A political blog
Good morning, kids. Midweek and the beat goes on in this nightmare. From the unconfirmed, wild stories involving CIA director Gina Haspel and a supposed raid in Germany where Dominion/Smarttmatic computers and servers were seized to the direct testimony of witnesses claiming hundreds of thousands of phony ballots were driven across state lines to Pennsylvania…
The abject failure of the Republican Party (both the inside-the-beltway whore variety and even the more ideologically rational segments) to communicate its philosophical basis and its basic, readily acceptable platform is a travesty. How difficult would it be to hammer home a few simple points about the preservation of our republic through a robust and…
Good morning, kids. Tuesday, and the first day of the last month of a year from Hell, which we are still going through and no doubt will persist into the next one for a host of reasons. On a positive note, it looks as if three more House seats will go our way with incumbents…
Good morning, kids. Monday, and the last day of the month. It’s also pretty much down to the wire in terms of the President presenting his case to the courts, the state legislatures or perhaps the House of Representatives as the Electoral College is scheduled to convene a week from tomorrow. The good news that…
On Friday’s Art Thread there was an interesting discussion about whether the art should be judged with the artist in mind… Wagner the man was a rat bastard in many ways but the mother could compose. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler And I responded: And that brings up the larger question of whether is…
Good morning, kids. The weekend is here. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration and were able to forget about our situation. Although I was at a dinner attended by liberals, the conversation mercifully was virtually non-political. That said, there of course was much fretting over the Chinese Lung AIDS but I was able…
Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation is the origin of our national holiday that is so quintessentially American. He was spurred on by Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and ardent campaigner for Thanksgiving as a national event. It is a great unifier, so much so that even expatriates will celebrate it as their link to America. I…
Good morning, kids. Happy and blessed Thanksgiving to you and yours. It is sadly ironic that the blessings of togetherness, abundance and in President Washington’s enacting this day as a holiday G-d’s grace in granting us a nation where we can, or at least are supposed to live in freedom, that in years past we…
Good morning, kids. Midweek and with the day before Thanksgiving upon us, the news seems to be getting more dispiriting and disheartening as time goes on. No, I’m not giving up hope that somehow Trump will prevail, but the direct political descendants of those who unleashed Kolyma, Birkenau and the Killing Fields are in the…
The genius of American Exceptionalism is the conscious rejection of the glacial pace of change in the Old World. Royalty was royalty; farmers were farmers; shopkeepers were shopkeepers; and there was very little movement between those rigidly defined classes. America was different. We disavowed monarchists; we set the stage for a truly equal society, and…