I will be extremely unhappy with the results of this election, no matter who wins. But one thing I will be extremely happy about is that the election will finally be over. Finally, after what seems like years. Short of … Continue reading →
This post posits what is of course still a hypothetical: a Hillary Clinton presidency. We don’t know that she will be elected. It is not impossible that Trump could win the whole thing. It is just highly unlikely, and I … Continue reading →
There’s a meme going around to the effect that Wikileaks has exposed a John Podesta email that proves that polls are rigged to favor Democrats through oversampling of Democrats. Commenter “blert” (among others) described it yesterday this way: We have … Continue reading →
Michael Totten went to the Democratic Convention and talked to a lot of Bernie Sanders delegates and supporters: I asked them to tell me the biggest problem they had with Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment, to narrow it down … Continue reading →
No surprise whatsoever: Reid, who has previously floated changing the rules in 2017, added to TPM that if Republicans “mess with the Supreme Court, it’ll be changed just like that in my opinion. So I’ve set that up. I feel … Continue reading →
During the discussion here and elsewhere about Trump’s debate remarks in which he refused to pledge to accept the election results, various people brought up the case of the 2000 election and Gore’s concession and then un-concession. They seemed to … Continue reading →
Well, it may not really be poetry—even though it’s a poem by a master of poetry: Robert Frost. It’s more in the vein of light verse, which Frost sometimes also wrote. The treatment is light, that is. Not the subject … Continue reading →
An October surprise timed to maximally hurt the Republican candidate is no surprise at all. It is so predictable that the term “October surprise” has become commonplace. In is no news, either, that the MSM tries to elect the Democrat. … Continue reading →
You see it on this blog among some commenters, and you see it from highly esteemed conservative bloggers such as John Hinderaker at Powerline: the argument that the current attacks on Trump are much like attacks on previous GOP candidates … Continue reading →
Remember back when Trump was running in the primaries, and how his supporters excoriated Romney—particularly after Romney spoke out against Trump—for having been such a loser in 2012? I wonder if those same people are now rethinking how easily they … Continue reading →
One of the many very usedful functions of the Trump bimbo eruptions is to distract people from the constant revelations about Hillary—and not just Hillary, or even primarily Hillary, but the way in which the Democratic Party is helped along … Continue reading →
I have watched this tragedy unfold for several years now. By using the word “watched,” don’t think I mean I’m some sort of disinterested, Olympian observer. It has been very difficult, and this year it’s reached a crescendo, although I … Continue reading →