November 08, 2020

A True Progressive Looks At The Election Results

November 08, 2020/ Francis Menton

While we wait for final results in the race for President, other interesting data from the voting have begun to emerge.
For example, NBC has come out with an exit poll of voters, that breaks down the Biden/Trump vote by demographic factors like age, sex and race.
Of course this exit poll seems to have overestimated the Biden vote similarly to most of the pre-election polls. (They have the overall vote at about 53/46 in favor of Biden; actual is more like 51/48.)
With those caveats, this poll has some very interesting information in the category of results by race, ethnicity and sex. . . .

November 05, 2020

The Ascendancy Of The Basket Cases -- 2020 Edition

November 05, 2020/ Francis Menton

The very first posts on this blog went up on November 6, 2012. By pure coincidence, that was election day — the day when Barack Obama was re-elected to his second term as President.
By late that evening we knew the result. (Doesn’t that seem so quaint now?) It did not appear to be close: Obama had won 332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206.
The next day, November 7, I wrote a post about the result, which I titled “The Ascendancy of the Basket Cases.” That post pointed out that the election was much closer than it may have seemed.
In fact, the overall result turned on the outcome in a handful of states; and in each of those states, Obama had run up a huge margin in some major city, which was then sufficient to overcome a substantial Romney majority in the rest of the state. The particular handful of cities in question, which had determined the election result, were not just any cities, but what I called the “basket cases” . . .
Flash forward to today. . . .

November 03, 2020

November 03, 2020/ Francis Menton

Within a few short hours, we will know who our next President will be. Maybe, with any luck, this will be my last chance to be horrified by the prospect of a Biden presidency.
Lately, I’ve been focused, perhaps too much so, on Joe Biden’s manifest corruption, his selling out U.S. foreign policy to our worst geo-political rivals to benefit his family financially. But we mustn’t forget that Biden also represents a prospective public policy catastrophe, nowhere more so than in the arena of energy policy.
If you listened to Biden at the debates, you would have heard him promise that his energy plan for rapid elimination of fossil fuels would bring hundreds of thousands (or maybe it was millions) of new high paying green energy jobs.
Did this sound to you like a good idea?

October 31, 2020

October 31, 2020/ Jane Menton

Our Constitution was intentionally written to accommodate a diversity of world-views. Yet in the 21st century, progressives seem to want our president to personally represent the values of the 330 million people living in this country.
The policy positions driving the left to the polls in the upcoming election show an accelerating trend towards conflating government with religion.
The push to impose a uniform moral order represents a significant change, and not for the better.

October 30, 2020

October 30, 2020/ Francis Menton

Of all the revelations about Biden family members cashing in on Joe Biden’s influence — revelations arising from Ukraine, China, Iraq, Romania, Kazakhstan, and other places — those relating to Ukraine are likely the most damning.
Certainly, the revelations relating to Ukraine are the ones that most definitively involve criminal conduct. After all, Ukraine is the country where Joe admitted (actually, bragged) on tape about threatening to withhold a billion dollars of U.S. aid unless a prosecutor got fired — a prosecutor who happened to be investigating the company where Joe’s son Hunter was getting $1 million per year to sit on the board. “And son of a bitch, he got fired.”
That clear admission alone would prove the hardest part of what you would need to convict under 18 USC Section 201.

Ukraine is the place where all the elements of a quid pro quo corruption crime are right there in the public record. . . .

October 28, 2020

October 28, 2020/ Francis Menton

I watched most of Tony Bobulinski’s interview on the Tucker Carlson show last night. You may have as well. This interview basically blew to smithereens the official Biden campaign/mainstream media talking points about Joe Biden’s knowledge/involvement in Hunter’s foreign business dealings.
If you missed the interview, there is a YouTube video of the full appearance posted at PowerLine here, and a transcript at RealClearPolitics here. Also, Scott Johnson at PowerLine has put together a compilation of coverage of the interview at various outlets:
Charles Creitz covers the Carlson interview for FOX News here. Bruce Golding covers it for the New York Post here. Tristan Justice covers it for the Federalist here. Bryan Preston covers it for PJ Media here. Andrea Widburg sets forth the background and hits the highlights in the American Thinker column posted here this morning along with videos of each FOX segment.
All of those are right-side sources, of course. But how was this story covered — if at all — over on the left? I mean, all the official story lines that have been so universally promoted are now in tatters. Could they really just completely ignore the whole thing, only a week before the presidential election? . . .