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by | May 27, 2023

For once, for once in our lives, let us wage war. Not like in the old days, hand-to-hand combat is so last century, but ChatGPT to ChatGPT (“Tell me something that annoys my enemy, apart from my condescension”), and besides,…

by | May 26, 2023

With all the talk of lower gas prices, a full tank of gas still costs me over $100, and I use regular. Even with spring sprung, heating bills have me wearing long johns and sweaters, and the price of groceries…

by | May 26, 2023

Will publishers next lop off the silent “P” in “Psmith” for fear of otherwise offending the pterodactyls? Penguin Random House most recently insensitively sicced its censors, which it euphemistically calls “sensitivity readers,” upon P.G. Wodehouse. This strange species undoubtedly hatched…

by | May 26, 2023

Government Executive public administration expert Donald F. Kettl has recently come to the painful conclusion that the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership 2025 proposal on government reform is “a thoughtful but piercing critique of the existing civil service system.”…

by | May 26, 2023

So Bakhmut falls, and the war in Ukraine continues. The lesson is: Don’t hype a battle unless you know you can win. The struggle for Bakhmut started in earnest last August. At the time, it was just one engagement on…

by | May 26, 2023

American Spectator editor Paul Kengor appeared on the Drew Mariani Show Thursday. Up for discussion were two articles published in the American Spectator on how drag queens have become a weapon in the culture war. In “On Drag Queens and the…

by | May 26, 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ much-anticipated 2024 presidential campaign is finally here. DeSantis is, by any empirical metric or otherwise reasonable estimation, the only person with a viable chance of defeating former President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. What…

by | May 26, 2023

It would seem so, as we’ll see below. We didn’t have a Spectacle podcast this week, as Melissa was on injured reserve with some sort of a plague, and I’m in the last stages of finishing the new book (it’s…

by | May 25, 2023

In a blink, following Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ declaring his candidacy, former President Donald Trump was on the attack. Presidential primaries are not for the faint of heart. Here’s but one headline, this from Business Insider:  Trump and his allies…

by | May 25, 2023

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously against the notion that online platforms that incidentally host terrorist-made content have aided and abetted terroristic violence. In asserting the contrary, parties in Twitter v. Taamneh — and those in its companion case…

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