UPDATE 12/30/22: Greeting the new year, it would be preferable if the sky were sparkly blue and the punctuation an enthusiastic exclamation point rather than a big, fat, doubtful question mark. However, engagement in real life more often than not involves stormy skies and doubt; but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. So against the universal, age-old challenge of life itself, we wish you a new beginning fired by determined purpose and cheerful outlook despite it all. Happy New Year! As Mr. Berlin exulted:
12/29/22: Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, is 93 and still the model of that precious breed of American businessman fully aware and appreciative of the source of his success.
UPDATE 12/28/22: The GOP is heading for major division as the MAGA base wants Trump while those running the Party have other plans.
UPDATE 12/25/22: The war on America takes in all things worthwhile, and that includes Christmas, this most anticipated, magical, happiest day of the year. If nothing else, we conservatives are realists and well-versed in finding and CONSERVING the best of an imperfect life despite the Woke grinches at work 24/7/365. So may we be cheerful and draw inspiration on this and all days despite…things. “It’s always something,” as the great Gilda sighed, and we’ll just handle it. Merry Christmas!
UPDATE 12/24/22: How different our lives would be but for the astonishing heroism of Washington and his men crossing the Delaware on Christmas Eve, 1776 and turning the tide of the war toward American victory. As great a gift as was ever bestowed on humanity.
12/21/22: There’s a price for everything of value, and nowadays the price for speaking up and out loudly for America and its freedom-based values is costing even brave billionaires dearly. The first obvious hero is Donald Trump, and now Elon Musk is drawing the same threats to his very being. After releasing the Twitter Files dynamite, he has drawn criticism for taking down posts of malicious doxxers including one that tracks his exact location, an open invitation to any potential assassin. Seemingly in response, Musk proposed a poll to Twitter users to determine whether he should step down as the company’s CEO and vowed to go with the poll results. It makes no sense for the man who forked over $44 billion for a company to ask the public permission to run the thing. The only explanation is that he is seeking an excuse to lay low, and now it looks as if the majority vote against him is providing that excuse. One only hopes he remains the man behind the curtain to keep the revelations coming and the channels of communication open and free. He has every reason to fear for himself and his family, and we pray he uses every resource to protect himself while continuing to blast open the corruption that genuinely threatens America as we’ve always known her. He, like Trump, is one of those rare characters that this historical moment demands if we are to survive as a nation.
UPDATE 12/19/22: Santa has a list, so why not the American public? Here’s a list that should be the talking points of every candidate for high public office. Not by chance, it is also a list for anyone who wants the best life for themselves in America.
Among many conservatives lost in 2022, we will particularly miss P.J. O’Rourke and Lucianne Goldberg for the gold of humor and fun they brought to the big debate.
UPDATE 12/21/22: Donald Trump and MAGA came along at a troubled stretch on the American timeline that really began on November 22, 1963. Things were never the same after that indelible shock to the system, that psychological earthquake that marred everything idyllic, invincibly optimistic about post-WWII America. If we’ve learned anything, it is that things both good and bad are transitory, but the basis of the country, our God-given fundamental rights, must stand firm and out of reach from human mischief. Otherwise, all is truly lost.
UPDATE 12/16/22: The spirit of Christmas and Chanukah meld happily with the American spirit at this time of year. We Americans are particularly fortunate to have enjoyed the lives we have and rejoice quite naturally in all things good and true.
UPDATE 12/15/22: Elon Musk has burst forth as an American hero with the Twitter revelations and the major corrections that can result from newly freed speech, a free press. Will those on the moderate Left begrudgingly admit the dangers of their beloved Woke corporate culture? Do they know they too can be swallowed whole by the monster they have helped bring into being?
UPDATE 12/8/22: Virtually every article praising Trump is prefaced with a qualification or insistence that the man isn’t perfect or not that writer’s cup of tea. Nevertheless, goes the typical apologia, his record as President speaks volumes in his favor. The latest of these begrudgingly pro-Trump articles is no exception, actually recommending him for the Nobel Peace Prize! We couldn’t agree more! His commonsensical antipathy toward Iran and China and creation of an unprecedented stability in the Middle East justifies such an honor. Sadly, such prizes have been discredited by the Leftward Wokeness of recent (the last 50 years) recipients, so we’ll settle for the prize of a second term for the best POTUS thus far of the 21st century.
UPDATE 12/5/22: Trump’s vindication, sooner or later, must come if the reality of what’s happening to the country ever dawns on the general public. At what point, does the collective mind focus and rational self-interest kick in? It’s a great misfortune that there will be no move in this direction by the incoming Republican establishmentarians as the top Repub Intel chief trashes Trump, hails Zelensky calling for yet more Ukraine funding and generally sounds like a member of BrandonWorld.
UPDATE 12/2/22: Defining oneself and general outlook as “conservative” is quite the opposite of reactionary stagnation as those on the Left would claim. Conserve what’s worthwhile in service to letting free life bloom and grow in every direction.
For example, Christmas. Who’d have dreamed that freely celebrating Christmas as we always did was dependent upon which Party was in power? That saying “Merry Christmas” would become an offense?
