In my latest Rebel video, I praise John Marshall for creating a balance between the judiciary and the other branches and wish we could find a way to hit reset today. https://youtu.be/ZZSmWrNhCNQ
In my latest National Post commentary I argue that the stiff rebukes to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in Iowa show that the length and complexity of the American nominating process are features not bugs.
In my latest Rebel video, I talk about how easy it would have been to be a pollster in 1789. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W17gKFtxAEQ
Here's one university administrator willing to stand up to political correctness, and to keep standing up when challenged. I'm pleased to say he seems to be getting some pretty favourable coverage for it too.
In an excruciatingly studied effort to show more passion on the campaign trail, Jeb Bush says he would have killed baby Hitler given the chance. Apparently the question is a thing these days thanks to New York Magazine, and Bush's response was a mild obscenity (wow, such authenticity) followed by "yeah, I would!" Phooey. If I might refer you to my Sept. 28 post on the apparent opportunity of Henry Tandey, VC, to shoot a wounded Hitler on September 28 1918, it's absurd to suppose that anyone could have known a corporal in the trenches of World War I would have turned into a successful genocidal warmongering maniac politician in the 1930s. It's not even a category into which that young soldier could fall.
As for the notion that you could identify a baby who would later certainly do great evil if you didn't slaughter it in its infant innocence, that you could determine scientifically its necessarily malignant influence on history and preemptively exterminate it with a clean conscience, let's leave that for Minority Report and stick with the fairly elementary fact that killing babies is wrong.
So is appeasing dictators, but that's a story for another decade.
As for politicians faking passion, it's always a sorry sight.
Host Dan Schneider invited me on his online program this weekend to discuss modern confusion about race and gender. Excuse the weak connection; I was at the cottage, on rural "internet". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IU9kBhbD4A
In my latest piece for The Rebel, I wonder why William Howe didn’t capture George Washington and end the American Revolution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQFeAwxBvbs
In my latest piece for the Rebel, I call for the return of supply-side economics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsR5ZkZkGAI