The senator from Missouri has announced that he will challenge the Electoral College certification of the presidential election: This courageous act, in conjunction with similar pledges already made by members of the House, opens the door to serious discussion of … Continue reading →
From commenter “Nancy B”: In my family it doesn’t make sense to call either my mother or sister “leftist” — they aren’t political in the sense that they have never really thought about politics philosophically or participated practically. But my … Continue reading →
I began blogging sixteen years ago, and almost from the start I would hear from people – privately, in emails – about how they had to maintain a false front in their jobs about their conservatism in order to maintain … Continue reading →
Found at the website of Pennsylvania State Representative Russ Diamond: A group of state lawmakers performing extensive analysis of election data today revealed troubling discrepancies between the numbers of total votes counted and total number of voters who voted in … Continue reading →
An article about the tech drain from San Francisco includes this: …[A] moral argument for tech’s responsibility to California, and specifically the Bay Area, has recently been produced. It goes something like this: young ambitious people moved to the state, … Continue reading →
…is going to have another election, its fourth in two years.
Continue reading →Six hundred dollars of stimulus for Americans versus gazillions for pork, over five thousand rushed pages, and Congress has passed the stimulus bill at last. Trump has threatened to veto it if the amount of relief isn’t raised and if … Continue reading →
…has outraged nearly everyone on the right. Simply put, its ratio of pork to relief is high. Articles like this one are fairly typical; you can read them at almost every site. This kind of action has been typical of … Continue reading →
There’s a lot of news every day, much of it depressing. There’s the usual “Trump is going to kill us all” type of thing. There’s the “Biden is a great healer” variety, often coupled with the latest leftist appointment he’s … Continue reading →
We sometimes think – or used to think – of professors and/or philosophers and/or intellectuals as people living in ivory towers, and that most of their battles are over arcane matters that matter not all that much to the rest … Continue reading →
I think this is taking fatherly devotion a mite far: President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” where he told the comedian that he has “great confidence” in his son Hunter. If that were … Continue reading →
In this mess of an election, the topic of fraud has dominated. And with good reason. But other things happened in the election that are worthy of mention. Whether the trends will continue and will become significant in future elections … Continue reading →