Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The Progressive meltdown over Trump’s Electoral College victory continues unabated and has gone from the merely undemocratic practice of street violence and personal abuse to the seriously, dangerously undemocratic practice of seeking to undermine the legitimacy of an election. To the Progressive defense that conservatives were just as bad in 2008 or
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A genuinely curious Progressive asked me to address this breathless article claiming that Russia actively interfered with the American election: In assessing Donald Trump’s presidential victory, Americans continue to look away from this election’s most alarming story: the successful effort by a hostile foreign power to manipulate public opinion before
Continue readingDave Chappelle, Chris Rock and SNL take the mickey out of white progressives for their reaction to the 2016 election. Enjoy.
Continue readingVirtually every poll got it wrong. Trump won — and won convincingly. That was something I suspected (hoped against hope, really) might happen given the enthusiasm gap. What I did not expect were all of the down ballot victories. For the first time since 1928, Republicans will control all three
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I’m still in my self-imposed news blackout. That does not mean that I do not care what’s going on. For those who have not yet cast their vote, here are a few things you might want to think about as you decide upon your chosen presidential candidate: Which candidate is
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This is it: the countdown to learning whether Obama will have been successful in fundamentally changing America or whether we can still resurrect something from the wreckage. This is an umbrella post with a variety of articles that touch upon the election, America’s culture wars, politics generally, the Middle East,
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Each of the linked articles in this post has something interesting to say about the upcoming election. If you’re interested in what’s going on, you could do worse than spending some time reading them or just glancing through them. My take: At worst, Trump is not a very nice person
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You know what the most interesting thing about the #Dickileaks revelation is? The fact that social media has effectively managed to stifle it. Although the topics have changed in both Facebook and Twitter since I started looking at them last Friday, the one thing that hasn’t changed is that both sites’
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When it comes to Progressives, even if they’ve been forced to back down on all other issues, they will take their stand and die on the hill of unlimited, legal abortion. As Nancy Pelosi said of late-term abortions — the ones done on a viable, sentient fetus — the fact
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This purports to be an AP story, yet I don’t see it gaining traction. If true, though, that the Amish are handing Pennsylvania to Trump, it’s a “yuge” story: History was made today in Columbus, Ohio when more than 3 million Amish poured into the city to see the American
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Pat Condell places American politics in the larger context of European versus American style governance. As he says, Obama has already pushed America very close to the European model, whether one looks at economic issues, social issues, national security issues, or immigration policy. Condell’s clarity is enormously helpful in understanding what I’ve
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I’m serious. I think this may really be the best campaign video I’ve ever seen:
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Charles Krauthammer wrote a magnificent indictment of Hillary Clinton, only to finish up by saying, “I hate Trump too, so I’m sitting this one out.” What Dr. Krauthammer seems to have missed is that, in a world of binary choices, there is no sitting things out. If you don’t put
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The American media suddenly discovers antisemitism in America. You know it’s not a coincidence when several mainstream media outlets that every non-conservative Jew reads suddenly announce that Donald Trump’s supporters are crazed antisemites. These are, of course, the same media outlets that have been silent for years about the antisemitism at
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I confess: I once again skipped watching the debate. It’s not going to change my vote and I hate listening to either of the candidates speak. Instead, I went out with a bunch of friends and we had an excellent and cheerful time. I’m trying to remember that I am
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