“Aha” Moments from Isaiah
On the surface, the book of Isaiah is not a feel good book. It’s not an essay about love and peace and good will toward men. It’s so much more!
Eliminate Benefits for Congress
By John R. “Buck” Surdu Statista asserts that 78% of the American people disapprove of Congress as of April 2023. Indeed, in recent years, disapproval ratings of all federal institutions have skyrocketed. The approval rating of the person occupying the oval office is less than 30%, prompting one to think about the incredible level of …
‘Progressivism’ is for The Wealthy
The Democratic primary for the Philadelphia mayoral nomination is over, the ‘progressive’ — a term William Teach defines as ‘nice fascist’ — candidate lost, coming in third, and the #woke left are trying to spin it. The Real Lesson for Progressives in Our Philadelphia Mayoral Defeat by Nathan J Robinson | Wednesday, May 17, 2023 …
R.I.P. First Amendment
It was nice knowing you, First Amendment. It was fun while it lasted. But alas, you are no longer viable.
Political Parody As a Weapon, Part LXXXVII
Political Parody As a Weapon, Part LXXXVII; “A predictable sad ending to an investigation that never should have taken place.”
What Sane Person….
I’ve lost my country and can’t seem to find it. Did I misplace it, or has it been changed so much by the woke, hateful left, that it is no longer recognizable?
How American Wokeness & Cancel Culture Mirror China’s Cultural Revolution
American Leftists are busily trying to recreate Chairman Mao’s cultural revolution and destroying our country in the process.
Science, Policy, and Politics
Many government policies enter the realm of the hard sciences. Most government policies touch on the dismal science of economics. All government policies are influenced by political science – and are politics by definition. So, our challenge is when science itself is a political calculation and not a scientific determination.
Bill Barr Mistakes Chaos for Disruption
Bill Barr inherited a very afflicted Department of Justice, in which the cancer had metastasized throughout all of its organs. His DOJ needed disruption, but he allowed it to continue unimpeded on its path of two-tiered justice and violation of the Constitution.
In a town teeming with corruption and liars, Adam Schiff ranks #1
California Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat, was positively apoplectic in January when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy denied him membership on the House Intelligence Committee he had chaired for the past four years. In an interview with CNN at the time, congenital liar Schiff “tripled down” on the Russian collusion hoax. He wanted to “set the …
Darwin Award Winner Recaptured in Philadelphia
We have previously noted the jailbreak of Nasir Grant, 24, and Ameen Hurst, 18, from Philadelphia’s Industrial Correctional Center, and how other people are now facing charges for aiding them. Mr Grant, who was not previously facing charges which would have kept him locked up for life, was recaptured by federal marshals just a few …
Counterfeit Candy
Investing in quality is sometimes a difficult decision to make, but it is an easy decision to live with.
Will We Keep Our Republic?
Ben Franklin famously said, “You’ve got a republic, if you can keep it.” That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it – not from foreign invasion – not from revolution – but because we stopped caring about it.
The Swamp in DC is Cold-and its Deep, What it Lacks in Charm and Compassion it Makes up for With Rat Bastardry, Connivence, Delusion/Sleight of Hand and Self Aggrandizing
Durham Report: no Valid Predicate for Crossfire Hurricane. Durham Finds the FBI Undertook an Investigation with Conscious Bias Against Trump: Now What?
Defending the Republic, Policy Domination
Defending the Republic: Scenario 2 Policy Domination Defending the Republic, Part 1: Introduction provided a general introduction and an initial listing and description of the scenarios. The second part looked at the three variants of the Regulatory Capture scenario. Both asked why corporations are enacting social justice programs. The two blogs suggested that at …
The fertile imagination of E. Jean Carroll
Clearly, no one knows what did or did not happen in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 25 to 30 years ago between Donald Trump and his accuser, advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. But after perusing a series of Carroll’s tweets from around a decade ago – that are still up by the way – her …
Flex the Tenth
Strengthening Constitutional States is More Important Than Cleaning Up the Swamp-The 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is the Tool to Use
Parents
No politics today. I’ll go back to my usual minarchist activism later. Today I’ll talk about something more serious-our parents.
Journalism Then And Now
I believe real journalism has fallen. Or has at least taken a sabbatical. And the people that think they are “journalists” seem to be lacking a spine. Take for example the White House Press Corp. Will hard hitting questions and challenge ever return? Taking a cue from the Kingston Trio, “Will they ride forever through …
A Layman’s Guide to Penumbral Reasoning
Penumbral reasoning is absurd for contract law, and it’s also absurd for constitutional law. If the words don’t have concrete meanings, the documents they are written on become meaningless.