Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ~~John Adams Hillary blames Trump, Bill Maher blames FoxNews and Drudge, Obama blames guns, yadda yadda yadda. It is all Kabuki Theater, an exercise in not letting a crisis go to waste and being the loudest in the room yelling SQUIRREL!!! As the Progressives have pursued their agenda of
June 19, 2015
Carly Fiorina [Darleen Click]
Even in hostile territory, she never loses her poise. I want to see her debate SHrillary.
June 19, 2015
I am Lobo. I hunt alone.
“It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Put another way, the truth is the truth even if only one person discovers it, an observation that seems self evident but one that is nevertheless warred against endlessly by authoritarians of all stripes. As
June 18, 2015
Murder in Charleston: Time for prayers and recognition of human evil [Darleen Click]
I heard about both of both the heinous murder and the capture of the murderer this morning. It was an act of almost unfathomable evil. In listening to the outpouring of grief, shock and sympathy there were those who did, indeed, kept the focus where it needed to be. Unfortunately, I was disgusted that the President of the United States could not let politics alone during this time and needed
June 16, 2015
This is sooooo not an 8-year-old, Bush-era essay on the leftist strategy of appropriating meaning through an institutionalized “democratization” of interpretation, resulting in an inexorable overtaking of the civil society by way of identity politics and language
[with thanks, here in 2015, to geoffB for teasing this out of the archives] Late to the party I am, but still. From the AP, “Hate-crime arrests in Quran desecrations at Pace University”: A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions, police said. Stanislav Shmulevich of Brooklyn was arrested on charges of criminal mischief
June 15, 2015
If only we’d be warned
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” — George Orwell, 1984 “Blow me, assholes. You backed the wrong PRAGMATIC, REASONABLE horse and look where it’s gotten you.” —
June 15, 2015
This is sooo NOT a 10-year-old essay on the left’s control of identity politics
An obvious problem with the grievance aspect of identity politics is that the grievance needs to be perpetually maintained in order to justify the identity aspect of the politics. And in an era of academic specialization wherein just about every individual identity group has its own set of researchers and theoretical champions—as well as a widely accepted generic narrative of grievance—the observation that continued relevance (which translates into political power)