First Bill Clinton, then Obama and then another Clinton. A dynasty of royals, not a regular political dynasty, mind you, but genuinely royals-of-the-mind, is now in launch mode in American politics….all premised on that singular comment by Louis XIV in…
Category: Editorials
“Papismus Lucifugus”; the Advent of Tribalism is Not Just in Our Politics, but in American Conservatism
A hat-tip to J D Vance’s heritage. I actually had this book, Papismus Lucifugus, one of only a few surviving. Dated 1668, it’s a record of a disputation between John Menzies of the (Church of Scotland) Divinity School at Marischal…
Of All the People Who Ever Asked People to Vote for Them…..
…Donald Trump was probably the only political player who never wanted, nor needed, additional money. This is why Donald Trump is a political enigma, and the entire political class is unable to even begin to fathom his true political purposes…any…
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, by Vassar
Meet Jack Goldfarb, He was God-Father to my first wife. In 1933 a Hungarian Jew got off the boat at Ellis Island, looking for a place to start a knitwear cut- and-sew operation. His name was Jack Goldfarb and he…
Next Question, Can a Sane Society Elect a Demented Man as President?
(I published this same question two days before the 2020 general election. And true to form, the Democrats stole it. Then, on January 6, the Democrats, under the assumption that the Trump majority would rise up to stop that steal…