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  • Presidential Voting Guide 2016!

    Now with each party’s nominee coming into focus, it’s time to decide whom to vote for in November. Here, I helpfully make recommendations tailored to each major voting bloc. Remember to vote, because your way of thinking is the only correct way of thinking, everyone! LIBERAL GLOBALIST Who you are: You know that real change…

  • “Serious” journalism is *supposed* to be biased, apparently.

    The venerable Columbia Journalism Review has long served as self-appointed arbiter of the rules that bind journalists, policing coverage for errors, bias or problems with tone. For instance, this Best-and-Worst list for 2015 gives praise where it was due (coverage of Bill Cosby; increasingly critical coverage of sports leagues, as opposed to ESPN’s advertorials) and…

  • The coming crisis of a kangaroo Supreme Court

    “Because in this post-rule-of-law stage of our republic’s decay, there’s really only one person in all the land whose opinion matters: Anthony Kennedy.” That’s a quote from anti-immigrant extremist Mark Krikorian. The thing is, though, it could have just as easily come from a left-wing writer — and it would have rung equally as true.…

  • Trump vs. the “cuckservative”

    Earlier, I attributed Trump’s temporary ascent in the polls to the Moron Demographic — those voters who also are the base for Sarah Palin, Rob Ford and Marion Berry. While morons make up part of Trump’s poll bump, I underestimated just how powerful Trump’s racist diatribe against Mexicans was for nativist and white supremacist conservatives. That rant,…

  • Why legalized bribery is bad

    You would think this is not a blog post that needs to be written, right up there with “Why legalized murder is bad” (if the Purge movies weren’t enough of a lesson there). But many on the right (and some Dems such as Hillary, as the Clinton Cash book makes clear) really do approve of…

  • Social justice vs. socialism

    A writer for the conservative Federalist website picks up on a failing of the modern Left that is becoming more and more apparent: an abandonment of the traditional support of the working class and its private-sector unions, in favor of more and more “diversity” or, as it is now becoming known as, “social justice.” Everyone…

  • Is there really no anti-Establishment Right?

    Kevin Drum and Ed Kilgore share a laugh over the idea of a populist, anti-Establishment Right that actually believes in what the Tea Party supposedly once stood for. …and [Kilgore’s] responding to the suggestion that the real divide in American politics isn’t between left and right, it’s between pro-corporate and anti-corporate. Spare me. Sure, the tea…

  • More on the right-leaning Establishment’s selection of the 2016 candidate here from one of the smartest thinkers on the Right (full disclosure: I went to elementary school with him). He notes an interesting enthusiasm gap these elites had for Mitt Romney compared to other candidates they found palatable — which makes his presence on the…

  • Why will Republicans be forced to vote for Jeb?

    Following up my previous post, as to why exactly Jeb will be the GOP’s 2016 candidate: he is the only one currently in the picture who a) is acceptable to the Establishment, and b) is electable. Here is why each other potential candidate will lose. Rand Paul – is almost as unacceptable to the Baby…

  • Hillary Clinton likes Henry Kissinger.

    A Slate writer picked up on this from her anodyne review of Kissinger’s book. Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels. Though we have often…