…but our campaign is about groping.
Because issues in general, and the foreign-policy record in particular, are disastrous for her. Not to mention her lies and corruption.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Trump’s DC Policy Shop
Is collapsing because no one is getting paid.
I'm as shocked as everyone else that Trump runs his campaign as shoddily as he runs his businesses. Thanks again, Republican primary voters! https://t.co/2YZHFbZtnM
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) October 24, 2016
The Clinton Campaign
No, it didn’t deny being complicit in violence at Trump rallies. As Stephen notes:
A lie is the default response from the Clinton Camp, and if pressed they will admit to only as much truth as they absolutely must.
This has been the Clinton’s SOP for more than 30 years, and the Democrat-operatives-with-bylines are usually all-too-happy to play along.
It’s worth noting in this context that Bill Clinton has never denied raping Juanita Broaddrick. But of course, no one will ask him about it.
[Update a while later]
The incestuous Left and those who provide cover for them:
Extensive evidence from Wikileaks, FOIA responses, and “human sources” of the incestuous and improper coordination between the media and the Democrats have been detailed by Sharyl Attkisson…
Wikileaks promises to unleash even more insider accounts of the Clinton campaign and DNC shenanigans this coming week and has said it has even more current information — material respecting serious wrongdoing by the DNC head Donna Brazile and Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate Timothy Kaine coming up next. James O’Keefe of Project Veritas says that on Monday he is releasing a video of Robert Creamer, shown as a vote fixer in previous videos, coordinating with Clinton and Brazile. “Anything happens to me, there’s a deadman’s switch on Part III, which will be released Monday. @HillaryClinton and @donnabrazile implicated.”
The video is up now.
Hillary Clinton
A liberal society is one in which everybody has free-speech rights. A society in which some people have free-speech rights and some do not, depending on the self-interested whim of people with political power, is a totalitarian society realized to a greater or lesser degree. Heinrich Heine’s advice on the connection between the treatment of books and the treatment of human beings is always and forever relevant.
As I wrote recently, Trump has never read the Constitution. She hates it.
The Ascent Of Populism
A long but useful history of the conservative intellectual, from Matthew Continetti.
Getting Over “Apolloism”
My longish print essay at The New Atlantis is now on line.
The Echo Chamber
The roof blows off it:
There’s no way to tell what people think. It’s impossible for most Americans to form a judgment with which they feel comfortable, because they do not have sources of information they can trust. Fox News is in a civil war between the pro- and anti-Trump Republicans. The other networks are with Hillary. The major media outlets have lost credibility. Only 32% of Americans said they had “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of confidence in the news media in a September Gallup Poll survey. That’s the lowest level in history, and should be no surprise: the major media has to spin a new cover-up every couple of days, before it is finished putting the previous set of lies to bed.
That’s why Americans don’t simply watch the nightly news and go to bed. They read the rumors on the Internet and circulate them to their friends. They create networks of people they trust in the hope of obtaining an accurate account of what is happening around them.
That’s why I’m still calling this election for Donald J. Trump. The polls are meaningless. Perceptions are morphing as rapidly as the new-model Terminator in the molten steel vat at the end of the movie. The election will be won and lost a dozen times between now and Election Day. And when Americans finally go into the voting booth, they will not be able to think of a any reasons to vote for Hillary Clinton–only reasons to vote against Donald Trump. There are far more compelling reasons to vote against Clinton. And that’s how the election will go.
I hope this is true, but I’m skeptical.
Viewpoint Diversity On Campus
Heterodox U has put together a guide. My alma mater in Ann Arbor doesn’t fare well, but at least it’s not Missouri or Oregon. Keep it in mind both in sending your kid there, or hiring.
[Late-morning update]
Related: Are colleges making our young men sick? Despite all the blather about “rape culture,” the real war on campus is against them. And it starts in public schools, before they even get there.
Out Of The Woodwork
A new woman has claimed that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her.
Given his long history, I have absolutely no reason not to believe her.
Trump Is Right; The Election Is Rigged
In many ways, but also in the way that the last one was: By the IRS, which continues to target conservative groups. And it may continue under Trump, albeit possibly with different targets, but it definitely will under her. And he can be impeached and removed.
[Update a few minutes later]
Six ways the State Department tried to cover up her emails.
Man, that Trump dude is just crazy to think the game is rigged. I guess he was listening to these people too much.