Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

CAPITALISM, RIP. We can’t keep up.  Every week we have a list of stories we want to address, and every week we fail to get to at least one of them.  And that means our list of unaddressed – but presumably important – stories gets longer and longer as the weeks roll by. The following …

Politics, et Cetera A publication from The Political Forum, LLC Tuesday, February 28, 2017 They Said It: By Wednesday, however, it was business as usual. Which is to say the usual last-minute deal just ahead of the usual make-or-break deadline to resume spending as usual. There was nothing surprising about this. Everyone knew the Republicans were going …

@MarkSteynOnline Given your CRTV issue, thought you might like this (about you and Milo) which we put out last week. https://t.co/daRNnMzyxs

@jamestaranto has moved on, but his memes remain: “It’s just this war and that lying son of a bitch Johnson…” https://t.co/s4nIa2JdL5

Don't mean to gloat, but I called this a year ago. Obama's coalition was Obama's alone. She could not reproduce it: https://t.co/XbwoiJpnTN — Steve Soukup (@ThePolForum) November 9, 2016

Don’t mean to gloat, but I called this a year ago. Obama’s coalition was Obama’s alone. She could not reproduce it: https://t.co/XbwoiJpnTN

THE DEPLORABLES AND THE UNIVERSAL ASPIRATION. A few weeks back, as you undoubtedly recall, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, dismissed roughly one quarter of the country as unworthy of her – or anyone’s – respect and concern.  “You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” the would-be president proclaimed, “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you …

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE BREXIT. We will have extended comments on the Brexit and its place in the global scheme over the next several weeks.  For the time being, though, we would just like to make a few brief comments. First, this – or something like it has been building for a long time.  If the …

SCALIA’S PASSING AND THE CIRCUS TO FOLLOW. Most of the time when someone famous or important dies, expressions of profound grief on the part of the public are tiresome at best, representing the cultural triumph of sloppy and overwrought sentimentality.  Most such deaths, while tragic to friends, family, and loved ones, have no effect whatsoever …

RT @GroverNorquist: Breaking News: The Ethanol Lobby just lost the Iowa Caucus.