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The following is the first 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 10, 2023: Much has been said here already this week about our times and the relevant event …
Continue reading Observing the Threshold Between ‘Merely Useless’ and ‘Actually Harmful’
My parting with the intellectual (overall) and operational (regarding the charade as a legitimate component of a two party system) farce that is the Republican Party establishment became rather final in the summer of 2014. Events around that time - specifically, the Republican runoff for the U.S Senate seat in Mississippi - exposed so much …
The relevant view of the events on or about October 3, 2023 as they passed across my computer screen earlier today are presented in three acts below for your entertainment. Enjoy. ACT I: A wise commenter calls out the common stoolie-types in the neighborhood: ...I welcome the anti-Trumpers comments, but try to make a compelling …
Continue reading A Montage on Budding Totalitarianism – ‘The Hour is Getting Very Late’
It seems that the puppet masters over at the Obama place sensed something in the air that pushed them to call up the pre-arranged news-cycle-oxygen-sink a bit early this week: Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers while building real estate empire I will leave any "details" beyond the title of the article for you …
Continue reading Tuesday Surprise (That Wasn’t) – Pre-Planned Pseudo-Event Comes Early This Week
It has been a few years since I have returned to this series...it being a (very imperfect but sometimes informative) touchstone into the ever shrinking world of the moderately intellectually honest Democrat. Some of you with ties back to Ricochet may remember the August 2020 offering titled The Althouse Files: When Anti-Intellectualism Becomes Just Plain …
Continue reading The Althouse Files: The ‘Perfectly Legitimate Shell Companies’ Edition
The math has always been clear to all willing to see but the narrative driven policies from our progressive DC mega-church have never really cared. On rare occasions reality does manage to shine through the gaping anti-intellectual holes in the modern Green ideology...Powerline did their part earlier this month with the following quote in a …
Continue reading Future Ruins – Massive Fields of Monuments to the Dead Green Religion
It seems I have a rather unique job. Mandatory training I dutifully complete every year reminds me of the strict federal regulations that govern the appropriate billing of my time on the job. I assure you that providing direct labor toward the election of my favorite candidates is not allowable. Clearly, however, there are a …
Continue reading Tsunami of Corruption – When Government is a Campaign Contribution to the DNC
Credit for those five words of modern American clarity goes to Stephen Green at Instapundit as he linked to a column titled Hunter Biden Special Counsel Appointment Is a Blatant Act of Corruption. After making exactly that case six ways to Sunday, that piece ended with: It’s worth remembering that the special counsel exists to …
Exhibit A from just hours after an American tragedy: January 28, 1986 Ladies and gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are …
Continue reading Moments That Count in the Presidential Historical Record
Volume I reminded us how the entire narrative about the Trump phone call with the gang down in GA was rather quickly shown to be nothing but masturbatory material for braindead lefties and their NT enablers within our perimeter. That post concluded: "Yet, none of that stopped the flunkies down in GA from regurgitating that …
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