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For almost a quarter century I have been a professor of economics at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. After years of working there, I have learned something about how my department’s academic radicals, who by dint of personality but not numbers have near-decisive control over many departmental decisions. WSU economics is a master’s-level department. How its radicals operate is utterly inconsistent with all that is best about Western universities. I would like to share whatever wisdom I have gained from working in this department to give readers a sense of how at least some on the academic left think...

I'd like to carry a semiauto, but I use a revolver because I just can’t rack a slide. If I had a dollar for every shooter I have heard singing this sad song over the years, I’d be a woman of means and influence. In days of yore, I might have pointed my doubters – usually women and seniors – toward a SIG P238, a Walther PK 380 or, more recently, a Glock 42. But each of those came with caveats related either to cost (SIGs are pricey), functionality (Walthers are a pain to break down) or usability (for better...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The Kabuki Theater in our nation’s capital never ceases. – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell – who will be the Senate Minority Leader after the 2020 elections if he keeps pulling nonsense like this – staged a show vote in the U.S. Senate yesterday that will lead to President Donald Trump’s first exercise of his veto power. The show vote on a resolution to reverse the President’s national emergency declaration on the border situation – which congress is completely responsible for causing and allowing to mushroom – that was earlier passed by...

(Breaking News: Mass Shooting At Two Mosques In Christchurch, New Zealand) Police Commissioner Mike Bush says 49 were killed in the attacks..... Reaction to the attacks from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling it 'the latest example of rising racism and Islamophobia'..... Documents unsealed this week confirm that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller wants a subpoena and a contempt citation against a corporation owned by a foreign government.... The US Senate voting against President Trump's declaration of a national emergency to fund border security on the southern border..... Columnist Ann Coulter defining her differences with President Trump in her latest column...

As one can see from many of the overnight posts on the internet, our fifth column was busy, trying to remind us that "everybody does it," "both sides do it," in reference to the murders in New Zealand. And I have no doubt that during the day, here and elsewhere, the Demos, primitives, and other appeasers and virtue signallers are going to continually refrain this, "everybody does it," "both sides do it." Which of course is nonsense. The murder of forty people from the other side is not the same as the all those whose lives have been taken from...

Saw it on Yahoo. Of course he denies getting special privileges for his daughter's admission. As I see it he's done so much for the university sports-wise his kids should be given Carte Blanche treatment. My only problem with Joe is that he didn't have to apply and receive Workmen's Comp for football injuries. He was a millionaire many times over at the time.

For starters, we have John McCain, John Kerry, Robert “Gigolo” O’Rourke, and Paul Ryan. Any others you can think of to add to the list?

Victor Davis Hanson is about as accomplished and credentialed a commentator you can find. He’s an author, a military historian, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a farmer in California. President George W. Bush awarded Hanson the National Humanities Award in 2007. By all accounts and appearances, he is a decent, humble man who spends a great deal of time analyzing our current political moment and discussing what it portends for the future. Hanson also is a supporter of President Trump. This heresy has earned him scorn from quarters on the Left and the so-called Right. His...

Liberals don't like blacks that much. Witness Samantha Bee and her husband fighting so hard to keep disadvantaged kids from coming to their Little Darlings' school. They only love the sense of superiority, of being The White Hero, they get from white-knighting for their favored perpetual racial damsels. The Southern Poverty Law Center has fired Morris Dees, the nonprofit civil rights organization's co-founder and former chief litigator. A 1994 Mongomery Advertiser series of articles about the Hate Organization found that Dees, despite posing as a crusader for blacks, actually... kinda hated blacks and didn't mind who knew it. --- The...

TEDx Talk: Michael Shellenberger explains why nuclear power is cleaner, safer, cheaper, more reliable, and more environmentally friendly than solar power and wind power This 18 minute TEDx Talk by Michael Shellenberger is one of the best pro-nuclear power, anti-solar power, anti-wind power arguments that I have ever heard.He cites a huge number of statistics to show that compared to solar power and wind power, nuclear power is far better for the environment, far cleaner, far better for animals, far safer for humans, far more reliable, far cheaper, and has a far smaller environmental footprint.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-yALPEpV4w

Hollywood celebrities are constantly lecturing the rest of America on how to live, what to eat and who to vote for. They're better than you and me. But now and then things go wrong. Like yesterday: This doesn't happen every day: Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin and Loughlin's fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were arrested Tuesday and charged with paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to cheat their daughters into college.The three were charged along with nearly 50 other people in a scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed college coaches and insiders at college testing centers to...

