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I think you may be right. It seems the only trial with much chance of concluding before the election is Bragg’s, which is probably the weakest. Trying to parlay misdemeanors into felonies by way of...

Naw. Six year old me didn’t concern himself with such things. Although even then I didn’t have much use for maudlin drama. And it stretched on endlessly.

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 channels in those days, and it was creepy having...

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 into a fairly comfortable retirement. It preserved...

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 reverse, where he shows Al Bundy how much better off his...

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 won’t.

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 the country. The New York Times is read by the...

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 case, I think he’s right. The protesters know not...

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

There’s an interesting article in the Atlantic that makes a pretty convincing case that honeybees are not in fact threatened as a species. They claim the panic is in large part a cultural artifact. I...

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 ceremonies in response to potential disruptions like...

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 else at their campuses. That doesn’t strike me as a...

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

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 a debate on building an animal shelter. On one...

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 got zip ties instead. Jamaal Bowman decried the...

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 the cops on you.

When the people who shout...

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 genocide” will need to decide which hyperbolic...

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 aimed at people in uniform then. It seemed to mainly...

So at a couple of dozen campuses we are seeing an outbreak of “occupation” campouts. Maybe in the belief that university administrations are critical contributors to the Israeli defense...

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.