UPDATE 12/1/22: Philosopher/pundit Jordan Peterson and Congressman Mike Johnson are two of today’s most worthwhile voices, one a crystal-clear socio-political thinker, the other a politician who thinks. What they have in common is a full awareness of our world and total dedication to conserving the best in it. [P.S. Peterson has brilliantly avoided being shouted down in public like other outspoken conservatives by delivering his live lectures at 8 am which is hours before most shrieky wastrels of Woke bother to wake up. The man has a rational response to everything.]
UPDATE 12/1/22: It’s a handful of big-mouth bullies dictating the Woke culture, dividing each against the other, blackening the mood of the country. Corporations and individuals must talk back, call out the lies and absurdity and become the prevailing winds of our culture.
UPDATE 12/1/22: It’s going to be Trump & De Santis. The others are just inserting themselves to make anti-MAGA mischief and/or create distraction.
UPDATE 11/29/22: Both a credit to their home state of Louisiana, rising Repub stars in Congress Steve Scalise and Mike Johnson bring class and clarity to the GOP.
UPDATE 11/27/22: This post’s obvious comparison last week of Trump to Gary Cooper in “High Noon” is evident to others who also view him as the unbeaten lone warrior refusing to go down while fighting on our behalf. It should also be noted this is not a personality disposed toward martyrdom, however determined his enemies are to crucify him. Whatever the outcome, let the record show we’ve had a rare fighter in our corner.
UPDATE 11/24/22: Wishing each and all a Happy distinctly AMERICAN Thanksgiving! Without this particular holiday, those other special days and everyday reasons for celebration would not exist.
UPDATE 11/22/22: Granting ourselves an “AWWWWW!” moment to enjoy the story of 53 rescue doggies miraculously surviving a plane crash and finding forever homes. It’s generally a harsh world for both humans and dogs, but life at moments can be like the happy ending of an old Disney movie.
And then there’s this heart-tugging expression of Mother Nature at Her kindest and best:
UPDATE 11/22/22: One of many personal reasons for gratitude in this life granted me is the presence of books, physical, dog-eared books with pages and print that sit on my shelves. along with recordings and sheet music. They are more than abstract data and information as the digital world presents them, invisible, two-dimensional in cyberspace. They exist, alive, in real space like the people who wrote them and, for that matter, myself.
UPDATE 11/21/22: De Tocqueville is always illuminating and offers a prescient Big Warning of what NOT to do that IS being done to us.
UPDATE 11/20/22: There are now doubts about De Santis thanks to his RINO backers, but unsurprisingly little doubt about Trump and his plans for 2024. The Great Naranjo is not going anywhere, is BIGLY going for a THIRD Presidential election victory in order to serve the second term denied him in 2020. Helping this drive for restoration is Elon Musk’s reactivation of banned accounts including Trump’s with 80 million followers suddenly pouring in for him. The Donald is still very much in the picture thanks to his refusal to concede defeat and the wave of emboldened citizens he inspires. We have no other comparable figure fighting fiercely on the conservative side within memory, and tens of millions are convinced more than ever that such a personality is still necessary to push back against the indefatigable Left’s drive for total control.
UPDATE 11/20/22: DJT is back on Twitter which is at least a sign that free speech still exists in Brandon’s America…despite Brandon. But did you get the dire update from Babylon Bee? 13 billion dead after Donald was unbanned from Twitter!
UPDATE 11/17/22: We still live in colonial Salem, the 21st century witches condemned to burn at the stake being those uppity high-volume voices thumbing their noses at the Woke Establishment high priests. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Kanye West, even with their personal flaws, stand out admirably among those leading this righteous insurrection, and to bring the current pandemic of repression to a halt, we must continue to back them up and take no soft-sold substitutes. Without free speech, there is no freedom. These are Ibsen’s Enemies Of The People, Gary Cooper standing alone against the Miller gang arriving at High Noon, Ayn Rand heroes defying and laughing at the pygmies, the Galileo heretics who take the blows for speaking on behalf of truth-lovers everywhere. They will ultimately prevail or, at worst, go down fighting.
UPDATE 11/16/22: Conservatives find themselves stretched uncomfortably in a tug-of-war between an immensely attractive, proven De Santis and DJT, the indomitable force who still intends to win the war for us and settle for nothing less. His first address to the public as a 2024 candidate has proven to be a refreshing reminder of what has brought at least half the country into the MAGA movement. De Santis has a record that is persuasively solid and worth supporting, but does he really have the autonomy enjoyed by Trump who, unlike De Santis (if reports of his prominent Trump-hating backers are to be believed), is beholden only to himself?
This is high drama that isn’t make believe. Trump is at the forefront of a moment of truth, and the outcome could well be both tragic and heroic for him personally and for an American republic we’re struggling to keep.
In the meantime, President Schmesident. Will the Republican-controlled Congress lay bare and fully address the Covid travesty, the illegal immigration disaster, the inflation monster, the Biden Crime Family (aka Hunter’s laptop), the normalizing of “Climate Change” and “Gender Spectrum” horsepucky now respectively terrorizing and mutilating the young? Kurt Schlichter sensibly proposes NEW, effective, kick-ass GOP leadership that is never to come from the tepid trio of McConnell, McCarthy or McDaniel. He suggests Matt & Mercedes Schlapp or almost-NY Governor Lee Zeldin perhaps? There’s plenty of long overdue do-or-die stuff to handle as of yesterday without worrying about 2024.
