Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The present angst of the left on judiciary nominations started with one of their own unwise moves: The Senate has been on the brink of ending the filibuster twice in the last 15 years. In 2005, Majority Leader Bill Frist, frustrated by a Democratic filibuster of seven federal judicial nominations that had gone on for …
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In the midst of everything else that's going on, next Monday (Lord willing) we'll start confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett to be the newest justice on the Supreme Court. In light of the fact that she was and is in a Catholic Charismatic covenant community, I've tried to shed some light on what that …
Continue reading "Amy Coney Barrett and the Lessons of the Ukrainians"
As was the case at Stamford in 1971: H. Bruce Franklin was the center of attention at Stanford University’s White Plaza one winter day in 1971. The steely-eyed, raven-haired associate English professor delivered a fiery speech during a campus rally. Stray dogs ran laps around the crossed legs of student revolutionaries as Franklin spit his ire …
Continue reading "In the Old Days, They Always Wanted to Wreck the Computer"
The week after next the grilling of our latest Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, will begin. There will be a great deal of pressure brought to bear on the fact that she is a serious Roman Catholic. That happened during the last nominating process; Diane Feinstein's remark about the dogma living loudly within her …
Continue reading "Was the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Really Catholic?"
Well, it's official: the product of a Catholic Charismatic covenant community, Amy Coney Barrett, is the nominee to be a Supreme Court Justice. My regular readers know that I've dealt with this subject over the years, from this piece in 2011 (where I document why I turned down the invitation to join one) to the …
Continue reading "From Covenant Community to SCOTUS Nominee"
The recent normalisation of relations between Israel on the one hand and the United Arab Emirates on the other hand has been billed as a major foreign policy triumph of the Trump administration. It is that, to the extent that at least a little of the American foreign policy establishment was forced to conform with …
Continue reading "Aligning with the Obvious in the Middle East"
She's definitely been busted: Across the pond, a few days later, a woman waved a white flag. The historian Jessica A. Krug, then an associate professor at George Washington University, posted a confession on the publishing platform Medium, last Thursday, explaining that she is not who she’d been claiming to be. “To an escalating degree …
Continue reading "Jessica Krug Should be Thankful She Didn’t Get Tangled Up with Karl Marx"
A blast from the past from Barack Obama's old press secretary Robert Gibbs in 2010: During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the president did as good enough. “I hear these people saying he’s like …
Continue reading "Obama’s Old Left-Wing Critics Get the Upper Hand"
In view of California Governor Gavin Newsom's signing into law the lightening of penalties for pedophilia, this prediction, from 2016, bears repeating: What I am about to say will probably make some people blow their stack.  That isn’t hard to do these days. But I think this is the time to say it. We …
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John Law is possibly the most important man in history you’ve never heard of. He’s also the sort of character you’d find implausible if you read about him in a novel. A gambler who killed a man in a duel in Bloomsbury Square then escaped from jail and fled Britain. A Scottish economist who helped …
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