In an October WSJ/NBC News poll, 43% of blacks, aged 50+, were “enthusiastic” about Joe Biden, versus 17% for Elizabeth Warren, and 14% for Bernie Sanders. At Joe’s rallies, Jason L. Riley notes in the WSJ, Biden is no longer shouted down by black activists, like he was four years ago. Still, his support is […]
Archives for November 2019
One of My Favorite CD’s: Joe Beck’s Relaxin’
What’s great about CDs is they’re a package of songs that can bring you back in time—who said time travel wasn’t possible?—where you can feel how an artist was creating at that point in their career. Here’s one of my favorites. If you’re interested in just taking a deep breath and thinking about life for […]
GOP Results in the 2019 Elections may not Be as Poor as the Media Want You to Believe
The “mainstream” media would have you believe that the 2019 elections were a disaster for the Republican Party and presage a Democratic victory in 2020. This interpretation may be an attempt at wish-fulfillment on their part. Kentucky: Yes, the Democratic candidate has a very slim lead in the gubernatorial race, but the Republican incumbent governor […]
Trump Must Slam the Door on Sub-Saharan Migration
Originally posted August 21, 2019. Last year Stephen Smith, an American-born longtime Africa correspondent for the Paris dailies Le Monde and Libération, now a professor of African and African-American studies at Duke, published (in French) La ruée vers l’Europe, a short, sober, open-minded book about the coming mass migration out of Africa. The most important book […]
America Must Curb the Power of Socially Progressive Corporations
Originally posted on June 5, 2019. John A. Burtka IV, executive director of the American Conservative magazine, writes in The Washington Post that, conservatives must break with their long history of dogmatic free-market advocacy to 1) take on big tech, and 2) take on China. He writes (abridged): Political movements need a villain if they […]
Stock Market Records Power Trump Over Progressive Dreamers
At the New York Post, Charles Gasparino explains the strength of the Trump economy, writing (abridged): If the stock market is worried about the President Trump getting impeached it has a funny way of showing it: The Dow, the S&P and Nasdaq set new records Monday, buoyed by strong corporate earnings, a possible trade deal and […]
Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released a statement commenting on the decision: “Today the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Per the terms of the Agreement, the United States submitted formal notification of its withdrawal to the United Nations. The withdrawal will take effect one year from delivery of the notification.” As […]
Second Amendment Sanctuaries
Across America counties and towns have been passing resolutions affirming their status as Second Amendment “sanctuaries.” Recently Mohave County became the latest to adopt such a resolution. Ali Swenson reports for the Phoenix New Times: “The Board affirms its support of the Second Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, and declares Mohave County a Second […]
I Love You All
After winning the World Series Championship, the Washington Nationals were invited to the White House on Monday. Nats’ catcher Kurt Suzuki pulled out and put on his MAGA hat. To the large crowd gathered outside the White House, Kurt shouted into a microphone, “I love you all.” “Suzuki represents a sharp contrast to the various […]
Does Big Government Create Poverty?
Perhaps the best thing about suggestions by candidates like Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren to a welfare model closer to those seen in Europe is that there are years of evidence about what that could mean for Americans. Despite the candidates’ cherry-picking of old and debunked data, there is a lot of evidence in Europe […]
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