Showing posts with label political principles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political principles. Show all posts
Thursday, December 31, 2020

A Year For Realism

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     Not long ago, I wrote a trio of short fiction pieces about a politician in a fictional country who bucked his nation’s establishment to...
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Saturday, March 30, 2019

Premises Old And New

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     It shouldn’t be necessary to say this over and over, but I’ll say it again: He who controls the premises to an argument can predetermin...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Part Exposition, Part Canonization

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     I’ve just seen Dinesh D’Souza’s “docudrama” Death Of A Nation, and I thought it important to set down my thoughts about it before they...
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Friday, July 20, 2018

Finding The Middle Ground

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     The news is mostly not very newsy, so for this morning’s tirade I thought I might venture into the currently underpopulated realm where...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Status Report

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     This one comes from A Nod To The Gods:      Being a good American assumes a moral code of conduct, a trust that my neighbors won’t br...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

The Great Disintegration

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     Just yesterday, the nominal 240th birthday of our nation, Sarah Hoyt produced a rather optimistic piece that’s excited a fair amount ...
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Monday, February 29, 2016

Quickies: Parties And Ideologies

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     Today, Michael Barone notes a pattern that won’t surprise you:      Many commentators have noted that the Democrat primary and caucu...
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Friday, July 18, 2014

On Knowing Your Enemies

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Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the back. – Sir Harold Bowden Let's face the facts: The country is g...
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Declarations Of War Part 2: Our Supposed Allies

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"There are two parties in America: the Stupid Party and the Evil Party, and I'm proud to be a member of the Stupid Party." -- ...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Freedom Under Siege

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[ Please read this article, all the way to the end. If you can reach the end without bursting a blood vessel, feel free to proceed to the f...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

The Nice-Guy Trap

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I was going to take today off from blogging, but perhaps fortunately, I stumbled across an exceptionally important piece from James Delingpo...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Inheritances

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There's a wealth of things I could write about today...as usual. But in wandering among them, seeking a common theme, I happened upon on...
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