Time to Pretend I’m a Future Republican Strategist
Dear Mr. Puritan Descendant, Thanks so much for your letter to me, a “future Republican strategist”. Actually, it is not too far-fetched to think of me as a future political strategist as I have often...
View ArticleGreat to read others are still fisking…
Dear Sonic Charmer Crimson Reach, My last letter (almost two months ago and read by thousands no one) was a brilliant fisking, if I must say so myself. I’m glad to see you are keeping the art form...
View ArticlePaging Professor Feser
Benedict XVI: Reason’s Revolutionary By Samuel Gregg February 11, 2013 12:15 P.M. Ever since I started writing about Joseph Ratzinger in the late 1990s, two qualities about the man impressed me. The...
View ArticleThe problem with reactionaries, part 1
“You lost me at the cross. Look, philosophically, to the degree there is a first cause to our plight, it it starts with Jesus Christ. Everything bad that´s happened since ultimately stems from him and...
View ArticleAre Supporters Of Open Borders Capable of Rational Thought?
As much as opponents of open borders which to imagine otherwise, all that term really describes is a free market for human labor. In the presence of immigration restrictions, both sellers and buyers...
View ArticleA Couple Of Changes
Just a quick note to my thousands three readers — I decided to updates my links to remove “Aretae” and “OneSTDV” who were both good bloggers but decided to take down their public blogs. In their place,...
View ArticleThe Analogy Is Not The Reality
Opponents of immigration often compare nations to households. Under this analogy, citizens are members of the household, while an illegal immigrant is “like a roommate who doesn’t pay the rent.” We...
View ArticleTeamsters for Yitzhak Rabin…
…because everyone knows that truck drivers love the Jewish State and assassinated Israeli Prime Ministers get special love! And Local 700 gave $25,000 to the New York-based American Friends of the...
View ArticleAll Crimson Reach and Stationary Waves, All The Time…
So let’s sum up the dialogue so far: 1.People want to employ each other across borders, but laws prevent them from doing so. 2.I say, employment is a good thing, so let’s change the law accordingly....
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Education, Nobody Knows Nothing
I ask the Serras if there’s anything CPS could do to keep middle-class families. Sue says it should add more high schools with special programs for kids “who aren’t in the top 1 percent, but maybe...
View ArticleHe Never Said “Rivers of Blood”
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of...
View ArticleShameful
I recently read “What Went Wrong: The Collapse of the Israeli Palestinian Peace Process,” which appeared (behind a firewall) in Political Science Quarterly in the summer of 2001. (The essay is...
View ArticleRon Unz is Silly
The notion of individuals and businesses carrying their own weight seems just as alien to the sort of present-day Republicans whose perspectives are welcome within the confines of the elite media. For...
View ArticleNeil Steinberg Just Writes Bad Columns
Were I to ask you what color seat you would like on your bus trip to Cleveland, you would probably reply, “But I’m not going to Cleveland.” Were I to insist, fanning a few fabric swatches before you —...
View ArticleStar Wars Reacts to Chicago!
Some reactions from a galaxy far, far away concerning Chicago getting the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: Yoda: Lakefront in summer, beautiful it is; Norman Rockwell paintings are strong in the force as...
View ArticleWelcome to 2015
Dear faithful readers (all three of you — and I think you may all be spam bots), This blog has been dormant for the second half of 2014 and quite frankly wasn’t that active in the first half of 2014....
View ArticleMovies: I Saw A Few In 2014
Dear Netflix, Thanks for providing an excellent product/service. We just started using the streaming service in our house in 2014 and thanks to you I was able to catch up on a lot of Asian action films...
View ArticlePunk Rock Movie? More Like Off Key Death Metal
It seems presumptuous in mid-February to declare a movie one of the best of 2015, but “Kingsman: The Secret Service” is so entertaining, so fresh, and so fearless that it seems destined to outshine the...
View ArticleAnswering Rex Huppke’s Question for Mundelein’s Mayor
Mundelein Mayor Steve Lentz believes America is in a moral crisis. He said so during a Fourth of July speech that wound up grabbing headlines, an address that veered from standard patriotic talk into...
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