Author: Eric Scheie

While most people know that Ernest Hemingway loved bullfights and supported Castro and the Cuban Revolution, earlier I stumbled onto an interesting biographical detail that has heretofore been kept quiet. Hemingway used to watch murders: Fontova writes about influential Cuban agents in the United States and how the mainstream media continues to suck up to the…

The reason that Republicans cannot win Latinos – or other minorities for that matter – is because Republicans counter liberal ‘Santa’ version of big government with what I call the ‘Darth-Vader’ idea of big government. So says Shikha Dalmia, senior analyst at the Reason Foundation, during  FreedomFest 2013 in Las Vegas. While her discussion focused mainly…

Most people would agree that this sucks: Most, that is. But by no means all. A couple of my neighbors have these things — high tech subsonic subwoofers or whatever they’re properly called — inside their houses. When they activate them, it causes my house to shake and the air is permeated with what seems…

Every day I see one call or another for gun control, but this one is unusual. Bill Quick commented over at Ace about the Kenya carnage (in which Muslim gunmen massacred dozens of Christians at a shopping center): We’ve simply got to have stronger gun-control laws, right now, if not yesterday – it’s the only…

What is rape? That may sound like a stupid question, and I used to think I knew what it was, but reading a story as twisted as this has left me feeling very confused: GRAND RAPIDS, MI — The attorney for former Central Catholic High School tutor Abigail Simon is looking to turn the tables on…

I guess so. Joe Biden’s art-dealer niece went on a violent rampage at her luxury Tribeca apartment Tuesday — throwing punches at police officers and flailing “frantically” as cops wrestled her into handcuffs, sources said. Caroline Biden, 26, went wild at about 9:15 a.m., “screaming at the top of her lungs” after her roommate confronted…

Brewing your own beer can be a pain in the ass. You have to buy all kinds of expensive stuff, then you have to become proficient at fine-tuning the mashing of grains, the selection and nourishing of the proper yeasts, boiling and hopping according to elaborate and almost sadistic schedules, washing bottles (if you haven’t…

Bill Quick is running his first blegathon in two years. I just donated and you can too. Bear in mind that in over ten years of writing this blog, I have never asked for money. If that gives me any moral authority, then I hereby order you to donate to Daily Pundit! If not, then I…

More here about shooter Aaron Alexis: He sought treatment with the Veterans Administration for paranoia and hearing voices in two states. Considering what I have heard about the VA, that may have been his biggest mistake. In August, Newport, R.I., police were called to a Marriott Hotel room where Alexis said he was being followed…

As everyone knows, Detroit is bankrupt. In the normal course of things, bankruptcy means setting priorities. That is also common sense; when there isn’t enough money to go around, things like basic city services ought to take priority over — over what? Well basic city services ought to at least take priority over crackdowns on…

Who is Aaron Alexis and why did he murder at least 12 people in a secure military installation at the Washington DC Navy Yard? No one seems to know a damned thing. Endlessly curious type that I am, I Googled Aaron Alexis of Fort Worth Texas, and I found a dead Facebook page, and this mugshot. (Arrest…

Yes, the government is forcing doctors to ask every patient the above, or else face penalties from Medicare and Medicaid. Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor, whether it’s the dermatologist or the cardiologist and no matter if the questions are unrelated to why you’re seeking…

Did you ever wonder why everything is dirtier? Wonder no more! I’m old enough to have a vague memory of clothes so white that they were called bright. This happened despite the absence of additives — the ridiculous varieties of sprays and bottles and packets that festoon our cabinets today and that we throw into the…

Reading stuff like this makes me glad I’m still in the electronic stone age: HOW DO I SET UP MY WI-FI NETWORK TO EXCLUDE ANDROID DEVICES? If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password. Considering how many Android devices there…

This is truly amazing: When marine biologist Roger Hanlon captured the first scene in this video he started screaming. (If you need to see it again, here’s the raw footage.) Hanlon, senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, studies camouflage in cephalopods–squid, cuttlefish and octopus. They are masters of optical illusion. These…

Think the war on drugs was a bad idea? Well, people are now engaging in illegal consensual transactions over food: It may look like a dinner party, but it’s really an underground supper club. The diners are a mix of New Yorkers and tourists. CBS 2’s undercover cameras captured one experience — eight people who…

I do not like the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The date represents more than a notorious and murderous attack on America by our enemies, but it was a turning point in U.S. history, and for the worse. The lasting legacy of 9/11 is not merely a loss of life and damage to the economy,…

Michael Barone asks a good question: If the globe isn’t warming, does that undercut EPA regulation of carbon dioxide? …scientists note that the ice cover in the Arctic Sea has increased 60% this year as compared to 2012, instead of melting away as global warming alarmists predicted. And they note — and this is more…

Baltimore’s “finest” (I guess they still call them that) arrest a young couple because they were lost and dared to ask the police for directions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H_iXI2DkDk&feature=youtu.be And in this one, a Canton, Ohio police officer repeatedly threatens to shoot and kill people he has pulled over in traffic stops: Anyone who thinks abuse of citizens…

The Little Rock, Arkansas public school district is about to require teachers to wear underwear: The school district in Little Rock, Ark. has announced plans for a dress code that will require teachers to wear underwear. Every single day. Female teachers will have to wear bras, too. An Aug. 29 letter from the Little Rock…