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Category Archives: Politics
Is Winning Really the Only Thing?
“…Of course, for a Democratic Party warning that Mr. Trump is an existential threat to the nation, the race is about something much simpler: winning.” Shane Goldmacher, The New York Times July 6, 2025. “…the president’s prime-time interview with ABC News … Continue reading
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Will He Stay or Will He go?
Amazingly enough, on the front page of the New York Times, the headline reads Biden Tells Governors He Needs to Sleep More and Work Less at Night. Which is akin to pretending to respond to a query about your worst … Continue reading
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Now What?
The Great Democratic Freakout over President Biden’s debate performance is in full swing. The real question is why. What did party leaders expect? The obvious decline in Mr Biden’s cognitive abilities has been transparently evident for well over a year. … Continue reading
Modern v. Classical Liberals
“Governments are living things and operate as organic wholes. Moreover, governments have their natural evolution and are one thing in one age, another in another. The makers of the Constitution constructed the federal government upon a theory of checks and balances … Continue reading
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A lot of liberals are up-in-arms (figuratively speaking) about Justice Sam Alito (yet again). They cite 2 related reasons as proximate causes for their angst. (1) Three years ago, Justice Alito’s wife hung an upside down flag in front of … Continue reading
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Is Donald J. Trump a Conservative?
At the moment former President and current Republican presidential nominee Donald J Trump is the defendant in a books-and-records criminal trial in lower Manhattan. Serious people doubt that the books-and-records charges should ever have been brought, much less blown up … Continue reading
Are Liberalism and Progressivism Compatible?
Robert Frost , the American poet, once observed that “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel”. Which brings up an interesting question. Can American liberals differentiate their traditional brand of liberalism from … Continue reading
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Problem Solving 2024 Style
If the proverbial Martian were to land on planet earth and peruse the news he would quickly discover that the United States currently has several severe, possibly existential problems with which it has to deal. According to the news, the … Continue reading
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Presidential Immunity? No Thanks.
Q: Where in the Constitution is any form of immunity specified. A: Nowhere So how is it that the Supreme Court is embroiled in a case in which apparently serious people argue that former President Trump is immunized against … Continue reading
Trump Strikes Again
We are back from Bordeaux and guess who is in the news? Bad ideas never die. They just bide their time. The latest version of this truism is brought to us, naturally enough, by a Presidential contender. This time around … Continue reading