In Hoc Anno Domini

In Hoc Anno Domini. This editorial in the Wall Street Journal was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since. Often, the comments in the WSJ are more interesting than the article.

How Corrupt is a Corrupt Media? The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers. By Victor Davis Hanson

Senate Dem: Griner-for-Bout swap "deeply disturbing," enabling future hostage-takers

Remember Sam Brinton, the Energy Department official that likes to wear women's clothes? He stole a woman's suitcase at the Minneapolis Airport. Well, it seems he also did it in Las Vegas. I guess he just doesn't like to shop in ladies' boutiques. He doesn't seem to work at DOE anymore.

Identity politics run amok: Why does the Biden administration keep making such embarrassing hires?

JUST WHEN YOU HOPED SOUTH CAROLINA HAD MOVED PAST ITS SEGREGATIONIST HISTORY: South Carolina med school faces federal investigation for excluding men, white people.

THE TWITTER FILES, Part VII: The FBI All Up in Twitter's Business

Mom sues after police arrest her for leaving kid home alone. These are different times.

There's A Reason People Suspect Fraud. Especially when you look at some of what's been reported in Georgia alone.

Twitter files #7: the FBI sets up the scam. When the Hunter Biden laptop story broke shortly before the 2020 election, I initially experienced a brief sense of relief. It had been a tense year, to be sure: COVID, then the Floyd riots, and with the election looming I had a gut feeling that the cognitively challenged, mendacious, corrupt, newly-minted leftist Joe Biden was going to win. Now, with this laptop story, maybe enough people were going to learn about more of the family corruption, and perhaps it would change the outcome.

The Christmas Movie That Became a Classic Because of a Mistake. The role of accidents, chance and serendipity can be crucial to success. It’s the reason people still watch a black-and-white film every year.

How the Media Trains Journalists to Lie. The Ratioing of Dasha Burns

Anomie and Impunity. The unraveling of San Francisco

Guys swim faster than girls, even if they identify as female

 A Washington State high school student who, as a male, ranked 72nd in boys’ track, vaulted up to the number-one spot as a female following gender transition. Deprives other girls’ teams of the chance to compete at State

Another ‘Known Wolf’ – The Colorado Springs Shooter Should Have Been in Prison

This Is What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like From the Surface of Mars

Giant Goldfish Weighing 67 Lbs. Caught by Fisherman – See the Photos! Nicknamed "The Carrot," the goldfish was caught in the same French fishery it was released into 20 years ago

Take yourself back in time to World War II and watch this film about the manufacture of 3-inch anti-aircraft shells. The amount of effort it took to make just one bullet is amazing.

One of Biden's appointments is a man who dresses in women's clothing. He/she is in the Deprtment of Energy storage of nuclear waste. He stole a woman's suitcase in Minneapolis. Theft case against Biden nonbinary aide Sam Brinton is admittedly ‘weirder.

From the NYT: What’s the Best Book of the Past 125 Years? We Asked Readers to Decide.

Pretty good story about a trailer-dwelling poor person rose to Rule the Best-Seller List. With legions of devoted fans and a knack for high-voltage emotional drama, Hoover has sold more than 20 million books. And she’s done it her way.

Why Are Black People Still Voting for Democrats? It's Magic!

These 15 Secular Christmas Songs Deserve the Death Penalty My wife Chris used to sing O Holy Night every Christmas. She was better than the one linked in the article.

This article by Victor Davis Hanson is notable for the summary of Biden's failures. Does Trump Really Want To Be President Again?

I was at a Walmart this week that had remarkable security measures. I wanted to buy some T-shirts. They were locked behind a glass door. I had to find a clerk to open it for me. Once selected, I couldn't put them in my cart. The clerk had to take them up to a front counter for me to retrieve later. When checking out, I located my T-shirts up front. At that point, the clerk had to take them to the self-service register and actually scanned them for me to make sure I was going to pay for them. I was incredulous, but apparently theft is a big problem in this neighborhood. I happened on this article Walmart May Hike Prices and Close Stores Due to Theft. When did T-shirts become a security problem?

Interesting back story on Twitter supressing the Hunter Biden hard disk story. Elon Musk Fires a Democrat Fox Guarding the Twitter Hen House

Will Trump ride off into the sunset, or play the broken hero?

