Glenn Greenwald sums it up
And – bonus video – Victor Davis Hanson really sums it up:
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What motivates Biden voters
I’m going to make some generalizations in this post, of course. But I know a lot of Biden voters, and I’m writing about what I’ve observed. As commenter “physicsguy” says: Every Biden voter I know is only motivated by the … Continue reading →
The lasting appeal of extreme leftism
Commenter “DNW” quotes me, and then asks some questions: [neo]:“I think that one of the basic reasons that socialism and Communism are such difficult ideas to kill is that they appeal to something universally idealistic in regular people” [DNW]: What … Continue reading →
Did the Nazis think they were “doing good”?
Commenter “huxley” raises an interesting issue: Clearly someone like Obama, an intelligent, trained, leftist activist, is aware his actions aren’t pouring oil on troubled waters but quite the opposite. However, I tend to believe, lacking the ability to look into … Continue reading →
The Big Lie that keeps on giving: Trump and the disabled reporter
Recently I was watching a video of WalkAway founder Brandon Straka being interviewed by TimPool and telling the story of why he left the Democratic Party. It’s a good video, with the hallmark political changer experience of an “aha!” moment … Continue reading →
Forever Young
Here’s commenter Bryan Lovely, speaking about the 1973 Bob Dylan song [see *NOTE below] : “Forever Young” sure has a different meaning in my fifties than when I was nineteen. Still love that song. May God bless and keep you … Continue reading →
On Trump’s illness: assuming the risk
Professor William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection has written a post about the stirring of memory and emotion that Trump’s illness has caused. For Jacobson, the event has conjured up this: John F. Kennedy was assassinated when I was four years … Continue reading →
Caring about truth, caring about liberty
Not everyone cares about either of the above. And among those who care, not everyone cares equally. To some, truth and/or liberty (usually both together) are essential. They are things worth pursuing to the utmost, and even in some cases … Continue reading →
Dostoevsky’s Demons and Orwell’s Hate
As I’ve written before, when I was in college in the late 60s I happened to take a course called Russian Intellectual History. I had always liked Russian lit, I’d been told the prof was good, and the course seemed … Continue reading →
How do you argue for the truth when at this point only moral “truth” seems to matter?
A great article that asks the question but unfortunately doesn’t provide the answer. We need an answer. Or maybe the answer is one we (or at least I) don’t want to hear – that there is no good answer because … Continue reading →
The decline
I had trouble sleeping last night. My mind kept turning over the debate – a debate I didn’t watch, but read enough about to know I was right to not watch it. And even unwatched, it disturbed my sleep. That’s … Continue reading →
Trump and thinking outside the box
To even conceive of Trump as president, and then to vote for him – particularly in 2016 – a person had to think outside the box. That wasn’t a sufficient condition, but it was a necessary one. Trump himself also … Continue reading →