Tag: Days

’15 Days to Slow the Spread’ – HotAir

        Four years ago, government officials told us, “Stay home!” We have “15 days to slow the spread.”         Days turned into months and then years, while officials chipped away at our freedoms.         I have long been wary of politicians, but even I was surprised […]

DC Closes Rental Assistance Program in Days – HotAir

Unless you live in Washington, DC, you may never heard of ERAP. That’s the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, providing $43 million annually to subsidize the rent payments of residents. It’s a popular program, particularly given the sky-high cost of rent in the capital and the high unemployment rates. But its popularity is likely the biggest […]

Oh for the days when competence counted for everything

I AM old enough to remember the days when the older folk, many of them conservative, took pity on the snowflake students who were ‘wasting their time with wimmin studies and gender studies’ in between doing Pilates and dying their hair blue. These students, with their demands for safe spaces, would soon enter the ‘real […]

Freed Israeli Hostage Describes 50 Days in Captivity – HotAir

I’ve covered a couple of these stories in the past few weeks. Chen Goldstein-Almog became a hostage after Hamas murdered her husband and eldest daughter in front of her. She and her surviving children were not physically harmed but she did meet with other hostages including women who’d been sexually abused. Earlier this week I […]

The Twelve Days of Christmas ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Don’t mistake me for a spoil-sport: on the contrary, I should like to revive all the good old customs genuinely associated with the joyous season of Christmas. In city after city, I have seen Christmas parades on Thanksgiving Day! One might think that we were celebrating the birth of Mammon, rather than that of Jesus, […]