I managed to loose the original version of this post as published last night. Here is the slightly modified version as subsequently posted elsewhere: The key questions for the coming week: Having stacked the deck, is Team FJB really devious and/or stupid enough to actually play out the dirty hand? Or will they balk and …
The Chill Across America – More of ‘The Rest of the Story’ (UPDATED)
The following was posted directly to the legacy posting site on three days ago (Sunday, March 12). As always, it needs to be posted here for longer term documentation: Despite the concerted efforts to place the stain on others two days earlier, it will be Friday, January 8, 2021 that history should rightfully record as …
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Bailout Nation – The Same Old Con and Dance (with Updated Commentary)
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 …
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A Salute to Fosbury
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 …
The History of the History of Our Times (UPDATED)
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], …
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First (Promoted) Post – Power and Privilege
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 …
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BORROWED WISDOM: Political Elites Rarely Grow Liberty
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 …
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First (Pre-Ricochet) Post – General Conduct
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 …
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First Post – A Slightly Wider View of The Great American Mistake
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 …
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A Post-Mortem on the ‘Speaker’ Selection Process – In Which I (Likely) Break with Yet Another Powerline Prime
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 …
