Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Politics

  • Who Made Trump?

    Leftist scum made Trump. Details here.

  • Trump Defies Gravity

    How does he do it? Explanation here.

  • The Wet Dream of a Blue Wave . . .

    . . . is probably not in the offing, the wave not the dream, but we of the Coalition of the Sane must not become complacent. Here is good advice from Hugh Hewitt. You might think that the fate of the Dems will be sealed by the appeal to morons of chuckleheads like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. …

  • The Trouble with Tucker

    The trouble with the Tucker Carlson show is that the host is insufficiently judicious as to the number and type of leftists he invites onto his program.  No doubt he is striving to be "fair and balanced," but what typically happens is that Carlson asks some reasonable question of the leftist guest, which the latter…

  • Russianism

    And yet another from the pen of the prolific Victor Davis Hanson. It is amazing how much better conservative commentary is to the stuff churned out by the febrile Left.

  • A Lying Deep State Crapweasel to the Very End

    And cocky to boot. George Neumayr on Peter Strzok: The cockiness of Strzok at Thursday’s hearing is a reflection of the immunity that ruling-class mandarins enjoy in liberal Washington. He was testifying from the safety of the deep state and thus knew that he could lie his head off without consequence. How else to explain…

  • Alan Dershowitz Interview on MSNBC

    Amazing the patience Dershowitz displays toward the know-nothing ideologue interviewing him.

  • Saturday Night at the Oldies: An Appeal to Obstructionist Democrats

    Wilbert Harrison, Let's Work Together.  Canned Heat cover. The original beats all covers. Youngbloods, Get Together Jackie De Shannon, Put a Little Love in Your Heart This one goes out to Maxine Waters.  You reap what you sow. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Jackie De Shannon, What the World Needs Now is Love. Love trumps hate, Nancy Pelosi. And…

  • The Rage of the Never-Trumpers: The Case of the Bootless Max Boot

    I trust you all know what 'bootless' means in this context. If my trust is misplaced, 'bootless'  has not to do with footwear or the lack thereof. It means useless, ineffectual.  Boot's column ends on a spiteful note: That is why I join Will and other principled conservatives, both current and former Republicans, in rooting for a…

  • Dershowitz versus the Dems

     Chris Cathcart writes, When it's Alan Dershowitz saying this stuff, you'd better believe the Democratic Party is going off the deep end. But it's probably too late to expect much sanity. “I won’t let the Democrats steal my party from me. I want to regain the center,” Dershowitz told WABC Radio’s “Curtis and Cosby” show,…

  • Trump Should Nominate Amy Barrett

    Steve Cortes provides four reasons. I offer a fifth: Barrett is of the female persuasion. Justice Bork was easy to bork: he was stern of visage and appeared mean to many. The borking of the sweet and amiable Barrett will make the Dems look bad and expose them for what they are: bent upon power…

  • The Left in 2018: Utterly Unhinged

    "The GOP has an effective campaign ad using Democrats' own words and actions against them."  A bit longer than a minute.   My hope is that the Dems, now a full-tilt hard-Left party, will get clobbered in the mid-terms.  If they don't, then we are on the way to civil war. Never underestimate the value of…

  • David French on Justice Kennedy

    Never-Trumper David French writes a good column. But if he had his way Hillary would now be in office and SCOTUS would be lost to conservatives for a generation or more. (Do you really think Jeb! could have beaten Hillary? Be serious.) But like I said, French writes a good game: After all, for an…

  • Hillary’s Hamartia

    Victor Davis Hanson brings his classical erudition to bear upon the instructive tale of the fall of Hillary: When Nemesis finally hit Clinton on November 8, 2016, she was stunned, unable to even extend a simple public gesture of concession on election night. From there, Nemesis took her on a downward spiral. Clinton descended from once polling as the…

  • Conrad Black on Trump

    The Canadian has been serving up excellent commentary. Here is a sample.