LDAHL
Senior Member

Depends on the herd you run with. Trump is a liar and prone to hysteria, as are many of his enemies. I don’t feel any particular need to side with...

I think that viewed in the greater sweep of history, the current situation will rank with Shay’s Rebellion or the Bonus March. Certainly not worth...

For myself, I have to say I love this country warts and all. I sort of pity the souls who can only see warts.

I advocated for the botanical garden, but was voted down by the juvenile faction.

I don’t think there’s a super duper specific clause anywhere in Article 1, Section 8, but they do say that any powers not specifically granted to the...

I hope that’s true.

How does the final opinion compare to the leaked draft?

One frantic zealot gets more coverage than thousands of normals.

What would you consider to be realistic?

I think that by and large they do. The internet and much of the media give a disproportionate voice to the crazier outliers. One might feel that...

I lump those people who talk about secession in the same pile as those who talk about emigrating but never do it.

What I like about the constitution is that it devotes so much space to what the federal government can’t do, and the various checks it puts on...

I think it means states can go their own way so long as they don’t violate the rules they agreed to when they ratified the constitution. I don’t...

I think some dumb people did some dumb things that day, and some bad people did some bad things. I think criminal actions merit a law enforcement...

The US President is not responsible for security at the US capital. Trump had no authority to “authorize a response”; which I think is a good thing...

Was our constitutional order really endangered by this buffoonery? Of course Trump was spouting BS. Maybe even criminally so. But doesn’t it...

First those crafty miscreants set up an “autonomous zone”, and then they set fire to a federal courthouse. All to mislead the public into blaming...

I think I get the point you’re trying to make. Trump made a ridiculous failed attempt to stay in office. Some idiots believed him, and behaved like...

With eloquence like that, you should consider running for office yourself.

SF has taken a few steps in the right direction. They dumped a couple of their more insanely woke school board members and their prosecutor who...

More in sorrow than in anger. I’m not sure we’re much more than one sweater speech away from Cv2.0.

Considering the field in the Democratic primaries, we have to remember Biden was the least alarming choice. To me, this is one more argument against...

We got a good deal from a local dairyman who sold us one of his freemartins. I’m not sure chicken won’t cost more per pound by the time the freezer...

I don’t think it was as simple as all that. Most of the world’s intelligence services seemed to think so at the time.

It would create one more reason to not watch CSPAN.

Be careful what you wish for. Creating overly broad incitement laws could well be used against people you like in the future.

I’m not crazy about term limits for elected officials. If the good people of the fourth district of Iowa want to send the same person to Washington...

Why not simply work to reduce the presidency to the more modest chief administrator role it was intended to be rather than the quasi-monarchy...

It’s a cynical flip-flop when the other side does it. It’s “evolving” when our side does it.

Someone at NR wrote that the Left views violence on the Right as emblematic while violence on the Left is seen as exceptional or the work of...

You need to be a little careful with your records when you allocate deductions like that. I’ve heard of auditors asking to see if payments came from...

With apologies to Voltaire, if Trump didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Absent him, people might be talking about things like crime...

I think the SALT deduction is limited to $12,950 for this year. That must sting a little in the high tax areas. The standard deduction is around...

Too bad. It seemed like the perfect adjective to describe something loud and obnoxious. “The little crowd outside the judges house was too bray to...

Credit card companies were all moving to places like South Dakota and Delaware to get around usury laws. There was a lot of gold buggery and...

I may watch that series, but I will certainly look for an opportunity to use “bray” as an adjective. What a great word.

I think JFK and his retinue were the first team to really understand and use television to his advantage. I do think, though, that dying when he did...

All those “teachable moments” got old after a while. And being instructed about who was and wasn’t “on the right side of history”; which he seemed to...

RR was certainly a breath of fresh air after four years of being preached at and scolded by JC. I wish we produced more “happy warrior” politicians. ...

I forgot that one. Busting PATCO’s attempt to hold the country hostage was probably his first great accomplishment.

Yeah. Apart from breaking the stagflation of the seventies, reforming the tax code and burying Soviet communism, what did he really accomplish?

I’d be more sanguine if I thought we had figures like Reagan and Volcker waiting in the wings.

I see treasury yields are rising in anticipation of this week’s fed meeting. I’m also seeing fewer opinion pieces claiming that if you could only see...

I’d prefer death to living in Kevin Costner’s worst bomb.

I’m not a nihilist. I’m worse. I’m a federalist. I like it when the central government loses power not granted to it by the constitution. I dislike...

I agree with the consensus. There’s more to life than politics.

I donÂ’t think you need to be pro-life to believe Roe was built on faulty legal logic. Ginsburg made no secret she felt that way. The SCOTUS isnÂ’t...

The Babylon Bee says the Biden Administration will be providing grief counselors at every gas pump. In my town, there is a sort of sticker war...

I see we’re up to 8.6% over the past year. Closing in on five dollar gas.

One Texas state representative does not a moral panic make.

I should have said only by willing buyers rather than the public dime.

True. But it doesn’t follow from that that the more taxes and laws we impose on ourselves the more civilized we become. I come down on the end of...

I am less concerned about prideful plutocrats than the arrogance of those who think they can make government do what God would do if God had better...

I think market price signals are a better way to allocate resources than government fiat. I don’t see net worth as a yardstick for personal merit....

A closer reading might reveal that “unrestrained capitalism” does not exist. In many ways, the US business climate is more restrictive than many of...

I think it has something to do with personal liberty.

Why is it so many people’s idea of Utopia requires taking my stuff and making me do things? And anyone who talks about “unrestrained capitalism”...

Yeah but we don’t put Santa Claus on the money and postage stamps. And why pay some family to be gossiped about and ogled when the Kardashians...