so while the…
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P. J. O’Rourke, RIP
P. J. O’Rourke died yesterday at the age of 74. He was one of the best conservative pundits of the last 50 years and certainly the funniest. He also had a keen eye. In his 1990 classic Parliament of Whores, he provided a spot-on synopsis of the people you meet at a protest rally. Tell…