@davidharsanyi@brhodes and deeply stupid: nothing Mamdani says persuades those not already committed to these blood libels; he incites the latter to greater extremism.
@politicalmath@RealJamesWoods Good John J. Miller (@heymiller) in the @WSJ about how we need to understand The Odyssey isn't a book in the way we think of books. Made me more interested in seeing the movie.
@mikenelson586 It was always ironic (probably not intended by Puzzo) to me that a Marine (character) decorated for fighting in the Pacific was considered by his brother to not have fought close enough to see splatter from a head wound.
@beach49r Aren't members of Congress required to take the oath to support and defend the Constitution? Shouldn't candidates for an office requiring the oath take the oath when they file for election?
@ratlpolicy It takes courage to face mistakes and learn from them. Cowards and cultures embracing antisemitic conspiracy theories to deny accountability for losing condemn themselves to perpetual failure.
@DrewPavlou Hard to fully appreciate in sweltering DC July weather, but the Korean War memorial is great. Probably better in January after it's snowed.
@SouthernKeeks I think people who think America = The Federal Government feel patriotic only when their "side" is in office. The rest of us think of America differently. We're patriotic regardless of who leads the federal government (and I include Congress).
Happy Semiquincentennial!
@MCCCANM Some will justify his action as civil disobedience for which he publicly accepts sanctions. But the military does not get to commit *civil* disobedience: it is a violation of a fundamental and sacred oath.
Exactly. I take exception to the statement that [whoever is president] "runs" the country. That's about the most counter-Constitution assertion I can imagine. The president is empowered to lead the executive branch, one piece of one echelon of government in American. Americans run American.