Category: Politics
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The Implicit Logic of the Draft Warren Movement
Daniel Henninger: The implicit logic of the Draft Warren movement is that after eight years of the Obama presidency, the American people want to move . . . further left. Well said, my man. And this too: Amid the recent, violent anti-police protests (whose political consequences will be real but unmeasurable), Smith College President Kathleen…
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National Public Radio and the Tit of the State
"If the product is so superior, why does it have to live on the tit of the State?" (Charles Krauthammer) One answer is that the booboisie of these United States is too backward and benighted to appreciate the high level of NPR programming. The rubes of fly-over country are too much enamoured of wrestling, tractor…
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Sick of Political Acrimony, Reader Goes on ‘News Fast’
This from reader K. W. with my comments in blue: I am taking a break from all news and social media. I will be keeping up with your blog, however, as your most recent treatment on the Incarnation is intriguing. I'm taking a break because I'm tired of all of the vehemence being spewed out…
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Obama the Disaster
My man Hanson: The only mystery about the last six years is how much lasting damage has been done to the American experiment, at home and abroad. Our federal agencies are now an alphabet soup of incompetence and corruption. How does the IRS ever quite recover? Will the Secret Service always be seen as veritable…
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Keeping an Eye on the Political
Did the Jews of Europe keep a sharp eye on the political from, say, 1923 to 1933 when Hitler acceded to power? Not very well, as the sequel showed. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
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The Party of Pinocchio
The Democrats ought to retire the jackass as their totem and adopt Pinocchio, the better to represent the depths of mendacity into which they have sunk. I now hand off to Ron Radosh. Related: Obama as Bullshitter As Dennis Prager likes to point out, truth is not a leftist value.
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Mail Voting and Civic Ritual
The latest NRO column from Spencer Case, our man 'on the ground' in Boulder. Excerpt: A voter, no less than a judge or a juror, has the ability and obligation to transcend personal desires and to think in terms of the general good when he votes. There is thus a distinction between the private citizens…
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First-Order and Second-Order Voter Fraud
Here: One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to have a photo identification are just attempts to suppress black voting. Upon leaving the polling place this morning I joked that there ought to be…
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Vote the Party, Not the Candidate
Here’s why. Whatever party takes over the Senate will not only be able to appoint the body’s Majority Leader, it will control the committee chairmanships, which in turn will determine what types of legislation will be entertained by the Senate. Because the Senate has the power of advise and consent when the president appoints judges…
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Obama, Holder, and the Racializing of Crime
You can rely on liberals to politicize race and racialize politics. But they also excel at the racialization of crime. Victor Davis Hanson has their number in Crimes of Exactly What? He discusses a number of examples besides Ferguson. Excerpts: Racializing crime is a serious business, because it breaks society apart along tribal lines. It…
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Another Reason for Ideological Quarantine
Heather Mac Donald, Infected by Politics, opening paragraph (emphasis added): The public-health establishment has unanimously opposed a travel and visa moratorium from Ebola-plagued West African countries to protect the U.S. population. To evaluate whether this opposition rests on purely scientific grounds, it helps to understand the political character of the public-health field. For the last…
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Obama’s Dereliction of Duty Turns Deadly
A hard-hitting piece by Joseph Curl exposes the PeeCee Prez for what he is: a disaster whose ever-increasing incompetence is about to turn deadly. Someone should explain to Obama why we have borders and why they must be enforced. Is he really as stupid as his actions and inactions show him to be, or is…
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Civic Engagement
One use of civic engagement is to help bring about an arrangement in which one needn't civically engage with people one finds morally and politically repellent.
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Jason Mattera’s Ambush Tactics Defended
This just over the transom from a reader: You wrote: ". . . one must turn their own Alinsky tactics against them . . . . Conservatives should not allow themselves to be hobbled by their own civility and high standards." I completely agree which is why I support the ambush tactics of Jason Mattera (most…
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Dennis Miller on Obama
Last night on The O'Reilly Factor, the sharpest comedian out there uncorked the following: He makes Narcissus look like he invented self-effacement. In battling the Left, it is not enough to have facts, logic, and moral decency on one's side; one must turn their own Alinsky tactics against them by the use of mockery, derision,…