Peter Baker of the New York Times wrote a tabloidish piece over the weekend based on a single, politically compromised “source” recalling events from more than four decades ago. Ben Barnes, the former lieutenant governor of Texas, claims to possess knowledge…
If a girls’ sports team fielded a boy disguised as a girl, referees once called that cheating. Now when schools refuse to play girls’ teams fielding male players disguised as females, officials call them bad sports. The Vermont Principals Association…
The board of SVB, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, included as many people who grieved over Donald Trump’s 2016 victory at a Shinto shrine as investment bankers. It included as many former Obama administration officials as investment bankers….
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James pressure CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid to fulfill orders of abortifacients in states where the law forbids killing unborn children. “Unfortunately, building on a national pressure campaign by anti-choice forces,…
When Gallup first measured the percentage of alphabet people in the United States a decade ago, 3.5 percent claimed a letter. Now 7.2 percent of Americans report LGBT membership. Within the LGBT cluster, one letter gains more adherents than any…
An entire panel and parts of some speakers’ speeches focused on electoral corruption at the Conservative Political Action Conference. An aide to Vivek Ramaswamy alleges that a political consultant with connections to CPAC offered essentially a pay-for-play deal asking for…
Pete Buttigieg does not take criticism well. He asks of his critic with the loudest megaphone, “You think Tucker Carlson knows the difference between a T.J. Maxx and a Kohl’s?” Do you think Pete Buttigieg does? “You get the max…
CPAC allegedly drew a fraction of the attendance at past conferences this weekend. Fox News did not station a crew as in years past. The Heritage Foundation did not buy a display booth. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President…
A Harper’s article on the publishing industry, in need of an editor even more than this newsletter is, lays out, after much circumlocution, what stopped the proposed merger of two industry giants. The article points out that the Big Five…
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