LDAHL
Senior Member

Born in 1958. I have a memory of being annoyed at all the TV time the JFK assassination and funeral coverage was consuming. We only had three or four...

He wouldn’t wear the ribbon.

I believe myself rarely fortunate to have been born in this country. It allowed me to leverage years of study, hard work and delayed gratification...

I will always treasure Kinison’s performance on that Christmas episode of “Married with Children”. It was a sort of “It’s a Wonderful Life” in...

I liked what Bill Maher said about choosing between the side that would like to commit genocide but can’t and the side that could commit genocide but...

How’s that old joke go? The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run...

Typical Friedman. You need to wade through the preening and portentous stating of the obvious to get to the core of solid common sense. In this...

Well, they are colonizers. You might be able to convince some students to occupy the Entomology Department and demand divestment of honey-related...

I see that Columbia’s president (she’s a Baroness back home in the UK) has decided to cancel the university’s commencement into several smaller...

Will Zuccotti Park go down in history along with Valley Forge?

One wag said that Gov Noem’s dog is still biting her from beyond the grave.

Is it? A small minority of students at a small minority of schools (plus the usual non-student hangers-on) have managed to inconvenience everyone...

It’s interesting to juxtapose a country confronting an exterminationist culture with privileged students demanding that Sabra hummus be banned on...

Years ago, I was the Controller for a county government about 50 miles north of Madison, WI. One of the stormiest board meetings I ever attended was...

I see the cops have cleared that building at Columbia the Hamas sympathizers broke into. They issued demands for global Intifada and free food, but...

These seem to be sentiments they’ve honored more with words than deeds in recent years.

Does the First Amendment apply to pitching a tent on private property? If you camp on my lawn and present me with a list of demands, I’d be setting...

I think you may be right. Some people who see another four years of Trump as “An existential threat to our democracy” and Biden as “Complicit in...

I started at U of Illinois in 1976, and participated in the AFROTC program there. There was a certain amount of jeering and sneering and threats...

I knew a guy who returned from an overseas deployment to find squatters in his house. It took something like five months to get rid of them.

I can hear you now.

I think there is a spectrum of homelessness ranging from the totally feckless to people whipsawed by the housing market to privileged kids getting...

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinese-money-american-universities-244bab09 It seems the Chinese have been the largest source of foreign money...

I was thinking more class disruptions and antisemitic romps, but you’re right. The People’s Republic of China has also been pouring cash into US...

I see that Israel ignored Biden’s advice to “take the win” and do nothing. The Iranians referred to the attackers as “infiltrators” rather than...

I see Berliner has been suspended without pay for not getting prior approval for “working outside the network”, and warned he will be fired if he...

Happened all over the country. Coming as they did so soon after that mostly peaceful Iranian attack, you have to wonder who’s handling their...

I see that after this weekend’s flagrant act of self-defense, outraged protesters decided to block traffic all over the US.