This video is a clip from the East German movie The Lives of Others, which if you have not seen you should immediately go to Amazon and order the DVD. It’s excellent in its showing of life in East Germany before Ronald Reagan scolding Gorbachev into tearing down “this wall.” It also gives a glimpse of…

Here’s Lindsay Graham’s smackdown of the Dems, in case you missed it:

10 red flags about sexual assault claims. This is good. Here are the first three, seven more at the link. Read the whole thing, it’s really good. The author is a trial lawyer with vast experience in cross examining false accusers. 1. The accuser uses the press instead of the process. Every company has a…

Ed Henry, Tucker Carlson and Mark Steyn — it couldn’t get any better. Steyn will join Tucker Carlson tonight (Sept. 26th) at 9:00 PM Eastern on the Fox News Channel for a one-hour special on Tucker’s new book, Ship of Fools. [Update: I couldn’t find this at Fox News lineup for tonight]

Mark Steyn weighs in with a new SteynPost on Western dithering in Afghanistan, the demographic shifts transforming Western Europe, and the dangerous decline of the social order that comes with all that.

As always, Democrats turn everything on its head. If I accuse someone of doing me wrong I expect that I will need to prove it.  My accusation imposes two burdens on me. First, I have the burden of going forward. That means I have to get my case before some sort of tribunal willing to…

We’re told that Christine Ford, Judge Brett Favanaugh’s accuser, has passed a polygraph exam which showed no deception. What then, can we now know about Christine Ford? Nothing. Not a thing. It would be the same if the machine had said she failed. We’d still know nothing we don’t already know. Lie Detectors are simply…

• “I think government is a necessary evil, like say, motion picture agents.” • “America is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living.” • “You’ve got the strongest hand in the world. That’s right. Your hand. The hand that marks the ballot. The hand that pulls the voting lever. Use it,…

Las Meninas (“Ladies in Waiting”) [Pronounced “las meh nee’nas”] by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. Painting dates from 1656, and now hangs in Museo del Prado in Madrid. The Spanish Golden Age was a period of flourishing in Spanish art and literature. It began in 1492 when Columbus sailed to the New…

The #MeToo Kavanaugh Ambush is a Disgrace The allegations seem to have morphed from accusing Kavanaugh of a youthful peccadillo, a small relatively unimportant petty indiscretion, into a claim that the major crime of attempted rape occurred. Had it really been attempted rape it is highly likely law enforcement would have been involved and a…