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I have no interest in self-serving spin to rewrite blatant journalistic malpractice via a book and full-court media blitz. The truth that really matters about four-plus years of media denial of the obvious insufficiencies of Joe Biden's mental acuity can be easily summed up in just over a dozen easy-to-read words: "Corporate media didn’t miss …
Continue reading The Tapper Test – Instant Proof that Intellectual Un-Seriousness Persists
I must admit up front that I stole that wonderful "veneer of normalcy" line from a commenter under this Instapundit post: At this point the TROs are basically an automatic judicial veto on all new policy, and then the courts of appeals decide whether the judicial veto should be suspended. Whatever form of government that …
In the world fostered over the last decade or two by Jim Comey and his ilk, we have all learned that the process is the punishment. I think it is safe to say that, by his social media activity this week, the disgraced former FBI Director has earned himself more than just a little bit …
This is intended to be a sister post to the one earlier today - Revisiting Exhibit B (January 10, 2021). That one was meant as a reminder of how aggressive the apparatchiks of budding American totalitarianism were in the hours following J6...when it was assumed that Trump was politically dead and his base would dutifully …
Way back in mid-2020 - when Intellectual Unseriousness took full control of narrative cultivation on a nationwide basis for a period - I started a series of posts over at Ricochet titled Midnight in the Republic. Unfortunately, all are safely hidden from me now along with all my posts from a dozen years of membership, …
Victor Serge and The Case of Comrade Tulayev come to mind once again...as prompted today by Instapundit: 90% of farms seized from the Boers by the Bantu commies are lying derelict. Nobody told the Bantus that farms require hard work, so they didn't bother. This was a catastrophe for the farm animals, most of which …
Continue reading So Began the Black Years… – The South Africa Edition?
The key observation of the day according to me is (via Instapundit): We have the hardest working President in US history and the laziest Republican Congress in US history. Something has to give. https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1922629141414756588 I would be lying if I said there wasn't a part of me that hopes the "one big, beautiful bill" fails …
Continue reading Daydreaming Away a Lazy Wednesday Evening in May
One of the advantages of being permanently banned from the member side of the legacy site is that I now read things that get posted on the Main Feed on a more regular basis. (It may surprise you just how little any of that interested me - and many others among the active types - …
The thick, meaty, stinky skid mark that starts at the Chief Justice's favorite robe and stains the entire Judicial Branch - excepting two noteworthy dissenters - just keeps getting thicker, meatier, and stinkier. The Easter Weekend edition begins like this: Supreme Court Halts Deportations Under the Alien Enemies Act The Supreme Court temporarily halted the …
Continue reading This Weekend in the Chief Justice ‘Skid Mark’ Saga
The enduring stench of the GWB administration - one "conservative" Chief Justice John Roberts - has reliably offered up the all-too-occasional stink bomb into the atmosphere of American Politics since (at least) 2012. In that sense, the demise of any carefully crafted illusion of intellectualism can be seen over the great portion of his tenure …
Continue reading Evolution of Chief Justice ‘Skid Mark’ – The ‘Slowly, then all at once’ Edition
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