Thursday, December 25, 2014

It Probably Didn’t Occur On December 25...

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...and it might not have been during the year we would today enumerate as 1 A.D... ...and there are many who say, most scornfully, that we ...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

A Grand And Evil Experiment Part 2: Tolerating The Intolerable

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From the most excellent Crusader Rabbit: AT first glance the connection between Sony last week pulling the comedy The Interview from our s...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

A Grand And Evil Experiment

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In the era of sailing ships, the New World was difficult to reach. Those who desired to participate in the American experiment had to face w...
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Monday, December 22, 2014

On Monarchs And Monarchy

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A gentle reminder:     It was a plain weapon, not one you'd expect to see in the hand of a king. There was only the barest tracing on ...
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Purely academic question.

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Does this trajectory of federal borrowing look remotely sustainable to you? [1] Notes [1]  " Opportunity Squandered: We Blew It...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Further Thoughts On The Bush III Candidacy

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A republic in which executive and legislative authority are conferred by popular election has several characteristic weaknesses. Perhaps the...
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Plain Speaking Dept.

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Sometimes, there’s simply nothing for me to add: I didn't do one of these today, but in light of the murder of two NYPD officers, Offi...
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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Unpleasant Necessities Dept.

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It saddens me to need to take up cudgels against a stance taken by a dear friend. Yet intellectual honesty and loyalty to my own convictions...
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Friday, December 19, 2014

Is Breitbart Under Attack?

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Why are there 2700-plus comments – in many suspicious cases, exactly 2707 -- at nearly every post at Breitbart.com today?
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Assorted

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1. Dynasties The last nine GOP presidential tickets: 1980: Reagan- Bush 1984: Reagan- Bush 1988: Bush -Quayle 1992: Bush -Quayle 1996: ...
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The Greatest Disinformation Campaign of All Time.

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Is the fascination with Nazis in Western culture a product of natural interest, or is it an unspoken pact by novelists and filmmakers to ob...
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Precious, sacred, holy bipartisan garbage.

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“We’ve done this in a bipartisan fashion, and frankly, it’s a good bill,” House Speaker John Boehner would say after negotiating another qu...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

A Cautionary Tale

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Ever more often these days, I have a completely different set of ideas about what to write about ten minutes before I set my fingers to the ...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Quickies: More Insight Than One Might Expect From The Washington Post

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The day ahead of me looks a lot like another Rented Mule day, so allow me a brief comment on this disturbing piece of op-ed: The latest H...
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Jeb Bush? I Mean, WTF, But...JEB BUSH?!

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And he's already out-polling all the other Republicans that have been mentioned as potential presidential candidates! Can’t we do bette...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

A Word Of Power

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Consider the following snippet from John Conroe’s Forced Ascent:     With the circle closed, we left the forensics people to collect their...
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Cowardice: A Midweek Rumination

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Old friend Pascal recently wrote with some thoughts: Does cowardice fall in any way in the province of one of the 7 mortal sins? Does cour...
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