The key political asset of our time is the ability to tell any lie, however outrageous or absurd, with a perfectly straight face: eyes straight and flat, no lifting of either corner of the mouth, and no tightening of either nostril. Moreover, the liar must be able to maintain that solemn-as-a-judge expression through a …
Category: The Left
Mar 03 2024
A Modern Political Wonder
While it’s true that we prefer to associate with people who are much like us, the great majority of Americans are acquainted with at least some persons who differ with them in substantial ways, including in their political preferences. Despite those differences, we know, even if only subconsciously, that those “others” are not monsters. …
Feb 18 2024
Oh, The Irony!
Mostly I’m pissed off that nothing is off limits. Everything is political. Yes, Breitbart was correct, “politics is downstream from culture,” but sometimes I just want to listen to music or watch a movie and not be punched in the nose by somebody else’s politics. — Charlie Brown’s Dildo Politicizing everything inescapably is …
Feb 18 2024
Don’t Imagine For A Moment…
Feb 17 2024
If You’re Still In Any Doubt
All reason for doubt has been erased: they want your children to be ignorant and bigoted: A parent has shared a distrubing worksheet provided to students in a Seattle Public School high school English class as part of Black Lives Matter at School Week with KTTH radio host Jason Rantz. Rantz reports …
Feb 13 2024
Blinding Flashes Of the Obvious Dept.
“The more you look, the more you see.” — Robert M. Pirsig “Not necessarily, Bob ol’ buddy.” – Me. Dennis Prager is a reasonably bright man. He’s made a number of pithy observations over the years. Yet it’s taken him a lot of those years to realize something that I’ve been harping …
Feb 13 2024
A Shift You Won’t See On The Gridiron
Geez. Not yet six AM and the day has already become strange. I just found myself explaining “sync idle” to the C.S.O. (Never mind why.) But let’s get to the most recent burr under my saddle, shall we? Surely you’re familiar with the sojourn of nine-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan Holden Armenta. Some …
Feb 05 2024
The Infuriators
Viktor Orban. Giorgia Meloni. Geert Wilders. Javier Milei. And now, Nayib Bukele: El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele has won a landslide victory in the country’s presidential election, earning him a historic second term and underscoring his status as one of the world’s most popular political leaders. Posting on …
Jan 25 2024
Another Non-Surprise
That perennial loser “Beto” O’Rourke wants the invasion of Texas to continue unbounded: Abbott is using the Texas Guard to defy a Supreme Court ruling. When Gov. Faubus did this in 1957, Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas Guard to ensure compliance with the law. Biden must follow this example of bold, decisive leadership to end …
Jan 20 2024
Sports Illustrated is done
The entire staff is getting laid off. I used to read SI on a regular basis, both in print and online. But way back in the first Bush administration I noticed the Leftism creeping in. Reporters are notoriously Leftist, and sports reporters are the worst of the lot. There’s a reason that ESPN is so …
Jan 18 2024
Humor And The Great Distribution
If you’ve kept in touch with sociopolitical trends these past few decades, you’ve surely noticed that the spokesmen of the Left are full of plans for “re-educating” us uncultured barbarians in the Right. There must be something wrong with us not to see things as they do, they “reason,” so once they’ve got sole …
Jan 06 2024
Dismissal Through Diagnosis
The old rhetorical gambit called argumentum ad hominem is most often deployed by advocates for a shaky proposition. If Smith has a better case for his position, such that the preponderance of the evidence and the logic it supports appear to have won the day, his adversary Jones will be powerfully tempted to “attack …
Dec 27 2023
Mask Droppings
FORBES was once proud to call itself a “capitalist tool.” That’s some years back now. Today the magazine peddles tendentious twaddle: Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ May Make You Believe Fake News In an age in which misinformation abounds, how do you determine what is real and what is fake? New research …
Dec 26 2023
Missing The Point
It’s difficult for me to imagine how some people live with their spinelessness: Carols by Candlelight is the largest annual fundraiser for Vision Australia’s children’s services, which provides support to families and children who are blind or have low vision. A crowd of 10,000 gathered to enjoy the live broadcast, celebrate the …
Dec 21 2023
The Neglected Front (UPDATED)
Leftists play a “long game.” To them, no setback is permanent. They keep the pressure up until they get what they want. After that, they defend their gains with unbridled viciousness and pseudo-conservative sentiments such as “it’s here to stay.” Thomas Sowell has delineated their practices in several of his books. The longest …
Dec 09 2023
Giveaways
When a man shows you who he is, believe him. – Maya Angelou Among the great weaknesses of the Right is our powerful desire to believe that our opponents are fundamentally just as decent as we are. There’s actually some rationality behind that assumption. If our opponents are not fundamentally decent – that …
Dec 02 2023
Just How Does Harvard Award Professorships?
You really have to wonder: Scientific American, which dates to 1845 and touts itself as “the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States,” recently ran an article arguing that scientists should prioritize “reality” over scientific “rigor.” What would make a publication with a name like this one set empirical evidence at odds …
Nov 17 2023
Pride Crap
[I’m in a bit of a state just now, for reasons that don’t bear on anything my Gentle Readers would (or should) care about, so have a reprint from January 2017, over at Liberty’s Torch V1.0. After rereading it, I must report that my attitude toward “pride crap” has only hardened and grown more …
Nov 08 2023
I Really Don’t Like To End A Day This Way
…but events have me boiling with rage yet again. What events, you ask? Why, these events: Can you believe it? Leftists are furious with this YouTuber – apparently a man who does a lot of philanthropy – for “reinforcing the stereotype that Africa is dependent on handouts.” Great God in heaven! Africa IS …
Nov 08 2023