In principle, there is nothing wrong with a state legislature and governor officially recognizing new holidays, and while a lot of Americans have a very bad impression of Islam, one can argue that the best way to integrate immigrant groups is to embrace them and incorporate people who are “outsiders” into the larger culture […]

Sometimes one feels as if one inhabits an alternate reality. In fact, when the establishment and its media minions shamelessly peddle the most unbelievable assertions, and when roughly 98 percent of one’s fellow citizens seem willing to accept some of those assertions, notwithstanding their logical impossibility and palpable hostility both to the Constitution and to […]

Virginia is a weird state: As far as I know, it’s the only state in the union with a state flag that features a topless woman planting her foot on the chest of a dead corpse. By the way, the dead corpse is wearing shoes—ankle-high sandals, in fact—but the […]

The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term have been stunningly transformative, even as the Left has begun to mount some counter offensives in the judiciary and in the media. For a president to be successful, he must apply principles that one might apply to warfare or sports. The early days of a presidency are […]

This was so under the radar with everything else going on in the world that I’m just reading about it this morning, days after it happened. The Rwandan genocide of 1996-1997, aka The First Congo War – you probably all remember those horrific images of minority ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutus who had been […]