After a weekend in which bombs and missiles seemed to be crisscrossing the Middle East with blazing speed, I thought I’d throw out a few items for discussion and perhaps consensus where Israel and Iran are concerned. Most of the…
I’m just going to get this started. This is the kind of week that’ll leave you speechless, and I’m right there with you. 1. You Might as Well Pick Now to Boycott Walmart She isn’t the CEO of the place,…
I actually called Melissa Mackenzie, our lovely, talented, and wise publisher, Wednesday afternoon and asked her to talk me out of writing this column. That didn’t work. She insisted I write it. At issue is a very unwelcome development here…
Boy, we sure are finding lots of items to pick from these days when it comes to the 5QT, aren’t we? It reminds me of that famous Mandy Patinkin line from The Princess Bride… And of course I’m not summing…
It’s fun for the columnist when the columns prove prescient. Not that my column last week encouraging conservatives to take the win on the House passage of the Big Beautiful Bill was particularly earthshattering in its reference to a coming…
One of my favorite films is The Bonfire of the Vanities, a 1990 adaptation of the 1987 Tom Wolfe novel of the same name, with Tom Hanks and Melanie Griffith heading up an all-star cast. The film, as did the…
We begin this edition of the 5QT with a poll. Which perhaps necessitates an apology, because this column is highly skeptical of poll results. But seeing as though most pollsters are either leftists or are employed by them, polls can…
This week, President Donald Trump generated a significant amount of attention by focusing on something the world has abjectly refused to focus on for the past 30 years or so. Namely, that South Africa has devolved into a hellish failed…
I could easily make this a Seven Quick Things. Or a 17 Quick Things. It’s been that kind of week. But I’ll try to focus on the “quick things” part of the 5QT, which, as you’ll see below, is not…
