Radical Moderation

Tolerance is not acceptance. Acceptance is not approval. Approval is not advocacy. Sometimes you can legislate tolerance with broad popular ...

It's worth remembering that the last time a major US political party was destroyed and replaced by a new one, there was a civil war. Pol...

The Biden Administration plans to strengthen regulations controlling methane emissions from oil and gas wells, pipelines, and refinery infra...

I would very much like to see Trump taken off the table.  Having him in federal prison would do nicely.  Not as nicely as if he would do us ...

 Read this .  It's important.

Old fuddy-duddy conservatives (the fussy, boring kind, rather than the racist, authoritarian kind) have long harped on the necessity for mem...

Trump's recent de-platforming is of course controversial and has stirred up the usual furious "Is not! Is so!" yammering by on...

Well, we're in deep trouble. This post is going to be a mess, because I'm having a huge amount of trouble wrapping my head around th...

The following is not an excuse; it's an explanation. Back in the 80's I was young and a pretty vanilla-flavored Reagan Republican.  ...

 It's going to be hard for the modest majority who voted for Biden to forgive the substantial minority who voted for Trump.  It is also ...

There is no greater priority than getting Trump out of office.  Yes, it's a bummer that SCOTUS is going to be seriously out of balance. ...

I have to admit that when Trump says that a Biden Administration could usher in massively radical and destructive changes, I believe that to...

This is another one of those placeholder posts.  In this case, here's a little cartoon about how to modify and install Starship crew and...

...then at least read this . Can you really vote for somebody whose negligence caused at least 83,000 avoidable deaths?

Hans Koenigsmann says in an interview with Der Spiegel that SpaceX is still shooting for an orbital flight of Starship in 2020.  I'm no...

I'm quite conservative when it comes to law-and-order.  Even as a not-completely-crazy libertarian, I believe that the freedom to make a...

I see from Wikipedia that the aphorism "May you live in interesting times" is not  a translation of a Chinese curse.  But it's...

I need a clean place to put a diagram I did for another thread, and this is as good a place as any.  I'll fill this out later.

Looks like Covid-19 is going to force us to perform a real-world experiment about whether MMT has any basis in reality.  The amount of debt ...

I am not a Democrat.  I used to be a Republican before they became too loathsome to associate myself with.  I'm a center-right kinda guy...

Identity is the nuclear weapon of political strategy. The two parties have used different strategies throughout their histories to cobble ...