On September 27, 2018 at 4:00 pm, Jay Barney wrote:
1:00 P.M. in Apache Junction, Arizona. The hour is more civilized than the locals.
On September 27, 2018 at 4:06 pm, PK33 wrote:
The Ford/Kavanaugh hearing is incredible, going on right now. Will politics ever be the same? Could it perhaps improve?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:11 pm, Walt Trimmer wrote:
Do you think that the Kavanaugh hearing is a watershed in American politics or are we going to see this done again and again without a strong response from Republicans and men in general?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:17 pm, Leslie B. wrote:
How do you suggest individuals push back against the wolf-pack mentality of the left, how can individuals preserve their lives and safety when all of the media and social media networks enable the mob? Is there also any recourse to people whose lives will forever have a digital footprint of grotesquely false accusations? Sue Google?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:19 pm, David Coats wrote:
Hi Mark, The Left seems headed toward their very own Krystallnacht assault on Republicans & Conservatives. Will the final straws for the Left be Red Waves in November 2018 & 2020 that leave them frustrated and completely desperate? Or Blue Waves that lead them feeling totally righteous, empowered, and entitled? Or is their Krystallnacht inevitable no matter what color the wave is?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:21 pm, David Coats wrote:
Hi Mark, Will the ongoing ends-justify-any-means resistance circus in which the Democrat leadership is fully engaged illuminate who the Democrat party really is for likely voters who are centrists or slightly left leaning? Will this work against the Democrats in November? Or will the Democrats & their MSM enablers successfully move the needle in their direction?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:23 pm, Hari Seldon wrote:
Given your knowledge of history, what's the most fitting historical comparison to Judge Kavanaugh's hearings today?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:24 pm, Michael Cavino wrote:
Is the hearing today not the best example for taking TV cameras out of the confirmation hearings? It would stop the grandstanding by politicians of all stripes. Put them on radio so we can hear them similar to how the Supreme Court does when it releases audio of oral arguments after hearings for big cases.
Love to hear your thoughts, Mark. Thanks.
On September 27, 2018 at 4:25 pm, PhysRad wrote:
In some ways the Kavanaugh and #metoo businesses remind me of the 80's and 90's day care worker sex abuse hysteria, though our current hysterias seem more politically motivated. There was some politics in the other hysteria, as documented in Dorothy Rabinowitz book "No Crueler Tyrannies." What do you think? Are these things cyclical, or are we Americans simply crazy?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:27 pm, John Wilson wrote:
No one likes to mention the word, but it seems the left is itching for an actual (as opposed to figurative) civil war. What thinkest thou?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:28 pm, Robert Stewart wrote:
Mark, every day I receive two phone messages and three or four emails from one or another of the national Republican campaign committees asking for donations. Do you think they understand that my support for them is conditional on their performance? All the talk about Kavanaugh focuses on speculations about the effect of the hearings on national polls. Do you find the absence of any discussions dealing with the responsibilities of the Republican majority to do its duty as discouraging as I do? Why would I donate to a group that predictably follows national polls to the exclusion of any thought about what is right and proper?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:31 pm, Scot A wrote:
While the US Senate is trying to re-enact a Stalin show trial; the Republicans in the house have passed another massive spending bill that doesn't end Obamacare or build the wall. It is just the same old Paul Ryan pork package. My question is that if the Republicans fail to get Kavanaugh confirmed and can not control spending, why should we ever vote for them again?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:31 pm, TF Boggs wrote:
As humans we all fall to temptation of one kind or another, but it seems to me that elected democrats are more prone to dropping their pants, groping unwantedly, beating their spouses, etc. Predict the future for us-what will these Kavanaugh hearings do to the elected democrats of the future? Will this have the same effect that the 'Nuclear Option' did against them for confirming Gorsuch?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:33 pm, William Atkinson wrote:
Hey Mark, I was recently reading a collection of articles by nineteenth century American theologian and philosopher R. L. Dabney. In one of the he wrote that "American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it." It seems that this has been the case in the conservative movement of the past few decades. While conservative republicans profess to be fighting against progressivism, it seems like all the great victories of the past decades belong to the radicals and the liberal causes of the nineties are now generally accepted among conservatives. Does this seem like an accurate assessment?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:34 pm, Bryan Hewson wrote:
Appreciate your take on this latest farce Mark, but how do we get back to the "logos", ie the basic concept of truth. In the current age of false news, false facts, hurty feely feelings, surely the only resolution is to literally speak the truth & honestly ask searching questions when one accepts the inability to know "everything".
