LDAHL
Senior Member

I think the Ukrainian situation demonstrates the limits of intimidation. At some point, the intimidator pushes things so far that compliance with his...

If an organization with a mission to dispel disinformation can be strangled at birth by disinformation, it probably wouldn’t have been very effective...

They ran a touching piece where she realized “she was the one she was looking for all along”.

I understand the Biden people are “putting it on hold” in the hope it will be quickly forgotten. A lot of her previous statements defending the...

So a couple of guys tried to corner the onion market in 1958, and we still have this law now? I read that in France it’s still illegal to name...

Would we call your special analytical viewpoint Critical Rob Theory?

Now there’s a statement that encapsulates the sickness of our times.

I think that can be a morally defensible position, but if we were to adopt such a system we would need some sort of guardian ad litem to advocate on...

If you take the position that a concern for life is somehow invalidated by all those other issues, aren’t you saying the same would apply to any life...

That is a perfectly acceptable argument if you are convinced a fetus isn’t human or if you are comfortable with the idea that a mother has the right...

Oh, I think there’s plenty of tendentiousness among all the self-appointed fact checkers and truth guardians out there. I remember when a satirical...

I think the central moral and legal question is whether you consider the fetus, fertilized embryo, or child to be a human being or just an...

If you really pored through all that material on sex, I’m impressed you found the time to have any.

Trying to quash or cover up a story is one thing. Ginning up an alternative story about Russian Intelligence planting it is another. Then...

I could easily see an endless loop of whataboutism concerning presidential progeny influence peddling. What I don’t get is the media’s impulse to...

Who elected them? If we have government by, of and for the Bozos, who should you really be blaming?

And it only took him until 2007 to come to that conclusion. Either he was less than sincere or a very slow learner.

I wonder how the guy they used to call “Stalin’s Songbird” would feel about the current war.

I’m very similar to you. Cash reserves in a short term government fund, and the rest in an oh-so-boring. (I hope) 60/40 portfolio. No market timing,...

Well, we did get a bit of damage in Madison WI. Some courageous warriors broke into a pro-life organization’s headquarters and set it afire. They...

So we have abortion at the forefront of the culture war, a shooting war where we're helping one side while trying to avoid getting sucked into it...

I can call myself a golfer. But that doesn’t mean I’m not terrible at it. You can look at being Catholic as being part of a religious community...

I would think the feds would use the interstate commerce clause to attack something like that. They’ve done it before on thinner pretexts.

I understand a number of states have “trigger laws” that will go into effect if and when Roe is overturned.

They could always initiate the process to amend the Constitution. Personally, I’m more comfortable leaving it with the States.

I have been on dairy farms in August that smelled better than the NYC subway system. But unless you’ve got a fortune to spend, it’s probably the only...

I always thought the arguments in favor of Roe we’re, in Charlie Cooke’s words. “a box of clouds”. If it’s that important a “right”, it should be...

I agree with Alan on pretty much every count. I suspect if Di Santis was not looking like a contender at the national level we wouldn’t be seeing...

I think there is a difference between not imposing somebody’s “stories about their lived experiences” on the first grade curriculum and telling them...

He did tear into it, didn’t he? How it fails on a financial, legal, policy and moral basis. Pretending its an equity issue requires a profound level...

I also thought the special district thing was a bridge too far. My first thought was for the poor bastards in the overlying counties who would...

The polls would seem to indicate increasing support for the GOP among minorities. It could be that the cultural/social priorities of affluent white...

She was on a mission from God.

Four years of high school Latin taught by a strict but wonderfully patient Benedictine nun. Gratias ago tibi Soror Helena.

I like to think that isn’t the case, otherwise we’d be living in Serbia or South Sudan.

Oh sure. There is plenty of room for pots to call kettles black. You can fool some of the people all of the time by calling grievance politics...

I think for most of us “reasonable” is sort of like pornography: we have trouble defining it but we recognize it when we see it. I also think it’s a...

That’s true. Our culture is so immersed in crudity that I can’t see clutching my pearls over it. What I do deplore is the lack of finesse in it’s...

Kind of lends credence to the “elite overproduction” theory doesn’t it?

That seems to have been Obama’s argument. Over the last century or so, Progressives have progressed from trusting the wisdom of the people to feeling...

Heard a podcast yesterday about Obama’s recent speech on the topic. The usual masterpiece of preening hypocrisy. Our democracy will “wither and die”...

I remember when Robert Di Niro expressed the identical sentiment at the Tony awards about Trump. The audience applauded as if he had said something...

I think we need to look at alternative delivery systems to the traditional model that can keep the good things about education (skills development,...

I think that’s very true. With such a crowd of voices clamoring to explain the world to us, many have retreated into speaking in simplistic, symbolic...

There seem to be a lot of significant media failures lately. Jon Stewart’s show on AppleTV is shaping up to be a ratings tragedy. I hear Spotify is...