Will Trump ride off into the sunset, or play the broken hero?

Here's a pretty good review of the new and improved Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

The Left Were the Mad Scientists--We Were Their Lab Rats. By Victor Davis Hanson

The Supreme Court Confronts the Left’s Victimhood Consensus. An analysis of race-based college admissions, the case before the Supreme Court.

Biden: The Pudding President’s Insults Continue. So much for Joe Biden and his quest to “tone down the angry rhetoric” and “unifying” our country.

I Hated Fishing. Then Fishing Changed My Life. In an excerpt from his new book, terrific writer Jason Gay talks about being drawn, despite himself, into the obsession of his 9-year-old son.

We don't live in Grass Valley CA anymore, but I regret missing this meteor.

FOUR HUNDRED private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of 'hypocrisy'

After violent camera robberies, a number of photographers plan to stay away from San Francisco. The Dallas-based photographer targeted in the attack the afternoon of on November 9, did not want to be identified but says he was pistol-whipped and was "freaked out" and tried to console the wedding party where "the bride was crying the whole time." That same day, another photographer's belongings were stolen at gunpoint at the same location...on the very same day.

SHOCKER! WaPo Sheepishly Admits the FBI Found No Nuclear Secrets, or Anything Else, in Mar-a-Lago Raid

Did you notice that there have been many stories breaking recently that are inconvenient to the left-wing narrative? They came out after the midterm elections were over — when they’d have no impact on the vote.

Paul Pelosi Seen Opening Door for Police on Body Cam Video as Originally Reported. NBC reporter Miguel Almaguer was suspended on Tuesday for including that detail in his original report, since retracted. And yet NBC Bay Area reporter Bigad Shaban claimed Wednesday that police body cam footage supports Almaguer’s initial story.

Facebook Censors Bible Verse

What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on with the Paul Pelosi story?

Ohio January 6 man gets three years after stealing a coat rack. Here's the story on the other case: The Gentry Class looks after its own, while prating about equality, the rule of law, and the dangers of “insurrection.”

The Real Dispute at Heart of Affirmative Action Cases Now Before High Court

 The Real Dispute at Heart of Affirmative Action Cases Now Before High Court.

After the Jan. 6 Committee finishes, maybe a GOP Congress can probe some actual ‘threats to democracy’. By Glenn H. Reynolds

CNN’s Attempt to Report the Truth About Guns Outrages Gun Control Zealots

A comparison between photos taken by the Hubble and the new James Webb telescopes. Take a look at bigger versions here

The Sanibel Island causeway washed out by Hurricane Ian has reopened. Republicans just do a better job.

What's Interesting About the Steve Bannon Verdict

Political Stunt? Viral Abortion Horror Story in Missouri Perfectly Timed for October Surprise

Is This the Real Reason Twitter Employees Are Afraid of Elon Musk? Take a tour of the office.

Pelosi Attacker’s Former ‘Life Partner’ Definitively Torpedoes the Media Narrative. Reuters reported a lie that an internet user with the same name as the man arrested at the scene, David Depape, expressed support for former President Donald Trump.

Biden’s Day One Actions Haunt Him Still

Biden’s Day One Actions Haunt Him Still. Column: The president blunders from one self-inflicted crisis to the next

Hunter and Joe Biden Need Trump. The press won’t keep lying about Hunter’s laptop if Trump isn’t on the ballot.

FBI undercounts number of times armed citizens have thwarted active shooting incidents: report

I don't normally post links to articles from liberal media, but here's an incredible report in Nature about some islanders winning a suit against Australia because of global warming. This is insane of course, starting with the fact that Australia doesn't contribute much to global warming compared to places line China and India.

Ukraine's victory "almost a done deal": Military expert on how Russia's invasion imploded. Pretty good analysis.

Rail company left 'dysfunctional' California amid faltering ‘bullet train’ efforts. SNCF, the French national railroad, was one of the original operators to come to California in the early 2000s to help develop the state’s “bullet train” that would run from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The rail company, however, opted to leave for the war-torn, yet “less politically dysfunctional” North African country.

