The Iconoclast
Harry Truman had a sign on his desk “The buck stops here”
By Willian Corden “The President–whoever he is–has to decide. He can’t pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That’s his job. With the […]
A Forgettable Warped Debate
By Victor Davis Hanson The September 10th presidential debate went down as expected. Summed up, it was Sappy and the Blob pile on Grouchy. The swarmy and evasive Kamala Harris preened, […]
Disappointing Debate Showed a More Modest Trump
By Conrad Black It was on balance a disappointing debate. The moderators were absurdly partisan, hounding President Trump with pettifogging questions while Vice President Harris’s frequent whoppers were not questioned. […]
Harris’s plan, the Rodney King way out.
By William Corden Harris’s plan is a pool so shallow that there’s no deep end. No specifics, no promises to clean up the downtown cores or fix the mental health […]
Real Reason Cheney and Bush Hate Trump
By Roger L Simon Dick Cheney and, needless to say, his daughter Liz have announced they will be supporting Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, a woman with whom, it would seem, […]
3 vs 1
Armando Simón Just when I think that I cannot possibly hate the media hivemind more, something happens that I realize that I cannot hate the media enough. Last night’s debate […]
Anti-climax? In the debate, nobody hit a pitfall, nobody rose to the occasion
By Conrad Black The Trump-Harris debate on Tuesday night was something of an anti-climax. Neither was in cracking form but both avoided the pitfalls that their supporters feared they might […]
The UN Reward for the October 7 Massacre: A Palestinian General Assembly Resolution to Destroy Israel
By Phyllis Chesler This is an important piece by Professor Anne Bayefsky in the Israel National News Professor Anne Bayefsky, President of Human Rights Voices and Director of the Touro […]
11th September USAF Memorial Duxford
We visited the Imperial War Museum site at Duxford (former RAF base in Cambridgeshire) last week. The site contains the American Air Museum which is of itself the memorial to […]
September 11, 2024
By Phyllis Chesler That dreadful day is back again; it will always be 9/11, both on the calendar and in our memories. It will forever be remembered as the 21st […]
Two Pakistani men convicted over calls to murder Dutch anti-Muslim leader Wilders
AMSTERDAM, Sept 9 (Reuters) – A Dutch court said it convicted two Pakistani political leaders on Monday of making calls for the murder of anti-Muslim lawmaker Geert Wilders, though both […]
When We Started to Lie
From Phyllis Chesler. This is an important piece from Matti Friedman at the Free Press Exactly ten years ago, during an Israel-Hamas war that seemed major at the time but […]
The Final Battle is Upon Us
By Ehud Neor A Call for Jewhad It is too late for the Two-State solution. This is a direct result of the dissolution of the similarly discredited Oslo Accords, a […]
A Substack About Nothing
Well, about Jerry Seinfeld, anyway. And some related items. By Glenn Harlan Reynolds So last weekend I went to Las Vegas, and saw Jerry Seinfeld’s new tour. He was performing […]
Ouch! Stage Fright
By Reg Green Debates are an odd way to choose a president, which they do when the race is as close as this one. They would have appealed to Don […]
Rewriters of the Plains
By Bruce Gilley The National Park Service has started rewriting the history of American westward expansion as a grinding tale of “indigenous resilience in the face of, and resistance to, […]
