The Other McCain

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In The Mailbox: 11.05.19 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: But The Left Tells Me I Can’t Use An AR-15 For Self-Defense Bacon Time: Near Disaster Locomotive Breath: Amid Record Stock Gains, The Trump Economy Is Raising All Boats EBL: Alan Moore Discusses V for Vendetta Twitchy:  NYT Triggered By Sean Spicer’s “Untruthful” Dancing, Which Betrays […]

UPDATE: Beshear Claims Victory in Kentucky; Bevin Refuses to Concede

UPDATE 10:40 p.m. ET: With 100% of precincts reporting: Andy Beshear (Dem) ……. 711,955 …… 49.2% Matthew Bevin (GOP) ….. 707,297 …… 48.8% John Hicks (Lib) …………… 28,307 …….. 2.0% I asked earlier, and there is apparently no runoff provision for elections in Kentucky. WHAS-TV reports the latest: In a hotly contested race for Kentucky […]

In The Mailbox: 11.05.19 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Yesterday’s linkagery fell victim to a flaky internet connection and exhaustion from packing. Here’s the makeup. OVER THE TRANSOM Locomotive Breath: I’m Donald Trump, And I Approved This Message 357 Magnum: “A Small, Mobile City With A Buzzsaw Attached To The Front End” EBL: Democrat Depravity, The Spruce Goose, and Harriet […]

The Covington Boys Election

  Kentucky’s Republican Gov. Matt Bevin faces a tough re-election contest today. Bevin is personally unpopular in the Bluegrass State, a problem exacerbated by a falling out with Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton, and polls indicate a surprising tight race in a state that Trump won by a landslide in 2016. Liberals view Bevin’s problems as […]

New ‘Terminator’ Flops at Box Office

  Hasta la vista, “wokeness”: According to a new report, Skydance Media, Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox stand to lose around $120 million in total, given the long-term prospects of Terminator: Dark Fate bombing at the box office. The movie, directed by Tim Miller (Deadpool) and produced by franchise creator James Cameron, made just […]

Americans Murdered in Mexico

Breaking news from the Salt Lake Tribune: Three mothers and at least six children with Utah ties were killed Monday in Mexico, according to the victims’ families. Three other children suffered bullet wounds, said Lafe Langford Jr., a relative of some of the victims. He said doctors from across the Mexican state of Sonora were […]

Democrats Are Brainwashing Children

Students in public schools are not longer educated, they’re indoctrinated to become radical “social justice” activists. George Leef explains what has replaced actual education in California: Across the Golden State, many schools have adopted an “ethnic studies” curriculum, the point of which is to indict capitalism, “whiteness,” and western civilization as forms of power, privilege, […]

‘The Heresy of Equality’

In 1970, Willmoore Kendall and George W. Carey published The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition, a careful attempt to distinguish our nation’s actual historic traditions from the mythical version of those traditions that had gained popular currency. In 1975, Professor Harry Jaffa published a critique of Kendall and Carey’s work with the title, […]

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