UPDATE 11/11/22: Some of us are observing Veterans Day with a special emphasis on the character of an era when young people grew up directly into adulthood, not into prolonged, sometimes lifelong adolescence. Hats off to those willing to sacrifice, serve and display those qualities for the rest of their days as spouses, parents and citizens.
UPDATE 11/10/22: The forward-looking confidence of three days ago has been somewhat compromised by the unexpected Wave That Didn’t Happen. De Santis’ unquestioned triumph and Florida’s decisive Red Wave should be heartening, but there are warnings that he could be a tool for those Never Trump RINO/Globalist types too eagerly backing him, not to mention Far Leftist media lining up likewise. Legitimately, De Santis may very well be right on the issues in thought and deed, more electable, less divisive than Trump; but the relentless campaign against the Man From MAGA, now gone viral post-Election, bodes no good.
Reports of Florida’s Breakers Hotel suddenly canceling David Horowitz’ Freedom Center conference after 20 years (“too controversial”) adds worrisome intrigue to an ever-thickening plot. Who/what is behind that? Is anything what it seems? Most disturbing is covert corruption of the voting process nationwide the piling on Trump, major ingratitude for his bringing the Republican Party to purposeful life, now signaling the extreme likelihood of a Return Of The RINOS as the future GOP.
Rampant crime, wide open borders, exploding inflation, consumer costs out of sight, energy dependence upon Russia and the Arabs, subverting Israel in favor of blatant Middle Eastern villains Iran and so-called “Palestinians,” a neutered military, CRT and Gender Spectrums fast replacing the 3Rs…This is America? Forget about the Dem policy creating all this. One is faced with the reality of A DEEPLY UNSERIOUS and malignant strain running through the exiled RINO leadership ranks determined to make a return and carried along by an easily indoctrinated GOP electorate with only NEVER TRUMP stamped on their lazy brains.
Acknowledging our disappointment, let’s grant ourselves a little much-need levity and relief that this clownish figure among SO many has, for the moment, been removed from the stage and relegated to harmless limbo.
UPDATE 11/7/22: As the midterms approach, the tremors of fear are slowly becoming a high-pitched scream for “SHAMNESTY” and “Never mind!” throughout the higher-up ranks responsible for the obscenities of the last couple of years. First there was last week’s plea for mercy from The Atlantic. Now, it appears that certain members of the formerly untouchable Deep State and Swamp are rushing the gates of the embassy hoping for a free helicopter ride out. One could elaborate, but the only rational thing to demand is lay out the cases, one by one by one by one and “Let Justice Be Served.” This will take years, but there needs to be an omnipresent fear of retribution to head off those contemplating a Re-do of BrandonWorld, 2020-2022. For the good of us all, no more appeasement and capitulation.
UPDATE 11/12/11: Trump’s recent tirades against De Santis originally have appeared imprudent, but can one blame him after 6 years of being the one who seriously has taken on the corrupt DC establishment of both parties and gotten nothing but grief for his tireless bravery? Will he turn out to be, when and if the dust ever settles, the only David truly serious about taking on the Goliath of Deep State/Swamp corruption? Now that it’s clear that much of De Santis’ backing is of the Never Trump variety, a Trump/De Santis reconciliation can never come about. This is the thanks he gets, and it’s a bitter pill for the MAGA movement.
UPDATE 11/4/22: Has the gigantic fraud on every imaginable front been exposed, and is our upside-down nation about to be righted? Are we on the brink of a seismic shift all freedom-loving, commonsensical Americans will celebrate?
Our sanity and physical survival demands eradication of the Party of lockdowns, vax/mask mandates, suicidal Green New Deals, runaway inflation, wide open borders, CRT and gender counseling in grade schools…One could go on, but this simply cannot go on.
UPDATE 11/2/22: The Red Wave is hitting social media as well as (hopefully) the halls of government. Much to the regret of the totalitarian Left (now in full control of the Democrat Party), Musk’s move to Free The Bird promises a resurgence of free speech. What a relief but how tragic to ponder the very notion of “the comeback of free speech in America.” Without free speech, America does not even exist.
UPDATE 11/5/22: Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has become a national phenomenon thanks to her fearless approach to her critics and clear expression of MAGA ideas. Her political history is all over the place, from Republican to Obama to MAGA. Like any politician and even Trump himself, she is to be assessed for what she ultimate DOES. At least she has given it all serious thought and is able to discern what works and what is folly. Then, as with all politicians, we wait to see if those good ideas are put into action.
UPDATE 10/27/22: Sad to report, our great friend Lucianne Goldberg, she of the wickedly amused Cheshire cat grin and doyenne of Lucianne.com, has passed on at age 87. For the last couple of decades, this wonderfully humorous, rock-solid great dame presided over the Conservative Internet as its undisputed grande dame. She will be sorely missed as a friend and heartening presence who now takes her place in history alongside other departed champions of the American essence like Rush Limbaugh and Andrew Breitbart. God bless and keep her.
Time Magazine described her here in 1998: “With her gold cigarette holder and her swampy voice, she seemed a cross between Angela Lansbury and Jimmy Cagney. She made straight for the bar, and conversational clusters parted like the Red Sea as she passed.” Hee hee….
