Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The latest polls show Trump up again and Cruz down. I don’t care. As we’ve discovered in the last few elections, polls no longer have much value today. Sure, some prove to be right at the end of the day, but that seems to be due more to random luck
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One of the things about a hard-fought primary is that it can be seen as a preview of coming attractions. You can really get the measure of a person when you watch that person vying for the nomination, and you can start thinking about what kind of candidate that person
Continue readingLet me say up front that this column is not an embodiment of Godwin’s law, since I won’t say a thing here about Trump’s policy positions. I’m writing only because something Thomas Sowell wrote reminded me of an interesting historical fact that few people know about the elections that led
Continue readingAm I the only one who finds this sentence incredibly disturbing? The sentence comes from an article about Gloria Vanderbilt’s life and, more specifically, her sex life, which is the subject of a new documentary. The person behind the documentary is Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt’s son, and noted gay TV personality
Continue readingIf there were a speed-blogging competition, my goal would be to win it with this round-up post. I’d meant to blog at length and at leisure today, but life caught up, including a glitch with the bank, which lost the signatures that would enable me to liquidate my mother’s trust.
Continue readingTed pulled it off. Feel free to comment here about your reaction to that victory. I will edit comments that are impolite.
Continue readingBack in 2008, I thought to myself “The new internet media, when combined with existing conservative talk shows and Fox news, will be what finally breaks through the old media’s stranglehold on information in America. Old media is — thank God — dying.” Old media got Barack Obama elected president. Back
Continue readingBush didn’t, Obama wouldn’t, but the next president should: Call into the Oval Office the leaders of Muslim communities throughout America to say, “Because of the First Amendment, the fact that you and the people in your community practice Islam is irrelevant to us in America. Your faith is your
Continue readingWolf Howling gave me permission to re-print in its entirety his splendid, insightful, intelligent, informed, far-reaching, and tightly-written rant about everything that’s wrong with the American political system as we head into the 2016 election. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you: Trump, Clinton, The American Republic & The Ides Of March
Continue readingI was struggling to explain to a Bernie supporter why his “compassionate” politics will not stop the risks to Americans from further socializing and therefore growing American government. In military terminology, a force multiplier is a single capability that, when added to an enterprise, dramatically increases the effect. The problem with
Continue readingWith impeccable timing, the server went down last night and my blog vanished. My blog is restored (as you can see), so I thought that I’d do an open thread about last night’s Republican debate. I managed to watch 2/3 of it, and think that Ace sums up my feelings
Continue readingI’ve been collecting articles for days, so I’ll try to share them with you as efficiently as possible in a single post. My goal — no more than two sentences per recommended article. Ted Cruz is a decent human being. Contrary to Rubio, Trump, and Ted’s former college roommate (who
Continue readingThis may be the best pro-Ted Cruz campaign commercial ever made. Even if I hadn’t been a Ted Cruz supporter before, after having seen this video I, as a conservative, could only vote for Cruz: I especially love Reich’s horror that Cruz believes the Second Amendment gives Americans the right
Continue readingThere is no sense of normalcy in the world for me when a committed old communist and a reality TV star are the leading contenders in America’s upcoming presidential election. My round-up addresses some of the craziness, as well as lots of other stuff. Debunking Ted Cruz myths. Like me,
Continue readingBecause my ego is invested in my intelligence (as opposed to my looks or athletic abilities), one of my least favorite feelings is realizing I was wrong about something, especially something that I made a big noise about at the time. The one thing that cuts off that shame cycle is knowing that,
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