New disclosures from a Tulsi Gabbard-led working group point directly to the top, as the legacy of “Hope and Change” begins a plunge to the ocean floor… As Matt Taibbi writes for Racket News, Barack Obama entered national politics with a smile that looked like Hope and Change. Amid rumors…
I began studying AI in the mid-1980s. Unusually for a computer scientist of that era, my interest was entirely in information, not in machines. I became obsessed with understanding what it meant to live during the transition from the late Industrial Age to the early Information Age. What I…
“Here we speak Spanish!” “Gringos, go back to your country!” “Mexico for Mexicans!” read the signs of angry demonstrators on the streets of Mexico City earlier this month. Discontent with rising housing costs in the city and the ever-increasing presence of American expatriates led to an outbreak of violent…
Last December was a mask-off moment for failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. At the height of the debate over H-1B visas, Ramaswamy took the side of known H-1B booster Elon Musk and proceeded to criticize American culture for glorifying the prom queen instead of the math olympiad winner, or the star…
Renaud Camus, The Deep Murmur, Vauban Books, 2024, 82 pp., $11.95 Where are the “rivers of blood?” We are all familiar with Enoch Powell’s dire prophecy in what he called his “Birmingham Speech” but what history calls the “Rivers of Blood” speech. Powell decried the “madness” of the British government, warning…
The Democrat Party’s caterwauling over illegal alien roundups becomes only more shrill by the day. Last week, California politicians were very upset that federal agents had the temerity to disrupt the workings of a marijuana farm exploiting children for its labor. It’s always a bit jarring to see…
What goes on in Washington is underappreciated for those of us who like a bit of humor mixed in with our politics. This past week we have been treated to a whole series of malapropisms coming out of the mouth of President Donald Trump, including the questioning of…
Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters are much like the evangelical supporters of Israel. (In fact, a large percentage of these two groups are one and the same.) Evangelicals defiantly refuse to believe that Cyrus Scofield (and their Dispensationalist pastors) lied to them; and MAGA supporters defiantly refuse to believe that…
Independent journalist Mark Halperin recently offered a pretty good assessment of the cancellation of Colbert, PBS, and NPR. He suggested that there are shows and even entire networks that Democrats have used as a ‘crutch’ for years because they were so reliably anti-Trump. Sean Spicer, who was also part…
All of you Vietnam vets and draft resisters will recognize where this column’s headline is coming from. Oh yes, this ain’t the late 1960s anymore, so it’s time to revamp it – no AI needed – and expand it: from now on, be assured everyone in the wild, wild West…
