More on Steve Bannon
I confess that I haven’t had time to read this presentation from 2014 by Steve Bannon, which was sent me by a reader. But I thought it might be good to mention it, since it at least gives us some … Continue reading →
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So, why did Trump have a meeting with the press and then excoriate them?
By now you probably have read the stories about how Trump called a meeting with the press, only to give them a dressing down. If you don’t care much—well, the press certainly does. Just as an example, see this from … Continue reading →
About that “Hamilton” thing
I’m not so very interested in an incident that seems to be absorbing people so heavily this days, in which an actor in the Broadway show “Hamilton” made a condescending speech from the stage around curtain call time suggesting that … Continue reading →
The left is at war with science, not the right
An interesting premise: I’ve read the Left’s indictments, including Chris Mooney’s bestseller, The Republican War on Science. I finished it with the same question about this war that I had at the outset: Where are the casualties? Where are the … Continue reading →
Did the national polls get it so very wrong?
Yes, polls. Again. Why am I still talking about them? Well, I see a lot of statements on the subject, here and elsewhere, that are just plain incorrect. That’s not new, either; it’s been going on as long as I … Continue reading →
The still point of the turning world
I’d never heard of ballet dancer Zenaida Yanowsky before. But I idly clicked on a video while procrastinating about something-or-other, and what I saw puzzled me. It was the “Black Swan” pas de deux, and I didn’t love her dancing. … Continue reading →
Rothbard and the alt-right
[NOTE: This is a post in which I continue to explore the more extremist wing of the alt-right, because I think it bears watching and comprehending. That doesn’t mean I think it’s an enormous group. Nor do I think Donald … Continue reading →
Trump Tower security challenge
I call the president-elect’s Trump Tower residence the Gold House. And it’s quite the security challenge: Other presidents have used retreats ”” the compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, or the ranch in Crawford, Texas, for the Bushes ”” but they were … Continue reading →
A postmortem on the polls
Here’s an interesting article by Michael Barone that tries to say why the pollsters got it wrong. First of all, I’d like to add that they didn’t get it quite as wrong as some people think. Many of the polls … Continue reading →
A pas de deux
Commenter “IGotBupkis” recommended the following “dance” video, and I was flabbergasted and charmed when I saw it, because this is a genre of pas de deux that had somehow heretofore escaped my notice: It turns out there’s an entire world … Continue reading →
The National Republican Congressional Committee has an endorsement to make
The National Republican Congressional Committee is a group of GOP members of the House who are dedicated to increasing the number of Republicans in that body. Even though the House actually lost six GOP members, that was considerably less than … Continue reading →
Let’s take a local look: the state legislatures
One of the most interesting things this election cycle is something other than Donald Trump. Yes, you heard me—there is actually something other than Donald Trump in politics. I’ve been saying for quite some time that, whatever happened with the … Continue reading →