Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Podium

So…. The president neglects his constitutional duties for a week, choosing instead to be trained by the likes of Steven Spielberg for his debate with Donald Trump, and this is what we get?  A doddering, tottering old man, stumbling over words and having brain freeze when asked for solutions to problems largely of his creation?  …

Justice Enslaved by Politics

Richard Rich:  “To get at the Devil, I should tear down all the laws in England.” Thomas Moore:  “Indeed. And when you have done so and the Devil turns round on you, where will you hide, the laws all being flat?” The above exchange from Robert Bolt’s play “A Man for All Seasons” well illustrates …

Show Me the Man, I’ll Show You the Crime

So another of former president Trump’s show trials began Monday.  In question is the “hush money” he purportedly paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.  Let’s have a look at what we know. Nevertheless, Alvin Bragg has Donald Trump in court – and off the campaign trail, which was really the whole purpose. And, despite the …

Old Yeller States the Union

Old Yeller was certainly in fine form on Thursday last.  It was a sterling performance: squinty eyes, scowl, jerky mannerisms and the best hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn angry old man voice in which to blame Republicans for every problem created by his administration.  Which he did, and facts be damned. It’s now clear why he was so late …

Guided Democracy for Dummies (that’s you…)

A few closing thoughts for the last day of a year I am happy to put in the rear view mirror, with the fervent prayer that the rot we saw in 2023 does not produce worse in 2024.  Because that seems to be the direction we are headed:  worse. A perfect example is all those …

Strength through lies; survival by injustice

“What sort of government is it, that finds its strength and its justification before its own people in falsehoods?  What is the destiny of a society that maintains and restores itself with injustice?”                                                 -Milovan Djilas, “The Unperfect Society” Lest readers start waving their arms and crying “Me!  I can answer that!  Over here!”, one …

American Kristallnacht

Any honest historian following the news in this country has got to a bit queasy these days.  Those paying special attention to the Middle East have to be verging on nausea. “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” and other venomous drivel spewed by the empty-headed hatemongers in our major institutions of …

Democratic Totalitarianism

So this is how the Democrat party plans to “win” the 2024 presidential election:  by committing ceaseless lawfare against the presumptive Republican candidate, actually suing to keep him off the ballot in states he might win, like Colorado, Pennsylvania and Michigan, where Leftist activists are working with Democrat Attorneys General and sympathetic judges to derail …

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