This video will make you smile and find that life is still worthwhile as she was eminently able to make her friends and admirers do.
UPDATE 10/29/22: What’s potentially big about Musk’s Twitter takeover is that free speech unencumbered by fear of reprisal spreads like wildfire which poses a serious problem for the PC/Cancel Culture/Progressive scoundrels. Not incidentally, it’s very, very, very good for decent, liberty-loving folk.
UPDATE 10/27/22: Combined with a hoped-for midterms election sweep for Repubs, will Elon Musk’s promise of free speech on Twitter herald the beginning of the end of BrandonWorld?
UPDATE 10/23/22: Dare we share the hopes of a pundit or two that we are looking at an American voting public happily possessed by the spirit of common sense and a healthy instinct for self-preservation, resulting in a conservative landslide beyond our wildest dreams?
UPDATE 10/27/22: Despite every imaginable obstacle presented short of literal assassination, Trump remains the most important, effective figure in American politics.
UPDATE 10/9/22: It’s a brighter future when the legal system is working in favor of rationality and basic American rights on a host of contentious fronts.
Sitting judges in growing numbers are coming to their senses and refusing to hire Woke Yale law graduates. That Yale J.D. degree used to be the fast track to the cushiest jobs until (like everything else it touches) the Left ruined it. Adding to the woes of the perverted Left, a Federal judge has ruled workplace pronouns and unisex bathrooms unlawful. Equally worrisome for those nostalgic for universal lockdowns and masks is a Florida ruling against forced vax mandates in private businesses.
MAGA underpinned by our legal system is truly becoming a reality, not just a hopeful slogan!
UPDATE 9/27/22: The Left is supposedly all for Strong Women, but one senses Italy’s newly elected Giorgia Meloni, Britain’s Liz Truss and American-spirited, liberty-minded counterparts everywhere (including America!) are not what they have in mind. Already the hyenas are howling worldwide about Meloni in predictable unison: Fascist! White Supremacist! Mussolini!
“Everything that defines us is now an enemy, so they attack national identity, they attack religious identity, they attack gender identity, they attack family identity. I can’t define myself as Italian, Christian, woman, mother, no. I must be citizen x, gender x, parent 1, parent 2. I must be a number, because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators.”
The enemy is also accurately termed globalists, the EU, WEF totalitarians who rightly view such moves toward national sovereignty and independence as THE threat to their dreams of absolute power.
UPDATE 9/25/22: The heroic actions of a principled individual refusing to be silenced here, another one there, is the stuff of history’s few worthwhile revolutions. And it appears we are overdue for such a turnaround.
UPDATE 9/25/22: As in the Obama days when the leader of the Free World was Netanyahu, the new British PM Liz Truss, speaking at the UN, is said by hopeful sources to have assumed that presence in the absence of anything honorable at the American helm.
Not so promising are reports Truss intends to step up mass migration into the UK despite an overburdened treasury and a notably bad record of criminal activity among the new arrivals.
UPDATE 9/28/22: Is Trump the only one with the mettle to turn back the overwhelming forces allied against him and what he has come to represent?
9/21/22: America was built on a can-do foundation of common sense. Our future depends upon the mass survival of that trait, the ability shared by all rational people to know and remain in command of what is good for them vs. what isn’t. Not touching a hot stove is one example. Letting those deemed “smarter” (like a Barack, Hillary and their Ivy League ilk) do your thinking for you is another. Sadly, the all-too-willing prey for these control freaks and purported intellectual giants are those individuals who have lost faith in their own reasoning. The good news is that such “smart” types find themselves helpless morons when faced with common sense from their targeted victims.
Read Jason Hill’s open letter to the lifeless embarrassment occupying the White House for reliable guidance to common sense conservatism and rational thinking. And then, there’s always Jordan Peterson.
9/16/22: America, in its first 200 years the incomparable model for a society based on individual liberty underpinned by law, owes its existence to the equally incomparable legacy of Great Britain when she ruled the waves and genuinely civilized the world. Queen Elizabeth II was the last living vestige of that rich history, and her passing leaves one with a sense of loss, not simply of a person but possibly of an entire civilization.
UPDATE 9/8/22: QEII was an attractive, calm presence whose post-WWII reign coincided with both the peak of American greatness and her own country’s slide into socialist levelling. The long “special relationship” enjoyed between America and Britain also included a shared inclination in that discouraging direction periodically stalled both here and there by bursts of relaxed governmental regulation, lower taxes and resultant economic prosperity. Throughout all these cycles, the Queen stood away and above politics, keeping her opinions to herself, expertly filling the rather more spiritual role of monarch, matriarch, living embodiment of Britannia herself. Knowing as much as we do about her successor, he will never enjoy the authority and respect she commanded. (See THE GREAT RESET, 9/9/22)
All the heartfelt tributes pouring in, even from self-described socialists and champions of “equity,” dramatize a universal longing for stability, continuity, reassurance that basic things hold together and don’t change. She remained a steadfast object of admiration and source of confidence, a regal presence going quite seriously through all those ceremonial gestures miraculously devoid of bombast, mother of the family, simply There. Quoting one of the better tributes, “She never made the mistake of thinking that she was an interesting or remarkable person in herself, and thereby became remarkable.
