Month: May 2016

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions

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[reference addendum added 10/2/18] I read many sources of many viewpoints, including a private newsletter (therefore I can’t link to it) from an organization with a Libertarian bent, which recently published an article concerning the career impact of Samantha Power and her interventionist advice to a former community organizer with no international experience who was … Read more

Trump v. Clinton: An Unmitigated Disaster

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Today is the anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. The 2016 election is another. Culled from Trump v. Clinton: An unmitigated Disaster If a third-party candidate could divide the vote enough to prevent anyone from getting an electoral-college majority, that would throw the election into the House of Representatives, where any semblance of sanity … Read more

annus horribilis

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While cruising and perusing the web for political commentaries this morning, I came across an article that included this gem regarding the nightmare that is the election of 2016: annus horribilis meaning “year of disaster or misfortune”—not what you were thinking (annus, not anus). The phrase is a compliment to 19th century Latin phrase, annus mirablis, meaning “wonderful … Read more

Have we become a banana republic?

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…has our presidential system finally revealed its flaws such that we’re stuck with Latin America-style politics that feature crude demagogues and the wives of former presidents, all of no discernible ideology save the will to power? While I can easily find logical flaw in the article from which I have quoted, it is worth reading, … Read more