This’ll be quick – I have to head to the airport in about 20 minutes.  It’s been 25 years since Instapundit made blogging “a thing.”  I started about the same time.  And it has me wondering…. . .

I find myself deeply worried this Sunday morning.  As I discussed on Friday, the election of Abdul El-Sayed as the Democratic candidate for Senator in Michigan is a very clear sign that much in this nation is currently motivated by hatred.  Hatred that rots the soul and the body politic.  Hatred that opens the door to all sorts of personal corruption and makes this nation less than it ought to be. . . .

Corrosives are funny things.  In some circumstances they can simply melt an entire structure.  In others they attack only a few molecules in the structural matrix, weakening the structure just enough to let other forces destroy it, even though the structure looks quite healthy from the outside.  We talked about hatred as a corrosive for our culture and our souls yesterday.  Watching this corrosive work its way through us right now is both fascinating and horrifying.  Let’s look at the latest.. . .

With the election of Abdul El-Sayed as the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan things just turned existential.  Yes, candidates like El-Sayed and his apparent brother-in-arms Hasan Piker are a direct threat to our constitutional government.  When two commentators like the host and Jim Geraghty agree that more than a mere Senate seat is in the dock in Michigan this November that simply must be the case. I personally think there is more than merely our constitutional order at stake.. . .

Right now, the eastern half of the state of Washington is ablaze in a scene eerily reminiscent of the Los Angeles wildfires of January 2025.  These coastal states, California and Washington, share in common very liberal politics dominated by Democrats.  Democrats so focused on creating equity, and other quite tempting sounding liberal ideals, that they have forgotten to do things like maintain their ability to prevent and fight fire.  Then, as LA is demonstrating rather dramatically, they become so focused on their ideals, and the bureaucracies they create to enforce them, that they simply cannot rebuild from such a disaster. 

For most of my life, a “fad” was harmless.  When I was in high school, “streaking” was the latest and greatest thing.  Of course, there had always been fads in clothing; what I wore without shame in college would be considered a costume these days.  And of course, speaking of college – The Pet Rock.  When a joke becomes a fad, there is money to be made.  But like most things in this world – fads are turning darker and darker.. . .

As I read the host’s gentle chastisement of the president for letting Iran, once again, up off the mat, the phrase that is the title of this piece crossed my mind.  Somewhere, starting around the time of our Civil War, industrialization joined hands with warfare, and the idea that war was a purely soldier upon soldier affair died.  The resultant collateral damage reached its zenith with the use of nuclear weapons in WWII.  We have spent the last century and a half trying to put that genie back in the bottle, but to no avail.  Simply put, too many are so morally bankrupt that they would, and have, put that technology to

This week saw one of the most amazing displays of arrogance and contemptuousness ever witnessed in the United States Congress.  Anthony Fauci thumbed his nose at the Senate of the United States as if his power as a (former) bureaucrat equaled theirs.  The event has been discussed and analyzed endlessly – including in these spaces.  Fauci may in fact be guilty of contempt of Congress and subject to penalties appropriate thereto.  But way too many people have rushed to the condemnation of Anthony Fauci’s humanity.  A fact that is as troubling as Fauci’s performance.. . .