The stark contrast between this unassuming, comforting presence and her politicized, pompous, puppet heir is a blunt reminder of how far Western Civilization has strayed and will continue to break loose from its majestic foundations. With or without Elizabeth, it’s long been apparent that something has been slipping away, something has been lost. No longer are common sense and self control the norm in human affairs. Where is the reverence for the proven genius of the past without which America and Europe have no future? Something is now missing thanks to the mainstreamed attraction to worthless ideas. We knew there would be an void when she was gone, and it is about to become obvious what that is.
When we say, “God save the Queen” we are really asking, “God save the best that is in us.”
UPDATE 9/4/22: Yes, America can be fixed. Just scale back government and useless laws, get people off welfare by freeing the markets and all the jobs and consumer choices that come with that: beef up border security; and leave me the hell alone unless I invite you over.
UPDATE 9/4/22: One American, an uppity Black one as Democrats would view him, lays it out eloquently for the skinny little Adolf aspirant. Likewise another Black African immigrant.
UPDATE 8/30/22: It’s hard to argue with Trump’s singular power to create and sustain MAGA, a true conservative movement. The desperate fury that his enemies will unleash upon his re-election will be matched and surpassed by the triumph of American principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. No Left-leaning candidate or electorate will produce that simply because, on all counts, it is the antithesis of what they want.
UPDATE 8/24/22: The victory of parents over Leftist schools boards in Florida is an encouraging reassertion of the family and parental authority.
UPDATE 8/22/22: It has become evident that the war on Trump is the war on you: the intimidation and silencing of the individual living and thinking independently of a cabal of self-appointed Global Masters. The mask/vax narrative is a call to mass obedience, not health. and has provided the foundation for this Great Reset now exponentially stepped-up since the illegal installation of BrandonWorld, November 2020.
For realists, fear is a rational response: BUT there is also a widespread belief that we are witnessing the forced exposure of a tyrannical claque of elitists that can no longer hide its motives or designs of transforming all of humanity into a One World nightmare under their control. This international Mafia of billionaires and totalitarian ideologues has desperately gone a step too far publicly in their reach for absolute power . One writer identifies them optimistically as a “dying establishment” while another observes elitists on a suicide trajectory, American leadership in “hellish ruins” (bright Brit Melanie Phillips) with the ever-reliable Victor Davis Hansen hailing the self-immolation of the “worst and the stupidest.”
There IS cause for hope when the evil in this world ultimately ends up being the principal party to its own destruction.
UPDATE 8/21/22: It is a fool who doesn’t fully appreciate something precious before he suffers the shock and pain of finding it gone. This is an apt description of America and the freedoms we enjoyed before the Covid plot was crashed into us like those flying 9/11 bombs. There can and must be recovery, and if a true American spirit has survived, we can never take any of this for granted again.
UPDATE 8/20/22: Hello, Hurricane Harriet!
UPDATE 8/17/22: The lockdowns and a renewed appreciation of self-sufficiency has sent a number of enterprising Americans back to the farm.
UPDATE 8/17/22: By setting up ESAs (Empowerment Scholarship Accounts) usable at any school of choice, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey joins the growing crusade to put parents fully back in charge of their children’s education.
UPDATE 8/17/22: Alas, poor Lizard. We knew ye too well. Even the NY Times this morning has been forced to admit “He has become the rare defeated president to wield enormous sway over his party, with the ability to end careers (like Cheney’s, perhaps) and to turn once-obscure candidates into winners.”
No wonder the Dem/RINO alliance has taken to such desperate measures as early morning jackboot raids and as many trumped-up (!) charges and indictments as it will take. They certainly don’t intend to let the average voting American decide.
UPDATE 8/16/22: Anyone writing favorably and admiringly of America these days is considered suspect by the usual suspects. For them, anything reducing America in status among history’s nations is to be applauded. David McCullough told the story of a country he unabashedly admired without overlooking its flaws as one would in describing a great person. Perhaps that was his appeal: he saw America herself as he would a totally human, imperfect yet undeniable hero. And that is the reason he is to be admired and continually read, hopefully for generations to come.
UPDATE 8/15/22: The hypothetical has been posed that Trump could decide against running in hopes of getting the NeverTrumpers in both parties to stop their relentless assault on him and his family. However, unlike Bush, Romney and McCain, eager to appease and even accommodate their former enemies, Trump is by nature unlikely to give them an inch. His post-raid statement confirms his determination to continue his mission and rid us of The Swamp. This persecution is also solidifying his presence as the real leader of the Republican, conservative movement, not those RINOs “meeting in the middle” to avoid any unpopular policies that truly advance a free market and strong defense, ie, a traditionally AMERICAN way of life.
UPDATE 8/10/22: It’s hard to argue against Trump’s Truth Social statement that we are “A Nation In Decline.” Hate him (and us!) as they do, they cannot refute a single claim made in his statement. We are slipping into unchecked tyranny, and those currently too blind to see, will find themselves wondering how they suddenly lost all the rights they took so blithely for granted. Perhaps experiencing a sudden loss of mobility, livelihood, liberty will bring some to an inner resurgence of American spirit. Cynically and realistically, it’s more likely they will rationalize their predicament as a good thing. “Anything’s better than having Donald Trump as President!” God sees all things, including fools incapable of seeing themselves.