Albert Einstein was born in Germany on March 14, 1879. He began teaching himself calculus at age 14. With a doctorate from the University of Zurich, Einstein wrote papers on electromagnetic energy, relativity, and statistical mechanics. Einstein predicted a ray of light from a distant star would appear to bend as it passed near the sun. When an eclipse confirmed this, the London Times ran the headline, Nov. 7, 1919, “Revolution in science – New theory of the Universe – Newtonian ideas overthrown.” In 1921, Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in physics. Describing the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein...

VIDEO While watching Beto O'Rourke announce his candidacy for president today, his empty platitudes and shallow buzzwords sounded very familiar. And then it hit me. Beto O'Rourke is "The Candidate." Not just a candidate but "The Candidate" as in the 1972 movie of the same name starring Robert Redford as Bill McKay as "The Candidate."

Better back off, Beto while the going’s still good When rich kid, legend-in-his-own mind Beto O’Rourke swiped Hillary Clinton’s born-to-be-president mantra, using the concept as his own, he cut voting masses an unintended break, by, in effect, setting off soon to be Democrat Cannibalism. The roomful of Democrat presidential hopefuls will soon be voraciously eating their own. While he may have tried to go for a collegial look in his sweater when announcing his run for the 2020 presidency, Senators Liz Warren, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand and others will be bound to see him as a silver-spoon, “WHITE MAN OF...

I wanted to play Walmart against Amazon to get the cheapest bicycle tire-tubes so I can take my grandchildren bike riding. (Pithy-Stickers came ripe in September, I told the kids to stay off the dirt, they rode on dirt, they got flats, I stayed off the dirt, I didn't get a flat.) I used the search term "cheapest bicycle tubes online walmart amazon". I had to go 3 pages down before I could find anything by WalMart, and it didn't mention bicycle parts at all. The fix is in.

Asra Nomani comes with the message not to fear Trump, but to fear Islamic extremism Nancy Pelosi tried to offset the storm of criticism against new Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s succession of anti-Semitic remarks by claiming “I don’t think Ilhan Omar is Anti-Semitic. She has a different experience in her use of words, and she doesn’t understand that some of them are fraught with meaning she doesn’t realize.” Pelosi showed her ignorance of the cultural and ethnic background that allowed Somali-born Omar to say what she said, and mean what she said. But Pelosi did stumble on the kernel of...

The U.S. does not have to be Venezuela, either socialist or grid down As if the complete — and inevitable — collapse of Venezuela’s disastrous socialist experiment were not bad enough, the long-suffering population there is now five days into a near-total collapse of its electric grid. People are increasingly desperate for the most basic necessities of life, most especially water.

Make it a One-Way Ticket, President Guaido: A magnificent idea whose time has come: Sending Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and all other self-professed socialist Democrats to visit Venezuela to witness the kind of socialism they’re shilling, playing live in human tragedy. Venezuelan President Juan Guaido issued them a personal invite on Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan Show on Monday.

Is more gun control legislation coming to Congress?The 2018 midterm elections produced a split Congress with Democrats gaining control of the House and Republicans gaining seats in the Senate.The change in House leadership will signal changes in gun control legislation in the near future. The Guardian has detailed House Democrats’ desire to pass gun control legislation in the upcoming Congress: “Ted Deutch, a Democratic congressman from Florida who represents Parkland, where a February school shooting left 17 dead, said this week that he expected House Democrats to focus on bills with more bipartisan support. Those measures included bump stock bans...

After actress Lori Loughlin allegedly bribed her daughter’s way into college, the “Fuller House” star’s teen cashed in on her student status — despite admitting she was attending school just to party. Olivia Jade Giannulli is a social-media star in her own right, boasting 1.3 million followers on Instagram and almost 2 million on YouTube. After arriving at USC last year, she posted sponsored content on Instagram for Amazon Prime, featuring a photo of herself in her new dorm room.