Share These 8 Reasons Tulsi Gabbard Left The Democrat Party With Your Democrat-Voting Friends And Family

Special Counsel John Durham and the Press’s Battle With Truth. To the media, ignorance is bliss when it comes to the true 2016 election story.

The man who said Ukraine would win. ‘The real reason Putin has not succeeded,’ says Bernard-Henri Lévy, is that his opponents ‘know why they fight.’

A More Diverse America Turns Against Racial Preferences. California voters backed the 1996 ban by a 9-point margin. By 2020 the gap had widened to 16 points.

Anything the U.S. does to reduce emissions won’t matter much to global temperatures

 Anything the U.S. does to reduce emissions won’t matter much to global temperatures. U.S. cuts will be swamped by the increases in India, Africa and especially China. Look no further than China’s boom in new coal-fired electricity.

How the Media Fell for A Racism Sham. A Brigham Young University paper scooped the New York Times. All the students did was practice basic journalism

The Sordid Saga of Hunter Biden’s Laptop. Imagine that, in the middle of all of this, you lose control of 217 gigabytes of your personal data: videos in which you have sex; videos in which you smoke crack; bleary-eyed selfies; selfies that document your in-progress dental work; your bank statements; your Venmo transactions; your business emails; your toxic rants at family members; analysis from your psychiatrist; your porn searches; your Social Security number; explicit photos of the many women passing through your bedrooms, photos of your kids, of your father, of life and death, despair and boredom.

Special Victor Davis Hanson Edition: How Democracy Dies in Darkness in Five Easy Steps.

Why has fact-checking disappeared under Biden? Fact-checking under President Trump was a bustling business. Seemingly every day, and sometimes by the hour, the 45th president’s every word was scrutinized, which all comes with the job. 

What Russia’s Failure in Ukraine Means for Putin and the World The exposure of his country’s weaknesses by a smaller adversary could threaten the Russian president’s influence abroad and even his hold on power.

Sweden was very welcoming to Muslim immigrants from the Middle East. Crime is mushrooming and nobody wants to talk about the root cause. Two Bombings in One Night? That’s Normal Now in Sweden. My country just voted in a right-wing government. The almost 500 bombings since 2018 may have something to do with it.

Another Surge of Greed in the Biden Era? Rising gas prices bring back a favorite Beltway excuse.

California Warns: Here Come the Blackouts

California Warns: Here Come the Blackouts, Don't Charge Your Car

Jim Harbaugh on his unique quarterback plan: 'It's Biblical'. Michigan's head coach cited King Solomon and the Book of Ecclesiastes to explain his decision to start Cade McNamara against Colorado State and JJ McCarthy versus Hawaii.

Hidden Dinosaur Tracks Emerge in Texas Drought. Visitors to Dinosaur Valley State Park have been treated to a rare sight of 113-million-year-old dinosaur footprints.

Climate change: A Russian plant near Finland is burning off some 4.34 million cubic meters of gas every day that it would previously have sold to Germany, the BBC reported.

'Shoot. Me. Now!' What Obama told an aide about Joe Biden's 'annoying' rambling, as new book reveals tensions in the 'bromance' that got so bad Barack wanted to replace his VP with Hillary Clinton in 2012

A bakery was destroyed by Oberlin College and its students. Read the story. They sued the college and won. Will they get their money?

Liberal Principal Admits Discriminating against Religious Teachers. An undercover video has captured a public school administrator admitting that he quietly refuses to hire “brainwashed” religious teachers and older people, so he can impose his own liberal views on the district’s schoolchildren.

Gun violence is up in Portland. While there were more shootings last weekend than usual, it’s just the latest example of an upward trend in gun violence in Portland and the state since 2020. There have been 788 shootings in Portland as of July 31 this year, which is 67 more than last year and 415 more than in 2020 during the same time frame.

The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors. Almost half of humanities and arts majors regret their choice — and enrollment in those disciplines is shrinking rapidly

Woke Ideologues Are Taking Over American Art Museums. When connoisseurs yield to commissars, the result is as ugly as you’d expect.

A Russian Soldier’s Inside View of Moscow’s War in Ukraine. Demoralized troops, poor logistics undercut performance of Russian military, says paratrooper who fought

The Cynical Exploitation of Brittney Griner. Who benefits from America's infighting?