First this week, Happy Anniversary to Us.
This is the 200th episode of the Malcolm on the Right audio commentary. I've always been intrigued in my long writing career by trying new things and forms of communicating, first in straight newspaper stories in the U.S. and abroad, then a newspaper features column, then political blogging for newspapers.
I even slipped in eight years of political communications in state government, and then for a presidential campaign. All fascinating and intense learning. (I still have never used algebra.)
Thank you all for joining and sticking with me along the way here for what I intend to be an even longer run.
Two of my good friends along the way — John Merline and Terry Jones — went on to found the Issues and Insights commentary site, which I highly recommend for thoughtful and often unexpected conservative commentary that makes you think.
And that's what one of their recent posts did for me. They examined one of the Founding Fathers' most innovative designs, giving states specific powers to innovate and balance within the broader federal system.
That is what I discuss in this week's episode: how the innovations and experiments of some states on taxing are strongly attracting refugees from failing states. That, in turn, is quietly re-balancing the states' representation in Congress, in a definite conservative direction for now.
Hear my thoughts by clicking on the flag and then share yours in the Comments below.
This week's Sunday column analyzed the stunning ignorance of mainstream media about the young war in Iran. The widespread impression they seek to emit is that President Trump's effort to prevent those religious fanatics from ever developing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them globally is failing.
I listed the wide-ranging destruction of Iranian military assets, allowing U.S. and Israeli planes to attack anywhere at will, even in daylight. My favorite clueless headline came from the New York Times: "How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran's Response to War".
They must have meant the speed with which the military and police enforcement forces of the world's largest exporter of terrorism collapsed under the relentless assault.
Can Trump Derangement Syndrome really run this deep? Whoopi Goldberg on ”The View” even suggested that Trump started the war to distract news coverage from the failure to capture Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper.
Ed Morrissey and I had some fun with the media's sad effort to depict a military "quagmire" after all of three weeks during our weekly podcast at sister site, HotAir.
After such a broad display of willful ignorance, that media and its similarly-minded allies in the Democrat Party would like voters to think of that party as a realistic alternative to hand control of Congress in the midterm elections seven months from now.
The most recent audio commentary examined the sad state of California these days under the long ongoing years of mismanagement by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom. He clearly is trying to position his ambition to take his disastrous policies and impose them on the other 49 states as president starting in 2029.
Is Gavin Newsom's Decaying California the Actual Future of America?
RedState readers know better. But hopefully the nation's other voters are paying attention too.
