Intrepid “Cornhead” (aka Dave Begley) reports on Tom Steyer’s visit to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Excerpt: By all accounts Tom Steyer is a billionaire. He’s also running for President. He has no chance of winning. So why is he running? Why … Continue reading →
Democrats and the MSM seem completely unconcerned with the risks inherent in divulging a president’s – any president’s – phone calls with foreign leaders. Perhaps they believe that because they dominate the agencies doing the leaking, it will never happen … Continue reading →
What a difference a few years makes. The WSJ reports that back in January of 2017, a short time before Trump’s inauguration, Politico wrote an article that stated: A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met … Continue reading →
This. And I agree with this: Why, then, was [the supposed racial incident in the school at which Karen Pence worked] originally reported with such blind acceptance and an utter absence of critical thinking? Because, similar to the Jussie Smollett … Continue reading →
Anyone who’s read this blog for a while is well aware of how much I admire both the poetry and the thought of Robert Frost. For example, there’s this [in the excerpt that follows, Frost uses “justice” in the traditional … Continue reading →
I thought perhaps it might be nice to look at something besides Trump and impeachment and Ukraine today. And so as a non-refreshing palate cleanser we have this: In 2014 California passed Proposition 47, which made theft of property valued … Continue reading →
It’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. A Happy New Year to all who celebrate the holiday! Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar (a cleaned-out ram’s horn), as prescribed in the Torah, following the prescription of the Hebrew Bible … Continue reading →
Nixon won 49 states and he was impeached. https://t.co/EyPHiQvKi9 — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) September 29, 2019 If you’re wondering who Jake Sherman is and why I’m picking on him: Jake Sherman is a senior writer for POLITICO and co-author of … Continue reading →
New song lyrics by Gerard Vanderleun. It helps to know the original. Actually, I think the Age of Hysteria may have dawned quite some time ago. But that’s a minor quibble. Also, let me add that I think it’s cold … Continue reading →
…for a beautiful weekend, here’s a photo I took the other day at the ocean:
Continue reading →Another great article by Gary Saul Morson has been published in New Criterion. He’s the author who wrote a piece about Solzhenitsyn that I discussed previously here. This time Morson is writing about Lenin – or rather, about the thought … Continue reading →
Right after the 2016 election, I read some articles describing people in government who had decided to stay put and secretly sabotage Trump. These articles weren’t exposes written by the right; they were proud confessions from the left, part of … Continue reading →