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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 …
Continue reading Grant and Twain and the Soul of American Liberty on Independence Day 2023
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Anti-Narrative Digest – The ‘SQUIRREL!!!’ Edition
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 …
Continue reading Anti-Narrative Digest – More Humiliations on the World Stage
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 …
And now for something completely different... This may be equal parts an introduction at a meeting for a twelve-step program and simply an overstated brag about a pointless personal preference...but here it goes: I am a big fan of Irwin M. Fletcher. By unofficial count, I have seen the first movie offering well over a …
Continue reading Confess, Hamm – Better than Most Will Ever Know
There is a great scene from season 9 episode 19 of Seinfeld (The Maid) where Kramer finds himself abandoned in unfamiliar "downtown" and calls Jerry for help: Jerry: Well, what street are you on? Kramer: Hey, I'm on 1st and 1st. How can the same street intersect with itself? I must be at the nexus …
As the truth of our recent histories begins to seep out from under the progressive blanket of pseudo-events, a headline this week sent be looking back to what I was saying in the immediate aftermath of the failed "two weeks to flatten the curve" that marked the real opening of the COVID era on these …
Of course, the real question surrounding the case of the magic, uncatchable 'pipe bomber' is: Why were fake bombs planted in the first place? (See relevant posting history here. Or as later cross-posted over a Ricochet here.) But the fact that the authorities, who under any conceivable good faith exercise of the massive powers granted …
Somewhere in Twelve Sleep County Joe Pickett is relieved this one didn't get real western like it could have. I am pleasantly surprised that it was a 9-0 decision but the celebration beyond that point shall be rather muted here at this keyboard. The current headlines: Major SCOTUS Decision Neuters EPA, Leaves Democrats Spinning in …
Continue reading SCOTUS Gets One Right…Yada, Yada, Yada…Justice or Something
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