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Warning signs for Kerry
Two readers have kindly directed our attention to this column in today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune by columnist Nick Coleman: “No free lunch for John Kerry.” The politics of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party runs in Coleman’s veins; his father was the DFL majority leader of the Minnesota state senate from 1973-81. When Coleman signals tremors of doubt regarding a Democratic champion, notice must be taken. Coleman reports on Kerry’s stumping yesterday in »
Fanfare for the NEA
I’m not sure whose advice President Bush is listening to on funding the National Endowment for the Arts, but Rocket Man’s post below brings a couple of great songs to mind. First, a word from a man wise in the ways of the world — Merle Haggard: When a President goes through the White House door, An’ does what he says he’ll do. We’ll all be drinkin’ free bubble-ubb, Eatin’ »
Columbia then and now
Working for then Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale in the summer of 1969, I went to hear the late Allard Lowenstein speak to a large group of interns. Lowenstein was serving his only term in Congress before he was gerrymandered out of his district. Lowenstein asked us to go back to our campuses, do our thing in opposition to the Vietnam war, and “eschew violence.” He said the word “eschew” several »
Is administrative law still unlawful?
Over the weekend I received an invitation to attend the New Civil Liberties Alliance conference hosted by George Washington University Law School yesterday: “Is administrative law still unlawful?” (Plot spoiler: the answer is “yes.”) Luckily for me, I am in Washington visiting family this week and was able to attend the conference. The conference celebrated the tenth anniversary of the publication of Professor Philip Hamburger’s monumental treatise Is Administrative Law »
Corn Pop, call your office
It would be out of character for President Biden to have predicated his political origin story on a factual basis. Without even hearing what it is, you know it must have been fabricated. Washington Free Beacon reporters Joe Simonson and Andrew Kerr find this old fabulation regurgitated in the transcript of Biden’s interview by Special Counsel Robert Hur: Fresh out of law school and working as a clerk at a »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll fires off PART 3: LIES WE ARE FORCED TO BELIEVE – AND TO REPEAT. She writes: There is no way that we can possibly cover ALL the Orwellian lies and woke absurdities that we are forced to swallow daily AND repeat if we want to sit with the Cool Kids in the Lunchroom. Or have a job or a bank account. Most lies have been addressed by others, »
Border bill on life support
Punchbowl News reports on the unraveling of Republican support for the border bill component of the “emergency” national security supplemental appropriation act last night. “Supplemental national security appropriations act” should probably be in quotes too. This is a characteristic Washington farce. Senator Schumer planned to put up the bill for an initial procedural vote tomorrow. The more time his Republican colleagues had to look at the bill, my theory went, »
Thoughts from the ammo line
What we have here is/are LIES AND MISINFORMATION, a 3-part Series — Part 1: LIES WE TELL OURSELVES. Ammo Grrrll writes: Where would we pathetic, disappointing human beings be without “the little white lie”? If we honestly answered every inquiry as to whether or not “this dress makes me look fat,” or if we think that hideous haircut is flattering, we might have no friends. With few exceptions, men would »
The prophetic voice
When Martin Luther King, Jr., brought his nonviolent campaign against segregation to Bull Connor’s Birmingham, he laid siege to the bastion of Jim Crow. In Birmingham between 1957 and 1962, black homes and churches had been subjected to a series of horrific bombings intended to terrorize the community. In April 1963 King answered the call to bring his campaign to Birmingham. When King landed in jail on Good Friday for »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Sign up ahead: WATCH FOR WILD HORSES! Ammo Grrrll writes: What has become of Humanity? Even the last time I was in Maui (2001), which used to be my Happy Place on all the Earth, there were signs in parking lots for parks, beaches and museums: “Lock all your car doors. Do not leave anything visible in cars. We are not responsible for loss.” Maui is a small island. Almost »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll advocates LITMUS TESTS BEST FOR ACIDITY VS. ALKALINITY, not HUMAN BEINGS. She writes: This column will definitely not be in my Top 10 Most Humorous. There is something unfunny that I am compelled to discuss. I’ll be funnier next week. I see a tragic mistake being made over and over again in the commentariat. And it’s one which will ultimately cost us the 2024 election and possibly even »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll reflects on GRATITUDE, INGRATITUDE and SHAME. She writes: As I may have said here before – sometimes I feel like in 10 years I’ve said EVERYTHING here before – Thanksgiving is at least tied with 4th of July for my favorite holiday. First of all, the menu is hard to beat – Turkey, Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Cornbread/Hot Sausage Stuffing, Gravy, Squash, Cranberries, Scalloped Corn, Biscuits, and Gravy. »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll is not short of ammo in MIT-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E! She blasts away: A few days ago my friend and colleague John Hinderaker covered the disgrace that MIT has become. Let me quote from his first paragraph and allude to several other of his quotes. I just want to add my spin and outrage lest my head explode: “Some of the worst anti-Semitic campus outbursts of recent weeks have been »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll isn’t PACKING IT IN! She’s just recovering. She writes: My dear late Mother, child of the Depression, was always cheerful, but something of a Stoic. One of her more annoying little aphorisms when we kids whined about something was “I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes. Till I met a man who had no feet.” Oh, for Pete’s sake, Mama, not again with the guy »
The Archer transcript
The House Oversight Committee has posted a press release on the committee’s transcribed interview with Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer this past Monday. The press release includes excerpted highlights as well as links to the 140-page transcript and appended exhibits. Steven Nelson covers the transcript in this New York Post story. The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas has highlighted “6 Key Takeaways…” With his deceitful summary of Archer’s testimony for »
“All roads lead to Joe”
The House Oversight Committee has posted the opening statements of the two IRS whistleblowers who testified on the farcical investigation of Hunter Biden. They testified at the committee’s public hearing yesterday. Gary Shapley’s statement is posted here. Joseph Ziegler’s statement is posted here. C-SPAN has also posted video of the opening statements as delivered. Gary Shapley’s is below. Joseph Ziegler’s is below. Both men give the appearance of unimpeachable professional »
Color him father
I wrote this on Father’s Day in 2010. It is a post that struck a chord with at least a few readers. I amplified it in 2020 and am taking the liberty of reposting these reflections in honor of the day. My father was a thoughtful man in his own way. In the last years of his life he recited for me the things for which he was most grateful. »
