Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Holiday & Observances: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Major Events: Montfort’s Parliament & Representative Democracy Notable Events: Pope St. Fabian, Charles I tried for treason, tyranny, Hong Kong Island, motion pictures, Wannsee Conference, Harry Truman’s foreign aid, Angus Deaton, Sudan, Sharia Law, Born: Richard Henry Lee, Clarice Cliff Died: David
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Today: Advent Sunday, Lincoln & slavery, Stalin’s Great Purge, Rosa Parks, Charlemagne, Pope Leo III, David Ben Gurion, Christmas Music . . . AND MORE
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The banal news that Donald Trump Jr tried to get dirt on Hillary exposes Progressive delusions as a collective dementia unresponsive to actual facts. In 1848, Charles Mackay published Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. The preface to his first edition explains the idea behind the
Continue readingAmerica has had corrupt presidents in the past. The ones that spring readily to a mind educated in the San Francisco Public School District are Andrew Johnson, Warren B. G. Harding, and Richard Nixon. Please feel free to chime in with equally corrupt Democrats. But I ask you this: Before
Continue readingNear the end of his talk about American communists’ long-term plan (now coming to fruition) to flood America with a permanent Democrat majority through Hispanic amnesty, Trevor Loudon tossed in an interesting throwaway. When someone asked him why Leftists would want to reduce the US to the status of a Latin American banana Republic,
Continue readingI side with the people who think that Tom Cotton and the 46 senators who joined with him in an open letter to apprise the Iranians about the way our Constitutional system works did the world a great service. As I’ll discuss at greater length below, the letter is a simple,
Continue readingWell, we got the filing done today and it was a very big deal. I actually didn’t think it would be so big. I came in as a pinch hitter a couple of weeks ago, so I only knew the facts of the case that I’d been told. Once I started
Continue readingMy legal workload has left somewhat unaware of the latest news cycle. I was therefore surprised yesterday to see that one of my reliably Leftist friends on Facebook was saying that all of the Republicans in the Senate should be taken out and shot as traitors. Working backwards, I discovered
Continue readingTreason is a pretty simple concept. Here are a few choice definitions: A violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or to one’s state. Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid
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