Bill Maher’s latest bit: Communism, the DSA, and the Democrats
02 Aug 2026 1 Comment
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Bill Maher’s back after his summer vacation, and his latest “new rule” bit starts in with some hard criticism of the “far far Left”—the progressives—for being close to Communists, and the Democratic Socialists of America for using Communist jargon. I’ve talked before about the DSA’s platform, which includes abolishing the Senate and ditching the President…
Bill Maher’s latest bit: Communism, the DSA, and the Democrats
Red Dwarf – An excellent suggestion, sir, with just two minor drawbacks
22 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
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Bill Maher on Graham Platner
15 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
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I wondered what Bill Maher thought about the sketchy Graham Platner and his run as a Democrat for the Senate seat from Maine. Well, see the video below. Maher realizes that Platner is a “broken person,” but we’re “always electing our reflection in the mirror.” And he thinks that Dems should still vote for Platner…
Bill Maher on Graham Platner
The Pre-Trek Years: Gene Roddenberry’s Career from Bomber Pilot to LAPD Speechwriter
15 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
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Before he built the final frontier, Gene Roddenberry lived a life that read like an adventure novel. Long before he was a Hollywood showrunner preaching a utopian future of interstellar cooperation, Roddenberry was a decorated combat pilot, an international airline captain, and a street-hardened Los Angeles police officer. These early chapters of his career did […]
The Pre-Trek Years: Gene Roddenberry’s Career from Bomber Pilot to LAPD Speechwriter
Hayekian Literary Criticism
09 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
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In economics, Marx is relegated to the history of thought as his ideas were an economic dead end and a political disaster. Yet Marx-influenced literary criticism is a dominant mode of analysis in nearly every English department in the country. It’s not that the English professors are all Marxists, it’s that even the non-Marxists reach…
Hayekian Literary Criticism
New Rule from Bill Maher: Let’s be Frank
31 May 2026 1 Comment
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Here’s the latest opinion/comedy bit from Friday’s Real Time show with Bill Maher, with the episode called “Let’s be frank.” Maher starts out by citing the recent Democratic Party Autopsy (here) about why the party lost the Presidency and Congress in 2024. But he then faults both parties for having politicians in office who won’t…
New Rule from Bill Maher: Let’s be Frank
Put it into Plain English! | Yes, Minister | BBC Comedy Greats
22 May 2026 Leave a comment
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Bill Maher’s new rule: “No Jews, no news”
19 May 2026 Leave a comment
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Bill Maher continues his defense of Israel on the country’s birthday by pointing out the pervasive Israel-dissing of the mainstream media, adding that there is one thing that the American Left and Right agree on: Israel is the “monster country of all time” (he includes the NYT in this category). He also calls out Democrats,…
Bill Maher’s new rule: “No Jews, no news”
Bill Maher’s newest rule: young people and political violence
13 May 2026 Leave a comment
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This week Bill Maher’s comedy-and-news bit is about the “Assassination Generation,” referring to all the young men who kill or commit arson for ideological reasons. As we know, a big proportion of young people (about 40%) think that political violence is sometimes warranted. As you might expect, Maher deplores this behavior and the ideas behind…
Bill Maher’s newest rule: young people and political violence
The Paramount Question Isn’t Paramount
17 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
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Big mergers make headlines. They don’t always make antitrust problems. In a previous commentary, I explored the antitrust implications of a potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). That uncertainty is now resolved. On Feb. 27, Paramount Skydance Corp. agreed to acquire WBD for roughly $110 billion in enterprise value—$31 per share, all cash. The…
The Paramount Question Isn’t Paramount
Bill Maher’s New Rule: When bad people do good things
13 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
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There’s no real “rule” here, but simply Maher’s assertion—one that many people won’t sccept in the Time of Demonization—that people can do both good and bad things (it’s better to say that then brand someone as good or evil, though of course people can lean toward one side or another). This monologue was prompted, of…
Bill Maher’s New Rule: When bad people do good things
Bill Maher’s New Rule: Oscars so wrong
19 Mar 2026 1 Comment
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Well, the Oscars have been awarded, and you can see the winners here. In this latest news-and-comedy bit from “Real Time,” Bill Maher argues that the Oscars have finally succeeded, through both social pressure, appeals to reason, and changes in Academy rules, in making their awards so diverse that one can no longer argue that…
Bill Maher’s New Rule: Oscars so wrong
Bill Maher’s latest New Rule: “Trump Estrangement Syndrome”
08 Mar 2026 Leave a comment
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Bill Maher’s latest news-and-comedy shtick on “Real Time” deals once again with the flak he got for having dinner with President Trump. Remember? Despite Maher constantly criticizing the President’s policies durin gthe dinner, he also reported that he found Trump affable and friendly. That was enough for liberals to come down on Maher like a…
Bill Maher’s latest New Rule: “Trump Estrangement Syndrome”
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