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Senate Republicans mishandled the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings in the familiar way that politicians do. There were too many efforts by individual politicians to play to their social media audiences. And the hearings went ahead without the full release or availability of materials on her caseload.  While some conservatives opposed making the hearings about her work…

Once again the Left, the Taliban, and China are on the same page.  Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference Thursday, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country’s Taliban leaders. China’s foreign minister, meanwhile, led calls for the U.S. to unfreeze Afghan assets held abroad…

This shouldn’t be hard. The first two of the Islamic terror attacks on Israel were claimed by ISIS. I can understand that Biden doesn’t want to condemn Hamas or the PLO, which he continues to support and fund, but ISIS. Come on, man. “President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett…

Progworld, a sphere that now includes much of the media, is celebrating a vote that created Amazon’s first union. And you would have to be a prog to think that will last.  Amazon’s empire is increasingly built on outsourcing, its products and sellers to China, and its massive domestic delivery services to subcontractors. The only…

I’m not a big fan of the current prime minister, but I have to say that unlike the United States this is not a “right-wing” political sentiment.  During a wave of previous attacks, politicians who are not on the right including, famously, Mayor Nir Barkat of Jerusalem, made similar statements. “What is expected of you,…

The media keeps talking about an “attack on democracy”. America is a Republic, but here’s what a real attack on democracy looks like. It’s a calculated effort to manipulate the system in order to suborn the ability of voters to choose their elected officials by making their votes irrelevant for partisan purposes. Here it is…

And now you know the rest of the story. No actual surprises here. I’ve been telling people for a while that this is how it works. But this is the first direct insight from someone whose job it was to moderate this kind of thing coming forward and talking about how corrupted and broken the…

Remember all those classic stories about computers watching your every move. We live in that best of all possible worlds. Unfortunately, our tech overlords are human and they keep programming the computers to police our behavior and our thoughts. On that note, Google Docs will now “flag” language that isn’t sufficiently inclusive or that the…

The media is going through its usual routine of canvassing GOP Senate members and finding out who might be willing to vote for the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson. The pretense here is that if Jackson weren’t black, more Republicans than just Susan Collins would be willing to vote for her. Of course, that’s a lie.…