8/11/22: UPDATE 8/13/22: Looking forward to the political obliteration of the odious opportunist Liz Cheney with phenomenal firebrand Harriet Hageman. Listen to this woman and cheer hopefully for the future of the country.
8/11/22: As Ruth King accurately states, the popular David McCullough books and tv appearances are the best available antidote to CRT and the other Hate America propaganda poisoning curricula via the Left’s Long March through our entire educational system.
UPDATE 8/9/22: Living the American spirit goes inseparably with the willingness to fight and die for it. Short of bloodshed, rational people build movements, and it behooves us to know about how that has been done successfully throughout our history. Bayard Rustin and his part in cementing a real civil rights movement during the 60s has never been so worthy of study as the present.
UPDATE 87/22: Medal of Honor winners reflect on the heroism that earned them their richly deserved acknowledgment. “It’s about men and women who value something so strongly that they’d be willing to die for it.”
UPDATE 8/19/22: Fundraising for The Donald is through the roof after the Gestapo raid at Mar-A-Lago. For those J6ers and their cronies hoping to see “the noose tightening,” “the walls closing in,” he has a word for them: sad. Another word for them: boomerang.
UPDATE 8/2/22: These dozen minutes of pure American spirit bring all of life’s mundane difficulties into perspective.
UPDATE 8/1/22: The original Constitutional concept of states being largely independent of the Fed is central to disabling the toxins of power metastasizing in Washington. The Electoral College is the most obvious example of this, the Supreme Court’s recent decision returning a major issue to state legislatures another. A hopeful development is the new initiatives being taken by the states to oversee and enforce election laws.
UPDATE 8/1/22: Calvin Coolidge provides a reminder of what our leaders are supposed to be. Typically, our elected class gives the term “politician” an obscene name. Note that Silent Cal’s success was based on the wisdom, “Less is more.”
And then there’s this wonderfully persuasive argument for NOT remaining silent.
UPDATE 8/2/22: Doing everything possible to destroy and erase Trump & MAGA from view is THE Dem (and RINO) Party platform and promise for Americans. Unbeknownst to them, this is of less than no benefit to most decent people who want to live prosperous, free lives, and it has to come back to haunt them not only in the upcoming election but for the long haul.
UPDATE 7/28/22: Heartening news to see through Bruce Bawer’s knowledgeable eyes that Britain’s Tory Party currently resembles Trump’s MAGA. Bad Hair Boris seemed to be the British Trump which proved illusory. Instead, we are gifted with young, formidable presences like Kemi Badenoch who needn’t be the “new/next” anything, just themselves: common sense conservatives.
UPDATE 7/27/22: The bad news is everywhere, and this post serves as the place to stress the positive. Russian-born satirist Konstantin Kisin expounds with Epoch Times and expands humorously “with Sebastian Gorka on his “An Immigrant’s Love Letter To The West.” His voice is both an appreciation and a warning to the blind and deaf taking our way of life for granted.
UPDATE 7/27/22: Whether or not he’s the candidate in 2024, he has come to represent the battle lines now more clearly drawn (by him!) than any time within memory. We would cheer to see him be the one to continue leading the charge. If not him, De Santis will do nicely.
UPDATE 7/19/22: Free speech mixed with comic genius informed by deep insight into human nature added up magnificently to Joan Rivers. She was kindred spirit to her equally outrageous friend Donald Trump both of whom said what we would have loved to say and, in his case, in heroic service to preserving our vibrant American way of life. Oh what she would have made of Biden, Harry & Megan, Kamala!!
UPDATE 7/19/22: One man against the world. Jonathan Issac. A true inspiration and role model for anyone forced to confront the Woke/Covid mob these days.
UPDATE 7/18/22: The bad news continues to pile up to such a height that one is forced to dissociate by habit. Grim daily tidings added to very real personal woes are so real that it seems no one is immune to misery or entitled to a moment’s relief to enjoy the blessings most of us have enjoyed throughout our lives.
Nevertheless, we must. Paraphrasing the Bible, you are commanded to be happy or die. It’s counsel well taken and undoubtedly at the heart of what allowed this country to be born and thrive so miraculously against all odds for these 250 years.
No Pollyanna pretense here. It’s a challenge, a gauntlet thrown down on a daily basis.
UPDATE 7/16/22: A new school like University of Austin offering a truly LIBERAL arts education to young people stands out in 2022 America like a beautiful garden in a South Side Chicago shooting gallery.
UPDATE 7/14/22: Hillsdale College’s Larry Arnn finds himself in hot water correctly describing American teachers in general these days as “trained at the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country.” Naturally, the unions and other Progs object to such legitimate criticism since they believe participation trophies are all that matter, not excellence and positive results.
UPDATE 7/15/22: America is not finished so long as people retain their vision of what it should be. This boils down to finding and voting for the most electable, conservative candidates, not for symbolic figures of protest as in the case of Ross Perot in 1988 which gave us the Clintons. On an optimistic note, the Democrats have gone so far around the bend and damaged so many lives that even the average voter has to feel the negative effects and vote for common sense, not unicorn fantasies and outright lies.
