Daily Archives: January 21, 2016

Trump, Sam Francis, and Rush

Michael Brendan Dougherty has a very good piece titled “How an obscure adviser to Pat Buchanan predicted the wild Trump campaign in 1996” (hat tip: AmRen). That ‘obsure advisor’ was the late great Samuel T. Francis, a giant figure in … Continue reading

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Status Update: Pollard

“Jonathan Pollard Wins Meeting With Jewish Leaders — Gets Shabbat-Friendly Monitoring Bracelet” reads the headline in The Forward”. Pollard, you’ll remember, was the former Navy intelligence analyst arrested in 1985 and found guilty of spying for Israel. He was sentenced … Continue reading

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Gary McFarland – Bloop Bleep (1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbgT9OQxm-c

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Fairytales Much Older Than Previously Thought

The Guardian has a story on a fascinating new study about the presumed age of fairy tales. Bottom Line: Tales such as Beauty and the Beast and Rumplestiltskin can be traced back to the emergence of the major western Indo-European … Continue reading

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Trump vs. Davos Crowd

“The Specter of Donald Trump Is Haunting Davos” reads the title of this Bloomberg piece. And who is quoted, but our old buddy Eric ‘Open Borders’ Cantor: “Unfortunately I do think that if there were to be a Trump administration … Continue reading

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Prehistoric Massacre Hints at War Among Hunter-Gatherers

A major archaeological find with implications for evolutionary theories of warfare (“Prehistoric Massacre Hints at War Among Hunter-Gatherers“): The scene was a lagoon on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya. The time about 10,000 years ago. One group of … Continue reading

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Ted Cruz is Macabre

How much does the NYT’s signature ethnicity despise Ted Cruz? Let us count the ways.

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