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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 suspended from Barnard and whining about being...

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinese-money-american-universities-244bab09

It seems the Chinese have been the largest source of foreign money since 2013.

I assume there are conspiracy theory...

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 universities for some time now.

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 “Israelis”, which may mean they won’t or can’t...

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 does it again.

Over the years, NPR seems to have...

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 schedules. Doubt they won a lot of hearts and minds in...

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

So the Iranians and their proxies launched over 300 missiles and drones at Israel from Iran, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon. The great majority of them were intercepted by Israeli, US, British, French and...

I listen to “Honestly” a lot. You can see why they hounded her out of the New York Times.

Yeah. I always loved that story. I can just picture Cochran performing in the Infernal Court of Appeals.

As on pundit put it, “Johnnie Cochran’s greatest challenge looms”.

Speaking of fun with calendars, I see the Democrats have scheduled their national convention after the filing deadlines for Ohio and Alabama. They are apparently relying on the legislatures of those...

It falls on the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon. The solar calendar date bobs around a bit.

I liked Bari Weiss’ line about NPR not considering all things anymore.

Recently watched “The Incomparable Mr Buckley”, the latest installment in the PBS “American Masters” series on the life and career of William F Buckley.. I really enjoyed some of the footage, but it...

I just read this story, and was wondering if it was true: Does Pennsylvania really use the term “guide rail” because a lawyer once convinced a jury that “guardrail” implied a guarantee that you would...

Privileging one group over another to score political points strikes me more as pandering than serving the “public good”. I see that as cynical performative politics.

It’s (possibly) compassion when a law covers everyone equally. It’s cynicism when you apply it solely it to a subset of one category of worker for political purposes. It’s an especially crass form of...

Compassion comes easily when you can do it with other people’s money. Especially if you don’t like the other people. And if you can appear to benefit one of your political poster children like fast...

I see that tomorrow California starts a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, but just for franchises with more than 60 locations.

It seems easier to target specific groups than the job...

Looks like Uber and Lyft are saying they will leave Minneapolis May 1st due to an ordinance that would force them to pay drivers more. There are often consequences when politicians decide they are...

I have many concerns for the future. But imposition of a theocracy is not one of them. Our country becomes less religious by the day, and no amount of Handmaid cosplay or dark forebodings about...

With the latest couple of announcements, one wag at National Review said the House majority has lost the will to live. It’s down to what, 1-2 votes? The 2024 prospects for the GOP seem much better...