U.S. Politics
Interim assertions
While we are waiting for the new Congress, and new Governors and other electees to step in and while we hope for the best, I will observe the following: Much as I love The Club for Growth and wish every Republican member of Congress could be a Club elected one, we all know this is […]
November 3, 1992
Thirty years ago today I committed what I consider my greatest error in judging a politician. In my youthful zeal and idealism — I was only 35 — my upset with George H. W. Bush for breaking his ‘no new taxes’ pledge undid my logic and reasoning — along with lots of other folks in […]
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” […]
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 […]
‘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, […]
Rage
This is the angriest I have ever been about politics in my life. Why now? They hated my beloved Reagan and called him all kinds of names. True, but they were unable to stop him from being elected twice. The left seemed to support McCain and Romney, those polite go along to get along guys; […]
A contrarian view of the current reigning orthodoxy
Let’s first get out of the way what we all agree on here. This withdrawal of Afghanistan could not have gone worse and the mess and violence was all avoidable. Instead of loading American planes as fast as we had to with tons of Afghanis hoping they were our allies who needed to be brought […]
40th anniversary of the Reagan Tax cuts
Last Thursday, the Committee to Unleash Prosperity co-hosted an event with the Heritage Foundation and emceed by Larry Kudlow celebrating the 40th anniversary of Reagan’s tax cuts. Video of the event is now available for HOTLINE readers who weren’t able to attend. What? Honey wants us to watch an hour and a half video? Nah, […]
The inconsistencies of most liberals’ thinking and behavior
Generalizations are interesting things. We can find exceptions to them, of course. But points can be made with the use of them and that is what I am doing here. In general, though we often hear liberals making sweeping judgments of conservatives, we don’t get enough of the reverse. To help correct this imbalance I […]
“Defining deviancy down”
When I was about 30 years old, I went with friends to see the movie, Alfie with Michael Caine. We were sitting there and I was laughing at the cleverness of the quips of the lead and thought the writing was very good and enjoying myself quite nicely. Suddenly there was a scene that was, […]
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