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It seems the “shocking” presidential press conference late last week has left a near universal impression: “It is no longer a question of if but when Biden will be pushed aside by his party.” I am not so sure that I am ready to agree that the first part of that statement is a given. …
Continue reading The Blatancy is the Point…the Extreme Absurdity Solidifies the Effect
The following was posted at the legacy site earlier this morning: It appears that in my active avoidance of any direct propaganda from the fraudulent and corrupt FJB administration and its media arms, I seem to have missed where they phased out the use of reporter wranglers. Clearly those annoying chirpers could have been a …
The following was posted over at the legacy site earlier this evening: As is my habit, I will start with quoting myself once again. This time from about a week before the Leftist war on American Liberty last went hot-ish (or December 30, 2020): [Living within the lie is] not the makings of a healthy free / non-fear-based American …
The following was posted to the legacy site earlier today: Not that I generally give a flip what whores and pollsters have to say but the admission, albeit in an unintended way, in the added commentary to the answer here says a lot: WATCH: Pollster Frank Luntz ‘Visibly Cringes’ As He Predicts Trump Will Win …
The following was posted to the legacy site last Sunday: Current events sure have taken us down some unexpected side streets lately. Most notably here, from campus antisemitism to the tip of the iceberg with respect to (what appears to be) rampant academic plagiarism and on to (what looks like) a future of on-demand plagiarism reviews for …
Iris Chang began her introduction to The Rape of Nanking with: The Chronicle of humankind's cruelty to fellow humans is a long and sorry tale. But if it is true that even in such horror tales there are degrees of ruthlessness, then few atrocities in world history compare in intensity and scale to the Rape …
Twelve years ago tomorrow morning I posted on my member diary page at that long ago lost (and nearly perfect) version of RedState about the passing of Christopher Hitchens. (That post from a much younger me is created below in its original from.) As of that posting, his Why Orwell Matters had already sent me …
Continue reading Looking Back a Dozen Years – Death of a Contrarian
I believe this belongs under my old "Midnight in the Republic" series***. So that is where it will go... Madam Althouse directed us to the following passage earlier this week. It comes from an interview posted under the title Derek Chauvin Did Not Murder George Floyd. You should go read that link in its entirety …
Continue reading Midnight in the Republic – Mock Justice and Judicial Shame
The following is the third of three posts published directly to the legacy site over the last two months. (That is a bad habit that I need to get away from once again.) This one was from November 27, 2023: …that seems to be begging for a larger post. The following two bits of information keep (almost) …
The following is the second of three posts published directly to the legacy site over the last two months. (That is a bad habit that I need to get away from once again.) This one was from November 14, 2023: Nikki Haley Calls to Outlaw Anonymous Social Media Accounts in Troubling Comments When I get into office, …
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