Millennials evidently want a GOP run Congress.

Well...I wish I could say that I had planned this but sometimes "it's better to be lucky, than good." Last night I offered up Sean Trende's perspective on the so-called 'Emerging Democratic Majority' (EDM) in which  Latino/Hispanic populations and Millennials, both key players in the "foreordained" Liberal rise to permanency and primacy. Two polls which, just released today, lend themselves...

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The 'Emerging Democratic Majority'

Around here...we talk politics offline, as hard as that might be to believe. Nevertheless, one of the recurring themes that we drift to is the inevitably or the uncertainty of the so-called "Emerging Democratic Majority Theory." The theory in essence states that due to demographic shifts taking place in the United States the face of the electorate in coming decades will dramatically tilt, considerably favoring the Progressive/Democratic agendas. Thus relegating the GOP to the same fate as...

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A Liberal Faces Reality

There's notihng really to say. Any addition on my part would be superfluous. So I'll let a liberal, writing at a liberal rag, express his realization told through his self-loathing.  Thomas Frank: "We are such losers" ...

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Rand Paul's Case for Realism

You can read Senator Paul's remarks on the case for "conservative" realism, here.  After the tragedies of Iraq and Libya, Americans are right to expect more from their country when we go to war.  America shouldn't fight wars where the best outcome is stalemate.  America shouldn't fight wars when there is no plan for victory.  America shouldn't fight wars that aren’t authorized by the American people, by Congress.America should and will fight wars when the consequences….intended...

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Global Elitism and Tales of Stupidity

I am a member of several worthless political science groups on Facebook and other Internet locations. I come across thoughtful and encouraging literature from time to time. The rest I see a dangerous ideology of collectivism and growing favor toward technocratic governance. These global elites think up, write, and publish theories on ways to remove people from the equation of government...

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They’ll Call You ‘Raciss’ Anyway

Years from now, perhaps even sooner, the brain trust at Oxford English Dictionary (OED) will have to reconsider exactly what the word racism means and how its historical meaning has changed in contemporary times. OED’s is the respected authority on English language “as an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.”  Since they meet four times a year to revise, update, and replace older versions...

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G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot: Frenemies

In a recent tongue and cheek conversation between Jason and myself concerning G.K. Chesterton and T.S. Eliot's relationship, I remarked to him that I could not remember if the men were friends or not or even if they had ever interacted.   While perusing the Imaginative Conservative on a late night read I came across this interesting piece which answered my question. They were basically frenemies. In 1929, following his much-publicized conversion to Christianity, Eliot wrote to Chesterton...

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Is the Political Left becoming anti-science?

A good question... Suffice to say that when it comes to science--in the generalist of terms--each side of the political aisle has sub-groups that undoubtedly go off the rails when it comes to their perceptions of information and data. Their views tend to be cynical, conspiratorial, and one-dimensional. Nevertheless on a wide variety of issues the Left has felt and portrayed that "science" is unconditionally on its side. ...

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John Keats (1795 - 1821)

John Keats wrote in a 1820 letter before he died of tuberculosis in Rome: “I have left no immortal work behind me, but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had the time I would have made myself remember’d.” ...

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All Is Not Well: America “Completely Out of Control”

What could one possibly mean by saying one’s country is “out of control?” An overwhelming majority of voters in the most competitive 2014 elections say it feels as if events in the United States are “out of control” and expressed mounting alarm about terrorism, anxiety about Ebola and harsh skepticism of both political parties only three weeks before the Nov. 4 midterm...

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Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River (circa 1944)

"The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise..."  ~Mark Twain in Eruption From Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River, by W. O. Dement for Harold Fisk (1944) This cartographic beauty wasn't pulled from the mind of some orphic minded Art-Informal devotee trying to focus on...

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The Berlin Wall: A Symbol of Misery and Oppression, Also Served As An Extensive Laboratory For Human Nature

‘Ohne Butter, ohne Sahne, auf dem Mond die rote Fahne ’ (‘There’s no cream, there’s no butter, but on the moon the red flag flutters’). A popular slogan in the German Democratic Republic.  Only days before the barbed wire went up around West Berlin on the night of 12–13 August 1961, Walter Ulbricht, leader of the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) in East Germany, vigorously...

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Political Correctness Uber Alles

Americans have long been in the clutch of the despotic hand of political correctness. It has been our country’s civil religion as long as I can remember. It mostly serves as a minor nuisance in everyday life. It exist just enough to control our thoughts and speech, to be an overseer of our behavior and obstruct our natural view the world around us. However, it has even made its way into actual...

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Norway's Green Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy evidently knows no bounds in the Nordic States... From Freakonomics,  By most measures, Norway is among the greenest countries on Earth. It gets virtually all of its electricity from hydropower; it plans to cut its greenhouse emissions by 30% by 2020; and it has more electric vehicles per capita than any country in the world. But Norway is also the...

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Lockheed Martin attempting to create Compact Fusion Reactor.

Filed under interesting development...Lockheed Martin's vaunted Skunkworks division states that it is about ten years away from producing a workable Compact Fusion Reactor. Fusion power has long been the considered the "Holy Grail" of energy development and always seemed just out of reach. However, if Lockheed Martin's claims are true, it should be needless to say that the implications of this development are quite profound and  are a game-changer for energy development. Related: JustOneMinute Unqualified...

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Business is Good in Washington

A record high $3 trillion in tax revenue was collected by the federal government FY 2014. Increases in personal income and corporate taxes by the Treasury Department shows the economy is ticking up. As a result, the budget deficit is at its lowest point since 2007 still at over $400 billion. In 2010 the deficit reached as high as $1.4 trillion. So, all in all, not bad with based on what we have to work. In fiscal 2014 the federal government estimates revenue will be $3.0 trillion....

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2012 Polls and Election: A cautionary tale for Democrats, and Republicans, for the 2014 Mid-Terms.

Nate Silver, sabermetrician, political prognosticator, and proprietor of fivethirtyeight.com, reminds us of the Republican now infamous "the polls are skewed" in the 2012 presidential contest.  That Ostrich Effect which infected the GOP has now spread among the Democratic party-faithful. However...this in no way, shape, or form means that the GOP should suffer from a bout of overconfidence about victory in the mid-terms as Silver highlights.  This year’s Senate election is close....

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Ebola is the October Surprise

“The situation with Ebola and what’s going on in Syria and Iraq — all of this is creating a high level of anxiety among voters and a sense of uncertainty about the future,” said Democratic strategist Doug Thornell. You don’t say. Yes Ebola and the typical head-in-the-sand take on the consequences of the spread of the virus are playing as strong factors headed into the midterm elections. Americans are worried, sure, but disgusted is a better description. It is almost as if we anticipated...

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