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5-28-22, 11:30am
Damaged as it is, I don’t think the GOP is irreparable as an instrument of the conservative cause. If the Democrats can get past slavery and (the...
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5-27-22, 11:15am
It does have the potential to be a dark spot in a very cheerful night come November.
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5-27-22, 10:30am
It is time for us to start planning.
Would you consider published college rankings to be:
Very useful?
A rough general guide?
Academic...
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5-27-22, 10:07am
That was referred to as a self-inflicted wound, with which I must sadly agree.
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5-26-22, 3:25pm
I have no issue with confections, but to my mind the best and highest use of a woodfire is the roasting of meat. I love the smell, the sizzle, the...
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5-26-22, 11:02am
I don’t think outdated equipment is their major problem. Others, the Israelis for instance, have worked wonders with jury-rigged castoffs. The bulk...
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5-26-22, 8:30am
Is how National Review characterized the Georgia primary results. The Republican Governor and Secretary of State won handily despite the Trump forces...
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5-21-22, 10:37am
I think the Ukrainian situation demonstrates the limits of intimidation. At some point, the intimidator pushes things so far that compliance with his...
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5-20-22, 12:42pm
If an organization with a mission to dispel disinformation can be strangled at birth by disinformation, it probably wouldn’t have been very effective...
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5-19-22, 10:22am
They ran a touching piece where she realized “she was the one she was looking for all along”.
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5-19-22, 8:57am
I understand the Biden people are “putting it on hold” in the hope it will be quickly forgotten. A lot of her previous statements defending the...
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5-15-22, 10:46am
So a couple of guys tried to corner the onion market in 1958, and we still have this law now?
I read that in France it’s still illegal to name...
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5-14-22, 8:58pm
Would we call your special analytical viewpoint Critical Rob Theory?
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5-14-22, 1:24pm
Years ago in my irresponsible youth, I traded futures. Fingers appropriately burned, I gave it up. But in talking to a friend who thinks he can cash...
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5-14-22, 11:35am
Now there’s a statement that encapsulates the sickness of our times.
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5-12-22, 3:02pm
I think that can be a morally defensible position, but if we were to adopt such a system we would need some sort of guardian ad litem to advocate on...
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5-12-22, 1:30pm
If you take the position that a concern for life is somehow invalidated by all those other issues, aren’t you saying the same would apply to any life...
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5-12-22, 1:13pm
That is a perfectly acceptable argument if you are convinced a fetus isn’t human or if you are comfortable with the idea that a mother has the right...
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5-12-22, 11:25am
Oh, I think there’s plenty of tendentiousness among all the self-appointed fact checkers and truth guardians out there. I remember when a satirical...
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5-12-22, 10:59am
Recently had to do some traveling in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (stolen from Wisconsin in a corrupt bargain, but that’s another discussion), and...
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5-12-22, 10:27am
I think the central moral and legal question is whether you consider the fetus, fertilized embryo, or child to be a human being or just an...
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5-10-22, 4:31pm
If you really pored through all that material on sex, I’m impressed you found the time to have any.
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5-10-22, 11:00am
Trying to quash or cover up a story is one thing. Ginning up an alternative story about Russian Intelligence planting it is another. Then...
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5-10-22, 10:15am
I could easily see an endless loop of whataboutism concerning presidential progeny influence peddling. What I don’t get is the media’s impulse to...
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5-10-22, 10:06am
Who elected them? If we have government by, of and for the Bozos, who should you really be blaming?
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5-9-22, 7:08pm
And it only took him until 2007 to come to that conclusion. Either he was less than sincere or a very slow learner.
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5-9-22, 6:33pm
I wonder how the guy they used to call “Stalin’s Songbird” would feel about the current war.
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5-9-22, 1:14pm
I’m very similar to you. Cash reserves in a short term government fund, and the rest in an oh-so-boring. (I hope) 60/40 portfolio. No market timing,...
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5-9-22, 11:43am
Well, we did get a bit of damage in Madison WI. Some courageous warriors broke into a pro-life organization’s headquarters and set it afire. They...
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5-9-22, 2:10am
So we have abortion at the forefront of the culture war, a shooting war where we're helping one side while trying to avoid getting sucked into it...
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5-4-22, 7:01pm
I can call myself a golfer. But that doesn’t mean I’m not terrible at it.
You can look at being Catholic as being part of a religious community...
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5-3-22, 11:37am
I would think the feds would use the interstate commerce clause to attack something like that. They’ve done it before on thinner pretexts.
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5-3-22, 10:23am
I understand a number of states have “trigger laws” that will go into effect if and when Roe is overturned.
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5-3-22, 10:19am
What could possibly go wrong?
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5-3-22, 10:00am
They could always initiate the process to amend the Constitution. Personally, I’m more comfortable leaving it with the States.
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5-3-22, 9:55am
I have been on dairy farms in August that smelled better than the NYC subway system. But unless you’ve got a fortune to spend, it’s probably the only...
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5-3-22, 9:36am
I always thought the arguments in favor of Roe we’re, in Charlie Cooke’s words. “a box of clouds”. If it’s that important a “right”, it should be...
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5-3-22, 9:18am
I agree with Alan on pretty much every count. I suspect if Di Santis was not looking like a contender at the national level we wouldn’t be seeing...
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5-1-22, 4:03pm
I think there is a difference between not imposing somebody’s “stories about their lived experiences” on the first grade curriculum and telling them...
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5-1-22, 3:32pm
He did tear into it, didn’t he? How it fails on a financial, legal, policy and moral basis. Pretending its an equity issue requires a profound level...
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5-1-22, 3:25pm
I also thought the special district thing was a bridge too far. My first thought was for the poor bastards in the overlying counties who would...
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5-1-22, 2:44pm
The polls would seem to indicate increasing support for the GOP among minorities. It could be that the cultural/social priorities of affluent white...
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5-1-22, 12:23pm
Just watched the last episode. Between this and “Arrested Development”, I’ve come to the conclusion that Jason Bateman is a genius.
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4-30-22, 5:22pm
She was on a mission from God.
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4-30-22, 5:19pm
Four years of high school Latin taught by a strict but wonderfully patient Benedictine nun.
Gratias ago tibi Soror Helena.
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4-30-22, 1:55pm
I like to think that isn’t the case, otherwise we’d be living in Serbia or South Sudan.
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4-30-22, 1:51pm
Oh sure. There is plenty of room for pots to call kettles black. You can fool some of the people all of the time by calling grievance politics...
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4-29-22, 11:25am
I think for most of us “reasonable” is sort of like pornography: we have trouble defining it but we recognize it when we see it. I also think it’s a...
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4-29-22, 11:09am
That’s true. Our culture is so immersed in crudity that I can’t see clutching my pearls over it. What I do deplore is the lack of finesse in it’s...
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4-29-22, 10:53am
Kind of lends credence to the “elite overproduction” theory doesn’t it?
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4-29-22, 10:44am
That seems to have been Obama’s argument. Over the last century or so, Progressives have progressed from trusting the wisdom of the people to feeling...
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4-29-22, 10:22am
Heard a podcast yesterday about Obama’s recent speech on the topic. The usual masterpiece of preening hypocrisy. Our democracy will “wither and die”...
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