Author Archives: Malone Vandam

America has a show culture, and in America, politics is the show of shows. But shows are always a virtual reality, a simulation of real things, that reduced to their essence are shadows of what is real. They are two … Continue reading →

I’ve been saying for a few years that the New Paltz school district is over-funded by about one-third. It has been bloated up by overly-generous contracts with teachers and administrators negotiated by people sitting on the same side of the … Continue reading →

The people who run the New Paltz school district are a self-interested lot, who never stop pleading “but it’s for the children” in their relentless efforts to maintain and increase their funding with other people’s money. I try to avoid … Continue reading →

Watched the PBS American Masters bio of Johnny Carson last night. Great bit where he says to Muhammed Ali that he had boxed about eight fights himself in the Navy and Ali said to him that he must have been … Continue reading →

Here we are in the middle of it. More: Michelle Malkin on the jobs lost to the drilling moratorium.

A note on this “separation of marriage and state” dodge that is becoming popular with libertarians and others who want to avoid confronting the “gay marriage” issue. All modern Western states have inherited the fundamental social institution of marriage, which … Continue reading →

It was clear to me as it happened that the ’08 election was a trip back to the 1930s, and not just to the American 1930s, but to the European 1930s. The Democratic Party underwent the transformation from a corrupt American … Continue reading →

The only thing new here is that they’re actually using the word Communism, probably because the work done in the public schools and universities throughout the West has been so successful at getting the stink of death, torture, deceit, and … Continue reading →

Mark Steyn gives a classic Steynian treatment to the 1/32nd Cherokee of Harvard, Elizabeth Warren. This, my friends, is a riot.

Andrew McCarthy is saying that the Obamafeds are busy airbrushing jihadist doctrine out of all their photos of Islam. Never forget that the Left loooovvvvveees violence. Loves it. Just so long as it’s good old revolutionary violence. Remember my theory … Continue reading →

She ran the diversity scam on Harvard Law School, claiming to be a Cherokee on the basis of one distant forbear possibly being of the tribe, and Harvard ate it right up.

In America the state has become the state religion and its catechism is taught in the public schools and the methods of the public schools have become unsound. The doctrine of “diversity,” for instance, which translates, “we are replacing your … Continue reading →

Direct, concise, and sober.

Well, I’d say he’s worse. Conrad Black sees FDR as a great hero, to whom he compares our President Nosferatu unfavorably. My comment from that thread: It’s only because I admire Mr. Black that I hesitate to point out that Pharaoh … Continue reading →

…endless bullshit.

Martin Bashir: An empty cubicle with a British accent. Alex Wagner: Using a magnifying glass and wearing gloves lift her upper lip with chopsticks and check for fiber optics. Andrea Mitchell: A blonde Corinthian leather sheath stretched tight over a … Continue reading →