Archives for March 2017
Ann Coulter: “Until the welfare program is decoupled from the insurance market, nothing will work”
Ann Coulter writes: Otherwise, it's like forcing grocery stores to pay for everyone to have a house. A carton of milk would suddenly cost … [Read more...]
Norman Pearlstine, Your Moral and Intellectual Superior! ™ compares McCarthy to Trump, but that’s not the punchline
This is exactly what you'd expect: A cliched collection of corny "Have you no decency sir?" liberal talking points. He writes this: Much the way Americans fear Muslim extremism today, McCarthy … [Read more...]
David Cole: “Ng wrote about [Friends of Abe] as though it’s alive and well”
Cole on Hollywood conservatives and purity tests: To Beck, the very notion of “conservative principles” is meaningless without pro-life. To the calcified remnants of Friends of Abe, “social … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn: Happy Brexit Day! And where’s my hundred bucks? (video)
Read about his EU bet with economist Bryan Caplan HERE. … [Read more...]
Gavin McInnes on his disillusionment with Charles Murray
Mine happened five years ago. Here's Gavin: At the Q&A, I … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer: Another Nobelist’s study of white working class mortality — and why libertarianism can’t work
Steve Sailer writes: The White Death hasn’t gotten as bad yet as the horrifying drop in Russian male life expectancies during the Yeltsin years. Yet it’s reminiscent of the tendency of … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn: If everyone is Hitler, then nobody is (video)
My NEW Taki’s column, on Camille Paglia’s new collection, “Free Women, Free Men”
Some people will find this book's unavoidable repetition of anecdotes and slights irritating, akin to listening to someone tell you, at length, about "the weird dream they had last night." And I forgot to include my lines about Paglia being "Milo and Russell Kirk's baby," and didn't have space … [Read more...]
“Memo To Charles Murray: Defend THE BELL CURVE—Or Stay Off The College $peaking Circuit!”
Alexander Hart writes: And while Murray will not aggressively defend his views on … [Read more...]
One of my “personal mythology” films: “The World of Henry Orient” (1964)
When I was a teenager, Jonathan Miller (a doctor as well as a comic performer, and other things) came to my hometown for a spell, on account of our apparently (and improbably) world-famous medical school. For years I casually planned to write [Read more...]
Jim Goad on Russian “election hacking”: “If you want to talk about the popular vote, you still wind up looking dumb”
Jim Goad writes: Aren’t you the same smarmy, sprout-nibbling, endlessly smackable coastal bubble babies who mocked Romney in 2012 for alleging that Russia is our biggest enemy? Didn’t Obama mockingly tell … [Read more...]