Trump Does It Again
I find my facility with mathematical notation has gone to the dogs, as I have been trying (but failing) to put together the equation that postulates that the probability of all conversations leading to...
View ArticleWho should be appointed to replace John McCain?
With the passing of Sen. John McCain, it falls to Arizona governor Doug Ducey to name a replacement. The replacement will hold the seat until 2020, when it will be up for grabs in an election. This...
View ArticleThe plot thickens on naming McCain’s successor
Yesterday, Arizona Democrats nominated David Garcia to run for governor. Garcia is a left-wing candidate, but a reasonably attractive one. He’s the Democrats’ highest-performing statewide candidate of...
View ArticleThe Self-Regard of McCain
It would be much easier to refrain from reciting the litany of John McCain’s defects, and side with him against the predictable bumptiousness of President Trump, were it not for the fact of the news...
View ArticleMcCain’s funeral turns into resistance meeting
Susan Glasser of the New Yorker calls John McCain’s funeral “the biggest resistance meeting yet.” I think Glasser is right, but is this a good thing? Glasser certainly thinks so. She seems ecstatic...
View ArticlePoliticize a Funeral? Last Time, It Didn’t Turn Out Well
As Paul noted last night, Democrats (and some Republicans) turned John McCain’s funeral into an orgy of Trump-bashing. Evidently they thought it made political sense. It reminds me of another...
View ArticleWe get it, Trump never liked McCain
The late John McCain was capable of true graciousness, but if you got on the wrong side of him he was a nasty piece of work. You could say the same thing about President Trump, if you took out the part...
View Article“The Straight Talk Express” and “No Malarkey,” a comparison
During his campaigns for president, John McCain famously traveled on a bus he called The Straight Talk Express. Joe Biden, hoping to energize his Iowa campaign, has been traveling around the state in a...
View ArticleBIden claims he’d consider a Republican running mate.
Joe Biden said today that he will consider choosing a Republican for his running mate if he’s the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee. Biden added, though, that the Republican would have to be...
View ArticleJoe Biden and John McCain
According to this report in Politico, Cindy McCain will be featured tonight at the Democratic National Convention, such as it is. She will outline the “unlikely friendship” between her husband and Joe...
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