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“Bleeding Heart Postliberals” — Making Welfare Great Again?

Posted on October 5, 2026 by The Political Hat

     Once upon a time in the halcyon 1950s and early 1960s, the ascendant Left, with only a still nascent conservative intellectual movement to yell “stop”, decided that for the greater, or common, good the Federal government would declare a “war … Continue reading →

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Shampoo Socialism

Posted on September 29, 2026 by The Political Hat

     One of the totalitarian, and socialist, voices on the (purported) “Right” these days is Charles Haywood, the “Shampoo Socialist” who waxes poetically about taking over and imposing his vision on America whether people like it or not. Much has been … Continue reading →

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The Non-Neutrality Myth

Posted on September 16, 2026 by The Political Hat

     It Has become fashionable amongt the so-called “Common Good Conservatives” to treat virtue and liberty as a zero-sum game where too much liberty destroys virtue and that if virtue (but according to who) must be paramount for a dispensation of … Continue reading →

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The Debate On The Right: Is America Fundamentally Good?

Posted on September 15, 2026 by The Political Hat

     Would America still be America is what Americans have in common ceased to be common and were replace with something fundamentally different. The question and implication of that commonality or lack thereof is discussed below, quoted in full below due … Continue reading →

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“We’re All Socialists Now” — Rise Of The True Uniparty

Posted on September 14, 2026 by The Political Hat

     One of the many refrains of the nouveau (purported) “Right” is that the conservative movement and/or GOP were the “surrender caucus” who pretended to opposed the march of the Left, but then happily joined in when it became a fait … Continue reading →

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The New Anti-Reagan Myth

Posted on September 2, 2026 by The Political Hat

     It has become a fad amongst many of the “postliberals” (AKA “Post-American Right”) to bash President Ronald Reagan as some type of disaster, much of it cribbed from the Left in the ‘80s, as if he singlehandedly ended some fantasy … Continue reading →

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People, The Economy, and Control

Posted on September 1, 2026 by The Political Hat

     The economy is the free interaction of free people within the limits, be they broad or narrow, of the law. The aggregate effect of this is what people talk about when they talk about the state of the economy. The … Continue reading →

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Towards A Weaker Dollar

Posted on August 25, 2026 by The Political Hat

     The economic ideas of Vice-President Vance has been gather much attention, including criticism, as of late. One such criticism of Vance’s disdain of the Dollar as the world’s reserve currency comes from Phil W. Magness, which is copied here in … Continue reading →

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Socialism By Any Other Name…

Posted on August 24, 2026 by The Political Hat

     A preemptive apology for not having a silvered-forked tongue that can rely on priors and presumptions of oft repeated phrases and frameworks, for not having the time for extensive revisions, nor for painting with a broader brush than the prompting … Continue reading →

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All Your Internet Are Belong To Texas

Posted on August 17, 2026 by The Political Hat

Texas’ age verification laws for naughty sites are now being legally applies to not just Texas, but to the entire world. “In Travis County, Texas, a judge has frozen motherless.com, the .com domain of a foreign pornography operator, taking it … Continue reading →

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