Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I won’t lie: I’m not happy with Trump’s victory. I don’t believe Trump is a true conservative; I think he’s a Trumpista, who heads the cult of himself. To that end, I’m concerned that he’ll say or do whatever it takes to capture the national zeitgeist to his advantage. The
Continue readingAll of the posts I’ll link to pre-date today’s New Hampshire primary. This is a NH primary-free zone. You might find it refreshing. And now, to the good stuff: Trump could destroy conservativism in America for decades. I think Charles Krauthammer hits the ball out of the park on this
Continue readingWhoever did the research to find this clip found a humdinger indeed. In it, Jimmy Carter says that, if he had to pick a Republican candidate, he’d go for Trump, because he has no fixed principles and is malleable, unlike Ted Cruz, who is a staunch conservative, and cannot be
Continue readingI’ve made no secret over the past few months about the fact that I support Ted Cruz, and hope very much that he will be the Republican nominee. His intelligence, his political courage, his quite unexpected ability to speak to ordinary people in accessible ways about complex matters, his grasp
Continue readingI watched the first 40 minutes and then stopped. My problem was the moderators, who I thought were dreadful. (Since I read my news and don’t watch it, I approached them with an open mind, since I had no idea what shtick each brought to the table.) I wanted to
Continue readingThe poster below isn’t just a good poster that makes an excellent point about the need to free the American economy from taxes and crony capitalism. What makes it really great is that a young relative of mine is the one who created it. I am so very lucky with my
Continue readingI think Trump is very clever for getting as much airtime about not showing up at a debate as he would if he did show up at the debate — all without the risk of saying something at the debate that might backfire. Rather than add to that airtime, the only
Continue readingIt wasn’t just women who were attacked on New Year’s Eve in Cologne. When I first read about the hundreds of sexual attacks that Muslim immigrants perpetrated against women in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve, I only vaguely recorded the fact that the Muslims were also setting off fireworks.
Continue readingIn it’s purest form, there’s nothing too terribly wrong with eminent domain. It says that the government may take property to benefit the public at large provided that it compensates the property owner for the taking. In America, the government’s obligation to pay for the land it takes for public
Continue readingRepublican voters have a very stark choice facing them: Do they vote for the candidate who promises to resurrect American greatness through the power of his will, or do they vote for the candidate who promises to resurrect American greatness by recognizing the Constitution’s centrality in American governance? Maybe I’m being foolishly
Continue readingJonah Goldberg nails why I continue to prefer Ted Cruz to Donald Trump, despite the fact that Donald Trump is playing the media beautifully and sounding the right notes on his horn: While Ted Cruz may be slippery on this issue or that — like most politicians — he is
Continue readingWhat do you think when you think of California values? Probably you first think of Hollywood: anti-gun, never mind all the gun play in movies; hysterically politically correct, never mind the blacks who never make it to the academies; wedded to climate change, as long as they can keep their mansions, their
Continue readingUnusually for me, I had time to watch some of the debate and I had access to a television. (Yes, I can watch debates on my computer monitor, but I do my best debate watching stretched out on the couch staring at the big screen.) I lasted all the way through to
Continue readingYesterday, I got around to reading Michael Crowley’s ‘We Caved’ : What happened when Barack Obama’s idealistic rhetoric collided with the cold realities of war and dictatorship in the Middle East and beyond. I recommend it. It’s a depressing look at what happens when the Progressive Ivory Tower meets the
Continue readingI’ve been open about my contempt for open primaries since they first appeared in California: Once the votes are counted, the two candidates who got the most votes go on to the November ballot. Everyone else vanishes from the scene. In states that have a heavy party majority in one direction
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