The phrase in this post’s title comes from Margaret Thatcher: “Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.” [Often quoted as ‘the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of … Continue reading →
All it takes is to become Trump’s enemy, and the MSM will give you the sympathetic star treatment. From Ace, a post entitled: “As Predictable As the Setting Sun: After Conspiracy Theorist and Lunatic Marjorie Taylor Greene Turns on Trump, … Continue reading →
Solzhenitsyn famously said: “live not by lies.” How many politicians follow that maxim? Vanishingly few. And I wouldn’t expect them to; politics is a dirty, compromised business. And yet, not all lies are created equal. Some lies are minor: “I … Continue reading →
Melanie Phillips is not pleased: Bad as all this is, the really shocking thing has been the refusal by certain mainstream conservatives to denounce [growing anti-Semitism on the right] and shut it down, appearing instead to nod along to it. … Continue reading →
Switching it up: Originally conceived by George Orwell as a satirical allegory for the Russian Revolution and the subsequent struggles of the USSR under the rule of Joseph Stalin, Animal Farm’s political ire is redirected in this lively CG-animated adaptation … Continue reading →
That’s the headline of this piece by Matt Margolis at PJ Media. My first thought on reading the title was: well, join the club. If that’s her goal, she’s got plenty of company on the right – or the former … Continue reading →
“Affordability” is the word du jour, fastened on by the left and considered by them to be a winning approach in the wake of Mamdani’s victory. To the right, that’s puzzling, because it seems quite clear that the Biden administration … Continue reading →
I’ve read a wide variety of analyses of the results, from “it’s really a plus-ten-point GOP district, so this is exactly as expected” to “the Republican should have done a lot better and this is a wake-up call.” Roger L. … Continue reading →
The Democrats seem to think that moving ever leftward would be a good thing, at least in deep blue areas. Further evidence of this is that a Democratic Socialist, Janeese Lewis George, is running for mayor in Washington DC. Her … Continue reading →
There was an interesting discussion between commenters “om” and “Bauxite” yesterday about the dismissal of the Comey and James cases. It went like this – first, Bauxite: You’d think that a man whose bacon was saved in Florida because the … Continue reading →
For many years I’ve made it a practice to read a lot of comments all over the blogosphere and in the MSM. I’ve noticed in recent years a growth in comments from – for want of a better word – … Continue reading →
I guess the Democrats were waiting for last Tuesday’s election. They thought the shutdown would help them win – especially in Virginia, home of the federal worker, and that they could successfully blame it on the GOP. Now they can … Continue reading →