https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/deep-state-nothing-new-american-politics/

A little perspective from a classicist professor.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/joe-digenova-urges-trump-doj-to-refuse-to-cooperate-with-rep-nadlers-document-requests/

Is it really true the Supreme Court might support refusal to comply with a Congressional subpeona? Where the subpeona represents an abuse of power, I sure hope so.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/dancing-on-a-powder-keg/

Sarah Hoyt’s passionate tone is a bit over the top for my tastes, but she ably captures the thesis of frustration I see among the self-described patriots I surf among on the Web. At least, I agree that contemporary liberals and progressives really don’t comprehend the people they’re dealing with.

My own way of framing the matter is more modest. Triumphs of theory over practicality are far too common on the Left.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/tuesday-links-50/

Debby Witt usefully remembers that today is the anniversary of Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech. To save a hop, here’s a video that features the speech (about 7 mins.):

But you may find somthing else equally compelling among the topics of Witt’s other links today: French fry power rankings, the invention of bubble wrap, a posthumous Dr. Seuss book, how California got its name (black history), personalities that humans and their pets share.

https://adversariapodcast.com/2019/02/26/transcript-for-yoram-hazony-the-virtue-of-nationalism/

As the concept of nationalism is much discussed these days, there may be some interest in contemporary works which seek to define and understand the term. One such is The Virtue of Nationalism, by Yoram Hazony (2018), an Israeli philosopher, Bible scholar and political theorist.

https://pilotonline.com/news/government/nation/article_cb90cc2e-3e9d-11e9-98e4-cf017be42586.html

This WAPO piece at The Pilot makes it sound as if the Congressional investigations are both legitimate and appropriate. They may well be, but left out of the reporting is any good reason for undertaking them.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-03/finnish-soldiers-odin-announce-hunt-rapists-pedos-controversial-video

Remember the Soldiers of Odin next time you are tempted to think that cultural diversity is inherently a good thing. They are a sober warning that multiculturalism is also an open invitation to vigilantism.

It takes the coercive powers of the state to suppress such things, as well as to avoid them altogether.

https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=108746&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=100000471221116&utm_campaign=Equip

This is good news, depending on your perspective. Mine is that envelope-pushing technology is almost always desirable, regardless of cost. The value of money, after all, is what you can get for it.

https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/03/trump-executive-order-campus-free-speech

I am sympathetic with the writer’s conclusion: “The education system must do more to uphold the First Amendment, and to encourage students to cherish the principles of a free society. But a top-down, unilateral imposition on colleges and universities does not strike me as the best idea.”

But I don’t share it.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/what_does_it_take_to_start_a_civil_war.html

Nothing more than an irreconcilable difference of opinion, it would seem.