My earnest but painfully deluded coblogger seems to think that this election cycle is just one more in a series of American presidential elections that will have consequences that are neither dire nor or existential, and that a protest vote is an appropriate response to two truly awful choices (I don’t count the Libertarian, who…
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Plus Ça Change, Plus La Même Chose
Despite being what can only be described as a certifiable model train nut, I’ve also been an armchair model airplane enthusiast for most of my life. My dad built and flew them when he was a kid back in the 30s, and, in fact his brother was a partner in a well-known company from the…
Protest Voting: GOP Edition
There are a lot of people on both sides upset with the outcome of these primaries. I’ll leave to the Democrats to figure out how to send their party a message. But what of us conservatives? The way I see it we have three options: Don’t vote (at least for the presidential race.) Vote for…
Collectivism Is All The Dems Have
But in fairness to them, I guess it sells well. It is their solution for everything though. More tax dollars, and more government regulation will make us all play nice together and solve the nation’s problems. It’d be incredibly cute in a naïve sort of way, if it weren’t so incredibly scary for its totalitarianism….
Twitter’s Catch-22
Sorry for the lack of content. Busy time here at Casa de tsr. I’m getting to this like 3 days late. But just stay with me here. In any case. Twitter has banned Milo (@Nero) [I cannot spell that last name so I won’t try.] Again. Honestly I have no idea what he did. Something…
“We Renounce Tourism In All Its Forms”
In December of 1988, during the waning days of his administration, President Reagan announced that the PLO “had finally met the American conditions for direct talks after more than a decade.” When pressed, [Secretary of State George Schultz] stated that Yasser Arafat had met the “three-part test for substantive dialogue” to commence. He specifically…
Of Parallels and Wasted Opportunities
As some have rightly postulated, most notably and eloquently Andrew C. McCarthy, there are frightening parallels between the international Marxist/Leftist/Progressive movement and “radical” Islam (“radical” in quotes because most adherents to the faith don’t see the butchery being done by other adherents as radical at all). Both are totalitarian and absolutist, relying on both…
“Don’t Fire Until You See the Whites!”
“45 Years Later, the Revolution IS Being Televised.” UPDATE: In the wake of last Thursday’s massacre of police officers in Dallas, I felt it timely to repost this essay from last September. Unfortunately, as the Republican and Democrat conventions approach, and then Election Day, I fear things are going to get worse. JJS. 24…
Civil War, Rumors of Civil War, and Donald Trump
Last night, five police officers were assassinated, and five others and one civilian critically wounded by what can only be described in my view as a coordinated terrorist attack during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas. One perpetrator is dead and another is apparently in custody. The names and other details of the shooters’ identities have…
Narrative Uber Alles
There is a WORLD of difference between these two incidents. — Bob Owens (@bob_owens) July 7, 2016 Circumstances between #PhilandoCastile:and #AltonSterling shootings are VERY different, folks. Be smart enough to not conflate them. — Bob Owens (@bob_owens) July 7, 2016 Bow Owens has been, in my opinion, a very fair analyst of these cases…