Having just finished the 2,100 pages of The Gulag Archipelego, I see know alternative to each and everyone of us in saying exactly what one believes - regardless of the possible cost to one's current standing in society.
Do travel safe and best wishes to you and your family.
On September 27, 2018 at 4:36 pm, Rich wrote:
Hi Mark, love the club!
I have felt a number of different emotions due to politics, but the Kavanaugh smear has left me genuinely furious. Democrats may not have liked Mitch McConnell refusing a vote on Garland, but congressional Republicans and the media did not team up to accuse Garland of being a drunken rapist two generations ago. By extension, yesterday was the first time I kept thinking to myself, "thank you, President Trump." Don't get me wrong, I voted for the guy, he's done some things I like and others I don't, but for him to take questions directly from the media and call this circus "a con game" could not have been any more accurate. The Democrats are not delaying to find victims; they're delaying to find volunteers. Anyone who cannot see through this is either hyper-partisan or a useful idiot.
On September 27, 2018 at 4:38 pm, Deborah wrote:
Mark,
Our oldest granddaughter is a freshman in college with a plan to major in journalism. Can you recommend a few books for her Conservative Nana to send her way that might stand a chance of counteracting the academic Progressive indoctrination process I assume she will be experiencing. Thank you for your help!
Deborah
On September 27, 2018 at 4:42 pm, William Atkinson wrote:
Hey Mark, I was recently reading a collection of articles by nineteenth century American theologian and philosopher R. L. Dabney. In one of the he wrote that "American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it." It seems that this has been the case in the conservative movement of the past few decades. While conservative republicans profess to be fighting against progressivism, it seems like all the great victories of the past decades belong to the radicals and the liberal causes of the nineties are now generally accepted among conservatives. Does this seem like an accurate assessment?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:43 pm, Quinn Watson wrote:
Mark,
I still can't quite get over the way Serena Williams acted when she got her butt kicked at the women's US open finals. More disturbing perhaps was the fact that so many people seemed to find her actions justified, even commendable. Not long ago, her actions would've resulted in, after a couple days of self-reflection, her holding press conference wherein she apologizes to her sponsors, to the umpire, to her coach, her parents, to her many fans around the world, for her unacceptable behavior.
Now she gets lauded and lionized for it. If we are now in a place in 2018 where the majority of society says that "your ace is just a social construct...." isn't that incompatible with America as we've understood it for the past 240 years? This isn't who we are, is it?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:45 pm, Lawrence Brennan wrote:
Just a break from the Washington Hysteria: How was James Buchans "Greenmantle" received at the time? Most of the Germans (with one exception) seem to be portrayed almost sympathetically, compared with some of the propaganda I've seen and read of the period.
On September 27, 2018 at 4:46 pm, Laura Rosen Cohen wrote:
Can they not just confirm Kavanaugh already? Are the establishment Republicans just too addicted to losing and lamenting?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:49 pm, Donald Weatherwax (\"Don Diego\") wrote:
Mark:
The history of war - all forms - is one of evolutionary escalation. One side picks up a rock; the other side has to find some. The rule applies to all military tech - spears, atlatls, armor, the hoplite formation, cannon, ironclads land mines, etc.
Espionage being a technology too, it followed the same rules. One side or the other might balk at first, or signify their distaste;.calling the OSW the "Dept. of Ungentlemanly Warfare", for instance. But eventually they'd bow to necessity and start internal surveillance, or recruiting their own double agents, or whatever was required to compete in the new "marketplace".
The more history you knew, the more you "knew" that this rule was "ironclad" and had no upper limit. This is why educated types found the "disarmament movement" so convincing; it was "obvious" we'd be chucking nukes at each other till Armageddon, and the 20th would be the Last Human Century.
Of course, the "ironclad rule" had already begun to show rust by then - with poison gas, for example. But the Soviets wished to encourage such "ironclad" thinking, and to do it they came up with their own new technology - call it "poison ideas" - and started shipping over canisters of those, to explode in our universities and other institutions.
Nukes, of course, have gone the way of the nerve-gas canister (at least until some Mahdi gets hold of some). But
On September 27, 2018 at 4:49 pm, Donald Weatherwax (\"Don Diego\") wrote:
(continued from my previous post, which somehow posted itself while I was typing...)
... But the "poison ideas" are spreading still, unchecked.
And so we find ourselves in our current situation, staring at the wrecked no-man's-land of the U.S. Senate, with choking clouds of By-Any-Means-Necessary drifting over the cratered landscape where our ruined civilities once stood.
