A field army that finds itself thrown onto the defensive will usually react in one of two ways. One is to employ a substantial part of its forces for a counterattack, somewhere removed from the main theater of action, while the rest of its forces continue to retreat. The other is to fall back …
Category: Democrat Party
Jan 15 2025
It’s Time To Level The Nominations Playing Field
The brutal, irrelevant, completely graceless interrogations Democrat Senators are inflicting upon various Trump nominees were only to be expected. The Democrats have no honor. They have no convictions they would uphold about courtesy, civility, or decency. Democrat Senators can abuse Republican nominees because the media is on their side. The media will stand behind …
Jan 07 2025
Politics And The Presumption Of Benevolence
It’s been said many times that trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. Also, trust once lost is even harder to regain. When the subject is political trust, deep motives and the suspicion thereof are involved. A political party or organization that forfeits the public’s trust will usually find that it has …
Dec 03 2024
The Pardon, Continued
Among the more interesting things about Joe Biden’s “unexpected” decision to pardon his son Hunter for his gun felony and federal tax offenses is this: Hunter has the option to decline the pardon. I was aware of this previously, but the legal significance of it had not occurred to me. The acceptance of a pardon …
Dec 02 2024
“Rebranding” And Other Weasel-Words
This got my attention a couple of days ago: Former Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, a Democrat, has said that his party needs to “rebrand” in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s big win. […] “What does it mean to be a Democrat?” Ryan asked. “People want to trust us. They don’t want to …
Nov 04 2024
The Race To The Bottom
For a while, Biden appeared to be the front-runner with his “garbage” comment. Then Obama edged up on him with his “Republicans are divisive” speech. And of course we could never count Kamala Harris out of the race, with all her “fascist” and “danger to democracy” chanting. Mustn’t forget the Great Has-Beens Bill and …
Oct 30 2024
Self-Cornered?
At the end of an observant article, Tristan Justice poses the key question: After Democrats have gone all in to declare that their political opponents are synonymous with German Nazis, it remains to be seen whether a Vice President Harris will actually accept the election results and certify a so-called modern-day Hitler as …
Oct 29 2024
If You Need More Reasons To Detest the Mainstream Media
…you needn’t look far: Thousands of Trump supporters packed the “World’s Most Famous Arena” to hear remarks by high-profile speakers, including an address from former first lady Melania Trump, before the former president took the stage. But instead of observing a Republican nominee drawing a massive crowd in the middle of a blue …
Oct 19 2024
The Fallacy That Won’t Die
Our Gentle Readers may have noticed that one of the two major political parties has nominated socialists for president and vice-president of these United States. Kamala Harris’s socialism isn’t perfectly overt, though her inclinations and her totalitarian impulses are quite open. Still a comparison of her advocacies with the 1928 platform of the Socialist …
Oct 10 2024
When You Can’t Win Fair And Square
…demand a rule change: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the Electoral College “needs to go,” while acknowledging “that’s not the world we live in,” during a campaign fundraiser in California on Tuesday, according to a pool report. “I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need, we …
Sep 26 2024
Is There Still A Nation Called The USA?
Given the behavior of its “protectors,” you have to wonder. Twenty years ago, I wrote: In mid-2004, there was born a Website which proposed to hold an international plebiscite on the upcoming American elections. The thesis was that since what the United States does “affects” the entire world — yes, those are …
Aug 27 2024
“A Little Piece Of Paper”
Now and then, a statement made in the present echoes a statement from the past that had grave repercussions. Here’s the recent statement: Kelley Robinson, President of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), spoke at a kickoff event for the Democratic National Convention last week and denigrated the Bill of Rights, calling it …
Aug 26 2024
Hypocrisy In Politics
Surely there’s a lot of it. Our usual impulse is to dismiss most of it with a plaintive “What can you do?” John Hinderaker reminds us that it’s electorally relevant: The Democrats are the party of the nomenklatura, including the most petty of the nomenklatura–Americans who have managed to graduate from college. Beyond …
Aug 06 2024
“Democracy:” A Rosetta-Stone Video
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Jul 21 2024
Sanity Tests
They can be just as important as cognition tests. The political scene is agog (“No, really?” “Shut up, you.”) over two things: the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and the prospect of Joe Biden resigning from the Democrat ticket. Of course, the former of those things is an actual fact, despite the attempts …
Jul 13 2024
Media Duplicity
Beware claims from major media spokesmen that “We didn’t know!” about Joe Biden’s dementia. Also beware claims that they didn’t know that he’s the most corrupt political figure since Caligula. They’re not in the business of reporting things that reflect badly on Democrats. Remember this exchange from the 2016 campaign, between Mike Cernovich …
Jun 28 2024
What Now, Democrats? Part 3
The hole is getting deeper: “I know I’m not a young man, to the state the obvious. Well, I know I don’t walk as easy as I used to, I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to, I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do …
Jun 28 2024
What Now, Democrats? Part 2
When a supposedly astute political commentator suggests that the Democrats should strip Joe Biden of the nomination and give it to Gretchen Whitmer or Gina Raimondo, you know that political Armageddon has arrived. I wish Biden would reflect on this debate performance and then announce his decision to withdraw from the race, throwing the …
Jun 20 2024
Compare And Contrast
It seems that for many years, whenever an identifiable member of a Democrat mascot group was deemed the perpetrator of some heinous crime, Leftists would leap to their typewriters and microphones to proclaim that “Society is to blame! Oppression! Victimization! Deprivation! Marginalization!” and so forth. It was vital for Democrat control of those voting …
Jun 18 2024
The Newest Federal Holiday
Perhaps you’re already aware that the word holiday is actually a contracted equivalent for holy day. And perhaps it troubles you just as much as it does me that the federal BLEEP!ing government takes it upon itself to declare new ones, entirely to placate noisy interest groups. We dodged one a few years back, …
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