The Left Blames Electorate for their Losses—and They’re Right
In the past, I have to admit that I’ve been skeptical about the wisdom of the average voter. I assumed that they were mostly low-information people, disinterested in politics and the positions of the candidates. They’d grown accustomed to checking off the boxes of the party candidates that they’d always selected.
But I am humbled and thrilled at the same time regarding this latest election.
Israel Post-Election
I’m an American, and I’m probably pretty typically American in my America-centric perspective. I think we’re a uniquely great, albeit imperfect, country and a great force for good in the world, and I’m very glad that I was fortunate enough to be born here and not in some third-world hellhole or, say, France.
I have a soft spot for the Anglosphere (excluding Quebec, but that’s another story), and particularly for Britain and Australia, but no nation other than my own is quite as dear to me as Israel.
One If By Land…
I drink Jim Beam because it’s a cheap, serviceable bourbon and, well, I pour a pretty stiff glass most nights. I went out today and bought something better: If Trump wins, as I hope and expect, then I’ll open this and toast to the Republican victory. If he doesn’t, then the bottle will go back on the shelf until that happy day when Democrats are out of the White House.
Four Years Later: Were Those Wisconsin Dropboxes Legal After All?
People will be talking about shenanigans in the 2024 election for a long time. I intend not to. Somehow I volunteered to try to figure out the 2020 shenanigan allegations, and I’m not done yet, and I have no interest in doubling the work. But if you want to figure something out for this year, well, some shenanigans overlap.
Once upon a time, there was something called Teigen vs. the Wisconsin Elections Commission. It was a big deal. It showed that a large number of votes in Wisconsin were illegally counted in 2020 after being cast improperly. Well over the Biden margin of victory of 20,000 in Wisconsin–we can estimate about 37,000.
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We Win, They Riot
The hysteria about the process, outcome and follow-up to the upcoming November 5 election is ramping up. Given the riots of June 2020, we have reason to be concerned. So, it’s gratifying that some people are being proactive in anticipation of political violence.
A small group of active and retired law enforcement officials, intelligence officials and national security analysts and legal scholars gathered to discuss the best ways to be prepared:
Obama, Harris, and Black Men
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It Could Have Been Worse
As I watched the interview of Kamala Harris, I found myself folded up in my chair, waiting for the worst. Her comments have been so cringe-worthy, her lies so obvious, her word salads so infamous, that I figured that the interview would be a disaster. Even her sidekick, Walz, wouldn’t be able to bail her out.
When the interview was over, I uncurled myself from my chair and breathed a sigh of relief. Well, it could have been worse.
“…Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”
Because US civic instruction in elementary school now consists of browbeating children with academically incompetent rants about America’s alleged founding in 1619 as a nation built on the backs of slaves, most young people probably have no idea what the Declaration of Independence is. Even many of us who were fortunate enough to learn about it in school might not remember the list of specific grievances offered to the King of England as justification for his colony’s decision to “alter or abolish” the colonial government and to institute a new one.
I think most people will be surprised to learn that the first three grievances are actually complaints, not of excessive royal oversight, but rather of a lack of adequate governance:
