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Detroit newspaper endorses Gary Johnson

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:59:48 +0000

(Paul Mirengoff) The Detroit News has been around since 1873. Until now, it has never endorsed a non-Republican for president (it endorsed no one in two of FDR’s races and sat out the Bush-Kerry contest in 2004). This year, though, the Detroit News is has endorsed Gary Johnson for president. Of Donald Trump it says: The 2016 nominee offered by the Republican Party rubs hard against the editorial board’s values as conservatives

Thoughts from the ammo line

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:14:37 +0000

(Scott Johnson) Ammo Grrrll is on strike, sort of, as she explains in THE NFL CAN GO TO HELL. She writes: Well, the day after tomorrow will mark the 3rd week that Mr. AG and I have watched no football on Sunday. That is a sea change from years and decades of watching all 3 games, and we thought we would go into some kind of terrible withdrawal at a minimum. And

Comey: I am not a weasel

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:17:22 +0000

(Scott Johnson) FBI Director James Comey’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday deserves the attention of every American who cares about the rule of law, as many opponents of Donald Trump purport to do. C-SPAN has posted its recording of Comey’s testimony here. I clipped the video of Rep. Ron DeSantis’s questioning of Comey (posted here) from the C-SPAN video. In my mind Comey’s testimony recalls the dark days of

Those Angry Days

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:54:22 +0000

(Scott Johnson) Earlier this year I finished reading Lynne Olson’s Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941. I recommend the book unreservedly. There is so much intensely interesting history in the book. Much of the interest derives from the incredible cast of characters that populates the book. The Century Group, with which I was previously unfamiliar, alone supplies a panoply. The text runs over 450 pages

Coming Soon: A New Dark Age?

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:23:57 +0000

(Steven Hayward) Environmentalists always guffaw if you suggest they want us all to go back to living in caves, but the consequent logic of their practical positions certainly points that way. Consider these recent news stories: Sierra Club: No Gas, No Coal, No Nukes; Lansing Utility: No Lights, Then The Sierra Club has adopted a position that would effectively require all electricity in Michigan to come from renewable sources such as wind

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