Monthly Archives: August 2015

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

Woody Allen and William Buckley

What Jon Stewart wanted to be and never was:

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Carly’s Tenure at HP

Holman Jenkins in the Wall Street Journal, CEO Fiorina Fought the Good Fight: People get the wrong idea about CEOs, mostly from the media. CEOs are supposed to be magical persons who transform opportunities invisible to the rest of us

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Responding to Bernie Sanders

From The Bookworm Room, The collected (nit)wit and (un)wisdom of Bernie Sanders this rather long post is a one stop shop for a response to every Bernie Sanders inane post.

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Suppressing Speech in the Name of Liberalism

From Walter Williams, Academic Fascism: excerpt: This micro-aggression nonsense, called micro-totalitarianism by my colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell (http://tinyurl.com/nxulxc), is nothing less than an attack on free speech. From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free

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Eleven Questions for Donald Trump

The Trump is dissatisfied with the questions posed by Megyn Kelly.  Allow me to frame a few questions for the Donald that may be more specific and pertinent. You have clearly been quite successful in real estate and media, and

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Demosclerosis

from National Review, How American Government Became Encrusted with Subsidies by George Will: Excerpts: Madison counted on conflict, but gargantuan government is, because of its jungle-like sprawl, mostly opaque. So there is what Weiner calls “dissipation of conflict.” And Weiner

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Obfuscate, Stonewall and Blame

from the editors of the Wall Street Journal, All The Secretary’s Women: excerpt: Mrs. Clinton’s reaction to the deadline was a classic. “While I do not know what information may be ‘responsive’ for purposes of this law suit, I have

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Your Mob Partner

The Donald Trump campaign is more of an effort desired by the American voting public to field a third party than it is a serious desire to advance Republican politics. The reason a third party has never succeeded is that

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Demonizing Voter Intergrity

from The Wall Street Journal, Hillary Plays Dirty as Her Numbers Drop by Carl Rove: excerpts: “Republicans are systematically trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting,” she tweeted last week, a reference to GOP efforts to pass state

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Elitism and Democracy

from Why democracy can’t be democratic all the way down – and why it matters by Ilya Somin in The Washington Post: One of the standard rationales for the idea that we have a duty to obey democratically enacted laws

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Politics as Performance Art

from David Daley in Salon, Camille Paglia takes on Jon Stewart, Trump, Sanders: “Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true!” excerpt: Politics has always been performance art.  So we’ll see who the candidates are who can

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The Casualization of Work

The Future of Work: Why Wages Aren’t Keeping Up

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Climate Policy without Results

Carly Fiorina on Climate Change Strategy in National Review, Carly Fiorina Shows How to Address the Left on Climate Change In the political battles over climate change, there are three distinct and relevant questions. First, does mankind have a material

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A Distinction without a Difference

From The Wall Street Journal The Democrats’ Socialist Surge by Jason Riley: excerpt: If the Democratic Party once felt the need to distinguish itself from socialism, that no longer seems to be the case. When Mr. Sanders entered Congress in

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The Essence of Capitalism

  From Cafe Hayek, Keynesian Splenetics: Second, Keynes (at least by the time he wrote his General Theory) utterly failed to appreciate the incomprehensibly vast, nuanced, and ever-changing market details each of which must be accounted for and adjusted to in order

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An Ugly Form of Civil Confusion

From National Review, The Trump Virus and Its Symptoms by Charles Cook: excerpt: In parallel, the Trump virus yields a second — and equally potent — symptom: It provokes otherwise intelligent people into an ugly form of civil confusion. Because

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Trumpin’ 2015 08 09

2015 0 09 I am at ground zero for the GOP civil war at the Intercontinental Hotel in Buckhead, Atlanta. The Redstate Gathering of Erick Erickson.  I am not attending the event, I am here with Debbie celebrating our anniversary.

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Contaminated Information

from Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, A Tour of  Our Decadent Civilization Excerpt: The decadents are great categorizers. They know where everything should belong. They employ armies of bureaucrats to operate vast filing systems which never quite work as planned. They

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Saving Liberal Arts

From The Wall Street Journal, The Suicide of The Liberal Arts by John Agresto. excerpt: Liberal arts has not been killed by parental or student philistinism, or the cupidity of today’s educational institutions whose excessive costs have made the liberal

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