Yearly Archives: 2016

Archive of posts published in the specified Year

Understanding Republicans

Nov. 12, 2016

from John Podhoretz at Commentary The Truly Forgotten Republican Voter But the truly forgotten Republican voter never bought Trump’s new outfit. I mean the Republican person who believes in limited government and a strong national defense and some kind of

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Eisenhower’s Footprint in The Middle East

Nov. 11, 2016

Ike’s Gamble by Michael Doran is an account of the 1956 Suez Crisis with a perspective different from many previous ones which were directed from narratives from CIA players at the time. The United States under Eisenhower supported the rise

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The Rebellion Against the Politically Correct

Nov. 10, 2016

From Joel Kotkin at The Daily Beast, Trump Will Go Away, but the Anger He’s Stirred Up Is Just Getting Started: And then there’s the mountain rebellion against political correctness. Relative few Americans have much patience with such things as “micro-aggressions,”

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The Price of Contempt

Nov. 09, 2016

If I could pick one word to describe the upset it would be the word ‘contempt’. This was a Brexit election, a revolt against the elites, but the problem is not elites.  The founding fathers were elites and a large

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President Trump

Nov. 09, 2016

A few thoughts on the great upset. Un-freaking -believable I was wrong. Consistently wrong throughout his whole campaign. I will not go back and delete all of my posts that assumed he would lose.  I am OK with being wrong

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A Nose for Prejudice

Nov. 09, 2016

From Kevin Williamson at National Review, The Irredeemables, Hillary Clinton and the politics of leftist consdescention  

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The Unity of Vice

Nov. 09, 2016

Kevin Williamson in The National Review, The Irredeemables Hillary Clinton and the politics of leftist condescension The progressive mind believes in the unity of vice, the flip side of the Socratic unity of virtue, the belief that all good characteristics are

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The Night Of Broken Glass

Nov. 08, 2016

November 9 and 10  is the anniversary of  Kristallnacht (literally “Crystal night”) or the “Night of Broken Glass”.  In 1938 “99 Jews were murdered and 25,000 to 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps.  267 synagogues were destroyed and thousands

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The Unworkers

Nov. 08, 2016

From The Wall Street Journal and Nicholas Eberstadt,The Idle Army: America’s Unworking Men Who are America’s new cadre of prime-age male unworkers? They tend to be: 1) less educated; 2) never married; 3) native born; and 4) African-American. But those

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An Incongruous Victory

Nov. 07, 2016

From Joel Kotkin at The Daily Beast, Trump Will Go Away, but the Anger He’s Stirred Up Is Just Getting Started: Hillary Clinton lacks both Obama’s rhetorical skills and her erstwhile husband’s political ones. Her entire approach in the campaign has

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Effective Gun Regulation

Nov. 06, 2016

Kevin Williamson gives HRC some advise on effectively addressing gun violence in Some Advice for President Clinton: Let us begin with the basics: The United States of America may be a beacon of liberty and prosperity to the world, but

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The Birth and Reaction to Social Engineering

Nov. 04, 2016

From The Washington Free Beacon, Matthew Continetti writes Crisis of the Conservative Intellectual.  This is an excellent summary of the history of the conservative movement in American Politics, and should be read in its entirety. The 1964 election also empowered

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Political Suicide

Nov. 03, 2016

from Kevin Williamson in National Review, So Much (for) Winning The Republican party — stupid and corrupt as it often is — has in fact provided a number of dramatic victories for conservatives in recent years: the spread of right-to-work

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The Cost of a High Estate Tax

Nov. 02, 2016

From The NYT and economist Greg Mankiw,  Why Taxing Fairly Means Not Taxing Inheritances: Excerpt: But there is one thing that everyone can agree on: The estate tax you owe should not depend substantially on the exact moment you happen

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Impatience With the Constitution

Nov. 01, 2016

Yuval Levin recently wrote TheFractured Republic, an intelligent look at the state of political discontent, and a recommended read.  He recently wrote Hillary Is an Embodiment of the Left’s Disdain for Democracy with coauthor Ramesh Ponnuru in National Review. He examines three

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A Nose for Prejudice

Oct. 31, 2016

Kevin Williamson in The National Review, The Irredeemables Hillary Clinton and the politics of leftist condescension Actual, indisputable racism has become so rare that we have had to invent exotic new versions of it, such as “white privilege” and expressions

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And the winner of the most dysfunctional political party is…

Oct. 30, 2016

There is little in the e-mail releases that surprises me.  They only confirm what those outside of the Clinton bubble already knew.  She has had a long history of lies while living in an ethical vacuum. She has long shown

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The Parties Need Leadership, Not Democracy

Oct. 30, 2016

from Kevin Williamson at National Review, The Celebrity Campaign: If politics is to defend itself against incursions from the world of celebrity-as-such, then it probably is going to need to end up relying on the very thing that Trump et al.

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Caveman Politics

Oct. 30, 2016

Glenn Reynolds writes in The USA Today, Our caveman politics- Economic policy based on 100,000-year-old emotions won’t fix healthcare. Trying to run a 21st century civilization based on caveman instincts is a recipe for failure, but unfortunately politics in a democracy seems

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Gross Political Negligence

Oct. 29, 2016

Even if Clinton manages to survive the reopening of the FBI investigation, she would be a lame duck on day one; a president with no confidence of the American people or the Congress. If the GOP can manage to hold

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