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The Senator Asked Barrett if She has Ever Committed a Sexual Assault

Oh, if everyone could just sit back and laugh at the idiocy spawned by our higher educational institutions Leftists crack me up: Senator Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, asked whether Amy Comey Barrett has ever sexually assaulted someone. It's this kind of idiocy that gets 75-year-old women searched at airports.

New Mother Cabrini Statue Next on the Hit List

New Mother Cabrini Statue Next on the Hit List

Plus More HSP, Gardening Corner, and Louis Prima I'm impressed: New York City erected a statue of Mother Cabrini yesterday in Battery Park. I hope they put it behind a huge fence and appoint an armed guard to protect it. I mean, it's such a testament

The Fascist

H.I.F. For those who haven't made it over the TDE Twitter account, fascinating excerpts from Thaddeus Russell's Renegade History: "[W]hen the New Deal was created, few of its supporters in the United States were as effusive in their praise as were German

PoS

Look Homewrad, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists by Bill Kauffman. If there's been a better book for promoting the Principle of Subsidiarity in the past twenty years, I don't know of it. I put Kauffman in the same league as John Zmirak:

Wednesday

Miscellaneous Rambling "Alteration between centralized and decentralized power is one of the cyclical rhythms of history, as if men tired alternately of immoderate liberty and excessive order." Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage. So where would we place the United States on this pendulum? Swinging hard toward excessive order,

Wednesday

Politics The IRS official will take The Fifth [http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-top-irs-official-fifth-amendment-20130521,0,6645565.story] . How special. * * * * * * * I'm glad we turned health care over to the IRS. No risks there. * * * * * * * So now the Obama White House is engaged in three scandals. * * * * * * * I have a theory:

Saturday

The Vote Neareth > "A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory." Max Weber. The new issue of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/] arrived yesterday. My friend Dale Ahlquist is taking

Tuesday

Bailout Podcast Real good podcast over at Econtalk: Neil Barofsky, talking about his new book, Bailout. [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/09/barofsky_on_bai.html] Barofsky was an insider to the whole TARP operation, working as "Special Inspector General" in the Treasury. Barofsky is, from what

Tuesday

From the Notebooks The Nock on Babbitt? It's interesting that Sinclair Lewis labeled the repressed character in Babbitt after Irving Babbitt, the Harvard professor from Ohio who emphasized that, for America to survive, men must restrain their appetites. Lewis' use of the eponym was meant as an

Tuesday

Whining Liberal = Catholic I had to drive to Battle Creek yesterday afternoon, so I had a chance to listen to Rush Limbaugh for the first time since I heard him declare Ron Paul a "liberal." I've never listened to Rush much, but I'd always