Archive for March 2016
Rubio got Schumered and never recovered
Chuck Schumer is a vile human being, but nobody ever said he was dumb. I can’t help enjoying the schadenfreude here. Rubio should have known better that to think he could make a deal with Schumer that wouldn’t haunt his future. How could he have thought he wouldn’t get snookered? It was a gang Marco, what did…
Read MoreTeaching Grammar Returns — In the UK
Children love to learn grammar and thanks to Michael Gove they will get the chance A virulent epidemic has in recent years spread across our island nation. I speak not of bird flu, Ebola or the plague, but of grammatophobia: the irrational fear of grammar, its necessity and its teaching in our schools. This has…
Read MoreCarly Fiorina: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the system
Maria Bartiromo asks all the right questions and Carly Florina gives all the right answers.
Read MoreHere’s why Ted Cruz would make a better President than Donald Trump
A female millennial friend of the Mrs. ask me why I support Ted Cruz. I answered, “Well, Ted Cruz believes in America, he is devoted to the Constitution and …,” that’s as far as I got before I was hit with, “What does that mean? That’s not a policy! That’s just stupid….” The conversation pretty…
Read MoreWe should get rid of daylight savings time
What right does any group of people have to tell us to change our clocks? — Ace Everything said in favor of DST is false. That it saves energy? How could that ever be proved? All it does is shift the times when energy is used. It does not reduce car crashes, it creates more…
Read MoreGary Kasparov rebukes Bernie Sanders’ Socialism
A look into Bernie Sanders’ socialism and Millennials magical thinking. Gary Kasparov: Hey, Bernie, Don’t Lecture Me About Socialism. I lived Through It Kasparov is, as everyone knows, the world chess champion who grew up in the Soviet Union. He recently wrote a short 113-word statement on his Facebook page that went viral and has…
Read MoreDebate on whether America is a racist country
A commenter on a website that I visit regularly left this comment in reply to something I had said: Well I am finding that a lot of Trump supporters are antisemitic and racist. As a matter of fact I have had a lot of racist and bigoted statements hurled and used as a defense for…
Read MoreCalvin Coolidge: One of the Few Truly Decent Men to Ever Be President
The New Deal turned a recession into a Great Depression. World War II did not end the Great Depression, it ended the New Deal. That allowed the Great Depression to end. Sometimes doing something can be worse than doing nothing. This is especially true of open markets and free market capitalism which has enough feedback…
Read MoreCalvin Coolidge: One of the Few Truly Decent Men to ever be President
The Forgotten Depression: 1921, the Crash That Cured Itself by James Grant
Read MoreThe Modern Form of the Buffalo Jump
About 150 Yellowstone Buffalo Headed For Slaughter On Tuesday, instead of bison being chased off a steep prairie bluff, they were herded by mounted horsemen and an SUV into Yellowstone National Park’s Stephens Creek Bison Capture Facility. Inside, workers drew the bison’s blood, aged them by their teeth, weighed them and tagged them for Wednesday’s…
Read MoreWhat sort of Congress would a President Trump face?
The main reason for the Trump phenomenon is he has tapped into deep anger held b many middle class Americans fed up with electing do-nothing Republicans. They promised to resist Obama’s lawless governing style and to stop the march of liberalism, but after the election forgot all that. Republicans gave Obama a free pass pursue his goal…
Read MoreTen Reasons People Are voting For Bernie Sanders
Melissa Langsam Braunstein writing at The Federalist gives ten reasons people are voting for Bernie Sanders. Except for the the protest reasons against Hillary, and perhaps even that one, I say all ten reasons for Bernie can be boiled down into just one reason. Bernie’s voters not only don’t know much about history, they don’t know much…
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