The founder of the #WalkAway movement, Brandon Straka, appeared last night on the Mark Levin show. His interview has been posted on YouTube, and a fascinating interview it is. The entire interview is well worth watching, but the part that … Continue reading →
This is sad news: Pollster and political analyst Pat Caddell died from a stroke on Saturday at the age of 68. I don’t watch cable news very often, but I’ve certainly watched it enough to be familiar with Pat Cadell. … Continue reading →
Here’s a sad article by a New Yorker named Lester Berg who’s just beginning to discover that any sort of disagreement on political matters can turn certain old friends against him. It wasn’t that way back when Obama was president, … Continue reading →
One aftermath of the Kavanaugh hearings is that quite a few NeverTrumpers on the GOP side have decided Trump’s not so bad after all, and have said so in print. Public declarations of having changed one’s mind about something important … Continue reading →
I was going to put up a post about Serena Williams’ meltdown at the US Open, and the reaction to it. But I think I’ll wait till tomorrow, because I want to stick to the topic of 9/11 and its … Continue reading →
I’ve now watched a great many #WalkAway videos at YouTube. If you’re not familiar with #WalkAway, it’s a movement of people attesting to their decision to walk away from the Democratic Party and/or voting consistently liberal. That doesn’t necessarily make … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a slightly-edited repeat of a previous post.] I saw that film on TV maybe 30 times when I was a child. Loved it, and in particular loved the idea that James Cagney—whom I already knew as a … Continue reading →
You may have heard of the #WalkAway movement. That’s a Twitter hashtag for a group that’s right up my alley: people who recently have switched from liberal to—well, if not conservative, at least to non-liberal, or have become non-Democrats. It’s … Continue reading →
We expected his imminent death because he announced it himself about two weeks before it happened, in a heartfelt farewell letter to all his readers and listeners and admirers. I was all three, and I will miss this brilliant, witty, … Continue reading →
Oh-oh. Kanye West, one of the most visible of music superstars, married to media personality Kim Kardashian, has praised political changer Candace Owens (aka “Red Pill Black”; I have written about Owens previously here). The Twitter hordes have descended on … Continue reading →
Lindsay Shepherd has begun the process: Incidentally, the title of that video—“Goodbye to the left”—makes me think of the title of Britisher Robert Graves’ marvelous memoir of WWI and much more: Goodbye to All That. I haven’t read it in … Continue reading →
Another in a long long line of change stories. The title? “Coming Out As A Republican To My Democrat Family Went Worse Than Coming Out Gay.” No surprise to anyone who knows a lot about what happens to political changers, … Continue reading →