The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
Yes, seriously. Excerpt:
Though I am an unlikely messenger at first glance — rest assured that the name that I carry is antithetical to the values I hold — my heart is in the right place: with you. The level of urgency coupled with the platform afforded to me by my circumstance compel me to speak up and warn you before it is too late.
She said so right here:
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From his review of Michael Anton’s new book, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return in the Clairmont Review of Books, The Election to End All Elections:
They (the Ruling Class) do not believe they have to worry about controlling their own violent troops because they are sure that they have nothing to fear from conservatives. That is because conservatives have continued to believe that the United States’s institutions and those who run them retain legitimacy. Conservative complaisance made possible a half-century of Progressive rule’s abuse.
When the belief in that legitimacy goes away, they’re going to get a hell of a shock.
As always with Prof. Codevilla, read the whole thing.
…is this one:
If Hunter “gave” his father half of everything he got paid, Burisma, the Chicoms, the Russian oligarch’s wife, what are the tax implications for his father, not to mention the foreign influence questions? That should be the real story. And when was the last time Joe Biden got audited by the IRS?
AMERICA DOESN’T HAVE TWO PARTIES. IT HAS ONE PARTY, WHICH SURE, HAS ITS FLAWS. AND THEN IT HAS THE DEMOCRATS, WHICH ARE A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY SKINSUITING A POLITICAL PARTY. THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE TWO PARTIES AGAIN IS TO SLAP THE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY SO HARD THEY TASTE 2024. LET’S GET TO IT. – Sarah Hoyt
Republicans believe the Supreme Court exists to defend the Constitution. Democrats believe the Supreme Court exists to ram through their policy agenda. – Twitter, October 12
.204 Ruger T/C Encore. 32 grain Nosler lead free Ballistic Tip. Single GSW to the chest. Didn’t exit.
DRT.
They know to fear me now.
Suicide of the Liberals, by Gary Saul Morson.
Pullquotes:
Between 1900 and 1917, waves of unprecedented terror struck Russia. Several parties professing incompatible ideologies competed (and cooperated) in causing havoc.
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Instead of the pendulum’s swinging back—a metaphor of inevitability that excuses people from taking a stand—the killing grew and grew, both in numbers and in cruelty.
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How did educated, liberal society respond to such terrorism? What was the position of the Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party and its deputies in the Duma (the parliament set up in 1905)? Though Kadets advocated democratic, constitutional procedures, and did not themselves engage in terrorism, they aided the terrorists in any way they could. Kadets collected money for terrorists, turned their homes into safe houses, and called for total amnesty for arrested terrorists who pledged to continue the mayhem.
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One sometimes hears that “the pendulum is bound to swing back.” But how does one know there is a pendulum at all, rather than—let us say—a snowball accelerating downhill? It is unwise to comfort oneself with metaphors. When a party is willing to push its power as far as it can go, it will keep going until it meets sufficient opposition.
Seriously. Read it. History doesn’t repeat, but it very often rhymes.
I attended Blogorado for the first time in 2017. I missed it in 2018 due to my illness. I tried as hard as I could to make it to the 2019 gathering, but that effort ended in disaster when I managed to blow up the engine in my truck, stranding me in Las Vegas, NM. That was the most expensive vacation (that wasn’t) I’ve ever experienced in my life. I could’ve taken my wife to Tahiti for what that ended up costing.
Blogorado 2020 is this weekend. I leave tomorrow. I’ve never needed a vacation this badly in my life.
I’m taking the T-shirts I had made for last year:
That’s “the most photographed barn in Colorado.” It’s gone, now, but not forgotten.