“There is one rule that works in every calamity… The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” – A Will Rogers Treasury, Page 157 I suspect that bit of wisdom holds equally well when the currency is “liberty” as when it is good, old American dollars as Mr. Rogers intended. Under this updated model, …
Month: August 2022
A Study of Muddleheadedness – Preview
As I was struggling to stand-up this little outpost I knew that early on I was going to have to dig into the concept of muddleheaded thinking. Since I am using (and abusing) the meaning of the word for my own purposes, I will specify the phenomenon I am focused on as Conservative Muddleheadedness - …
The Attkisson Affair – Totalitarianism Ignored is Totalitarianism Secured
Instapundit informs us this morning (yet again) that A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SEE THE FBI AS BIDEN’S PERSONAL GESTAPO, AND NOT WITHOUT REASON with a topic not unfamiliar to this blogger. In fact, it was referenced just eight days ago in a post here titled Skimming the Totalitarian Playbook…and Connecting a Few Dots. But is …
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The Real Story is Hiding in Plain Sight
The real history of our time, if it were ever to be written, would not be very kind to many departments and agencies of the modern Progressive administrative state. (I guess that during the Trump years it may have been correct to reference the “deep state” but even the modest perspective we have today shows …
Faith in Higher Ground
Taking a break from today’s casual reading - A Will Rogers Treasury (1983) – to pass on a few semi-random thoughts for the day with more than a little assistance from Mr. Rogers. The first comes from 1927 when Rogers had arranged and performed in benefits for victims of severe Spring flooding of the lower …
Skimming the Totalitarian Playbook…and Connecting a Few Dots
There is much we don’t know yet about the FBI RAID on Trump's residence earlier this week but there is a line through the cloud of data points we do have that seems rather obvious to me. Of course, I am cursed with a long memory for such things and at least an ounce of …
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Amplifying Pre-Existing Double Standards of Justice – Team Biden Recklessly Enters Very Dangerous Territory
It seems a good time to mark this point in history: Trump says Mar-a-Lago home in Florida 'under siege' by FBI agents (H/T Instapundit) and The FBI And DOJ Criminalizing Opposition To The Regime Is How The Republic Ends A two-tier justice system is not a justice system. It is a totalitarian system. Its purpose …
‘half a mind to be president’
Just to set the stage, I will start with the [slightly modified] opening from a June post over at my old on-line home titled “A Presidential Administration as Sophomoric Theater”: "As sad as the obvious truth included is regarding the truly pathetic state of our Beltway Behemoth (and thus our nation as a whole), this …
The Battle Space I Chose
Continuing with the narrative started in my last post where I wove bits of the early and developing aspects of the Never-Trump movement into the evolution of my posting agenda, here I want to move to the more serious aspects of the intellectually dishonest narrative cultivation machine…more specifically, the form it has chosen and continues …
The Battle Field that Developed Around Me
I expect there to be several posts here at the beginning to offer a more extended introduction and to tie my existence here back to the scribblings at my prior on-line home. This will be one of them…starting with the basics: To the extent it is possible, I ceased to associate myself with the Republican …
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