Glenn Thrush, a solid progressive, writes at Politico how Hillary Clinton is old-fashioned and boring compared to Donald Trump.
Month: January 2016
NY Public Library has free stuff for online people . . .
Would say get while hot, but these digital things never grow cold.
Did you know that more than 180,000 of the items in our Digital Collections are in the public domain? That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways.
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Dow’s 1,000-Point Plunge Highlights the Need For Supply-Side Reform – The New York Sun
Larry Kudlow with advice for us (calm down), China (leave yuan alone), the Fed (leave rate alone).
Source: Dow’s 1,000-Point Plunge Highlights the Need For Supply-Side Reform – The New York Sun
George Orwell lives! Planned Parenthood defended on floor of Congress
It’s pro-life, for gosh sakes.
So what’s been the big stink about?
Trump 47, Hillary 44
Don’t know about you, but I find this very interesting:
A new FoxNews poll shows GOP frontrunner Donald Trump edging Hillary Clinton in a general election match-up. A December poll from Fox showed Hillary ahead of Trump by 11 points.
This latest poll, however, has Trump beating Clinton by 3 points, 47-44 percent.
See Obama, see (hear) Obama stumble . . . .
. . . as irritated, he gropes for words. Would you buy a used car from this man?
Eating to live, not vice versa
If you’re like me, you want to be healthy. Are you like me? God bless you.
You are what you eat, of course. So consider some wonderful eating ideas from my Icelandic friends who don’t know they are my friends, but so what?
The ancient Greeks and Romans were not kidding . . .
. . . when they wrote about gods and religion, said this great man:
More Than Just a Witty Allegory
John Ruskin (1819-1900), Modern Painters, Vol. III, Part IV, Chapter XIII, § 4:
I do not think we ever [try hard enough] to enter into what a Greek’s real notion of a god was.
We are so accustomed to the modern mockeries of the classical religion, so accustomed to hear and see the Greek gods [written about] by men who believe neither in them nor in any other gods, that we seem to have infected the Greek ages themselves with the breath . . . of our hypocrisy; and are apt to think that Homer . . . was merely [a good story-teller];
nay, more than this, that all the nations of past time were [good story-tellers] also, to whom the universe was a lyrical drama, and . . . whatsoever was said about it was merely a witty allegory, or a graceful lie, of which the entire upshot and consummation was a pretty statue in the middle of the court, or at the end of the garden.
To which I make bold to add, they’d never have been such good story-tellers if they didn’t believe it. Which goes for the rest of us. When we don’t believe what we say, we head for a fall.
Hey, Chicago, tax man has you thirty ways to Sunday
Chicago taxpayers aren’t getting the three things that matter most to city residents: a quality education for their children, safety for their families and good jobs. What’s worse, residents have to pay more than 30 city taxes worth more than $1,000 per household – for services that simply aren’t working.
The Illinois Policy Institute added up all the local taxes, fees and fines that Chicagoans pay to finance City Hall’s operations, including those from the city’s newly approved tax hikes, and compared the totals to Illinois’ other largest cities. When measured as a percentage of household income, Chicagoans now pay the highest effective tax rate in the state.
Congratulations, you’re Numero Uno.
Peggy Noonan on Trump: The lady has it so right
A free-for-all between Christie, Rubio, Cruz and others, while Trump hovers above it all
Taking Trump Seriously
By JAMES FREEMAN
“I do not understand the inability or refusal of Republican leaders to take Mr. Trump seriously,” writes Peggy Noonan. He “touched an important nerve in opposing the political correctness that has angered the American people for a quarter century.
He changed the debate when he asked for a pause in Muslim immigration until America ‘can figure out what’s going on.’ In the age of terror, that looked suspiciously like common sense. Americans do not want America to become what Europe is becoming.”
Wow.