Unca Darrell

MARCH 31 / "Trump Is Obama Squared"

THIS IS THE HEADLINE of Bret Stephens's excellent Tuesday column in The Wall Street Journal. Snips:

Donald Trump is Barack Obama squared. Not as a matter of rhetorical style, where the president is glib and grammatical, while the developer is . . .

MARCH 30 / Two bits of conventional wisdom, now falsified

THE FIRST is that in Republican primaries, Donald Trump has a ceiling of about 35 percent, with the other 65 percent implacably dug in against him. 

Not so.

The Real Clear Politics average of the five latest national GOP polls gives Mr. Trump . . .  

MARCH 29 / The right way to play the game is . . .

. . . is to contribute money to the presidential candidate you support. I just wrote a check to . . .

MARCH 21 / Back in aught-eight a Houston campaign office . . .

. . . for presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama posted a Cuban -- not an American -- flag on the wall. Superimposed on the flag was the iconic image of mass murderer Ernesto Guevara, "Che" to his admirers in dorm rooms, faculty lounges, taxpayer-financed offices of Acorn and other "community" organizations, and other hard-left precincts.

 

For the Obama campaign, this visual gaffe was a problem. The candidate's hard-left ideology was to be gauzed over, not boldly advertised. The truth had to be . . .

 

MARCH 21 / Understanding Rush Limbaugh's unseemly . . .

. . . response to Donald J. Trump, Jr.

Mr. Limbaugh just said that in an election contest between Hillary Clinton and . . .  

MARCH 18 / Unca D goes boom

ABOUT THREE HOURS ago radio host Michael Berry posted a mention of yours truly and my excellent and eponymous blog site, "Unca Darrell."

Since then I have had more online hits that I get in a typical month -- heck, in a typical calendar quarter. And the day is young.

For first-time visitors, the best intro to Unca Darrell is "Big Ideas" on the right side of the page. My blogging is sporadic, I am sorry to say, but generally focused on the selfsame ideas.

You can also consult "About Unca Darrell" for a few words about who I am.

Thanks for dropping by. And thanks to Mr. Berry for posting a signpost on his Facebook page to the distant corner of the blogosphere where Unca D resides.  

For what it's worth, Unca D is a better photographer than pontificator, which is saying something. If you like to look at pictures, you can get your fill here.

MARCH 17 / Ted Cruz is missing an opportunity

WHO CARES if Donald Trump and John Kasich have bailed on the scheduled Fox News Channel's scheduled Salt Lake City debate of March 21? Moaning and groaning about it won't help. What Mr. Cruz needs to do is . . . 

MARCH 16 / Age, responsibilities, and the joys of real life

THESE BRING their own rich rewards. But they do keep me from the satisfaction of writing each day about the things that interest me. And, necessarily, keep you from the enlightenment that would follow from your visits to "Unca Darrell." 

Today, however, inspiration drives me yet again to the dusty keyboard, not to share my own musings but to point to the quite brilliant and painfully true musings of another. I serve today as James Boswell for the Samuel Johnson of our very own place and time, namely . . .