Author: CBD

Before you set your hair on fire; yes, the author is a leftist. He also is reflexively anti-Trump, sounds like an anti-Semite, comes off as a smug academic, but also has some genuinely interesting interpretations of the current Woke malaise we find ourselves enduring. Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law People have generally misunderstood…

Our once mighty armed forces have been neutered over the last few generations by a series of increasingly risk averse administrations that insist on total control over every aspect of any military operation that has the slightest risk of collateral damage. Of course that is an impossible thing to control, because military action isn’t perfect;…

Why bother? Why waste the bandwidth to make this announcement when the policy of the current regime is to allow illegals over our borders without any significant resistance or flitering of them…and that includes many who have active CCP Flu. My guess is that wetbacks outnumber legal immigrants by a significant amount. We admitted just…

Like many others around these august pages, I grew up respecting the armed forces, was the son of a veteran, and had immense respect for the dedication and sacrifice of our military. My default was that it was competent and intelligent and patriotic and understood its place within our society and our political structure. It…

Every time I think that the Republican party has reached Peak Impotence, they come out with a startlingly dumb and feckless statement that reaffirms my conviction that the party as currently constructed is beyond saving, and is a significant impediment to any serious plan to save America from the Democrat/Progressive machine. GOP: If We Win…

We may have a potentially dangerous situation, as two massive centers of stupidity rotate around the same event. Were they to meet, the resulting stupidity could create a singularity, in which the laws of intelligence and logic break down, IQs are postulated to be negative, and a James/Griffin 2024 campaign is possible. The event is…

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.  — George Orwell, 1984 It’s everywhere. The slaughter of the English language on the altar of political correctness…

It’s a quaint and probably naive observation to make, but the United States Constitution speaks rather forcefully on the topic of an overreaching central government: Amendment XThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. I…

Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.  — Heinrich Heine It is the degradation of the sanctity and value of life, and it is one of the most powerful tools in the totalitarian playbook. They start with the unborn, who…

Voting against self-interest is a rara avis, so why should we be surprised when people don’t act against self-interest? The lovely and romantic and unfortunately naive supposition that the majority of the rank-and-file cops is secretly on our side is just that…a pipe dream. They are on the side of their paychecks, and that means they will…