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The following was posted directly to the legacy posting site on four days ago (Saturday, March 11). As always, it needs to be posted here for longer term documentation: On what seems to be the slowest Saturday in memory around here, you really should have taken note of one particular post. It is not hard to see …
Continue reading Bailout Nation – The Same Old Con and Dance (with Updated Commentary)
I never even came close to meeting the man...but he was truly a mentor of sorts. I am sorry to see that the great Dick Fosbury has passed away at the age of 76. If the name is not familiar to you just do a quick internet search...or...Madam Althouse linked to a good video: https://youtu.be/CZsH46Ek2ao …
History, and our view/understanding of it tends to be a rather interesting phenomenon. Enter Orwell: “Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If is seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together.…But if you were alive during the war [WWI], …
Continue reading The History of the History of Our Times (UPDATED)
Another in the "First Post" series as published over at the legacy site yesterday. Enjoy: I know full well that most all of you are tired of this little game. The simple fact is: I don’t care. I really enjoyed the initial walk down memory lane as kicked-off by Mr. Alexander. So much so that I extended the game under …
Continue reading First (Promoted) Post – Power and Privilege
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, …
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