I’ve been annoyed for years now at the identification of American conservatives with the color red.

The connection of particular colors to the two major US political parties was inconsistent prior to the late 1990s, though the parties had existed for well over a century by that time. As far back as the 1888 national elections, the Republicans were ( Read more... )

I’ve been annoyed for years now at the identification of American conservatives with the color red.( Read the rest of this entry » )

One commenter was stumping for Trump, announcing that he had the plurality. Donald Trump was able (with the eager help of leftist and statist and establishment media) to achieve the largest small share among 17 initial possibilities. Now that he is the only choice left, he’s very likely to get a majority,and sort of has it now, although there are ( Read more... )

Conversation with a Religious Socialist

Early on, this commenter was supporting Pope Francis’ attacks on free enterprise and pushing of the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming line. He claimed to have read Laudato Sí in the original Latin, and stuck to that when I pointed out that Catholic sites are reporting that there did not seem to be a ( Read more... )

I believe that this nation is the last hope of Western civilization and if this oasis of the world shall be overrun, perverted, contaminated or destroyed, then the last flickering light of humanity will be extinguished.

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The communists at SocialistWorker.org are heartbroken, as right-to-work laws are allowing workers to make a choice about whether or not to join the union.

And most horribly of all (in their minds it is “a nightmare”), people are investing and opening businesses and creating jobs as a result:

“RIGHT-TO-work” became the law in Indiana earlier this ( Read more... )

A celebration gone wrong

One odd incident from the New Year celebrations:  A woman in Phoenix, AZ poses for a picture with a handgun against the head of her brother.  She pulls the trigger.  Of course, the gun was loaded, otherwise the incident would not be in the news. But there is a bigger story here, I think:( Read the rest of this entry » )

In the discussion on Ayn Rand’s works, the Lady Rowyn sagely suggests:

There are a lot of authors worth reading whether or not you agree with their conclusions. And whether or not people make fun of them.

Indeed. I’ve read much of Karl Marx, and am amazed that he has any followers at all.  Especially women, but really anyone who thinks the notions ( Read more... )

On Chiefio’s blog, he has just discussed political notions of “left” and “right” and compared attributes of communism, socialism, progressivism and the UN’s “Agenda 21.” One commenter there, from South America, suggested that one problem was the accumulation of too much wealth. This triggered a response from me, which I post here:( Read the rest of this entry » )

I have written before about the left-right spectrum of politics in the US, and the fact that Hitler, by this measure, was very much on the American left. He was defended by the American left, in fact, until falling out with the Soviet Union.

On the right are those favoring a limited government, contained and constrained by the US Constitution. On ( Read more... )