Link Roundup, 6/15/2019
A political orphan’s guide to current events.
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The Long View
Look closely at our dilemma, and you see not decline, but leadership. We are being buffeted by the first waves of a storm spreading around the world. We’re not worst, but merely first.
Only One Thing is Happening
There’s really only one political issue that matters right now. Our most pressing national security issue is our President’s hidden financial relationships. How much money is our President earning from our enemies? How many other Republicans are implicated in his financial compromises? Until we have the answers to these questions, …
How Our Second Civil War Begins
Nowhere else in the free world is abortion an issue of such contention, because nowhere in the free world is a property right in other human beings so deeply embedded in the national soul. The tension between the truths we hold self-evident and the realities we’ve created on the ground will probably not be peacefully resolved.
Link Roundup, 5/9/2019
A political orphan’s guide to current events.
The Old World
A slow visit to Paris was a fine way to remember time.
Using the Trump Tax Cut
It’s easy to feel helpless right now. We decided to give away our tax windfall to people and causes blunting the damage caused by this administration. It felt good, and I highly recommend it.
Bracing for the Mueller Report
As of Friday evening, we know that the Special Counsel has submitted his report to the Attorney General without any indictments of close Trump associates or family members. We do not know what findings or recommendations are in the report. There seem to be three possibilities here. First is that …
Little Marco Finds Someone His Own Size
Rubio is writing his own indictment, tweet by tweet, acknowledging the imperative to challenge a Kleptocrat while propping up his own Kleptocrat.
Remembering Conservatism
We needed another Russell Kirk for the Age of Globalization. What we got instead was a series of amateur entertainers performing cartoon antics on their YouTube Channel to “own the libs.” We got the class and character of conservative leadership that the market was prepared to reward.