Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Politics

  • The Bully Party

    Scott Adams: Team Clinton has succeeded in perpetuating one of the greatest evils I have seen in my lifetime. Her side has branded Trump supporters (40%+ of voters) as Nazis, sexists, homophobes, racists, and a few other fighting words. Their argument is built on confirmation bias and persuasion. But facts don’t matter because facts never…

  • Do You Want a Couple of Grifters Back in the White House?

    No?  Then you'd better vote for Trump.  Hillary and Billary are Grifters-in-Chief.

  • Liberal Voter Identification

    A death certificate will do. (Adapted from a Dennis Miller riff I heard last night on The O'Reilly Factor.) The serious point here is that the Left is bent on voting fraud.  The clearest and simplest proof of this is their mindless and transparently sophistical opposition to photo ID. Someone ought to make a movie,…

  • An Orthodox Rabbi Supports Trump

    Here. How does one explain to a victim of an unfortunate appellate panel’s ruling that “I could have voted for a federal judiciary that would protect the Constitution and refrain from legislating from the bench, but a braggart was recorded 11 years earlier, boasting in filthy terms, saying that he then did filthy, disgusting things…

  • Do You Value Religious Liberty?

    Then you had better vote for Trump. U. S. Civil Rights Commission Targets Religious Liberty.

  • What Does Abortion Have to Do with Religion?

    What follows is a re-post, slightly redacted, from 3 November 2012.  Occasioned by the Biden-Ryan Veep debate in 2012, it is equally applicable to the 2016 Kaine-Pence Veep debate, except that in 2016 only Kaine is (nominally) Catholic. ………………….. The abortion question is almost always raised in the context of religion.  The Vice-Presidential debate provides…

  • Leviticus 19:15: The Lord versus Hillary

    “You shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not show partiality to the powerless; you shall not give preference to the powerful; you shall judge your fellow citizen with justice."  Alternate translations here. In the third and final presidential debate, Hillary Clinton said the following about Supreme Court  nominations.  "And the kind of people…

  • The Role of Concupiscence in the Politics of the Day

    We are concupiscent from the ground up, and matters are only made worse by our living in sex-saturated societies.  As a result our erotic 'ears' are continually being pricked up by salacious tales and rumors.   These distractions are  exploited by the Clinton machine which knows that digging up ancient dirt on the opponent will…

  • Victor Davis Hanson’s Case for Trump

    Excerpts: Trump’s defeat would translate into continued political subversion of once disinterested federal agencies, from the FBI and Justice Department to the IRS and the EPA. It would ensure a liberal Supreme Court for the next 20 years — or more. Republicans would be lucky to hold the Senate. Obama’s unconstitutional executive overreach would be…

  • Philosopher Daniel Bonevac Supports Trump

    He gives his reasons in the Washington Post: So why, given the response it gets me from colleagues and friends, do I support Trump?

  • Friday Cat Blogging a Day Late! Trump Grabs Pussy

    I asked a reader whether the graphic to the left was too tasteless to post to my blog, adding,  "But then these are times in which considerations of good taste and civility are easily 'trumped.'"  My reader responded with a fine statement: Of course it’s tasteless, but it’s funny.  We should go to battle with…

  • A Vote for Hillary is a Vote for Tax-Payer Funded Abortion on Demand

    Including partial-birth abortion. You say your conscience won't allow you to vote for a vulgarian who thinks, or used to think, that his celebrity entitles him to grab at the female anatomy?  But your conscience is not troubled by Hllary's support for abortion?  Then I humbly suggest that you are morally obtuse. You tell me…

  • Speaker Ryan Needs to Resign

    Here

  • The Pussy Cat Bows of the Yap-and-Scribble Bow Tie Milquetoasts

    Pussy Bow is elliptical for 'Pussy Cat Bow,' the latter a well-established term in the world of women's fashion.  Melania Trump sported one at the second debate. Was she out to implant some sly suggestion?  I have no idea.  But it occurred to me this morning that boy tie boys such as George Will also…

  • Why No Calls For Hillary to Withdraw?

    Talk about a double standard!   We've known all along that Trump is crude and Clintonian in his sexual appetite, although  not as bad as Bill in terms of deeds; but the Wikileaks data dump brought something new and objectively far more important to our attention.  It is another revelation of Hillary's greed, mendacity, secretiveness,…