Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
When it comes to political chess, it doesn’t matter how good your strategy is if the other side manages to collect all the powerful, important pieces. Do you ever feel as if you’re living in a giant metaphysical chess game? Right now, I’m struggling to find patterns and connections in America
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2018 is rife with possibility, so the Watcher’s Council took a crack at New Year’s predictions. In this post, I offer both pessimistic and optimistic views. As the old year dies away, and the New Year comes in with a bang, at WOW! Magazine, the Watcher’s Council’s site, a few
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Today’s Left accords great intellectual respect to Democrat actors but I can remember a time when the Left openly called at least one actor (Reagan) stupid. Those of us alive during the Reagan era, whether when he was California governor or United States president, remember that a consistent insult that
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Fifty years of school histories have lied about Ulysses S. Grant, who was a gifted man and consequential president. Not being a career politician helped. I’m reading Ron Chernow’s Grant. As I only started the book this morning, and have been reading in tiny bits and bytes, I’m only 3%
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The sex scandals we read about are all different and require different responses, ranging from letting the voters speak to criminal prosecution. Except for hysterical stories about President Trump drinking water or feeding fish the wrong way, it seems as if the news is entirely taken over with breaking sex
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Every day lately brings some interesting news. This post sums up a few of the top stories, along with my opinions about why they matter. I’m watching, fascinated, as events unfold in Saudi Arabia. I suspect Trump has a hand in it and I certainly hope the Crown Prince’s modernization push goes
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A former police officer’s tale about the 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco shows a disturbing pattern when you have a Leftist police chief or mayor. I spoke yesterday with a friend, a former San Francisco police officer, who told me something very interesting about the White Night riots
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I’ve been on a weekend trip and treated myself to a vacation from politics. The news has grown so grossly hysterical and dishonest that I no longer believe most of what I read anymore. It’s also become stupidly petty, with Trump castigated for failing properly to atone for the sins
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A delectable illustrated edition tracking today’s insanity. This particular edition is dedicated to Caped Crusader, may he rest in peace.
Continue readingThis is one of Bill Whittle’s best efforts, incisive as it is humorous. He makes the interesting point that the MSM’s biased suppression of relevant news is, itself, a form of fake news. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jh8qDR9Zm4&w=560&h=315]
Continue readingDahlia Lithwick, Slate’s correspondent for the courts and law, is apoplectic that the right did not consider Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland (see Ms. BWR’s analysis here) for the Supreme Court, and now will never do so. She wrote about this recently in Republicans Stole the Supreme Court. Ms. Lithwick cites
Continue readingQuestion 1: Assuming that the first 100 days are not taken up entirely with architectural redesigns of the new Trump Palace, what five things would you like to see our new President Donald and his new administration address? My own list would be: Nomination for the Supreme Court (preferably
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