Clearly the braindead stormtroopers for the cause and true believing lemmings of the left eat it up every time, but there must be a line beyond which it stops being just exercising the mass delusional hysteria machine to keep it in shape and becomes visible to all as the intellectually bankrupt twaddle that it really …
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Once Upon a Jury Duty
On occasion I will sprinkle commentary in my postings about being able to "see the game." My reference for this, of course, is long ago participation in sporting competitions. Being undersized and below average, I never did develop a fully functional eye for the game around me on the football field. (Playing at a time …
Bad Faith Governance – The ‘They aren’t even pretending otherwise anymore’ Edition
Ever since the young Team Obama and the fully corrupt leaders of each chamber on the Legislative side performed a months long contortionist routine around good faith governance in order to ram Obamacare down the throats of We the People it seems it has become quite fashionable among our beltway class to see how much …
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Sometimes an American Notion
"NEVER...GIVE...AN...INCH..." [1]: Try That In A Small Town by Jason Aldean (Songwriters: Kelley Lovelace / Neil Thrasher / Tully Kennedy / Kurt Michael Allison) Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalkCarjack an old lady at a red lightPull a gun on the owner of a liquor storeYa think it's cool, well, act a fool if ya …
Some Context Surrounding The Declaration of Independence
As far as shiny objects in history go, The Declaration of Independence is definitely a worthy jewel...yet, at over thirteen hundred words it is clearly too extensive for the short attention spans of our emerging generations and their technologies. Even with a popular modern musical about the author, I suspect there is little chance that …
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Grant and Twain and the Soul of American Liberty on Independence Day 2023
It has become a habit of mine to spend a few minutes each year on this day of celebration reading back over this passage from Mr. Twain's Roughing It: It was not without regret that I took a last look at the tiny flag (it was thirty-five feet long and ten feet wide) fluttering like …
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And Then There Were Four
Critical question of the day: What do Bowling Alone, Breakfast of Champions, and The World Until Yesterday have in common? Outside of any brilliant, Clavin-esque answers, the only plausible correct answer is: Those were, prior to today, the three books that had earned premature and very dishonorable dispositions from my company. (As in: Could not …
Anti-Narrative Digest – The ‘SQUIRREL!!!’ Edition
Speaking of things that pass under our liberty-loving radar while everyone is focused on the pseudo-event du jour, has anyone been tracking this as reported five days ago now: Armed IRS agents raid Montana gun shop, seize gun purchase records Armed IRS agents seized dozens of boxes of ATF form 4473s from Highwood Creek Outfitters …
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Anti-Narrative Digest – More Humiliations on the World Stage
Given my near total lack of attention to any corporate media outlets I cannot be totally sure, but I strongly suspect that you didn't get a very big dose of this aspect of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's latest visit to China: One Day After Biden Bent the Knee, the Chinese Thoroughly Embarrass the Biden …
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‘I was older then, I see the larger evil clearly now.’ – A Retrospective on Father’s Day of The Modern Progressive Inflection Point
I went looking for an old RedState Diary post of mine this morning because I remembered writing the part about the birth of my youngest, a son, covered in the first five paragraphs. I thought it might be interesting to recount that long ago episode today as that then-six-month old is now fifteen and I …
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