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And that’s fine because the White House Correspondents Dinner isn’t for America. It’s for the media. The WHCD used to be one of those institutions where politicians and the press came to make fun of themselves and each other. In the Jon Stewart era that devolved into Daily Show pundits showing up to take shots at…

The Fourteenth Amendment states that, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor…

The correct answer to the question, “When should you arm and deploy Jihadists? is, “Absolutely never.” Unfortunately, it’s a lesson that absolutely nobody has learned. That includes us, it also includes the Russians. Putin envisions a Greater Russia built around an Islamic alliance and has claimed that Islam is closer to Russian Orthodoxy than any…

As Megan McArdle already laid out in the Washington Post, the Musk Twitter thing has sent everyone’s political sensors spinning around. In the last 5 years, conservatives have had to reckon with the reality that having a handful of monopolies control the internet is a really bad idea. And that there has to be some…

This is fine. Portland police responded to four shootings and four major traffic incidents Friday night and Saturday morning, in what officers labeled an “extremely busy night” that left them unable to respond to some lower-priority 911 calls. The shootings left at least five people injured and two dead in a murder-suicide. The traffic incidents…

A different kind of identity politics. The Survey Center on American Life has a new survey, “The Growing Gender Divide in American Life”. -Republican men are far more likely than Democratic men to identify as traditionally masculine. A majority (54 percent) of Republican men say they are very manly or masculine, compared to one-third (33…

Some arguments are not really worth having. The debate over how much American military equipment had been left behind in Afghanistan is one of those. The real answer is that we don’t know and by ‘we’, I don’t just mean us, but the White House and the Pentagon don’t really know. The sheer amount of…

The only positive economic argument that the media had to make for the Biden administration was that the economy was growing and jobs were being added.  t was a transparently bad argument because when you plunge a nation to the bottom of a well, anything after that is likely to look like growth. Pandemic shutdowns…