It doesn't matter who the senators and MPs are if an unelected bureaucracy are our real rulers: Noting the rapid co-opting of the administrative apparatus in Crimea by the Russian … [Read more...]
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Another peerless post by Kevin Williamson at NRO
What is the middle class willing to give up in order to save the country? I am afraid that the answer will be: Not very much. Politicians in both parties … [Read more...]
“Kevin D. Williamson (…) looks like Anton LaVey after he spent a month at the Golden Corral”
Damn you, James Kirkpatrick, that's a good one! And I don't even hate [Read more...]
Pro tip: Bragging about how stupid you are is not attractive
I meant to link to Jonah Goldberg's fine column more or less on that subject earlier this week. Now I'm reminded it it, having read Kevin … [Read more...]
Mayor Bloomberg actually said this. On the record. I’m not joking.
Let’s assume that she didn’t get arrested for carrying a gun. She probably would have gotten arrested for the cocaine that was in her pocket. *** Except it wasn't cocaine. Please sue … [Read more...]
The Populism Perplex: Is Paul Krugman the stupidest columnist in America?
Here's just a sample: To be honest, I don’t fully understand this resentment. In particular, I don’t know why imagined liberal disdain inspires so much more anger than the very real disdain of conservatives who … [Read more...]
‘…the racial pandering of Barry Goldwater’???
Does Jonathan Chait mean the Barry Goldwater who, among other things, desegregated his Arizona department stores long before he was legally required to do so? Is it possible that Chait doesn't know … [Read more...]
Adam Carolla and Monica Mehta on Trump’s Proposed Wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoZDnhcMcGg I like how Carolla corrected her about whether or not trashy white people would step up and take "jobs … [Read more...]
Only good writer at National Review gets all huffy about a trivial aside
Kevin D. Williamson really didn't like my Taki's piece about National Review, but he chose THE weirdest thing about it to single out for derision: Somebody should tell this … [Read more...]
Barry Goldwater voted ‘no’ on the Civil Rights Act, and he was right
Kevin D. Williamson writes: During the Civil Rights Movement — the real one, not the ersatz one led today by Jesse Jackson et al. — politics did genuinely intersect with brunch. On … [Read more...]
But I thought blacks committed violent crimes because they were poor.
Hmmm... There’s a great deal of drug use, welfare fraud, and the like, but the overall crime rate throughout Appalachia is about two-thirds the national average, and the rate of … [Read more...]
‘Some thoughts on the celebrity of Sarah Silverman’
Kevin D. Williamson writes: The convention that Miss Silverman embodies is the great American fiction that there exist in our debased culture certain taboos surrounded by social … [Read more...]