Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Holidays: Toast to Edgar Allan Poe Major Events: John Wilkes, ACLU, Iranian Hostage Crisis Notable Events: Faust, Il Trovatore, Thomas Edison, League of Nations, You Nazty Spy!, I Love Lucy, Klaus Barbie, Born: James Watt, Robert E. Lee, Lysander Spooner, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cezanne, Ish Kabibble, Bernard Dunstan, Janis
Continue readingA look at some of the history and holidays on December 8 Holidays & Observances on December 8 The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is held on this day to celebrate the belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary — i.e., that from the moment of her birth,
Continue readingA look at some of the history and holidays on November 19 Holidays & Observances on November 19 Feast of St. Raphael Kalinowski – Polish by birth, Kalinowski started his adult life in the mid-19th century as a military officer in the Russian Imperial Army. He eventually resigned and joined
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Travis Allen, an intelligent, truly conservative happy warrior has what it takes to put a Republican in the California governor’s office. I attended a luncheon today at which Travis Allen spoke. He is running for California governor. I’ve been to many luncheons over the years at which Republican men and
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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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The proggies are trying hard to hide the fact that Obama’s economy was pathetic and that Trumps’ economy is already setting records that win elections. Always nice to see Ron, isn’t it? That clip is from 1980, when Ronald Reagan ran on a promise to cure President Carter’s “economic malaise.” I
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A friend told me something very significant: This election is not between leftist and conservative or Democrat and Republican. It is, instead, an election pitting the globalists against the populists (or patriots, if you prefer). On the one hand, the Hillary hand, you have people: who don’t care that jobs
Continue readingVictor Davis Hanson says that conservatives who look askance at a Trump candidacy needn’t get their knickers in a twist, because he’s no worse than anyone else in our political class, going all the way back to the 1960s. Hanson had the examples (lots of them) to prove it. When it
Continue readingEveryone who listens to Ronald Reagan’s “A Time For Choosing” is struck by another “time” aspect: The speech is timeless. Sure, details have changed here and there (mostly the details with dollar signs in front of them), but already on October 27, 1964, Reagan clearly delineated the difference between a
Continue readingAfter a day of wholesome domesticity, what could be better than a little political commentary? As was the case yesterday, I want to begin with a comment about a Facebook poster a liberal friend put up. This one has to do with complaints about the Obama administration’s anything-but-rapid response to Ebola,
Continue readingThe entrenched DC Republican establishment is obsessed with “electability” – good and Constitutional governance be damned. They insist that the only road to electoral victory is through big government glad-handing. Reagan 180: Spending And Bureacracy It’s what I call “DC solutionism,” an irrational belief that all real answers and solutions
Continue readingThe proven principle of peace through strength has no clock of eligibility. Nor is it a theory. It is, as stated, a proven principle that knows no decade nor continent as its home. Peace is derived through strength precisely because weakness inspires aggression. Critics tend to muddy the waters by
Continue reading[UPDATE: Because I have some of the smartest readers in the world (and yes, maybe I’m a little biased), may I strongly recommend that you read not just my post, but their comments, which raise objections and suggestions.] Last night, I got to hear Trevor Loudon, the New Zealander who
Continue readingI’ve frequently made a mea culpa for failing to appreciate Reagan when he was president. I was too steeped in my Democrat upbringing (Democrat household, Democrat community, Democrat city, Democrat university) to see what was right before me. I hope, though, that in my small way I’ve made up for
Continue readingSomeone gave us tickets to see a play called Black Watch, about the famed Scottish regiment in the British Army. The play premiered in 2006 in Edinburgh, at the height of anti-War fervor. It tells the story of a regiment that goes back 300 years, that bore the brunt of
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