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The Great American Spend-a-thon

The volume of bad reporting in 2025 is truly astounding. Never have so many trees been felled for so little accurate information. For instance, the NY Times published a story that sniped at Bari Weiss, now the editor-in-chief at CBS … Continue reading

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About Those Priorities

The absurdity of the moment is almost beyond belief. Almost, because as it stands now, there is nothing that is beyond belief. Consider: The US Government is scheduled to “shut down” at 12.01 AM on October 1. But of course, … Continue reading

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The Problem with Modern Politics

There is a problem with politics (as it is practiced) in virtually all the Western democracies, including the United States. The problem is not that Donald J Trump, the US president, is an idiot—although he is. Nor is the problem … Continue reading

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On to the Midterms

The Democrats have built an impressive suicide machine which, by all accounts, they intend to deploy for the midterm elections. This theory contradicts the conventional wisdom—a conventional wisdom that was horribly wrong in 2016 and 2020. Horribly wrong in that … Continue reading

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Magical Thinking

Republicans complain that Democrats are hypocrites. Democrats reply that Republicans are hypocrites. They are, of course, both correct in a generic sense. All politicians routinely say things they know or suspect to be false, especially if they think it affords … Continue reading

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The Enduring Fantasy of the Moderate Democrat

Congress is poised to pass President Biden’s spectacularly misnamed $1.9 trillion Covid Relief and Recovery Act. The bill will pass on a strict party line vote. And there is nothing moderate about it. Not only does the bill contain relatively … Continue reading

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Biden Inc

We are being treated to a new level of liberal hysteria, and that is truly impressive when you consider it has being boiling hot ever since the darkest day in American history, November 8, 2016. The proximate cause for the … Continue reading

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The Virginia Senate Race

Before being elected to the US Senate in 2008, Mark Warner (D. VA) served as governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. In 2014 ran for a second term against Republican Ed Gillespie, winning by just under 1% of the … Continue reading

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Judge Amy Coney Barrett

The Party of Science is about to make yet another spectacular display of its rampant anti-intellectualism as it gears up to contest the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Among other things, we are told that … Continue reading

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Competing Nightmares

We live in a strange political times. One of the strangest things of all is that winning candidates get elected because of who they are not. Donald Trump got elected in 2016 because he was not Hillary Clinton. If Joe … Continue reading

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