The context is more or less here: https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/695619211159343104 You can click on the tweet to see what I had said exactly, but it boiled down to calling him “Anti-republican at best, Anti-conservative at worst.” So what went wrong with my thinking? I was reading this article and came across the following exchange: JONATHAN HAIDT: No,…
Miami-Dade Cops, And Their Union, Out Of Control? Say It Ain’t So!
The president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police Union, Javier Ortiz, has released identifying information about the woman who had the temerity to follow one of his union members because he was driving like an idiot, and then had the gall to criticize him for breaking the law! What’s next Javier? Are you going…
Bernie Sanders Isn’t Barack Obama, But It May Not Matter
Alternate Headline: “It’s 2008 all over again” and not just because Hillary Clinton is losing to someone who, by all sane theories, shouldn’t be winning. Some time back I wrote about Sanders’ Candidate appeal. I stand by most everything I’ve written there. (typos and all damn it!) I would however like to add an appendix to what I…
Iowa Caucuses’ job: Winnowing, Or, @realdonaldtrump Doesn’t Get Polls
It’s fitting that a state known for corn should fill this purpose. The Iowa caucuses have never been about crowning a nominee, or even giving the winner a clear path to the nomination. They’re about thinning the field of the non-viable candidates. And, given the fact that we’ve seen Rand, Huck, and Santorum all drop…
Why Ignoring An Historic First Is Bad. And Good.
Beyond the idiocy of the risible media and Establishment spin that the big winner of Monday’s Iowa Caucuses was Marco Rubio with his predicted third place finish, what was lost on me and probably most people was that in actually coming in first, Ted Cruz made history by being the first American of Latino extraction to win a…
Not So Bold Predictions on That Thing in Iowa
Everyone else seems to be making predictions on Iowa, so thought this blog should have some too. Seeing as I’m technically “working” right now, I’ll have to be brief. No percentages because I hate stats. (Ironically I’m TA-ing a Stats Ethics class right now! I’m the ethics, the professor is the stats.) Cruz Rubio Trump/Paul…
Hell Toupee
With the Iowa Caucuses now upon us, the phenomenon that has been the candidacy of Donald Trump is about to be put to its first real test. When he announced his intention to run for the GOP nomination last June, no one took him seriously, and rightly so. He’s made a career out of hyping…
A Thought on @instapundit’s USA Today Editorial
As usual Instapundit is spot on with his editorial in USA today about the beginning of the start of the turning of the tide in the war on college men (of which I am one, admittedly Post-Grad though.) Hopefully this tide goes somewhere beyond Georgia. It got me thinking though. We tend to attribute this…
Wow…50,000 visitors.
When we started this little experiment in August, my assumption was that we would draw a few deeply disturbed political junkies (and, of course, our families) to read our blather. But the response has been pleasing, with unexpectedly heavy traffic and intelligent comments from engaged and perceptive readers. Not as much family traffic as we…
Auschwitz Was Liberated 71 Years Ago, But The Ideology Is Still With Us
I chose this photo carefully. It is old and tattered and looks like it belongs in another age, which is exactly what is happening to the world’s memory of the systematic murder of Europe’s Jews. But the latest iteration of fanatical hatred of Jews is being gleefully imported by much of Western Europe. The oh-so-modern…