It's been a while since our last round-up.....
The nature of the beast is to feed the beast to keep it growing and healthy. It does not care that it's eventually going to run out of food. The beast is incapable of advanced thought.
We're the Government, and we're here to help! More often than not that "help" is to run small businesses out of business through needless, over regulation in the name of "public safety".
A reminder that the Democrats have a fringe-element problem as well. One that attracts the poor and stupid, is xenophobic and populist in it's roots, and (unlike the Tea Party) is viewed as visionary in it's brilliance by those who control the narrative.
What replaces (or, even better, reforms) the GOP MUST get a handle on crony capitalism. Roll back the regulatory State, return to the rule of law, strengthen Constitutional rights. No other issues matter without those three.
Is it time to break the GOP? Noah Rothman, National Review Online It is increasingly looking like the answer is Yes. The question is, from without, or from within?
Your now almost daily reminder of two things. 1. Internet news comments are where society's lowest common denominator go for comfort. 2. The people moderating (in this case "picking" the comments) are not much brighter than plankton.
Why are so-called "conservative" congress critters trying to butt into private university tuition? A. They're not really conservative. B. They're in a re-election year. C. Both.
No, Clinton/Castro won't turn Texas Blue, but Trump/Whoever just might. The Castro brothers, like Wendy (?!?) before them, are proving to be the emptiest of progressive suits. #NeverTrump
Thin Skin: Chron.com Jr. Web reporter style. Houston is really just a sprawling business complex wrapped around a core of insecurity and thin skin.
The head of Jeb(?)'s SuperPac is tired of the conservative con. Kevin Drum, Mother Jones - Make no bones about it, this was not written with the GOP's health in mind. That said even a stopped clock is correct two times per day.
If you want serious, thoughtful transit reporting, you might want to look someplace other than Houston's Middling Regional Daily. All you get here is transit advocacy, as forwarded, and in line with, the wishes of the unproductive class. (and the developers and train companies who are smart enough to have taken advantage of them)
Parker's Parting Gift to Houston appears to be dirty as hell. - I wonder if this was on her topic list while she was lecturing to political science students in the Ivy League?
Call it me but, a jobs program designed primarily by a man who's never really had a job in the private sector doesn't inspire me with confidence.
The "safety" in Transit Safety Council means spending a TON of money in an effort to reduce mobility. Were it otherwise, the first thing they would recommend is lengthening yellow light times, closely followed by considering grade separation between different types of transportation. Instead, they're going to want to make it impossible to drive a car. (And destroy Houston's economy in the process).
Donald Trump and the White Working Class. Kevin D. Williamson, National Review. - This is the article that stirred up the Trump faithful last week. In it, it should be noted, Mr. Williamson is dead, bang on.
Merrick Garland's "Moderation". Kevin D. Williamson, National Review Online Again Williamson lays out a thoughtful, and 100% correct piece with more deep thought than anything being put out by the Conservative Entertainment Complex.
A Post-Mortem of the Rubio Campaign. Tim Alberta, National Review Online. - Alberta only gets it partially right. The Gang of Eight immigration disaster hurt Rubio, but it didn't cripple him. He made many other missteps along the campaign trail, and from a policy position, that finished him off. Well, that and the endless attacks from Right to Rise, from which he never fully recovered.
Is Trump's rise giving progressives second thoughts? Charles C.W. Cooke, National Review Online. I doubt very seriously that many progressives, based on the rather large sample that I've met, are all that capable of having thoughts period, much less of the deep, introspective kind that Mr. Cooke is referring to here.
There are few things in the TLSPM more creepy right now than Hearst TLSPM member Peggy Fikac's Wendy(?!?) obsession.
And finally.....
Breitbart.com goes out with a whimper, not a bang. Just the first of many "conservative" entertainment outlets that need to be disposed of in the purge.
