Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 49

The cyclic transmogrification of the Republican Party

From Lincoln on, Democrats have accused Republicans of their own failings: hate speech, violence, madness. And the more the left recycles the same serpent’s lies they used against President Lincoln, the more the left turns Trump into the new Lincoln.

Security questions will always be insecure

Insecurity questions are insecure because their purpose is to allow access to someone who does not know the access credentials. This trait is shared by zero or one person who has forgotten their password, and an infinitude of people who never knew it in the first place—because they shouldn’t have access.

Small towns, big government

Should people have to leave small towns in order to go where the jobs are? Or is that response hypocrisy masquerading as compassion?

How the left bribes big business

There’s a reason giant corporations and the biggest conglomerates are almost all donors to Democrats if they prefer one party over another. The left’s policies kill their upstart competitors. Big government hurts small businesses far more than it hurts big businesses.

Preflighting blog comments in the Pythonista share screen

I now use Pythonista’s sharing extension to ensure that comments on other people’s blogs are appropriately formatted.

The Tyranny of the New York Times

The New York Times joins CNN in its totalitarian views of the use of rules.

First, CNN came for InfoWars

“When the speech condemns a free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant.”

Why do gun owners think the left wants to take our guns?

Gun owners think the left wants to take away guns because the left keeps refusing commonsense gun laws in favor of laws that ban guns.

Franklin D. Trump: What else can I do?

Does the left want internment camps for Americans of Russian descent?

Showboat media and showboat killers

Showboat killers share a very important trait with the news media: they both want to become the top news story, and neither really care why they’re talked about.