The recount fiasco of Jill Stein, the fake news, the electoral college, the alternate right, James Comey, WikiLeaks, and now Russian hacking are all to blame for Hillary’s loss. The integrity of the voters is also in question: racist, deplorable,
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from Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe, Healey’s Exxon witch-hunt: As a citizen and a politician, Healey is fully entitled to condemn fossil fuels, decry global warming, and express scorn for those who don’t agree with her and Gore. As
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From MeganMcCardle at Bloomberg, Those Pesky Principles: This is the nature of principles-based systems. They are cold and impersonal, and ostensibly neutral machinery often produces results that look grossly unfair by any common-sense moral standard: rich people getting better treatment
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One of the head winds facing progressivism is their own success that they are unwilling to accept. In the absence of the great civil rights issues of the 1960’s, they push much weaker issues with much greater passion. Ben Shapiro
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Tips to Glenn Reynolds and Instapundit
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from Democrats Finally Wake Up to the Dangers of Illiberalism by Charles C.W. Cooke at National Review Throughout, the Brendan Nyhans of the world will ask, “How could this happen?” And the answer will be elementary: It happened because process
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From The Washington Times, The Blue State Depression by Stephen Moore: Of the 10 blue states that Hillary Clinton won by the largest percentage margins — California, Massachusetts, Vermont, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut
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from Zero Hedge by Nassim Taleb- Nassim Taleb Exposes The World’s “Intellectual-Yet-Idiot” Class: Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite. The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be
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Electoral college trends from Politifact– Counties won Year GOP Democrats 2016 2623 489 2012 2420
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by Henry Oliner Deidre McCloskey in Bourgeois Equality and Joel Mokyr in Culture of Growth examine the incredible growth in human betterment since 1850. Thomas Malthus predicted a dismal future for human kind from the very logical prediction that food
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From Ian Tuttle from National Review, America Needs a Sane Left: Take all of that (and more) together and there is the distinct sense that the Left’s response to this election is going to be one not of introspection but
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Jawboning American industries to comply with political wishes has been with us at least as long as Teddy Roosevelt negotiated an end to the Pennsylvania coal strikes. John F Kennedy pressured the steel industry to settle a labor strike. Bailouts
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The Democrats are in denial. The first indication is that their loss was about poor messaging; even though Hillary outspent Trump by huge amounts, and even though every outlet but Fox was in her camp, to an embarrassing degree. The
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