William F Spengler

Opinions shared used to be common sense.

[William F Spengler @WilliamFSpengl1]

The tragedy of our time is that everyone is picking sides over which authoritarianism we should live under, rather than fighting not to live under any authoritarianism at all.

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@ewarren Far be it from me to agree with Elizabeth Warren. Yet here we are.

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@varadmehta From Cruz's POV, he was second-to-last man standing in 2016 primaries, outlasting Rubio. I think he's washed up goods, but they say the only cure for presidential ambitions is a casket, so....

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@CoryBooker Far be it from me to agree with Cory Booker, but here we are.

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@MarcusHUSA Can't wait until he marries his horse and makes it a senator.

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@MarcusHUSA

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@DamonLinker Fine, but it also shows how much different the Republican party is than it once was, and gives the lie to those who want to draw a throughline from Reagan to Trump and argue that this is what it was always trending toward.

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@HaikuJonah In some ways it's reminiscent of the 70s Democratic party. Which makes sense, because it's being run by a 70s Democrat.

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@TRHLofficial

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@BlueBoxDave Agreed. Best way of reading it, IMO, is to start with the chapter on Dealy Plaza and read forward from there, because that's where the actual evidence is. By the end, I was convinced of Oswald's guilt, and could then read the beginning to deal with conspiracy theories.

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@HaikuJonah Not to mention how many of the same people were so apoplectic about presidential personal morality during the Clinton years.

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@neoavatara Theoretically, you can impeach and remove it, but alas....

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@JonahDispatch Happy anniversary!

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

It’s a point Bill Buckley made (usually with regard to Latin America): There are some Americans who simply can’t grasp that other people, too, have patriotism. That others, too, have a sense of national dignity. Our president and vice president typify the “ugly American.” A pity.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Trump is trying to boost the U.S. economy by making it harder for Americans to trade with the rest of the world.

He is also promising to destroy Iran's economy by making it harder for Iranians to trade with the rest of the world.

[John A. Daly @JohnDalyBooks]

Agreed. Romney/Ryan was the last ticket that both understood, and proposed serious solutions to, our nation’s biggest threats and challenges. Instead, we continued down the path of grievance politics and daily culture battles (that now consumes virtually all of our politics).

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@JonahDispatch The Three Tops.
The Policeman
Genesis 2:1-2

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@mikenelson586 It would be, if it weren't Lear raging against the storm.

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@ConceptualJames So, like our President, then.

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