I certainly didn’t know it. But they are; they only date to the last decades of the 1800s: All elections for most of America’s history were organized to be non-secret. They were public events with individual voting occurring in plain … Continue reading →
Its own, and that of its audience. If your audience doesn’t know history you can get away with saying anything. People know that the word “Nazi” denotes something bad, but what percentage of the population today has any deeper knowledge … Continue reading →
Blogger and commenter David Foster writes: I’ve been remembering something written by the British general Edward Spears, describing his feelings in the aftermath of Munich: “Like most people, I have had my private sorrows, but there is no loss that … Continue reading →
…newspeople weren’t calling either Bush or Gore the “president-elect” while the conflict was ongoing in the court system. Of course, that was then, this is now. In 2000 the media had not yet gone quite so far over into utter, … Continue reading →
I am continually and deeply impressed by the foresight and wisdom of the Founders, in particular James Madison. I doubt students learn much about him anymore, and I doubt that his words would strike home with many of them even … Continue reading →
Commenter “Cornhead” writes” For the life of me I don’t understand why America in 2020 – and after the Florida 2000 disaster – can tolerate all of this clear election fraud. Wasn’t a bunch of federal money spent after 2000? … Continue reading →
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it: This year’s study showed increased favorability of the term ‘socialism’ (49%) among Gen Z compared to 2019 (40%). Opinions of capitalism declined slightly from 2019 to 2020 among all … Continue reading →
Here’s the trailer for the documentary “The Plot Against the President” about Russiagate: And here’s the movie’s Amazon page. It seems that you can get it free if you’re a Prime member, if I read that right. I watched the … Continue reading →
Here’s a good article on the subject of polls and how difficult it is to do them or to analyze what they mean. I have stopped even trying. And yet I still read articles on the subject, some giving hope, … Continue reading →
And – bonus video – Victor Davis Hanson really sums it up:
Continue reading →COVID news has become so politicized that it’s even harder than usual to sort out the wheat from the chaff. But I’ll try. The latest news is that the estimate of potential life lost from COVID in the US so … Continue reading →
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 →