Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Current Affairs

  • Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker

    You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…

  • Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker

    You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…

  • Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker

    You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…

  • Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker

    You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…

  • Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Remark

    Outdoing themselves in hyper-ventilatory TDS-fueled rage, Joe Scarborough and the rest of the mendacious insanos at MSDNC (aka MSNBC) and at other lamestream media outlets have seized upon Trump's bloodbath remark as if to illustrate Ayn Rand's point about context-dropping. Although I am no fan of Rand or her acolyte Peikoff as you can readily…

  • A ‘Deplorable’ Straight from Central Casting . . .

    . . . 'calls out' the lying leftist scumbag mayor of Athens, Georgia. James Lee takes on Kelly Gertz.  Was this staged? No, but it certainly looks that way. One of Hillary's 'deplorables' with a redneck hat, poor English, and missing a tooth rightly attacks a mendacious SOB whose first name is 'Kelly.' 

  • Fire the Bastards!

    Here: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said that federal employees who take part in a planned walkout in protest of the Biden administration’s Israel policy should be fired. Well of course. But don't expect the Biden admin to do so since their talk of the rule of law is just talk. If the Biden bums took the rule of…

  • Never Nikki

    Rand Paul explains.  And if the well-fed Chris Christie, who has wisely 'suspended' his campaign, is to be believed, Nikki Haley is "going to get smoked." Going to get (Christie), and ought to get (Paul). I admire Nikki: she's "in the arena, bloodied but unbowed," slugging it out with the big boys, standing her ground,…

  • Claudine Gay Resigns

    Good riddance:  Gay, Magill and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth testified before a U.S. House of Representatives committee on Dec. 5 about a rise in antisemitism on college campuses following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October. The trio declined to give a definitive "yes" or "no" answer to Republican Representative Elise…

  • And You Call for a Cease-Fire?

    Take a look at the massacre map. Then read this: The world is yet again staring at the near inevitability of another global conflagration.   The flashpoint is in the Middle East and the Hitler of our time: the Mullahs of Iran.   The West, led by Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have chosen to follow in…

  • Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House

    Mike Johnson appears to be a good pick for Speaker of the House.  And better than McCarthy. Matt Gaetz vindicatus est. The Gaetz Gambit, to give it a name, led to a win.  A 'win for White' I am tempted to say, pursuing the chess metaphor, except that that way of putting it will be…

  • The State of Things When the ‘Leader’ of the ‘Free World’ is a Puppet

    I asked Dr. Vito Caiati, historian, whether Donald Trump's being in office would have made any difference to the present geopolitical mess, and this is what he wrote: As for the present miserable state of the world, I think that had Trump remained in office neither the war in the Ukraine nor the war in…

  • “He be Good for the Hood”

    I have some mind-numbingly substantive posts in the works, but for now here are three items from the (non-fake) news you may want to opine about. 1) The mug shot heard or rather seen 'round the world and its appeal to blacks. "He be good for the hood." "The more they indict, the more we…

  • Democracy with State-Sponsored Election Interference?

    I should think they are incompatible. Might a bit of Orwellian re-definition help? Maybe it is like this. Just as the border is secure as DHS-head Alejandro Mayorkas defines 'secure,' state-sponsored election interference is compatible with democracy as the regime and its media shills define 'democracy.' Our political enemies from the Big Guy on down…

  • Devon Archer: The Tucker Carlson Interview

     Part I Under 12 minutes.