Burn the Barn

Sometimes it’s beneficial to break down a bad argument. To dissect it, deconstruct it, disassemble it. Get to the heart of why it stinks. To put it more crassly, a dog turd looks bad enough on your front lawn. But bring it in the house, chop it up, examine it under a microscope? It looks much worse. Like that JD Vance argument for spreading ...

Taki’s Top Drawer

Politics

Tim Walz, 1981

The Democrats’ Idea of a Regular Guy

To balance out her being a DEI hire, Kamala Harris needed a regular white guy as her running mate. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party doesn't have ...

Blacks Can’t Hold Their Hitler

I see the coming election not so much as a contest between Trump and Harris (wacklemore vs. cacklemore), but rather as a test of theories. The ...

The Real Kamala Harris

It's crazy for Donald Trump not to agree to another debate. While he may not be everybody's cup of tea, his opponent is an absolute lunatic who could ...

Is Washington Distorting the Numbers?

We all know that math scores have been scandalously trending downward for many years, but the folks in the government should at least be able to ...

MAGA Does a Hitler!

Trump’s been called “Hitler” for, what, nine years now? And always unfairly. Even with the dude’s many (many) faults, he’s not Hitler. And ...

Irish Gall

Are the Irish racist? Do they eat potatoes, bacon, and cabbage every day, play the fiddle, and reject all change, as a controversial new school ...

The Week That Perished

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