America-Loving Democrats Meet their Grandchildren in Seattle
The reason we over-60 conservatives hang around is to remind Gen X'ers that this is not our first rodeo, and Millennials that this is not THE first rodeo. So far almost everything that has...
First Principles about America; First Questions
Is America an accident? A freak of Nature? Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design?
I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of that question here as that requires an inquiry into philosophy...
Process Republicans, the Bane of the Republic
Will Chamberlain, a millennial I think, late-30s-early 40s, a "modern" not-classical conservative, "Human Events" editor and DC-area attorney, recently Tweeted
"Trump is not the guy for 2024: he’ll be 78, he underperformed in 2020, we...
“An Extremity of Nominal Democracy”
Barbara Tuchman was one of my two favorite historians, (the other is still alive). She published The First Salute in 1988, then died of a stroke early the next year, so this book was to...
Oligarchs, Toward a Working Definition Inside the Deep State
Steve Bannon recently referred to Michael Bloomberg as an "oligarch", which I believe is a fair extension of the term, since it has been used selectively in the media to a more narrow club membership, as if Russian...
Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)
Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if anything about the shoulders they...