Don’t Cook Bacon without Wearing Pants
Some nagging thoughts on the Secret Service’s explanation to Congress around the events of the so-called Trump assassination attempt
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Conventional Blues
Reading an account of Oprah Winfrey hectoring the horde of Democrats and mocking cat ladies, I thought to look up the celebrities who addressed the Republican Convention.
Wednesday’s Child: A Splendid Thing
When there’s no money in the house, as happens often in the lives of a couple who are both what the Italian taxman calls liberi professionisti – people with no regular income, to you and me – I console myself and my family with the thought that however little we are paid for our labors, it’s all in gold.
Democrats Exterminating Their Own Future Voters
he USA Today headline: “Abortions at the DNC? Planned Parenthood bus providing no-cost service and vasectomies: The organization posted on X that it will provide free medication abortion, emergency contraceptives and vasectomies through its mobile health bus Monday and Tuesday.”
The EU Iron Curtain
Freedom of expression is being targeted by the bureaucratic cliques in Brussels, and most recently they are doing it without any pretenses.
Final Plan for Tuscany. Time is running out…
Please let me know if you can join us and, secondarily, if you plan to arrive early or stay on in Rome.
Wednesday’s Child: Best and Second-Best
Doubtless the gentle reader has no illusions about my knowledge and understanding of sport, given that on more than one occasion I confessed to have but limited mastery in only two fields, chess and badminton.
A Primer for Voters, Lesson #4: Weed the Garden
When I ask people about candidates they support–and why–they usually respond by praising their position of abortion or taxes or foreign policy. When I probe further and ask what, for example, J.D. Vance has done to limit abortion, they cite some speech he has given or a position paper, To quote the godfather of Beat poets, “The thing is, they never learn.”
A Primer for Voters, Lesson #3:
It is a truism of political analysts that while most Americans say they do not trust the members of Congress, they tend to trust their own representative. This is a bizarre dichotomy.
Minneapolis Burning and Gun Grabbing: Harris-Walz Push Anarcho-Tyranny
Two events. 1. Minneapolis burning in the summer of 2020 during the George Floyd riots under Gov. Tim Walz. 2. Kamala Harris’ Aug. 6 call, with Walz at her side, for banning “assault weapons.”
