As it turns out, Hillary Clinton's post coronation lead has legs, as she remains ahead of Donald by 6.5 points in national polls, now into the second week of August, despite continued weak economic news, her growing email scandals, and her total lack of personal likability.
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A Short Word: Peace In Our Time
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A Short Word: Political Final Exams
In the private sector, if a company can't find anyone qualified to fill a skilled position, they don't just settle for a terrible applicant with a pulse and hope for the best.
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A Short Word: The Conservative Party Platform
If throwing out the rules and starting over is what it takes to achieve a just government, then that's what a just people do.
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Hillary is a Return to Business as Usual
This Democratic voter strategy insures that even when the Democrats lose, the Democrat Party still wins, and even if the Republican Party wins, it still loses.
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A Short Word: Silly Rabbit…
Only Donald Trump is allowed to speak truth to power in the Republican Party now.
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A Short Word: A New Conservative Party
It is time to set ablaze the groaning garbage heap that the Republican Party has become, if only to create the political space necessary for a new conservative party to bloom.
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Punching Out: The Plane Is Replaceable
The GOP's strategy is a 20th Century political formula in a 21st Century world, and the GOP has finally run out of common ground issues that binds the "Rockefeller" wing and "Reagan" wing together.
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A Short Word: Tearing Down The Wall
Ideological conservatives must separate themselves from the philosophical barbarism of nationalists, because we ultimately have nothing in common with their brand of blind nationalist collectivist nativism.
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A Short Word: There is a Bright Side
This is what the Founding Fathers understood so clearly, but Americans have forgotten: America is about giving people control of their own destinies.
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A Short Word: The Final Nails
The GOP has one last chance to get out of their coffin before the final hammer falls, if only to save ideological conservatism.
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The Grand Masquerade: Are We Better Than This?
A true liberal society, consistent with the principles of ideological conservatism, cannot remain free without leaders with the will to defend the sacred Liberty of their fellow citizens.
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A Short Word: Doing What is Necessary
It's time to do what is necessary. The adults have to be grown ups and protect the childish from themselves.
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Put Skin in the Game
We must play the game that they play. We must fight the way they fight. We must put just as much skin in the game as the left does.
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Summer Soldiers and Sunshine Patriots
"Does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave?" Or does it hangs over the funeral procession of long dead Liberty with scavengers picking over her still corpse as we watch in silent horror, yet do nothing.
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A Short Word: Have a True Independence Day
Each and every individual must decide whether they are a free person, "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights", or if they are a subject of the government of the United States.
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A Short Word: The End of Futility
It's time to focus on the horizon, not the smoldering remains of where we once were.
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A Short Word: Donald Trump Can’t Help Himself
Americans, being who we are, punish poor sportsmanship wherever and whenever we see it, and this is true regardless of the right or the left.
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Trump’s Titanic: Into the Icebergs
Like the Titanic, Trump's name will soon become synonymous with ghastly incompetence and foolish bravado.
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A Short Word: Why the “Middle Class Voter” is Insane
As much fun as wasting precious days of our lives pushing a repugnant, center left moderate Republican in another doomed election would be, ideological conservatives have better things to do.
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Picking A Poison: Why Donald Trump Has Already Lost
If voters accept lying and untrustworthiness as just being part of the political game but can't see themselves putting up with four years of a rude and obnoxious loudmouth, then Hillary Clinton has already won, and we don't even need to go through the fiasco of an election.
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30 Pieces of Silver
Like any economic activity, wherever there is a dollar to be made, invariably someone will eventually seek it out.