Monthly Archives: March 2024
March 31, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“When Front Page Magazine applied to join Google’s AdSense advertising program we were turned down,” notes Daniel Greenfield of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. “Since Google, like other Big Tech monopolies, has censored and deplatformed us in the past, we weren’t too shocked. But this time, Google told us why we had been banned.” The ban was due to this writer’s “Remember the San Bernardino Fourteen,” from December 3, 2021.
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March 31, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Woke capitalism is one of the strange phenomena of our era. I understand why government agencies might go in for DEI (Didn’t Earn It), since government at all levels is mostly in the hands of liberals and government employees, by their nature, are inclined to social engineering. But why corporations should sign up en masse for this left-wing nonsense is beyond me. It is beyond most Americans, too. Rasmussen asked
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March 31, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Let’s hope so. Kill-the-Jews protesters broke into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York last night, chanting “Free Palestine” and the like, and disrupting an Easter mass. They were hauled out after a couple of minutes: The protesters carried a sign that said “Silence is Violence.” That is dumb, of course. Speech isn’t violence, let alone silence. Still, they might have a point in this sense: the Left’s silence about the
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March 31, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Now on the scene of the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge, the U.S. Naval Institute reports, is the Chesapeake, a crane barge with a 1,000-ton lift capacity. Originally called the SUN 800 the crane was built to assist in the construction of the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a deep-sea drill-ship platform, “built by the CIA to recover the 3,000-ton Soviet Golf II ballistic missile submarine K-129, which sunk in 1968.”As this account notes, “the
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March 31, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I’m currently working on a long paper I’m presenting at an academic conference on the legacy of the late historian John Patrick Diggins (d. 2009) in New York later this week (poster below, in case any New York area readers might like to drop in), and I can’t resist posting a couple of provocative thoughts from my jumble of notes. Like this from Diggins: Louis Hartz was the first to
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March 31, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Happy Easter to those among our readers who are celebrating the Resurrection rather than, say, Transgender Day of Visibility. Of course, it is not a time when one wants to be political, but these days that can be hard to avoid. So–just to spite Joe Biden–here are some Easter eggs with religious messages. All of that aside, I hope you and your family are enjoying the day.
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March 31, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
I want to speak briefly about the terrible incident and accident that happened in Baltimore this morning. At about 1:30, a container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which I’ve been over many, many times commuting from the state of Delaware either on a train or by car. I’ve been to Baltimore Harbor many times. And the bridge collapsed, sending several people and vehicles into the water — into the
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March 31, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri awarded the Associated Press with a Pictures of the Year award for photos including Hamas savages absconding in a pickup truck with the corpse of Israeli/German victim Shani Louk (below, in the Team Picture Story of the Year category). The citation accompanying the award is itself a piece of work, but never mind that. (Credit: Ali Mahmud/Associated Press) Controversy
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March 31, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Let me be the first to wish you a Happy Transgender Day of Visibility. I understand that Easter is the holiest day of the year for Christians. The spirit of transgression moved Papa Joe. In honor of the day he formally added a new canon to the Democrat orthodoxy. On Good Friday Papa Joe issued A Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility, 2024 — so it shall be written, so
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March 30, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Tiger Woods and his ex-wife Elin Nordegren reunited to celebrate their son, Charlie’s, state championship,” Entertainment Tonight reports, “and things appeared a bit awkward. Tiger and Elin joined their 15-year-old son on Tuesday to celebrate his and his teammates winning the Class 1 A state golf championship. Charlie and his teammates at the Benjamin School in North Palm Beach, Florida, were presented with some serious hardware – a shiny medal
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March 30, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
On March 15, federal judge Aleta Trauger “ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to hand over documents to her for a private review in an ongoing Freedom of Information Act case that will decide if the public will see documents related to the Covenant School shooter’s motives.” The documents did not emerge before March 27, one year since Audrey Hale, 28, shot dead nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie
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March 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I predicted that Donald Trump would win the 2016 election, one of only two semi-prominent pundits, along with Michael Moore, to get that one right. I picked Trump to win again in 2020; one out of two isn’t bad. And I am picking him again in 2024. Trump has horrible liabilities as a presidential candidate. Close to half the country wouldn’t consider voting for him, he is dodging jail as
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March 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
For some months now, Chairman James Comer and his House Oversight and Accountability Committee have patiently been assembling evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption. This has been done largely out of public view, not because the proceedings have been in any way secret but because the Democratic Party press has, for the most part, acknowledged the investigation only in order to jeer at it. In fact, though, the evidence of Biden’s
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March 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Some teachers are fine as individuals, but when you put them in a group, the result is disaster. In America, teachers’ unions are the most malign influence on our public life, and on our children. And they aren’t any better in Great Britain. The London Times headlines: “Teaching union is accused of hostility to Jews.” The UK’s largest teaching union has been accused of being hostile to Jewish teachers after
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March 30, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Our supposedly devout “Catholic” president at work on this Easter holiday weekend: Can picking Easter Sunday for this proclamation be a mere coincidence? Meanwhile, for Monday’s traditional Easter egg hunt on the White House lawn, we have this: Pretty sure I know the thinking behind this, too, though to be sure around our household we refer to the preposterous Easter Bunny as the “Resurrection Rodent.”
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March 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Coleman Hughes was a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of MI’s City Journal. MI has compiled his City Journal publications online here. He is the author of the book The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, published last month by Penguin Random House. Hughes was invited to talk about the subject of his book on The View this week. I have posted the video
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March 30, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Forget selling the Brooklyn Bridge to some gullible Democrat. How about a bridge in Baltimore? Here’s an idea: offer to name it the Donald Trump Bridge if Trump can get it rebuilt in six months? (With the proviso he doesn’t have to put up with any Baltimore/Buttigieg Bureaucratic nonsense.) Who doubts that he could do it? I suspect the building trades, steelworkers, etc., would work overtime at regular wages to
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