A friend named Pat Brown invoked G.K. Chesterton’s “paradox of the gate” in a comment to something I posted on MeWe (I’m exiting Facebook). Here it is in Chesterton’s own words from his 1929 book, The Thing, in the chapter entitled, “The Drift from Domesticity”: “In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming…
I guess the answer to that question begins with another question – how do we define a conservative? In the years between Reagan and Trump (accelerated by the death of William F. Buckley’s death in 2008), we had conservatism defined for us by people who were not acting (often behind the scenes) in the manner…
The most disturbing aspect of all the Comeyness has less to do with Comey and more to do with the organization he led under the Obama administration. It is clear that the mess at the DOJ in general and at the FBI in specific, is pretty bad. The upper level management in the FBI was…
When you listen to James Comey speak about his misadventures as FBI Director, a legitimate question comes to mind. Given the clarity we gain as he speaks – that he was really for neither side – he was for himself – if, to advantage himself, a man can decide something that is clearly a crime…
The Rio Norte Line 
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