So if you haven’t done so already, please read my summary of last night’s debate. But I wanted to highlight one issue: Trump’s response to the question of whether he will “accept the results of the election.” Fundamentally, the answer was a mess. “I will decide at the time,” he said, and he sputtered about the media poisoning the minds of voters, and duplicate or ineligible voters wrongly on the rolls, and even the accusation that Clinton shouldn’t be able... Read more
Yes, I’m doing this in a live blog — and I have to admit that I’m feeling much better about the world now that Evan McMullin is leading in Utah. Yes, I know his chances are slim, but I can vote for someone without compromising my ethics, even if it requires checking on the write-in process. (Note: comments in italics were made afterwards, when reviewing my notes.) Chris Wallace (Fox News) welcomes us to the debate. Strange camera angle makes... Read more
So here’s the deal: if you’re a progressive Democrat who believes that abortion has no real moral dimension, all it takes to vote for Hillary is some fairly standard, “when it comes to my guy, any accusations of misdeeds are clearly overblown and exaggerations by my opponents,” and you’re good to go. But let’s say that’s not you. Let’s say you’re a Christian. You’re pro-life. You care about the future of the country, but you also believe in being fiscally... Read more
In principle, I think narrow networks in health insurance plans are a good idea — if that means that doctors within the network coordinate care with each other and truly manage the patient’s care, in the manner of the original HMOs, in which, after all, the entire concept was “health maintenance,” and reducing the overall healthcare cost by working with the patient to stay healthy, manage diseases appropriately, etc. In fact, if it were up to me, I’d have Medicare... Read more
No, the Democratic Party isn’t engaged in nationwide, coordinated voter fraud, or some kind of systematic hacking of voting machines or vote totaling equipment or the files that contain the totals as forwarded from local precincts. But at the same time, the major networks and newspapers have played a concerning role in this election: promoting Trump in the primaries, and only after he was the Republican nominee, discovering that he was Hitler reincarnate. Or at least it feels that way... Read more
So I was watching a “Power Pressure Cooker XL” infomercial as I was cleaning up the kitchen, and, well, they did market the item well — all manner of stews and roasts cooked lightning fast, and pasta casseroles cooked from raw pasta, and the item doubling as a rice cooker and a slow cooker too. Supposedly the Instant Pot does this all, too. But I picked up an electric pressure cooker from Aldi some time ago, and read the instructions,... Read more
Yeah, I know, it’s nuts, but what do you think about his campaign? And would you consider voting for him? (Fun fact: his website encourages everyone to write him in, even in states where it was too late to register him as an “official” write in candidate, on the basis that, what the heck, if a miracle happens and he gets electoral votes from any state, he could press the case for the inclusion of those votes even from those... Read more
Bill Clinton, that is, whose defenders, upon hearing reports that he had been unfaithful to Hillary, were quite willing to say, “that’s their private life,” and upon hearing claims of rape, said, “those women aren’t credible.” And who garnered this support both because he was on the right side, ideologically, and because he proved to be competent in his governance. Trump already had two strikes against him: the shakiness of his professed “Republican” beliefs (a convenient conversion to the pro-life... Read more
The Gatestone Institute tweeted out a link to a long, depressing article on the fact the Germany is facing the disappearance of Christianity and the rise of Islam. That which Europeans fought to avoid, with the battles against Ottoman Turks in the Xth century, is now coming to pass with seeming indifference. Sure, Muslims are not compelling conversion; they’re just increasing their numbers by immigrating and reproducing, while the Germans are losing their interest in the latter — and that’s... Read more
Yes, we have a new car, but I can’t show you a picture of the car because it was too dark by the time we got to this point. But it’s siren red, which is, I think, pretty cool in a world that seems right now to consists of black and white cars. And, yes, it’s American-made. OK, technically it’s Canadian made, but that counts the same anyway. And you can tell me that it’s “Government Motors” but I don’t care.... Read more
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