Category: 2012 Election

Obamacare and the Fraudulent Turk

Obamacare and the Fraudulent Turk

| December 5, 2013 | 1 Reply

  Decades ago, while home for the holidays from college, I attended a church-sponsored all-night New Year’s Eve party for college students. The organizers, whom I knew, had cozened me into providing (for a few hours) one of the on-going entertainments. They had crudely decorated a refrigerator box to look like a mainframe computer and […]

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Whither this blog?

Whither this blog?

| January 8, 2013 | Reply

OK, so I was (and am still) dismayed by the outcome of the elections, and all that has happened during the two months since has done little to alleviate my concern. Given that plenty of other blogs continue to fight the political fight, I am taking a hiatus from that fight myself. Except, of course, […]

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National Review 2012 Cruise – Day 2

National Review 2012 Cruise – Day 2

| November 13, 2012 | Reply

It’s hard to believe that this is only day 2 of the cruise — we have been underway since about 5 pm on Sunday, with only a half-hour pause at the Bahamas in a vain attempt to see whether we could make our scheduled stop at Half Moon Cay (answer: no). So right now we’ve […]

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National Review 2012 Cruise — Day 1

National Review 2012 Cruise — Day 1

| November 12, 2012 | Reply

Our port o’ call at Half Moon Cay (Bahamas) was cancelled due to strong winds and heavy swells (tenders are used to transport passengers to and from the island), so we spent the whole day at sea (with some strong swells, which seem to have died down in the last hour or so). Two sessions […]

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At sea

At sea

| November 11, 2012 | Reply

I’ll add a photo later, but our ship — the ms Nieuw Amersterdam — just left the Ft Lauderdale ship channel and is now at sea, a few miles off the Florida coast and headed for the Bahamas. I’ll try to make daily posts, largely about the National Review sessions on board. ..bruce..

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Weighing in on Project Orca [updated]

Weighing in on Project Orca [updated]

| November 10, 2012 | 3 Replies

[Final version — flights are done and I’m on the ground in Florida] “All the most important mistakes are made on the first day.” – The Art of Systems Architecting (Maier & Rechtin) Project Orca was the Romney campaign’s technological effort to track in near-real-time actual voting in precincts all over the United States, with […]

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Packing to leave the country

Packing to leave the country

| November 8, 2012 | Reply

No, no, no — just on a cruise. Or, more specifically, on the National Review 2012 Post-Election Cruise. Sandra and I went on the NR Cruise last year and had an absolutely wonderful time. This year, I suspect things will be a bit more pained, if determined. Maybe we’ll work to form a shadow cabinet, […]

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Compared to whom?

Compared to whom?

| November 7, 2012 | Reply

Among the election post-mortems I’m reading this morning, I see a frequent refrain about how Mitt Romney wasn’t a strong or ideal candidate. My immediate question is: compared to whom? Here are the GOP candidates who entered the race and stuck around long enough to participate in the initial debates. Who among the other seven […]

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I was wrong. I was completely wrong.

I was wrong. I was completely wrong.

| November 7, 2012 | Reply

Romney did not win big. He did not win at all. The GOP did not gain control of the Senate and may have lost ground. I was clearly wrong on what the American people wanted. At least 49% of them, in states that added up to an electoral college victory. I was worried after I […]

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“The Gods of the Copybook Headings” illustrated

“The Gods of the Copybook Headings” illustrated

| November 5, 2012 | 5 Replies

[Thanks to the links from Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds), Chaos Manor (Jerry Pournelle), and John C. Wright’s Journal (John C. Wright — what, you were expecting Karl Rove?). In fact, if you follow the  link below to my 2008 post, you’ll see that I first read the poem over at Jerry Pournelle’s blog, Chaos Manor.] I posted this poem […]

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