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Watching France’s election, albeit from behind geographic and linguistic barriers, I have to wonder what the outcome would have been if the Ukraine war had never happened. It’s absurd to think that this would even be a major election issue in France, which isn’t exactly sharing a border with Russia, yet Macron had few arguments…

American civic life has been held hostage for too long by the fallacy of equating racial disparities with racism, or the now fashionable systemic racism. But racial disparities, even highly negative ones, don’t mean racism.  According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in…

The Eurocrats are celebrating, but I’m not sure that they ought to be. Yes, the French will have to put up with more Macron, but Marine Le Pen has been gaining fairly steadily. In 2012, she couldn’t break out with less than 18%. Last time around, she made it to 33% against Macron, and this…

One is a bunch of hardened sociopaths and the other are the Taliban. While humanitarian aid workers keep claiming that everyone is dying in Afghanistan, it sounds like the Taliban have a lot of spare time on their hands. Taliban on Thursday enforced a ban on TikTok and PUBG in Afghanistan saying that the apps were leading Afghanistan’s youths to go astray.…

All part of the transformation of “inappropriate content” from non-family friendly material to ideological disagreement. Twitter has taken another whack at free speech by labeling disagreement with its left-wing green political views, declaring that ads that, “contradict the scientific consensus on climate change are prohibited, in line with our inappropriate content policy.” “We recognize that misleading…

While Senator Warren wants to turn post offices into socialist banks and Democrats demand that the Post Office buy useless green mail trucks, rank and file postal carriers can’t even deliver the mail without getting mugged. Between 2018 and 2021, robberies of mail carriers more than tripled, and robberies involving a gun more than quadrupled,…

We all have red lines. Hard barriers beyond which we will not pass. Democrats are willing to do anything about crime except lock up criminals. Meanwhile, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has vowed to commit “the full resources” of New York in the aftermath of a subway shooting in Brooklyn earlier this month. “We are sick…

Is there any other word for this? “The vice president had one vocal and unyielding defender in the West Wing: the president’s chief of staff,” the authors write. But even Ron Klain knew something wasn’t working. The book says he told Harris in the fall of 2021 “that she had erred by holding her Latin American…

How do you solve a problem like George Floyd Square? They’ve tried burning it all down and by ‘they’, I mean the BLM mob. “I have not fully recovered from that time and I know that we as a community have not fully recovered from that time. I don’t know when we will. I do know…