I believe that Trump is trying to use the Kavanaugh hearings to shake his side - our side - out of its complacency. His idea being that the enemy will vomit forth so much poison that they poison themselves, at least in the sane voters' minds. It's a dangerous game he's playing - brinksmanship is always risky - but at this point I don't see an alternative. It's already worked with some of the NeverTrumpers at NATIONAL REVIEW (Rich Lowry, Jonathan Tobin). But do you think there are enough sane voters left for it to work in the electorate?
Thanks,
"Don Diego"
On September 27, 2018 at 4:51 pm, Tom Korte wrote:
Any comment on the difference between culture and heritage? As I see it, a country has it's culture and people may be able to immigrate but should adopt the culture of that country but they may maintain their heritage. After all, if they don't want to be like the people of the country that they're immigrating to then why would they want to live there?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:52 pm, Toby Pilling wrote:
Should Kevin Spacey play Judge Kavanaugh in the upcoming movie, 'Unproven'?
On September 27, 2018 at 4:54 pm, Laura Rosen Cohen wrote:
You mean I now have to compete with Bermuda Uighurs now for a few crumbs of attention??
I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA!!!!
On September 27, 2018 at 4:57 pm, Raj S wrote:
Hello Mark,
Can you find any rational explanation of the rampant anti-Americanism among West Europeans? Even Asian nations like Vietnam and Japan, who fought bitter wars against Americans, are pro American in their views these days. Why are West Europeans, who have much to thank Americans, harbor such extreme irrational and ungrateful hatred towards their American cousins?
Raj
Ontario, Canada
On September 27, 2018 at 4:58 pm, Alain of Nice wrote:
Hello Mark I wonder if you heard today the most popular baby name here in France are very interesting. In number one place is Mohamed, link from BFM.tv France for your view https://www.bfmtv.com/societe/le-top-20-des-prenoms-masculins-tendance-en-seine-saint-denis-en-2019-1529609.html
On September 27, 2018 at 4:59 pm, Tom Korte wrote:
The left has once again invented a new term.
Kafkaesque: having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality
Kavanesque: having a nightmarishly irrational double-standard fabricated propaganda quality
On September 27, 2018 at 5:00 pm, Mark Ferrigno wrote:
Mark,
Not a question so much as a statement repeating what you have often said. "What's the point of voting Republican" THe Democrats have managed to control the entire nomination process even though they are the minority, Republicans just sit there and take it. 2 years of Republicans controlling the White House and both chambers and what do Republican voters have to show for it? No wall. No legislation affirming 2nd amendment rights (hearing protection act) no repeal of Obama care, nothing. Now, with the majority they are going to let the Dems derail Kavanaugh (and destroy his reputation)
So, I'll say it again, if he does not get confirmed what's the point of voting Republican?
PS I do have a questions: Seems to me the Dems strategy is to destroy anyone and everyone based on nothing (with the media help of course) Not an individual strategy but one designed to discourage Conservatives from seeking future office or cabinet/Judaical positions. Do you agree? How do you think it will work?
On September 27, 2018 at 5:01 pm, George Pereira wrote:
Mark,
I remember the movie "Seven Days in May" where you had a charismatic general (obviously based on Douglas MacArthur) planning the military overthrow of the United States. The plot fell apart when duty to the constitution was paramount.
We have now nameless government bureaucrats planning the same overthrow.
And the bureaucrats have the power of a steamroller behind them and their sworn oath to the constitution is just an inconvenience.
On September 27, 2018 at 5:01 pm, Rob Peters wrote:
I watched President Trump tear Canada and our inept, bungling NAFTA negotiation team a new one at a presser yesterday. It was devastating. What is your opinion of this train wreck and is it really worth the economic devastation to protect the Canadian dairy mafia? Are there any adults in Ottawa and will Mad Max save the day?
On September 27, 2018 at 5:06 pm, Virginia Clinton wrote:
Tom Korte articulated exactly what I grew up learning from my grandparents and parents: The difference between culture and heritage. My maternal grandfather was an Armenian born in Constantinople (his dad was right out of Greenmantle, Fez and all). Grandpa immigrated to the US in 1912 and served in the European theater in WWI in the Army engineer corp . My dad was born in Nova Scotia and immigrated to the US in 1929 and became a US citizen fast-tracked when he was inducted into the Army-Air Corps in WWII. The Armenians celebrated their heritage but whole heartedly adopted the American culture. My dad would have stared you down if you dared call him a Canadian-American.
On September 27, 2018 at 5:06 pm, David Elstrom wrote:
The point is Republicans may be inept, but Democrats are pretty much evil.
