“Aliis si licet, tibi non licet.” – Terence, Second Century BC Roman playwright Were he alive today, Terence could explain much of what is happening in our own foundering Republic. Consider the line above from his work “Heauton Timōroumenos.” In true Roman fashion it goes straight to the heart of the matter. “What is permitted …
Category Archives: Politics
Biden’s “Anger of the People” Moment
Psychiatrists often talk about the phenomenon of projection – a patient’s tendency to attribute to imaginary others, usually foes or figures of fear, characteristics of the patient him or herself. The quirky dodge allows very disturbed people to live with truly awful thoughts and tendencies. After all, they are aspects of other people’s minds, often …
On Tyranny’s Doorstep
Well, that was fun. Almost 235 years of it. Following the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a woman asked delegate Benjamin Franklin “Doctor Franklin, what sort of government have you given us?” The sage of Philadelphia responded with more wisdom than even he knew, “A Republic, madam – if you can keep it.” We now know …
Hollow Leader, Hollow People
As I watched President Biden shuffle around the Middle East last week, moping and rambling like an old man searching his living room for the TV remote in his left hand, I suddenly realized why his presidency feels to the people paying close attention like the fraudulent and empty failure it is. There’s no there …
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire…
“”Even amid the pandemic, companies in the United States pumped more oil during my first year in office than they did during my predecessor’s first year.” -Joe Biden, Tuesday, June 21, 2022 This, campers, is what we call a lie of omission. It’s an oft-heard one from the hapless Biden Administration, uttered by the …
The Democrats’ Show Trial
I watched a modern show trial over the past week. It had all the trappings: the solemnity of place, the jurists elevated above the mere mortals in the audience, the fawning media ready to pounce and tear the accused – who weren’t allowed a defense, or even a presence – to pieces. I searched for …
Commonsense Sociopath Control
In the aftermath of the Uvalde horror and the talking heads scrambling over the bodies of dead children to shriek their talking points, what else is there to say? A lot. No, we don’t need “commonsense gun control” which in the hands of the Left is always an oxymoron. We don’t need more “gun control …
The Great Democrat Replacement Program
It seems that the new mantra of the Progressive Left is “far-Right ‘Replacement’ conspiracy theory.” One heard it from the President in his May 17 commentary on the racist hatred that spawned the Tom’s supermarket shootings in Buffalo. And the thought was immediately parroted throughout the legacy media commentariat. Both the president and the unthinking …
Divisive and Poisonous Hypocrisy
Jackson Sparks. Virginia Sorenson. Tamara Durand. Jane Kulich. Wilhelm Hospel. LeAnna Owen. And sixty-two others, all attending a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21, 2021. The first six were killed by Darrell Brooks Jr. when he drove his SUV through barricades and then deliberately through the Christmas crowd at over 40 miles per …
The Peril of Political Ragemongering
The newly elected legislature received a bill to centralize control in the capital, using executive actions. It had a high-sounding name: “A Law for Removing the People’s Distress…” The newly elected leader gave a moderate speech, emphasizing evolutionary change and restoration of previously ignored rights. But as this moderation was spoken, the legislature was surrounded …
