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Against Progressives
Postmodernism is a weird place to be. There is no real truth anymore, only narrative. Each person can have their own truth, and who are we to judge? Exceptions are now the rule; the sky cannot be blue, because some colorblind person does not see it that way, so none of us are allowed to declare it blue. It is oppressive and maddening.
Into ...Read more
Alienating the Base
In the real world, no nationwide abortion ban is going to pass Congress, so Donald Trump will never have the opportunity to veto it. As a practical matter, concerns from pro-life activists amount to nothing because nothing is going to happen at the federal level. But for Trump and JD Vance, how they have improvised answers to the concerns of ...Read more
The Jobs Aren't All Right
The government, for the past year, has overstated joblessness by 818,000 jobs. That revision comes on top of the monthly revisions already made. It is probably not a conspiracy to help Joe Biden and Kamala Harris look good or they would have waited until after the election, not before early voting, to announce the revision. But it is troubling...Read more
Time to Reset
In one month and one week, people in Pennsylvania will start casting their votes for president of the United States. A lot of people will cast their ballots before events play out in the final month of the campaign. In Pennsylvania, John Fetterman won his Senate race because his campaign kept him well hidden until the bulk of voting had ...Read more
Losing (Con)Troll
In 2020, Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris to be his running mate, despite her evisceration of him on a debate stage where she attacked him as perpetuating and collaborating with racists. Biden, at the time, explicitly said he would choose a nonwhite female running mate and had originally flirted with the idea of failed Georgia candidate Stacey ...Read more
Never Confuse Incompetence for Malice
A man can sleep better at night thinking evil men in charge have a plan than realizing incompetent idiots with no plan are in charge. Many Americans have resorted to conspiracy theories because they will not process that idiots are in charge in a confluence of random events who make matters worse through their gross incompetence.
During COVID...Read more
Your Sins Will Find You Out
Years ago, a dear friend who worked for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld invited me to join the two of them at a photography exhibit. The Secretary needed some assistance, having had shoulder surgery. He was loathe to have a lady carry his briefcase. It became my job. We walked through the exhibit of photographs and he had stories ...Read more
The Plot to Oust Joe Biden
Senior Democrats have concluded two things. First, Joe Biden must step aside in favor of Kamala Harris. Second, Joe Biden will not, so they will attempt to have George Stephanopoulos euthanize Joe Biden's campaign later this week.
In addition to Biden's family and closest friends insisting he stay in the race, Democrats have another problem. ...Read more
A Festering Evil in the Shadows
"The Terrorism Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again," read the headline of a column penned by Graham Allison and Michael J. Morell in Foreign Affairs. Allison is a Harvard professor. Morell was the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. A series of news stories after their article paint a troubling picture. Something is festering...Read more
Help Me, Bob Iger. You're My Only Hope.
On Oct. 30, 2012, Disney acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion and, with it, "Star Wars." Since then, Disney's stewardship of a property George Lucas himself often failed to steward wisely has descended into farce.
There is an old joke that the proof time travel is not real is because George Lucas did not die after the release of "Return of ...Read more
The American Troubles
The left in the United States has incredible clout to push their narratives nearly frictionlessly through cultural institutions. CNN has now multiple times had on Justice Sam Alito's former neighbor, who is revealed to be a partisan progressive and, by virtue of a Supreme Court Justice and his wife unwilling to perpetuate the story, the ...Read more