Simon Koeppel

Hawkish on crime & foreign affairs; mawkish on animals.

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@Maria4Dist6 @NYCCFB @NYSCOELIG Thank you, Maria. I will indeed vote no. Unfortunately, the proposals are worded so as to sound perfectly reasonable, and I suspect most people will vote yes (as I was originally going to do).

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@historyinmemes The notion of honoring poor Henrietta Lacks, as if she herself did something brilliant or brave, is truly pathetic. There's clearly a desperate need for black heroes and heroines, even invented ones.

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@HMDatMI As usual, Heather is a voice of sanity. And they are rare.

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@jpodhoretz Yikes! Looks horrible! And the "Lion-Witch-Wardrobe" we got in 2005 (with Tilda Swinton as the witch) was nearly perfect.

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@Jerusalem_Post @keshet_neev I can't think of a more clear-cut moral issue than eliminating the haredim's disgraceful exemption from the military.

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@sylvie_longeron A longtime favorite photo. Wonderfully spooky.

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@El_King888 @MizusPuddle Thank you. About time somebody brought that up!

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@RichardGrenell The Wall Street Journal has become the New York Times Lite.

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@BostonAreaGuy @elonmusk @mayemusk Damn right! I can't get that episode of some Morgan Freeman nature series out of my mind -- the global hit we took from that asteroid strike 66 million years ago, that killed off the dinosaurs. Unlikely, yes, but very scary.

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@the_culturist_ And -- appropriately -- Grimshaw has been featured, of course, on many, many book covers: Turn of the Screw, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Moonstone, Jekyll and Hyde, etc. etc.

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@AcPotango @DissidentRight Being Derb, he should have shared some math.

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@jpodhoretz Breakdown.

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@NikosMohammadi How pathetic!

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@jjcharlesworth_ I hope it really IS a celebration, and not the condescending treatment (it's "dated," etc.) that the book has often received in recent years.

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@jpodhoretz As a Commentary subscriber and listener, I read Sailer with as much respect and pleasure as I read you.

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@visegrad24 I seem to recall that her parents went on some kind of stomach-turning "forgiveness tour" to South Africa years after her murder.

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@wajacobson @megynkelly You definitely have Halperin's number. Must admit that, last year, I found his praise and apparent admiration for Zohran Mamdani's "energy" and "exciting political skills," blah blah blah, pretty damned nauseating.

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@Steve_Sailer But you wrote "2020" for 2000.

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@CivitasOutlook @MyronMagnet Very moving piece.

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@bethanyshondark The Sundowners(1960):"You've got your whole life to live. We're halfway through ours, yr Dad and me.There are other people waiting for you but there's no one waitin' for us except each other.Don't ever ask me to choose between you and your Dad,because I'll choose him every time."