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24/05/2026

If a woman’s right to her body means anything, that right must begin when her body begins. 

24/05/2026

22/05/2026

The worst actors shout the loudest. It's like they try to stay relevant just by demonstrating their leftist credentials.

20/05/2026

Zohran Mamdani gave a speech recently where he criticized Reagan's famous line that the most terrifying words are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." Mamdani said the most terrifying words really are "I've worked all day and I can't feed my family." If only he knew how closely those concepts are related.

Mamdani treats economic desperation as proof that government has not intervened enough, whereas Ronald Reagan was warning that government intervention itself often becomes the mechanism that produces the desperation. The same political movements that promise economic salvation often undermine the cultural and economic foundations that historically made upward mobility possible in the first place. Stable families, social trust, local communities, entrepreneurship, competition, meritocracy, and delayed gratification are not glamorous slogans, but they are the actual machinery that allowed ordinary people to prosper and ascend. It is easier to promise subsidies than to rebuild civic virtue.

The tragic genius of modern politics is that government can help create conditions of dependency and frustration, then present itself as the only force capable of rescuing people from the consequences. In that sense, the two statements are not opposites at all. They are cause and effect.

18/05/2026

What do you think? Are we a Christian nation?

15/05/2026

Why do people complain about billionaires “hoarding wealth” when their own companies go up in value (I’ve never understood how it’s hoarding when the exact same thing you had yesterday is suddenly worth more today), but never about art museums hoarding billions of dollars of artwork that they could sell and replace with identical reproductions that have the same artistic merit for a fraction of the price? How many poor families could we feed by selling a single Monet? I saw that the non-profit Met is merging with the nearby Neue Galerie, which contains Klimt’s “Woman in Gold.” I commissioned a reproduction of that painting for like $1000 from an artist in China. The original was bought 20 years ago for $135 million. Maybe tax that wealth!

14/05/2026

Here’s a good use of money: $189 million to give prisoners iPads so they can watch p**n.

12/05/2026

It’s actually not hard at all to destroy a country.

09/05/2026

"There is something oddly revealing about the modern Democratic Party’s relationship with Barack Obama. Democrats still admire him, still summon him for campaigns, still place him in the same soft-focus category as Joe Biden whenever they wish to contrast Democratic “decency” with the chaos of Donald Trump. But almost nobody in the party seems interested in becoming the next Obama, or even looking for one. In an era where mere partisanship is not rewarded nearly as much as unrestricted warfare on the other side, Obama, with his stubborn insistence that Republicans are opponents but not enemies, that America is better when we are all together (how quaint!), and that it is flawed but nevertheless worth preserving, has become less a political model than a political credential, a familiar and comforting symbol of the pre-Trump era rather than a blueprint for the Democratic future."

"For while Obama was a liberal, the new generation is Leftist, and there are important distinctions. The former is still tethered to certain norms in a tug-of-war with the Right that keeps things relatively centered; hence Obama’s belief that America needs “to have two healthy parties.” But the latter finds those very norms to be repugnant, and like all radical movements, it wants permanent one-party rule, and the humiliation of its opponents. Obama, in that sense, was not the first of a new breed, but the last of the old guard."

There is something oddly revealing about the modern Democratic Party’s relationship with Barack Obama. Democrats still admire him, still summon him for campaigns, still place him in the same soft-focus category as Joe Biden whenever they wish to contrast Democratic “decency” with the chaos of ...