(The following is a post from Haystack, author of the Post-Covid Decalogues, Pts I-III, appearing over the past several days. About the larger Game at hand, beyond police-state tactics around the country, it goes to the very heart of real…
Category: Conservatism
A 30-Day Track Ahead of the Fear Mongers
There’s a gentleman on Twitter named Mike Anderson @mikeandersonsr, who’s a 60-something executive manager. He’s begun posting on Twitter every morning, early, around 6, a running total of reported US coronavirus cases, at their various stages of treatment, and recovery,…
The National ID Card: How American Liberty Will Change Under Any One of the Isms
The Moral Majority was a group of Protestant political activists who used some new marketing techniques, mass mailing, to help Ronald Reagan defeat Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election. This was before the rise of the internet which would…
Donald Trump is “Trying to Save America”
Edmund Burke wrote ““People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.” Today I read that Donald Trump is “saving America”. It’s not uncommon comment on Twitter and Facebook. With that backward glance that Burke just…
St Crispin’s Day 2020, Donald Trump’s Locker Room Talk
February 6 may not be St Crispin’s Day, but it will be “remember-ed” along those lines because of what Donald Trump said on that day. And who he said it to, probably less than a hundred, mostly members of his…