“People generally act in their own self interest so they can give to others.”

MJF

"Woman is breadbasket to the World."

MJF 

"Leftism: a philosophy that begins and ends in absurdity."

MJF 

"My enduring tragedies are somebody else's high-class problems."

MJF 

"In science, consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus."

Michael Crichton

National Press Club 2005

on global warming

Where Does the Term "Deep State" Come From?

"The origins of the term Deep State are from the secretive Turkish network known as derin devlet. This group was founded in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk with the purpose of undertaking clandestine acts to preserve the current governmental structure. These acts included coups and private assassinations of figures who were seen as hostile to the establishment; they were particularly targeted toward the press, communists, Kurds, and other dissenters."

Dictionary.com 

Atatürk

"Failure's not an option, but redefining success is." MJF

"Men of Lofty Genius"

“MEN OF LOFTY GENIUS WHEN THEY ARE DOING

THE LEAST WORK ARE MOST ACTIVE.”

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Jack Kerouac Unmolested

“If it hadn’t been for Western-style capitalism, free economic byplay, movement north south east and west, haggling, pricing, and the political balance of power carved into the U.S. Constitution, I wouldn’t have been able or allowed to hitchhike half broke through 47 states of this union and see the scene with my own eyes, unmolested.”

Jack Kerouac

Dharma Bum

Manny Machado: "Make Us a Separator"

SOURCE: "Manny Machado's grand slam lifts Orioles to 6-2 win over Angels in first game of West Coast trip", The Baltimore Sun, 8.8.17.

Godfather in the White House

As a rather notorious Godfather freak, and one who believes the classic film from 1972 can be viewed as a Bible for life, I've watched with great interest to the cavalcade of references to it politically of late. To wit:

• "Fredo" — the name of the traitorous brother to Michael Corleone has been applied alternately to Jared Kushner and Donald Trump's sons.
• "Consigliere" — Anthony Scaramucci looked like Trump's new family advisor when he arrived at the White House; many quickly recognized that he might make a better "wartime consigliere" given all the ongoing war with the media and Deep State.
• "Sonny" — Scaramucci tweeted (or did he?) that when he finds the leakers he's going to make Sonny's assassination on the causeway look like a party.

Stay tuned for more references to this great Italian gangster film (that's obviously so much more).

Che Guevara, Mass Murderer

"We know from Ernest Hemingway – then a Cuban resident – what Che was up to. Hemingway, who had looked kindly on Leftist revolutions since the Spanish civil war, invited his friend George Plimpton, editor of the Paris Review, to witness the shooting of prisoners condemned by the tribunals under Guevara's control. They watched as the men were trucked in, unloaded, shot, and taken away. As a result, Plimpton later refused to publish Guevara's memoir, The Motorcycle Diaries."

Nigel Jones

Che Guevara, Leftist hero

PAGLIA: Liberalism Today "Grotesquely Mechanistic and Authoritarian"

". . today's liberalism has become grotesquely mechanistic and authoritarian: It's all about reducing individuals to a group identity, defining that group in permanent victim terms, and denying others their democratic right to challenge that group and its ideology."

Camille Paglia

PAGLIA: Chuck Schumer "Asserted Absolutely No Moral Authority"

"In an abject failure of leadership that may be one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of the modern Democratic party, Chuck Schumer, who had risen to become the Senate Democratic leader after the retirement of Harry Reid, asserted absolutely no moral authority as the party spun out of control in a nationwide orgy of rage and spite."

Camille Paglia

PAGLIA: Democrats "Impugning Half the Nation As Vile Racists"

"How do Democrats imagine they can ever expand their electoral support if they go on and on in this self-destructive way, impugning half the nation as vile racists and homophobes?"

Camille Paglia

"All it's going to take is all we have."

Barry Trotz

Life Among the "Servile" Puppies

"You would think it would occur to him, 'Every place I've ever been, everyone has hated me. My only shot is to tie my wagon to Donald Trump. Maybe I can be attorney general or solicitor general.'"

Ann Coulter

Calls Senator Ted Cruz "a little bitch"

"Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus."

Alfred de Vigny

Christie Agonistes Run Amok

“We’re fed up with Gov. Chris Christie’s arrogance. We’re fed up with his opportunism. We’re fed up with his hypocrisy. We’re fed up with his sarcasm. We’re fed up with his long neglect of the state to pursue his own selfish agenda. We’re disgusted with his endorsement of Donald Trump after he spent months on the campaign trail trashing him, calling him unqualified by temperament and experience to be president.”

Asbury Park Press

Bridgewater Courier-News

Cherry Hill Courier-Post

East Brunswick Home News Tribune

Morristown Daily Record

Vineland Daily Journal

These newspapers—all owned by Gannett—published their joint call for Governor Christie’s resignation a day after he refused to answer questions related to his endorsement of Donald Trump for president at a press conference.

Much-fazed Christie Agonistes

His reason: “I don’t want to.”

According to the editorial, Christie spent a portion of 261 days out-of-state in 2015, travelling out of New Jersey to endorse and campaign with Trump—having quit the race February 10 after a distant finish in the New Hampshire primary (where he'd placed all his political hopes).

Looks to me like a man seeking national office to vault himself out of the cesspool of New Jersey politics, a cesspool he'd had a hand in creating. Endorsing Trump was his last desperate stab at regaining the spotlight, with its chance of a national political office (or appointment).

Going from the hope of the Republican party—as widely touted by the Leftist Media Bloc (LMB)—to national laughingstock was too much (on top of what already might have been a complex persona).

Christie Agoniste has run amok (or, perhaps it's beramok).

"Bent His Knee"

"Watching Christie kiss the Donald’s ring this weekend — and make excuses for the man Christie himself had said was unfit for the presidency — demonstrated how wrong we were. Rather than standing up to the bully, Christie bent his knee. In doing so, he rejected the very principles of his campaign that attracted our support."

Joseph W. McQuaid, publisher

New Hampshire Union Leader