LDAHL
Senior Member

So one last act of “constitutional vandalism” on the way out?

A plurality of the voters didn’t seem to think so. I think that was Maher’s and Carville’s point.

I don’t think Maher and Carville could be fairly characterized as overly sensitive conservatives. I think they are concerned about a party elite and...

James Carville has talked about the need to “rub off the stench” of “NPR language”, and I think he has a point. I heard a joke that every time...

Yeah. Biden’s running all over the place with “cement his legacy” speeches, interviews and op-eds, but it almost feels like Trump’s already been...

People too often invoke Occam’s Razor to justify oversimplifying a problem. I think that is one way Trump’s enemies play into his hands. If one...

It’s an expert opinion if it’s informed. It’s just another hack spouting off when it’s based on sound bites and cocktail chatter.

Totally boring. The long distance psychoanalysis thing has become a tiresome trope in American political polemics.

Canada? No thank you. Who needs another California mucking up our politics? Where would disappointed progressives threaten to move to? And US...

I liked that interview Chuck Schumer did the other day where he glared over the top of his glasses like an angry vice principal and denied everything.

Currently reading "Damn! A Book of Calumny", by HL Mencken and rereading George Will's " The Conservative Sensibility". Next on deck are a couple of...

My journey through life has been largely unburdened by a strong aesthetic sense. Where circumstances have permitted, I’ve chosen places to live the...

As America’s blue water navy dominance continues to erode, I think we will see growing problems at maritime choke points all over the world.

They don’t call it Thule anymore, they’re using some unpronounceable local name. I remember spending a lot of time talking about the GIUK gap...

I think Ukraine is in a tough spot. I’ve read their manpower issues are becoming more acute even as Russia imports cannon fodder from Yemen and North...

I think it was CS Lewis who said something to the effect that the most oppressive tyrannies are intended for the good of the oppressed. ...

It’s hard to imagine two egos of that magnitude occupying the same space without triggering some cataclysmic event.

So the people who’ve been controlling Biden the last few years are concerned that Musk is controlling Trump? ...

What are you talking about when you say “the US”? It seems to be a chimeric beast including many aspects: the police, the airlines, what you...

Mangione butchered a helpless man for the express purpose of creating fear to effect change. That’s pretty much the definition of terrorism. It’s a...

I think Trump will be remembered as the guy who ended the Reagan Revolution. His economic policies and labor union appeasement are straight out of...

We’ve gone from “dragging a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park” and “move on” to “the right to be believed” and “#metoo” over the last few...