UPDATE 7/14/22: We find ourselves at a crossroads of history and America’s fate as “the last best hope.” We temporarily found a leader who made good on his promises and is weathering the entire established power structure crashing down on him. In his absence, we continue the eternal search with our lanterns for the next “honest man” to keep afloat the American dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
UPDATE 7/10/22: Trump has made his indelible mark, and Sarah Palin is among those who saw that he was worth the risk from the start. Whether or not he returns to office, he has set the standard for what we must demand from our leaders (not to be confused with “politicians.”)
UPDATE 7/8/22: The Babylon Bee brings surprise glad tidings by anonymously leaking the first dozen things on Donald’s to-do list upon returning to the White House. Crystal balls and loose lips are a godsend!
UPDATE 7/7/22: For millions of Americans, the Fourth is just one more of 365 days we wake up and give thanks for the rare, unique blessings of being born and living here.
UPDATE 7/7/22: There is an optimistic take on Gen X-ers (also known as 13ers born 1961-1981) possessed of the can-do, maverick spirit embodied in (oh, no!!) Donald Trump. Oh, yes! And God willing it’s true for the sake of a recognizable, desirable American future. Meanwhile, it looks like the man himself is not ready for retirement, and we’re all aboard if for no other reason than to effect a mass explosion of Never Trumper heads.
UPDATE 7/5/22: Take a tip from Popeye. Spinach and its fellow members of the veggie family are good for muscle development and strength, even without exercise!
UPDATE 7/5/22: Those who love our country thrive on her colorful history and culture as bequeathed to us by such quintessentially American artists as Washington Irving and Norman Rockwell. Losing either one of them to the ignorance of cancel culture or simple neglect would be a tragedy. Knowledge and appreciation of both belong in the essential education of every American child. Without them and their like, we have lost everything.
UPDATE 7/3/22: For those intent on enslaving or simply ruining the world for the long term, converting the young to the religion of Leftism tops their agenda. Too many parents have proven lax in being alert to this and preventing it in their children’s upbringing. Fortunately, Britain’s better leaders are at work countering the infiltration of “Wokery” into the educational mainstream. Likewise, Florida has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide real history for students. No wonder similar moves toward protecting the young from hypersexualizing in De Santis country have met with such rage from the Left. This is the frontline battle for the future.
UPDATE 7/3/22: In looking back and taking in what has worked for 250 years, Americans sincerely devoted to our founding principles of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness can look ahead with optimism.
UPDATE 7/3/22: The Donald remains THE bogey man for the Left and almost anyone not firmly grounded in conservative principles. Now they’re trying to shut him up by destroying his social media platform Truth Social from a legal angle. Even Joe Rogan has caught the Never Trump bug and “doesn’t want to help him.” That’s another way of saying, “I know he gets good things done, but all the right people hate him, and I’m not up to convincing anyone that positive results count way more than style.” With Musk’s withdrawal from the Twitter deal, it looks like Trump will continue to get the same discriminatory raw deal on mainstream social media.
Sadly, an incredibly effective POTUS has been forcibly (and illegally) retired for no other reason than positive results are not the first priority of a good half of the country, now including a rather spineless Rogan. So much for a robust free marketplace of ideas, letting all voices be heard. Luckily, there’s someone else eminently electable coming right up as the reality of 2024 looms. And Rogan supports him which redeems him. Sort of.
UPDATE 7/1/22: The regrettable passing of Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko brings up the contrast between what his life as a dedicated healer has been compared to that of Anthony Fauci who will be remembered by the serious-minded as the soulless bureaucrat/profiteer/dissembler at the forefront of the Covid Response nightmare in America. In these two men, we have before our eyes the best, noblest human qualities on display alongside the inevitable corruption of uncontrolled power.
You can contribute to the Zelenko Freedom Foundation, inspired and set up by the doctor in full knowledge of his terminal cancer.
“The purpose of the Zelenko Freedom Foundation is to find the next brave generation of medical professionals committed to keeping their patients safe without doing the bidding of big pharma.”
UPDATE 6/29/22: Most would agree that one of the worst things imaginable would be to drive up to see your property on fire. Losing one’s loved ones and/or everything one has worked for and accumulated over a lifetime is a test everyone would rather avoid. One unlucky enough to face that situation is an English archivist who recently lost hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable historical clippings and pamphlets in a fire set by drug dealers allowed to flourish in his area. His admirable ability to get hold & get up to keep going is well worth a read and serious contemplation. This site and its concerns are all about the fears of losing our freedom and the country that has provided it to hundreds of millions over the last quarter millennium. Perhaps for the genuinely hearty, there is always something left even when all seems to be lost.
UPDATE 6/29/22: There is a message of universal importance in the Canadian truckers’ protests and the vicious crackdown on them by the Pouty Boy Tyrant of MapleLeafLand. The story needs full, detailed retelling, and the Canadian people need to throw off the chains they’ve foolishly manacled to themselves.
UPDATE 7/1/22: As desirable as it might be to many, Trump/De Santis in 2024 somehow seems strategically unlikely. One highly attractive scenario for both Florida and America would be Trump/Someone Terrific Who’s Not De Santis in 2024, then 8 years of De Santis. Then again, time’s a-wastin’, and De Santis in 2024 would be an overdue end to BrandonWorld…and the most likely path to a Republican landslide a la Reagan in 1980. The country literally cannot afford anything less than a full conservative turn at this point.
