San Diego Local Order of Bloggers

Blowing It On Purpose In Los Angeles

K T Cat
7/25/2026 10:00:01 AM

I should be outside, repairing my irrigation, but instead I'm writing a quick response to comments Tim made earlier because if I don't do it now, I won't do it at all.CaliforniaThere's something most people don't understand about what's happening in California, something I didn't understand until a month or two ago. I wrote this in a previous blog post, but it was an epiphany for me that bears retelling. The high speed choo-choo was never intended to run. There was never any intent to actually build the trains, build the bridges or lay the tracks. It was all a grift from the start, a grift to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.Think about the size of that con for a second. Bernie Madoff pocketed around a billion[...]

The Jews

K T Cat
7/24/2026 7:36:16 AM
This is awesome.   

The Texas odd couple

Silvio Canto, Jr.
7/25/2026 5:00:00 AM
The Texas odd couple: Jasmine Crockett may be out of the Democrat Texas Senate primary, but her presence still haunts James Talarico.Click to read:https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/the-texas-odd-couple/

July 1965: Dylan from acoustic to electric guitar

Silvio Canto, Jr.
7/24/2026 10:03:00 PM

                    On this day in 1965, Dylan put down the acoustic and played an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival.    Maybe we can say that Dylan moved rock and folk music closer together by going electric.  Like a rolling stone and Queen Jane approximately, from the LP Highway 61 Revisited, were early examples of Dylan going electric.          At about the same time, The Byrds released their electric version of Mr. Tambourine Man.    The group's LP also included All I really want to do, another Dylan song.    P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our[...]

Why does America keep winning?

W.C. Varones
12/12/2025 8:48:00 AM

X:          Yes. But also, America's abundance of natural resources and history of fortuitous developments kinda seems like God shed His grace on thee.        Capitalism and divine providence are like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. 

Inflation is always and everywhere a progressive phenomenon

W.C. Varones
11/13/2025 9:31:17 AM
Excerpt from a text conversation with a young "democratic socialist":DS: Every time the US has become progressive, the right wing and the centrists said the policies were too unrealistic, but the civil rights movement still passed, and FDR is currently looked at as one of the best presidents of the past hundred yearsWC: Some times the right wing and the centrists are right. LBJ's Great Society has trapped millions in multigenerational welfare dependency. Obamacare has made health care unaffordable and is bankrupting both families and the US governmentLBJ's Great Society (and the Vietnam War) was what forced the US government to break the gold standard under Nixon, leading to all subsequent inflation crises. Inflation and all[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Interior Dept. Proposes Expanding State Authority Over Grizzly Bear Management 

Leslie Eastman

While grizzlies remain listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, this could set the stage for future efforts to fully delist some populations.The post Interior Dept. Proposes Expanding State Authority Over Grizzly Bear Management first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

CDC: 2026 Cyclospora Outbreak is the Largest Ever Recorded 

Leslie Eastman

Meanwhile, Canada is dealing with its own outbreak of a diarrhea-causing microbe found in garlic powder.The post CDC: 2026 Cyclospora Outbreak is the Largest Ever Recorded first appeared on Legal Insurrection.