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Probably the best test case for “never apologize”. The chair of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry was suspended on Wednesday, “effective immediately,” after referring to a dark-skinned model as possibly a “freak of nature” on Twitter. All models are freaks of nature. If he had referred to a white woman that way, he presumably would…

In the SCOTUS sweepstakes, Rep. Jim Clyburn, to whom Biden owes his political life, was backing Judge Michelle Childs, and he got a number of Republicans on board with her because she’s not particularly ideological or ambitious compared to the two lefty candidates, Leondra Kruger and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Lefties understood that splitting their backing between…

I was talking to William Wallis on his show about the state of things in L.A. and I quoted some of my old figures about the politically inflated cost of housing. The first apartments cost an average of $479,000 a unit. Some went as high as $650,000 a unit. But that wasn’t good enough. Two years later,…

Bringing the Emergencies Act into play meant that Canada was supposedly facing an unprecedented crisis caused by the Freedom Convoy that the state had to turn to the use of what were wartime powers to cope with the threat. Now, Trudeau has announced that, “Today, after careful consideration, we’re ready to confirm that the situation is no…

This DOJ speech from Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen is the kind of nonsensical virtue signaling you expect from a San Fran or New York politician, not a key figure justifying an end to the China Initiative which began to cut off the PRC’s spy program in America. The early sign that this was coming came…

The massive Afghan migration, of “refugees” who were vetted by the Taliban, not by us, is coming as a huge shock to local areas who suddenly have a swarm of people from a very different culture and in need of a lot of services show up. Hospitals, schools, and social services are overburdened. While I’ve written…

What’s going on in Canada is ugly. But it’s also a reminder of the fundamental difference between our Constitution and other western documents which do not provide absolute rights. In an op-ed for the CBC titled, “The Ottawa truck convoy has revealed the ugly side of freedom”, Beverley McLachlin, a former justice of the Supreme Court of…