That’s not a rhetorical question. Could someone please tell me? Cruz wasn’t my first choice, he wasn’t my second choice. Hell, I was firmly against first term senators, making him so far down the list I didn’t even rank him. (Still, amazingly he ranked above Pataki.) Nevertheless, I see him as a fine alternative to…
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What of the GOPe if Trump Wins in November?
I’ll be honest, #NeverTrump losing steam at this point. Trump may just be the nominee. But does #GozerrTrump still in play (or was it ever?) It’s conventional wisdom that Trump will be crushed in November, but this election cycle has also proven resilient to conventional wisdom. I tend to agree with Coblogger CBD that if…
Insurance and Economic Illiteracy
Much of this will likely come as no surprise to the readers of this blog, whom I suspect are supporters of the free market. However, much of it also goes unsaid as assumed premises; so I sought to write something down. Imagine for a moment you have just bought a car. You go to get…
The Politics of Bathrooms
This cycle is and has been bizarre. We’ve gone from discussing Mexico paying for a wall, to the size of Trumps manhood, to bathrooms in North Carolina. Frankly I wish Ted Cruz would discuss Trumps massive hiring of lobbyists to fill his staff, but here we are. My stance on the NC law itself is…
NPR Turns Story of School Administrator Doing the Right Thing Into a Sob Story.
Because of course they had to. Let’s set the stage, shall we. NPR is looking at how school funding varies by district. Now, while most astute readers of this blog will know that school funding comes primarily from property taxes, followed by state and federal dollars (more or less in that order) apparently this was a…
“I Have Become The Establishment, Destroyer Of Plans.” (MO Caucus Roundup.)
So, as I noted, I made it to caucus today. It was…more eventful than expected. I took 2 pages of notes so I’ll try to tell you what happened to the best of my notes and memory. I shall also remind you of my biases, I went to Caucus today with 2 goals: 1) #neverTrump…
“Live” Blogging the MO County Caucuses
Hello readers. I’ll be at MO county caucuses tomorrow. Depending on timing and internet connectivity, I’ll be either live commenting or writing a follow-up later that afternoon. Missouri has county caucuses to choose congressional convention delegates (who will nominate 3 national delegates directly later this month) as well as state delegates. Due to the fact…
NYT Shocked To Find Company Actively Promoting a Beneficial Viewpoint
Note: I started this post in September of 2015, but time prevented me from finishing it’s relevant again so I’m making updates and putting it out there now. So, the NYT did an expose about Monsanto’s work combating anti-GMO silliness by sending supportive academics out to give talks about their support of GMO. The times,…
Trump’s Supporters Mirroring Hillary Clinton
So…the Trump abortion fiasco. I don’t want to focus on Trump himself just yet, but rather his spinning minions. Just now (about 1:15 CT) on CNN one of his supporters/surrogates insisted that Trump was referring to what would happen if you made abortion illegal. Hillary Clinton with Anderson Cooper last night said “if you make…
All Politics is Local: An Intelligence Agency, North St. Louis and Donald Trump
I haven’t blogged much about this because it seemed uninteresting to the national events, but there’s a brouhaha over relocating a federal agency in my town. Looking at it now, it’s a bit of a microcosm for what’s going on at a national level, namely why everyone hates politicans and Donald Trump is capitalizing on that….