Confucius said it a long time ago (Rectification of Names). George Orwell wrote about it, Hans Christian Andersen had his version, but whilst we read and nodded wisely, we were too smart to ever go down that path ourselves and discounted it. “Wretchard the Cat” (AKA Richard Hernandez) at Belmont Club talks far more insightfully…
From “2 Parrots and a Dog” commenting on one of my threads: “While sour grapes sets in with the political set, I felt happy and hopeful for my country’s rebirth voting for Trump yesterday. I grew up in a great country that was free and prosperous. People were happier. The bloated government has strangled American…
On the day of the second “Super Tuesday” of election year 2016, remembering all those overheard comments from people like Bubba and Harry Reid and others referring to the newly-elevated Obama as their “useful idiot”. In those days I knew something was amiss. Now after several years, it would appear that the problem has always been the…
“Where to elect there is but one / ‘Tis Hobson’s choice – take that, or none.” ~Thomas Ward in “England’s Reformation” Running on and continuing from yesterday, it would appear as though the ascendancy’s of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have created a “Hobson’s Choice” for the GOPe. Choose the devil you know in Cruz and…
CONSERVATIVE: ADJECTIVE 1. averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values: “they were very conservative in their outlook”; 2. (in a political context) favoring free enterprise, private ownership, and socially conservative ideas; 3. (of an estimate) purposely low for the sake of caution: “police placed the value of the haul at a conservative $500,000”; 4. (of surgery or medical treatment) intended…
As I opined yesterday: “America’s problem is both spiritual and financial, and the spiritual problem needs to be solved first. Ever since LBJ introduced the so-called Johnson Amendment in 1954 (today known as the 501(c)3 taxcode) prohibiting tax-exempt organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates, followed by the demonic Satanist Madalyn Murray O’Hair (1963) forcing the…
On the morning of the Iowa Caucuses, I begin the week with Bill Whittle’s latest Afterburner in which he brings a sober-thinking mind to the seeming madness perpetrated by one, Donald Trump – A case of the Latin, Caveat Emptor (translated as “Let the buyer beware”) in a seller’s market. I believe that weaning America off of…
A great job from Daniel Greenfield coming up on last night’s debate. Not just for the analysis, but even more for the leadership. In my opinion (commenting from my current sojourn in the United Kingdom) the biggest winner in this debate was the United States of America. Addressing the situation from a distance, we still have…
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” ~ Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Admiral, WWII Perhaps I study too much political history but it certainly seems to me that a lot of the not-so-honorable folks who populate both Houses of Congress have skeletons in closets from which the…
This past Monday evening on the floor of the Senate, the junior Senator from Texas threw caution to the wind, casting his pearls before swine in another brave attempt to bring reason, sensibility, and urgency to the internecine machinations of what today passes as “government administration”. He must have made an immediate impact, since Rand Paul was…