Week in Review: Is California Cracking Up?

Corporate profits at California-based transnational corporations such as Apple, Facebook, and Google are hitting record highs. California housing prices from La Jolla to Berkeley along the Pacific Coast can top $1,000 a square foot. It seems as if all of China is willing to pay premium prices to get their children...

August 13 2017

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Is California Cracking Up? Victor Davis Hanson Corporate profits at California-based transnational corporations such as Apple, Facebook, and Google are hitting record highs. California housing prices from La Jolla to Berkeley along the Pacific Coast can top $1,000 a square foot. It seems as if all of China is willing to pay premium prices to get their children... READ MORE McMaster and the Challenge of Sharia Supremacism Andrew C. McCarthy Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster is a great American patriot. I have not had the privilege of meeting him. Friends I trust who know him well, however, bear witness to his unsurpassed valor in... Smartphones Are Destroying My Generation Max Bloom I've picked up a new habit lately — more of a tic, perhaps. If I'm getting lunch or a coffee with a friend, I usually keep my phone in my pocket. My brother is a few years younger than me (18,... ADVERTISEMENT Another Manufactured Diversity Spat Jonah Goldberg In 2005, the Los Angeles Times hired me as a columnist. That was great news (for me). But the best part was when Barbra Streisand canceled her subscription in protest. Her real complaint... Mueller Is Squeezing Manafort Andrew C. McCarthy The Washington Examiner catches some Trump Twitter intrigue: The president's July 26 tweet grousing that acting FBI director Andrew McCabe should have been fired by Attorney General Jeff... Mueller's Raid on Manafort's Home Andrew C. McCarthy Here's the thing to bear in mind about the Washington Post's report that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had the FBI execute a search warrant against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort... The Size of Chairs Deemed a 'Microaggression' against Overweight People Katherine Timpf The size of our society's chairs is now being considered a "microaggression" against overweight people, according to a guide released by The New School, a private college in New York City. In... ADVERTISEMENT God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades Rodney Stark 'God's Battalions launches a frontal assault on the comfortable myths that scholars have popularized about the crusades. The results are startling. His greatest achievement is to make us see the crusaders on their own terms.' - Philip Jenkins, author of The Lost History of Christianity LEARN MORE A-10 Thunderbolt II Photos of the Week ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 215 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.