Monthly Archives: December 2019

Handicapping the 2020 Texas Senate Race

Posted on December 11, 2019 by Lawrence Person

I know I’ve lavished a lot of time and attention to the clown car updates, but there are several other 2020 races worth looking at, some of them right here in Texas. A bunch of Democrats are lining up to … Continue reading →

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Paul Volcker, Inflation Slayer, RIP

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Lawrence Person

July 1979. Disco still rules, with Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” topping the singles chart. The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has declared an Islamic Republic in Iran, but the Iranian hostage crisis remains months in the future, as does the Soviet invasion … Continue reading →

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Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for December 9, 2019

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Lawrence Person

Bullock and Harris drop Out, Bloomberg rises (though slowly), Booker gets weepy, Tulsi sings, and Democrats have a diversity problem. It’s your Democratic Presidential clown car update! Polls Light polling week: UC Berkeley (California): Sanders 24, Warren 22, Biden 14, … Continue reading →

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Terrorist Cartels And The War On Drugs

Posted on December 8, 2019 by Lawrence Person

Last week President Donald Trump “announced his intentions to designate Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), just weeks after nine American were ambushed and gunned down less than 100 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border by cartel members.” Sarah McConnell … Continue reading →

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Our Stupid Media: An Update

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Lawrence Person

Fiction writing usually demands that you eschew “punch in the face” irony as too unsubtle to deploy. Life itself heeds no such constraints. Two Business Insider stories featured back-to-back on Althouse provide an example lesson. The “all in to destroy … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for December 6, 2019

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Lawrence Person

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday! We’ve entered the portion of the year where everything gets compressed, rushing to finish up before Christmas or the new year, and work gets weird because everyone starts taking vacation. Yesterday I remember … Continue reading →

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Peak Woke

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Lawrence Person

Could anything possibly be more woke than a white #BlackLiveMatter activist snatching a microphone away from an actual black woman for the crime of backing Pete Buttigieg? Evidently the disruptor is one Igor Rodriguez and he’s a Bernie Bro: And … Continue reading →

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Let the Harris Campaign Postmortems Begin!

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Lawrence Person

Most campaign postmortems are of the “failure to launch” variety, but the Kamala Harris campaign achieved liftoff, started climbing, and then fell back down to earth followed by a giant explosion. So let’s dig into her campaign’s cataclysmic demise! First … Continue reading →

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NEWSFLASH: Kamala Harris Drops Out

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Lawrence Person

Naturally, as soon as I predict she’ll be in through South Carolina and Nevada, Kamala Harris drops out of the presidential race. California Democrat Senator Kamala Harris has ended her bid to become the next President of the United States. … Continue reading →

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Predicting The Order Democrats Exit the Clown Car

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Lawrence Person

Ann Althouse noted Steve Bullock’s departure from the presidential race and asked what will be the order the next candidates drop out in? Here’s my guess. Before the primaries: Michael Bennet Julian Castro After Iowa: John Delaney Marianne Williamson After … Continue reading →

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