The Biden classified document story is coming out in drips. Even today, yet another document has been found. I predict it won’t be the last. The news stories are quite frankly, also piecemeal. No single story that I’ve seen brings all the relevant factors under one roof. Each journalist magnifies a few points, states a […]
Notes From an Independent on Congressional Mud Wrestling
I’m conservative but I’m not Republican. I left the Republicans when it became plain that they were just an extension of the uni-party. Since then, as a significant wing began to stand up for conservatism, I’ve been tempted to rejoin, but no, not quite yet. I watched the sausage making slugfest of the House Speaker […]
How ‘Toxic’ Masculinity Will Save Itself – It Always Does
To diminish men (and boys) is trending, not that it hardly took a break any time in the past twenty years, but now it reaches a new fever pitch. It’s a trifecta, to be white, to be a man, and the presumption that to be white and a man equals ‘supremacy’, intended to be served […]
Notes on the Coming Fight for the Republican Party Presidential Nomination
Now is as good of a time to start parsing out the fight for the Republican and maybe conservative Presidential nominee for the 2024 election. There are no real predictions here, rather, this is more like thinking out loud to organize thoughts, develop signs to look for and these will eventually feed into trends to […]
Northeast Reader – Predictions and Statements of 2022
Last year, I posted an article highlighting my writings of 2021 that made statements worth repeating for year-end consideration. I follow that new tradition again this year. It’s also an opportunity for new readers to sample my perspective without reading through an entire year’s posts. What I wrote this past year represents what I treat as most […]
Two Objects of Conservative Whining
There are two big stories going on right now that I’m intentionally not following because I can’t bear the constant whining. Two stories that I can do nothing about; two stories that involve the activism of democrats, primarily; two stories that also involve the cooperation of Republicans; two stories that are roundly derided by most […]