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 …
Moments That Count in the Presidential Historical Record
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 …
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Badly Repackaged ‘Narrative Fiction’ – The Laughable State of Modern Progressive Lawfare, Volume II
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 …
Badly Repackaged ‘Narrative Fiction’ – The Laughable State of Modern Progressive Lawfare, Volume I
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 …
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 …
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