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There are few out there that I deliberately make time to read every word with a very focused mind...mainly because they tend to impart a special brand of Top Shelf wisdom well above my pay grade. I used to be this way with the great Victor Davis Hanson back in his Works and Days period …
Continue reading BORROWED WISDOM: Political Elites Rarely Grow Liberty
As my own extension of the exercise I referenced in my last post, I went digging even deeper into my own blogging past and landed on my first pre-Ricochet post. This one was at a little start-up called RedState in 2006. Here is the reposting of it on Ricochet with the requisite added modern commentary …
Continue reading First (Pre-Ricochet) Post – General Conduct
Last week over at the legacy site there was an exercise into looking back at first posts as a member there. I took the opportunity to repost mine, from now a decade ago, with a little bit of modernized pre- and post- commentary. The following is that new posting in its entirety: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED – Marking …
Continue reading First Post – A Slightly Wider View of The Great American Mistake
Well, the process seems to have been concluded and, once again, "next-in-line-ism" with a less-than-impressive figure proved more important to the Republican Party than a more acceptable - any more acceptable - candidate. It makes you wonder who and what is so heavily invested in Mr. McCarthy that it was worth this extended "embarrassment" to …
The following was posted directly on Ricochet earlier this morning: Of course, I cannot fully clear my schedule until sometime around May 1 so I will have to treat this as a part time gig until then. But, since I will not be nearly as focused as the last Speaker on coordinating a very lucrative insider trading scam through …
Continue reading In Which I Offer My Services as Speaker of the House
The following was posted directly on Ricochet earlier this morning as a message to the members there: Sure, some of it is just embarrassingly shallow…juvenile taunts like: “They want Hakeem Jefferies as Speaker then?” and “it puts Pat Murray in line after Kamala Harris to be president.” I didn’t take time to relocate the video, …
Back in late November of last year I finally finished the third volume of THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO trilogy. It took a bit over 8 years but I did it! As is my custom, I note passages and page numbers as I read and then go back and type these up as summary notes to keep …
I've seen it posited that the Republican majority in the House could mess up and accidentally elect a Democrat as Speaker while voting their conscience and/or playing politics well within the boundaries of their rights as elected Representatives of their districts. Advanced theories even suggest a band of 20 or so Republicans might join with …
Continue reading A ‘Bipartisan’ Speaker and the Shortcut Into the Abyss
One more little bit of bookkeeping here to properly document items that went straight to the legacy site due to some laziness on my part over the last couple of weeks. This one featured an post from August 30, 2019: — — — — — — — — — — Well, let’s see where this …
A little bit of bookkeeping here to properly document on this site a couple of items that went straight to the legacy site due to some laziness on my part over the last couple of weeks. The first featured an post from July 2, 2022: ___ ___ ___ “Trying to make some sense of it all. But I …
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