I have finished Paul Johnson's wonderful history of The United States and I thought I'd give an answer to:  "Why did we fight a civil war?"  It's not all that simple a question because the two sides were fighting about different things.  

I read over 1,200 pages about Mao and Lenin in the past few weeks.  I distill this into two lessons:  1) Never allow hardship to lead to the concentration of political power  2) Beware of politicians whose hearts apparently bleed for the poor. 

I read over 1,200 pages about Mao and Lenin in the past few weeks.  I distill this into two lessons:  1) Never allow hardship to lead to the concentration of political power  2) Beware of politicians whose hearts apparently bleed for the poor. 

A Yale climate scientist got into it with me on Twitter.  And I wasn't even looking for a fight.

Trump's the compromiser and Democrats are extreme on the wall.  Also, the media got two stories terribly wrong this week, yet the media still refuse to criticize their colleagues who keep degrading the profession.

Gillette made a very boring, preachy leftwing ad.  I didn't care for it.

I give you some theories that I've been pondering lately:  Internet dating causes more division in our country, i.e. What geography did before the Civil War, now superinformed dating is doing to segregate the population.

When is it a good idea to depose a ruler?  When the ruler is much worse than the average ruler a given people have had in the past century.

And a bunch of other stuff.

Steph & I got in trouble at the hospital because hospitals are run by morons/the legal system makes them behave like morons.

I then discuss the current shutdown resulting from Donald Trump's insistence that a wall is built.  He made a speech that was true and powerful advocating for it recently from the Oval Office.  Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi regards a wall as "immoral," which shows that Ms. Pelosi has no idea of what morality consists.  Her constituents should be ashamed of her, but I'm sure are mostly proud.

First, I discuss one way you know the right is dumb:  They have no use for Gavin McInnes.

Second, I became a father recently.  I give some thoughts about babies and hospitals.

An officer in California was killed by an illegal immigrant.  How?  He was here instead of in Mexico.  The response from California Congressional Democrats?  Except for one, crickets.