1929: Sorkin Rounds Up the Usual Suspects
Posted By: Christopher L, 12/6/2025 4:07:49 PM
Back in 1999, William F. Buckley Jr. interviewed the economist John Kenneth Galbraith on Firing Line. The gents’ topic was historic figures. Around twenty-four minutes in, Buckley got to President Franklin Roosevelt. Galbraith, then ninety, turned nostalgic. “Of my generation, there was no figure like Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And I still wake up in the morning and say, ‘Well, Galbraith, you’re still a New Dealer.’ ” Certainly. But do the rest of us have to be?
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1929: Sorkin Rounds Up the Usual Suspects
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Back in 1999, William F. Buckley Jr. interviewed the economist John Kenneth Galbraith on Firing Line. The gents’ topic was historic figures. Around twenty-four minutes in, Buckley got to President Franklin Roosevelt. Galbraith, then ninety, turned nostalgic.
“Of my generation, there was no figure like Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And I still wake up in the morning and say, ‘Well, Galbraith, you’re still a New Dealer.’ ”
Certainly. But do the rest of us have to be?
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold escalated her standoff with the Trump administration this week, rejecting a request for the state’s full, unredacted voter file. “We will not comply with the Trump Department of Justice’s request for Coloradans’ sensitive voting information. The DOJ can take a hike; it does not have a legal right to the information. Colorado will not help Donald Trump undermine our elections and hurt the American people.” Colorado’s refusal comes as the DOJ expands lawsuits into at least 14 states for denying similar requests.
Thanksgiving Controversy: What Nobody
Tells You About Indians and the Natives
of North America 19 replies
Tells You About Indians and the Natives
of North America 19 replies
Every time I hear about the tragedy (the tragedies) suffered by the Indians of North America (whether at Thanksgiving or at any other time), I bring up some variant of the following questions:
Do the calamities also include the theft of the lands of the Apaches? Does the genocide, real or alleged, of the Native Americans also concern the extermination of the Huron tribe (Huronia)?
This type of question usually boondoggles the leftist,…
The problem, of course, is that the lands of the Apaches were stolen by the Comanches.
While the Hurons were wiped out by the Iroquois
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College kids’ math skills worse than
ever, California finds — blame our pass-the-buck
public schools 13 replies
ever, California finds — blame our pass-the-buck
public schools 13 replies
What happens when a child is promoted, grade by grade, through America’s K-12 school system but can’t actually perform at grade level in reading, writing or math? As the University of California at San Diego found, they get into college — and become someone else’s problem. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of freshmen with math skills below middle-school level “increased nearly thirtyfold” — unable to handle even the most basic high school math. In 2023, 13% of students could not perform at first-grade level, and 25% of kids got
equation 7 + 2 = [ ] + 6 wrong.
Historical proof that today’s public
schools are nothing but indoctrination
mills poisoning minds 2 replies
schools are nothing but indoctrination
mills poisoning minds 2 replies
You want to know why today’s kids know nothing about America’s past, and in fact in many cases actually believe falsely that America invented slavery and has always been an evil oppressive nation founded on that even more evil concept of capitalism, you need only compare pictures of two typical public school classrooms, one from 1909 and one from 2025.
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The Algorithm That Rigged the Census:
How One Bureaucrat Stole the House and
Billions in Funding 17 replies
How One Bureaucrat Stole the House and
Billions in Funding 17 replies
The 2020 census was marketed as an “actual enumeration,” a neutral count of people for apportionment and funding. It was not. The same official who helped block a basic citizenship question in 2018, John M. Abowd, then the Census Bureau’s Chief Scientist, pushed through a new, opaque methodology in 2020 called differential privacy. The new system deliberately injected mathematical noise into every block count in America, turning the census from a headcount into a model with knobs. The knob that mattered most was a single parameter, epsilon, a secrecy shroud known only to a small inner circle.
We Can’t Debate Our Way Out of This
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Charlie Kirk died for the same cause that David Horowitz was assaulted for, that Robert Spencer was banned for, and that Ben Shapiro faced bomb threats for: free speech on campus. Charles Murray could be physically assaulted at a college while the perpetrators walked away with a ‘mark’ on their permanent record, the willingness of conservatives to appear on campus was an act of courage. To do it the way that Charlie Kirk did was sheer heroism. There’s no question ... that the majority of campuses, professors and students only became more hostile to free speech since his campaign began.
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