By God! I sat up with a start this morning, around 2:04. It hit me, “Why are we all pretending this is politics…when it’s revolution?” Their media, our media, their talk-show people, our talk show people, all have to pretend…
Category: Constitution
The Media and America’s Schedule X
Schedule X is not a tax form. During the Vietnam War the Schedule X was a government form that offices in military commands used to tell higher ups how we spent our day on the job. It was a simple form…
What Donald Trump Has Not Done, But Can and Should Do
Needed: A Forty-Year Legacy, not Eight Donald Trump has broken down major barriers simply by being elected president. In the broadest sense of the term, his election was “historic” for it represented the first time in many generations that the people of the United States,…
The Canons of Conservatism, “Those Other Guys”, and the Veterans, A Preamble
William F Buckley, Jr. was the founding figure of modern conservatism in America. He wrote God and Man at Yale when he was 25, and wrote many books afterward until he died in 2008. But he had an extra dimension which seems to have…
“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 have been her last salute. I…