Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Polemics

  • The Facebook Offload

    I have offloaded a good deal of my political linkage, 'rantage,' and commentary onto my FB page. But given the state of the Republic, it is important to punch back against the destructive Left in every venue and from every platform. So I will continue to post political material here.  You may try to avoid…

  • Yes, I Repeat Myself

    Leftists constantly repeat their lies in the hope that they will be eventually taken for truths. So we of the Coalition of the Sane need to constantly repeat truths.  Not our truths, for there is  no such thing as 'our' truth or 'my' truth or 'your' truth.'  Truth is not subject to ownership. If you…

  • JUST OVER THE TRANSOM: THE SELECTED WORKS OF CESARE PAVESE

    Whatever you say about Jeff Bezos & Co., Amazon's service is amazonianly amazing. I order a book. They promise delivery in two days. It arrives the next day. Would that happen in a socialist shit hole, Bernie? Could a company such as Amazon even get off the ground in such a politically feculent locale as…

  • There is a Place for Polemic: A Characteristic Facebook Salvo

    The trouble with people like 'Beto' the 'white Hispanic' blockhead, and Miss Occasional Cortex, is not just that they oppose the sound ideas that Dr. Hanson elucidates below, but that they could not even explain these ideas as a preliminary to a reasoned critique of them. And another thing. There is a lot of leftist…

  • About Whataboutism

    What's with all the contemporary noise about 'whataboutism'? Example 1. A lefty complains, "Trump is a liar!"  A conservative responds, "What about Hillary and Bill and Obama? They are not liars?" Example 2. A pro-lifer argues that killing the prenatal is immoral and meets with the response, "What about all of the  'pro-lifers' who bomb…

  • My Opinion of Lindsey Graham Up a Notch!

    Here is something I wrote about Senator Graham on 31 March 2016: To understand liberals you must understand that theirs is a mind-set according to which a  conservative is a bigot, one who reflexively and irrationally hates anyone different than he is.  This is why conservatives who insist on securing the borders are routinely labelled…

  • No Entity Without Identity

    Could it be literally true that Trump = Hitler?  Why not? Lefties might try tampering with the concept of identity. They might advance the notion that identity, although long held by reactionary racists to be a symmetrical relation, is really asymmetrical. Thus, if a = b, then it is not the case that b =…

  • One Advantage of Being a Liberal

  • David Horowitz versus Jonah Goldberg

    Here: The posture of these NeverTrumpers is transparently self-serving. It preserves their intellectual credentials as “conservatives,” and simultaneously takes them out of the line of fire from an increasingly vicious Left whose goal is to destroy Trump and his presidency, and—incidentally—conservative America. Sitting on the fence affords them new career opportunities—appearances on CNN and MSNBC…

  • Trump Delivers

    We conservatives who voted for Trump in November 2016 have been vindicated in spades. His accomplishments are manifold and multiplying.  A list is in order. I'll essay one later on. For now I draw your attention to the indelible conservative stamp President Trump is placing on the judiciary which includes but is not restricted to…

  • And You are Still a Democrat?

    This is addressed to those of you old enough to remember the Kennedy administration who are still Democrats. What the hell is wrong with you? Are you attached to a mere label when that to which the label was attached has evaporated entirely?  Are you bent on proving that there is no fool like an…

  • Kurt Schlichter Lays into Never Trumpers

    Cum ira et studio. A take-off on a line from Tacitus, sine ira et studio, "without anger and partiality."  There is a place for righteous anger as there is for partiality and polemic. Schlichter's rant ends thusly: You’ve talked and talked and talked about principles, but as James Comey and Robert Mueller and your gal Felonia Milhous…

  • On Verbal Aggression

    Robert Paul Wolff: Verbal aggression, speaking generally, is a good thing, especially as an alternative to physical aggression.  The general rule about verbal aggression – satire, snark, ridicule, obscenity – is:  punch up, not down.  A rule is one thing, its application another. How apply the Stoned Philosopher's rule? Suppose I ridicule Nancy Pelosi.  Am…

  • Sullen Obstructionist Crapweasel Crybabies

    Also known as: Democrats. I left out: destructive, gun-grabbing, liberty-bashing, religion-hating, Constitution-disrespecting, language-hijacking, terrorist-coddling, dictator-appeasing, race-baiting, distinction-denying, reason-averse, law-nullifying, criminal-shielding, baby-aborting, tribal, totalitarian, . . . socialist . . . and so on ad nauseam.  So sad! And you are still a Democrat? Related articles Dick Durbin: Race-Baiting Hypocrite Maverick Philosopher: The Moronic Level of…

  • Shut Down

    This one goes out to Chucky Schumer and Dicky Durbin. We of the Coalition of the Sane are taking no small satisfaction in the fact that the Schumer Shut Down yielded you and your gang precisely nothing.