Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m going to divide this post into “Hillary stuff” and everything else. Let’s go to town and have fun. Hillary stuff: Ah, Hillary’s “basket of deplorables.” It’s the gift that will keep giving and giving and giving. Scott Adams believes that the same people who feel guilty knocking her off
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It occurred to me this morning that, when I play political “word association,” the results are interesting. The game is to think of big events in America, past or present, and then associate a political party name with them, whether because the party was in power at the time or
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Happy Fourth of July. On this day, in 1776, our Founders passed The Declaration of Independence, severing ties with Great Britain and announcing the birth of a new nation. The American colonists were then in the midst of a war that would see battles in all thirteen colonies, with the
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I am very grateful to George Will for clarifying something for me. As you’ve no doubt heard, after a lifetime as a Republican, he’s leaving the GOP because it appears that the GOP will yield to the voter’s will and accept Donald Trump as the Republican party candidate for president in
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With my old-fashioned mindset, if I were to go back to college to major in “American Studies” I would expect to find the curriculum filled with classes about the Constitution, the development of political parties, the immigrant experience, the opening of the West, changes in Congress, etc. Boy, would I be
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I’ll be away all day tomorrow, first doing an activity with the kids, and then listening to this year’s best a cappella groups (although this wonderful group from Israel won’t be there). I therefore hope that this post gives you lots of interesting stuff to read on Saturday. Pro-Trump? Anti-Trump?
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This post’s title, of course, is facetious. Dennis Prager is entirely unaware of my blog (and, no, I’m not complaining about that fact). I have noticed over the years, though, that Prager will often write a post that says what I had earlier blogged about, although he always says it better
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Someone sent me a photo of a very apt bumper sticker: I think that bumper sticker goes a long way to explaining Trump’s initial and still growing success. Voters, especially those on both the Left and the Right who haven’t bought into the Democrat Party’s deep dive into hardcore socialism
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This fascinating video is not for any candidate or any party. It is a pure and perfect homage to the American dream and the American people. Captain Clay Higgins reminds us that we are and always have been a people “driven by imperfect men with perfect intent.” We’ve fought wars
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As the world seems so deranged that the earth appears to wobble on its axis, it’s increasingly hard to look at the news, let alone contemplate it deeply. However, I have two articles to recommend. If you read only one thing today this is the one to read: As of
Continue readingSometimes we’re lucky to end up with a super brilliant friend who has the gift of making complex information accessible (sort of like Thomas Sowell). My brilliant friend is Wolf Howling, who has spent the last few years delving deeply into the American Revolution and its causes. He wrote here
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In the television show MASH, if I remember correctly, the feral and fatuous Major Frank Burns defended some bit of unconscionable brown-nosing he had done by saying “It’s nice to be nice to the nice.” What a meaningless pile of drivel, right? Or maybe not…. My long-time readers know that
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While Bookworm is away at Disneyland, she’s tasked me to fill in for her. I am going to try and do so without any mention of the names Trump, Cruz, Sanders or Hildabeast (more than once). Instead this will be a historical post, but one that I hope resonates still today.
Continue readingThis post may seem a bit random, because it’s made up of two personal anecdotes, one depressing story about black decline in American, one video, and one political statement. In fact, though, all of these have a single underlying theme that is best played out in a single post —
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