Fall Briefing News Today

Tonight was American Experiments Fall Briefing, and, as Scott previewed, Tulsi Gabbard was our keynote speaker. I looked forward both to meeting and to hearing her, as she is one of the most interesting figures on our political scene. And, of course, the timing was fortuitous with Gabbard having just departed the Democratic Party. So, what did I think of her? I was blown away. Our audience was, too. Some

I noted and commented on Tulsi Gabbards announcement that she had exited the Democratic Party here (Tulsi Gabbard quits Dems) and here (The compleat Tulsi). I wondered what comes next and expressed the hope that John Hinderaker might be able to figure it out when he hosts her at the Center of the American Experiments Fall Briefing tomorrow night. I hope that she joins the Republican Party. She is a

Former Democratic Congressman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has just announced that she is leaving the Democratic Party via the tweet below. I think I agree with everything she says but the warmonger thing. Putting that to one side, however, she makes me think of Robert Frosts comment in A Considerable Speck. Frost concludes that poem: I have a mind myself and recognize Mind when I meet with it in

Tulsi Gabbards announced exit from the Democratic Party via Twitter this morning was only a small slice of the larger video below she has posted on YouTube as episode 1 of The Tulsi Gabbard Show. The whole thing makes for a thoroughgoing denunciation of Democrats and the Democrat Party line. At the same time she sketches out her agreement with key Republican and conservative positions. She is a highly persuasive

Judge Kenneth Starr has died way too young today at the age of 76. I have to borrow from Jake Bleibergs AP obituary: At age 37, he became the youngest person ever to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where Chief Justice John Roberts and justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia also had served. From 1989-93, Starr was the solicitor

An old friend texted me last week to ask why I hadnt done a post on books I read in 2021. There is no particular reason; I did such a post in 2019, but I dont think I did one last year. But it is fun to think back and try to reconstruct my reading over the last year, and some of our readers may be interested in my reactions

Tuesday evening my organization hosted Mollie Hemingway at our annual Fall Briefing, where in past years we have featured speakers ranging from Benjamin Netanyahu to Mark Steyn. The subject of the event was Mollies hot-off-the-press book, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections. Mollies book is important, I think, because it casts a sober eye on what really happened in 2020. What took place was