Election 2020
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We Can Make Choices
Introduction Many decades ago I read an essay by Ayn Rand called Apollo vs. Dionysus. She used two events to compare possible choices we can make for our lives. Dionysus is the god of wine and celebration and lack of responsibility. Apollo is described as the god who made mortals aware of their own guilt.… Continue reading
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Roe is Overturned And the Left Thinks It’s the end of the World
In the past I have written about how one argues with a liberal. The liberal says, “Well, what about this?” You answer factually. You get, “I don’t want to talk about it” — ignoring the fact that he was the one who brought it up. Or, “Where did you hear that? I never heard that”… Continue reading
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The January Sixth Committee
I did not watch all of the hearings. But I did see a lot of them and saw many of what those on the Committee would consider the “highlights”. First some observations: Not once has the Committee played the part of Trump’s comments to his supporters that we will now march to the Capitol to… Continue reading
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A letter to Senator Ben Sasse
Dear Senator Sasse, As you can see I am not one of your Nebraska constituents. I am one of your American constituents. I don’t have any understanding of what you are on about when you speak of Trump and your problems with him or our “hero” worship of him. Do the country a favor, please… Continue reading
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An Inside Out, Upside Down World
With Mother’s Day upon us there is the irony that a lot of ANTI mother effort exists these days. School boards impede or deny mothers the right to speak up against schools polluting their children’s minds. Pro abortionists do all they can to prevent motherhood even to happen in too many instances. We are informed… Continue reading
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“News” Reporting
Here is how the left wing news reports a story. “Retired conservative federal judge says Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 election were a dry run for 2024.” I call that “news” story chutzpah, inc. Here is how I would report the same story. The headline would be: “The Democrats may steal the election again… Continue reading
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Who Are the Real Villains Now?
I wonder these days what it was all about. Why did people I trusted as reliable conservatives decide to go away and join the Lincoln Project just to try to cancel Trump out? Why did the usually intelligent conservative Senator Toomey decide to assert the the insupportable contention that there was no evidence of widespread… Continue reading
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Money and Inflation
These days more things are a puzzlement to me. As I wrote in my most recent piece, I seem to have questions about more things than ever lately. But there is one thing I have NEVER understood. I watched every episode of Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose and the one thing I could never fully… Continue reading
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Certainties, Questions, Puzzlements, and Paradoxes
Certainties Herewith my manifesto. Anyone who disagrees with any of this, has nothing to say to me that could interest me: A prologue for context – On one episode of Firing Line Buckley had a liberal from Congress who was going on and on about America’s faults. Buckley let him rant without interrupting. Finally, Buckley… Continue reading
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A Puzzlement?
Nah. Not if you are a thinking person. Suddenly, mandates may be ending. Why these announcements this week? Not much has changed. True, Omicron is quieting down, but much worse variants are predicted that we are warned to look out for. Yet suddenly at this very moment, we are getting promises from authorities that soon… Continue reading
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Protests
There were the Tea Party protests. Ours was a party in the happiest sense of the word. We wanted those in Washington who were spending too much and trying to take over too much, and were dividing us and tyrannizing us, to understand that we were not with them in their pursuits which involved “fundamentally… Continue reading
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Biden Meets the Press
I saw most of Biden’s recent Press Conference. My assessment seemed to be different from most of those commenting about it. I was surprised that through most of this long outing, Biden did things we don’t usually get to see. He didn’t improvise or go on to some story. He made short answers in a… Continue reading
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Hasten Herd Immunity
We must first stop all automatons following would be tyrants in lockstep. They shake our nerves and they rattle our brains. The powers that be who keep telling us what to do about Covid, offer us, in turn, lies, hypocrisy and inconsistency. Yet the masses have no trouble obeying. If I try to complain on… Continue reading
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Fun Covid facts and other observations
We have all seen the pictures. Those who are quick to give us orders and mandates, those who have no problem removing OUR liberties and comforts, have all been seen in fancy restaurants without masks, not social distancing, not staying home, laughing and carefree as if they are not breaking every taboo they force on… Continue reading
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My Country ‘Tis of Thee…
I wasn’t political until I was thirty. Until then I was full of love for my country and grateful that I was lucky enough to be born here where I am protected by the law. It didn’t matter whether the government was run by the Democrats or the Republicans. I was secure in the knowledge… Continue reading
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A Retrospective
The nearest I can guess to how it all began is that I wrote something to The Universal Spectator himself about how difficult it is to try to be civil in today’s climate and it was posted on the blog. That was in November of 2019. Consider: A democrat president nominates a person for the… Continue reading
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Everything Democrats touch turns to shit, Dennis Prager edition
As you may recall, there are two unequivocal, immutable political truths, truths as real as gravity or electricity. They are, in order: 1, LIBERALISM* IS A MENTAL DISORDER; and 2, EVERYTHING DEMOCRATS TOUCH TURNS TO SHIT. These two can be applied singly or together for EVERY SINGLE CRAPTASTIC thing Democrats do the nation. The estimable… Continue reading
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‘The Joke’ is a mirror of our times…
Every thinking American should find time to read Milan Kundera’s The Joke as soon as possible. Anyone who wants fully to understand what is being carefully orchestrated in our country should read this book. Those who are bewitched by CRT, equity as opposed to guarantees of equal opportunity, those who have fears of climate change,… Continue reading
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November 9, 1938
Today marks the 83rd anniversary of what would become the genocide of European Jewry by the Nazis. Although the Nuremberg laws had already begun the process, this event catalyzed the Germans into open aggression against the Jews. The result was the extermination of 6,000,000 Jews in Europe, starting in Poland after September 1, 1939, and… Continue reading
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They hate you
Robert Stacy McCain speaks the truth: Never trust a Democrat, especially when they start speaking in first-person plural pronouns, e.g., Joe Biden on Wednesday: “Vaccinating our children will help us keep our schools open — keep our kids in the classroom, learning and socializing with their classmates and teachers. I think every reporter in this… Continue reading
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Everything Democrats touch turns to shit, listicle edition – UPDATED
One of the recurring phrases we occasionally use on this blog is, “everything Democrats touch turns to shit.” I’ve used it here various times since 2013, and in “real life,” more times than I care to count. It is one of two inviolable TUS political truisms that never get old and are never wrong: Truism… Continue reading
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Solipsism
Solipsism, my favorite William Buckley word. Everything that happens only matters in the way that it affects me. I am the only one in the universe that matters. If I write a letter, it is always about me. People complain that my writing style is terrible because I use the word “I” all the time.… Continue reading
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Some helpful definitions
A Liberal – someone who reads only left wing news sources and pays attention only to left wing blogs, radio and tv shows. He is unwilling to discuss anything or look anything up to refute it, if information appears that is counter to his prejudices.He is cultish in his beliefs and chooses mostly to associate… Continue reading
About us
For lack of a better term, we are misfits, irritable, but lovable, constitutional conservatives who loathe and detest collectivists and statists of all persuasions and parties…
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