Rather than simply and sensibly enroll at more accommodating secular schools, LGBTQ students instead enrolled at Christian schools and now claim discrimination in new litigation that seems oblivious to the schools’ First Amendment religious freedoms as refined by the Supreme Court in 2018. Read more…
New Rules & Gimmicks Aren’t Needed. Just Get Back to Baseball Basics.
Washington Post sports columnist Barry Svrluga is advocating another rule change to save baseball from boring. But he and many of his colleagues have lost touch with actual baseball fans and instead have become enthralled with the algorithm geeks who are overthinking and thus ruining the great game. Read more…
‘Blue’ Is the New ‘Yellow’
Picking up where Senior Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia left off a week ago, must-read Wall Street Journal political columnist Kim Strassel today continues nearly universal criticism of media bias, insightfully updating the roughly 125-year-old, Pulitzer- and Hearst-inspired phrase “yellow journalism“ with “blue journalism.” Read more…
Why Is Joe Manchin Still a Democrat?
A Wall Street Journal editorial asks, “Why Do Democrats Hate West Virginia?” But given that they plainly do, the more salient question is: Why is Joe Manchin still a Democrat? Read more…
Another Op-Ed You’d Never See in WaPo or NYTimes
Tangentially related to an earlier post questioning the Biden administration and Washington Post in their shared belief that still more government spending will finally reduce childhood poverty, this post commends a Wall Street Journal op-ed that shows how a data-collection choice by the U.S. Census Bureau yields erroneously inflated assessments of “income inequality.” Read more…
White House, WaPo Dismiss Party-Pooping Budget Hawks as ‘Cost Police’
As they plan yet another well-intentioned borrow-and-spend blow-out — this time to really, really, really end childhood poverty once and for all — White House leftists pulling President Biden’s strings dismiss sober, Milton Friedman-like adults with legitimate budget worries as party-pooping “cost police.” Read more…
Where’s Sen. Whitehouse When We Need Him?
With a new pro-Biden nonprofit declaring that it won’t limit donations or identify donors, should fans of the Senate’s most tenacious conspiracy theorist expect him to investigate? Read more…
Blinken Nods to Progressive Propaganda, Bows to Chinese Bullying
Unlike an imagined Secretary Billy Martin, the real U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was reduced to self-flagellation in the face of Chinese bullying at the recent meeting of top diplomats in Anchorage. The bullying was made possible by woke media’s willingness to echo and amplify the radical left’s anti-American propaganda. Read more…
All Rise. The Hon. Laurence Silberman Is Speaking Critical Truths about Media Bias.
Calling the Washington Post and New York Times “Democratic Party broadsheets,” and noting that the Associated Press, NPR, nearly all of network and cable television, and Silicon Valley are similarly oriented, a veteran federal judge’s latest dissent in a libel case remarkably warns that America is “very close to one-party control” of the media. Read more…
Baseball Doesn’t Need More Rules. It Needs More Versatile Players.
Old-school curmudgeons like Post-deconstruction’s editor do not embrace new baseball rules aimed at mitigating the Dungeons & Dragons tedium that’s been imposed on the game by algorithm geeks from MIT and Cal Tech. Read more…