Will Establishment Elitism Win Again in 2016?
This is one of my favorite "Famous Common People I Have Known" stories (available at Amazon) about a man who personified the turned-up-nose imagry we are seeing once again in this new election cycle. It...
Why the Media Can’t Censor Itself Back Into Credibiity
If you have a truth or a fact, be able to assert it with evidence. If not, admit it's something else, something less; hearsay, or, as many media people like to say "from reliable sources",...
“Their Majesties the Mob” and Liberal Hypocrisies of Vigilantism (Revised)
The answer to any conundrum begins with a unified theory
The title is from a book published in 1960, while Eisenhower was still president, that title coined by a Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, a...
A Natural History of Elitism
From an interesting 50-minute discussion between Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro in November, while discussing common backgrounds in California, Carlson made the offhand comment, "We're both elites".
Well, as a matter of fact, they are. Only do they...
Riff Raff Runways
(First written in 2010 at RedState.com, reprised, without edit, by popular demand. A little dated but still a good tale.)
Are riff-raff runways in America’s future?
I’ll bet you didn’t know that Europe has had them...