Tag Archives: GOP

Over Here Or Over There

Posted on February 24, 2025 by The Political Hat

     One of the great follies of the Left is the idea that they could play as an intelligent designer with society and mould or even outright reconstruct it in line with their utopian vision. This is not the most hubristic … Continue reading →

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No Rules Against Political Enemies

Posted on February 4, 2025 by The Political Hat

     It has become de rigueur on the Right to openly despise any notion of the Rule of Law as anything other than dead and something to be mocked or mock other over. Indeed, the point is to cause pain “forever”. … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – Good Policy Is Good Even If Coincidental: Affirmative Action; Ending DEI; Ending Non-Deportation Of Illegals

Posted on January 30, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: Just as coincidence of policy does not establish consanguinity of doctrine, … Continue reading →

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How Woke Works

Posted on January 28, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Wokeness isn’t just some social affectation of evil or even just something unnatural or objectionable. Beyond the superficial level that most people recognize is the underlying falsity of foundation that underlies how it works, and how it end up manifesting … Continue reading →

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Natural Born Birthright Is The Law, And Our Heritage

Posted on January 21, 2025 by The Political Hat

     That a person born in the United States and not excepted from its jurisdiction, which is otherwise absolute, is a citizen at birth has been well established not only by the 14th Amendment (which simply reaffirmed the color-blind nature of … Continue reading →

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Breaking Free from Political Polarization?

Posted on January 8, 2025 by The Political Hat

     There have been many alternatives to the classic “political compass”. Bruce Pardy from the American Institute for Economic Research discusses just such an alternate view to the more familiar political compass, or simple Left/Right graph.

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Defining Woke

Posted on January 7, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Many on the Right are so hell bent to “fight like the Left” that they’ve adopted the Left’s way of thinking. Some have termed them the “Woke Right”; others object to that term because they don’t share the same utopian … Continue reading →

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Fighting Politically: Performance vs. Substance

Posted on December 4, 2024 by The Political Hat

     There is an almost emotional need in politics to not only know that elected officials are fighting for you, but to feel that they loudly doing so with no holds bared.   But sometimes that need to feel clearly and … Continue reading →

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The Madness Of Tucker Carlson

Posted on November 20, 2024 by The Political Hat

     Once upon a time, Tucker Carlson was a bowtie-wearing young man with insightful and thoughful ideas. Then, in a change of course, he began wearing a necktie and some time thereafter began speaking as a contrarian, speaking of economic ridiculousness … Continue reading →

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The Government Is Not Your Daddy

Posted on November 18, 2024 by The Political Hat

     Back when Barack Obama was President, Chris Rock said that “the president and the first lady are kind of like the mom and the dad of the country. And when your dad says something, you listen. When you don’t, it … Continue reading →

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