UPDATES 6/24/22: It turns out, according to another self-declared genius, that the declaration of principles from the Edmund Burke Foundation posted last week smacks of “fascism!” Who knew that the principles underlying the freest country in the history of the world were so dangerous and near & dear to the hearts of Mussolini & Hitler? Once again, the word “fascism” has reared its empty head again among the emptier heads of Progressives & Woke scribes as the catch-all description of “anything I don’t like.”
UPDATE 6/24/22: Up against the country’s drug epidemic, it’s somewhat cheering to hear that parents are in many instances gaining the upper hand in what the Leftist schools and their teachers are forcing on kids.
UPDATE 6/23/22: Those “nice” types who insist we must all “meet in the middle” only mean that conservatives must accommodate the Leftists’ desire to see all opposition to them disappear. They are welcome to their ideas (and their easily documented, horrible consequences), and we’ll continue on with ours (and the positive results verifiable over the last 250 years of America’s existence.)
UPDATE 6/20/22: Nobody clarifies the immeasurable damage done by collectivism and encourages the benefits of free market capitalism more convincingly than the late, great Milton Friedman.
UPDATE 6/21/22: The only thing that matters in our politics at this juncture is the restoration of MAGA as made real by the remarkable tenure of DJT. Those of us who are fans of both the man’s outrageous style as well as his genuine substance hope for four years of recovery leading to at least eight years of the immensely gifted and principled Ron DeSantis. That said, there is a strong case to be made for De Santis taking the reins from Trump beginning in 2024. Either way, Americans must choose what is genuinely in their best interests, not what the Leftist fabulists and liars of the Dem Party promise them.
UPDATE 6/17/22: The Edmund Burke Foundation has just drafted a Statement of Principles for National Conservatism. One can benefit mightily from getting reacquainted with such seditious things as national sovereignty, rule of law, free enterprise, the Ten Commandments…you get the drift. Great ideas! Conversely, we must discard the bad ideas now creating mass havoc and get ourselves back on track. We’re long overdue for an awakened New Majority of Americans who will permanently embrace the eternal verities.
UPDATE 6/14/22: We are now in the midst of a hostage crisis impacting many, many millions more people than Carter’s Iranian 1979-80 disaster ever did. The light at the end of the tunnel then turned out to be Ronald Reagan. The worst case scenario now is more of what we’ve been forced to endure since November, 2020. The dream of at least half the country would be the return of Donald Trump which would a hoot and a major sharp stick in the evil eye of the Swamp cyclops singly focused on eliminating any trace of him since he routed Hillary back in 2016.
HOWEVER, for all the fun and solid achievement Trump promises, DeSantis could just as well be the man for the long run: young, durable and already fully proven to be the future of the conservative movement and currently our best hope for the country’s survival. The sensible and sane will rejoice at either Trump II or DeSantis I. All depends upon an overwhelming majority of Americans being as fed up as they should be and that this hostage crisis goes into its final death rattle in 2022 and 2024.
UPDATE 6/11/22: There are compelling arguments for Trump stepping aside in 2024, but there are even better reasons to cheer him on for four more years, paving the way for 8 years of De Santis. If the honest electoral process can be retrieved, we will get America back for another generation…and keep it. Dare we hope that the electorate reacts rationally to the multiple, undeniable miseries of BrandonWorld and brings this about?
UPDATE 6/4/22: Where are Gary Cooper and John Wayne? For that matter, whither Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn? They do, in fact, still live large in all those “good guys and gals with guns,” civilians armed, trained and prepared to risk life & limb to protect themselves and others in the line of fire. Uvalde cops were ordered to abandon their sworn duty to protect the public, and those in command went so far as to order forcible restraints on parents determined to save their children in the absence of any police action. One woman named Angeli Rose Gomez, initially handcuffed, defied those orders, climbed a fence to enter the school and rescued her own children and now faces repercussions for talking to the media.
This travesty is the result of a deliberate dismissal of the individual’s primal instinct to protect one’s self, family, property, country as the highest of virtues. Coop, Duke and other heroic figures of the cinema were just actors and all-too-human as people, but the images and the noble qualities they once projected from screens out to countless millions as the norm are the bulwark of a civilized, lawful society. Men AND women of this caliber are now excoriated as purveyors of, among other insults, “toxic masculinity.” Without them, we face conquest by the ever-present barbarians (within and without) who will destroy us in the absence of armed resistance.
UPDATE 6/4/22: People in touch with reality ultimately have only themselves to consult when taking on this world. The loss of the individual’s own sense of value and importance is society’s greatest problem, the basis for those mass movements that enslave and kill. David Mamet, a true maverick, is one of the few worthwhile intellectuals of prominence actively confronting the dangers of collectivism/socialism/communism and the conformity that allows the Marxist cancer to fester. Predictably his departure from mindless Leftism draws the ire and contempt of his fellows in the intelligentsia, but, being a true individualist, he doesn’t care. Who else would be the author of “Why I Am No Longer A Brain-Dead Liberal?”
