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The War on Trump, 2018 Edition
Earlier today, an anonymous editorial was published by the NYTimes, purporting to come from a "senior official" within the Trump...
Norman Young
Sep 5, 20182 min read
How to Win a Battle of Radicals
After yesterday's election, Florida primary voters decided that the most extreme candidates of both political parties will face off in...
Norman Young
Aug 29, 20182 min read
Dynasty Dies; Democrats Discover Democracy
Earlier today, at a summer meeting in Chicago, the Democrat National Committee voted to change the rules that govern their primary...
Norman Young
Aug 25, 20182 min read
Trump/Mueller 2020?
This morning, Donald Trump took to Twitter to call the Mueller investigation a "witch hunt." Trump's critics have responded by saying...
Norman Young
Aug 22, 20181 min read
Hillary Was Not THAT Bad...
Republicans who still oppose Trump (yes, they do exist) are fond of pointing out that Hillary Clinton was a terrible presidential...
Norman Young
Aug 20, 20182 min read
Anthony Leonardi on the Washington Examiner: "Marco Rubio, Orrin Hatch go local to help father
Image Courtesy of the Washington Examiner Check out Anthony's latest on the Washington Examiner. Excerpt: Normally it'd be unusual for a...
thinkoutsidepoliti
Aug 17, 20182 min read
Omarosa's Dangerous Game
Donald Trump famously bragged on the campaign trail that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose his political support. But...
Norman Young
Aug 17, 20182 min read
How Cortez Trumps Conservatives
Young conservative pundits have created something of a cottage industry out of ridiculing young candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,...
Norman Young
Aug 16, 20182 min read
Rand Paul is Wrong on the Shutdown
Republican Senator Rand Paul has long been a favorite among rank-and-file fiscal conservatives and libertarians. Thursday night, Paul...
Norman Young
Feb 10, 20185 min read
2017: Year of the Constitution
Around this time last year, it was fashionable to complain about how horrible the year 2016 was. This was partly because of an inordinate...
Norman Young
Dec 31, 20177 min read
STAR WARS: The Last Interesting Character
[SPOILER ALERT} Let’s begin with the two most exciting moments of The Last Jedi. First is the fight scene between a dozen or so imperial...
Norman Young
Dec 21, 201710 min read
Alabama Round-up: Who Did the Right Thing?
The Alabama Senate race was a thorny, unpleasant affair. Voters became jurors in an extrajudicial public trial, and weighed their...
Norman Young
Dec 14, 20176 min read
Competing Show Trials
Ever since Donald Trump’s election, the 24-hour news cycle has been saturated with Russia. The undying flame was fanned again this week...
Norman Young
Nov 4, 20175 min read
Normal vs. New Normal
Moral grandstanding against President Trump has become a cottage industry among the Republican establishment in Washington. Prominent...
Norman Young
Oct 27, 20175 min read
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defense against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.”
C. S. Lewis
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