With respect to Redstate, that is. For some time now I’ve been “signing off” at the end of all diaries and comments with an affirmation of proud membership here at Redstate that was robotically populated from my profile here at the website. Today that reads: Registered: 5 years, 7 months. To be absolutely clear, I was always and still remain proud of | Read More »
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.” – Barbara W. Tuchman “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read” – Charles “Tremendous” Jones Unfortunately for me, I did not acquire a serious | Read More »
You don’t undrop The Bomb. Thankfully, wisdom and character were rightly placed in history…the right decision came rather easy for Mr. Truman. (Just months removed from a post in the Senate, this may be the most fortunate and timely promotion…aside from General Grant to the Potomac…America has ever seen. If the Senate of the mid-1940s was anything like today’s, I wouldn’t bet two cents | Read More »
…emotions are high, tempers are short, and the time for talking (constructive debate) is nearly through. It’s time to play out the hand. The good guys are greatly outnumbered but firmly occupy the moral high ground (that’s why they’re the good guys). The case is simple: Hence, in this state of nature [inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety], no man has | Read More »
This morning’s perusal of Instapundit links sent me to Walter Russell Mead’s “How Al Gore Wrecked Planet Earth” (1) which, in turn, warmed my heart and left me reminiscing about some of the great Redstate global warming discussions from 2006-2007. Some of my (admittedly amateurish) contributions are archived (2)…links to other, more substantive entries would be greatly appreciated. Exact content aside, I enjoyed the | Read More »
“Revolutions, it is commonly observed, often break out not when circumstances are next to intolerable but when conditions begin rapidly to improve.” – Robert Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah If there is any truth in the above statement then somewhere there exists a threshold beyond which a mocked and belittled protest movement accelerates into something more substantive. I suspect that we are currently very | Read More »
In the spirit on Spartacus, I wish I could muster all of my Cornhusker bona fides…to include but not be limited to my eternal longing for the return of the tear away jersey, the fond memories of the greatest game program photo ever: Wonder Monds, my attendance at the 101th straight sell out at Memorial Stadium (no, the Ntrepid parents weren’t about to give the | Read More »
Even with a seeming over abundance of doom and gloom among the good guys these days I have absolutely no intention of offering comfort to the troops. The American spirit has seen darker days before: If we examine the pretensions of [congress], we shall, presently detect their injustice. First, they are subversive of our natural liberty, because an authority is assumed over us, which | Read More »
“She’s a Joke.” Sunday morning round table expertise boiled the entire ongoing Palin phenomenon to these three simple words on last week’s Stephanopoulos show. There may have been some (light hearted enough to barely contain the condescension) bantering and mild dissent but the tone I was getting all around seemed to indicate that the whole table thought it beneath them even to discuss her. I | Read More »
A 1973 column entitled “Barking Cats” gave us the following version of some great wisdom of the ages: What would you think of someone who said, “I would like to have a cat provided it barked”? Yet your statement that you favor [government intervention] provided it behaves as you believe desirable is precisely equivalent. The biological laws that specify the characteristics of cats are | Read More »
The Ntrepid family just completed a week long vacation to the state of my birth. It was eight mostly blissful days away from the habitual over consumption of news that mires my routine everyday life. Nothing but kids music and videos for endless hours in the car…a near perfect media blackout. A few items did stick with me along the way… (1) During | Read More »
(Ntrepid Lessons for all Ages…Learn Them While You’re Young) And so it was…as a rambunctious high school senior, your humble correspondent had run afoul of a very well thought out, firmly established, and oh-so-PC school policy and the wheels of the small town public school kangaroo justice system were spun up with extreme haste…we’re talking special school board sessions and all: The high | Read More »
Overheard somewhere on the airwaves during the last couple of days, I’m taking it on faith that that is the correct percentage of American Catholic voters that marked their ballots for Mr. Obama last November. Forgetting abortion for a moment, the fact that the candidate’s knowable record on new life outside the womb doesn’t warrant a greater than seventy percent result in the opposite direction | Read More »
(Starring Nancy Pelosi as Bill Foster) “I’m the bad guy? … How did that happen?” No, I really don’t expect to ever hear such an inquisitive realization from the intellectual blankness that is the current Speaker of the Unites States House of Representatives and second in line to the Presidency. However, it is possible that similar sentiments could soon be collectively uttered about her | Read More »
I imagine that I was like roughly 48% of the American electorate this week; I went to work everyday to earn my paycheck. I kept my nose to the grindstone for the entire shift (much like any other “normal” workday) and then came home in the evenings to doom and gloom about the imminent viral Armageddon. Two very different worlds just minutes apart. The | Read More »
To be honest, I’m not sure I can yet adequately define Sophomoric Wilsonianism as I intended it in the title. As for now this not-quite-defined phrase keeps bouncing around in my head as the best possible way to describe what is really more of a gut feeling of how I see this administration unfolding with its dangerous mandate for undefined “change”. I suspect the proper | Read More »
(Title references Ntrepid diary from nearly one year ago “…and I Reject Your Shallow Analysis of My Never-Cast-My-Vote-for-McCain Position” (1)) Before I go on, I’d like to invite (in a way that may be easily mistaken for urging strongly) the honorable John McCain to indefinitely suspend his Senate career in order to resume his 2008 general election presidential campaign. The overly handled, mildly humble yet | Read More »
More recent headlines with frequent references to meltdowns, bailouts, and change that include numerous phrases referencing many “hundreds of billions of dollars” now occupy our very limited national short term memory to the point that no one really seems to care about the causes of the large, sudden spike in oil / gas prices earlier this year. In the grand scheme of things, maybe it | Read More »
As fate would have it, the current month in the greatest free society the world has ever known will give two men the opportunity to execute the title maneuver. Both should jump at the chance but even the seditious elements within our intelligence community could easily assess “moderate-to-high confidence” that neither will. Shame. Since the names Vann Van Diepen, Thomas Fingar, and Kenneth Brill | Read More »
Here we sit on the verge of the promised (yet still undefined) change that we blindly selected for the next phase of the American experience and the Dictators of Culture in Hollywood have decided that this is as good a time as any to once again dig up old Republican transgressions in the form of a thirty year old interview in order to feel like | Read More »
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