The Runback: I'd Rather Be Right Than Be President
The Runback: I'd Rather Be Right Than Be President
My column for The Banner this week sure did stir up a lot of emotions
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News and Politics
"Trees Stop Crime" Claims Wannabe Comptroller Brooke Lierman: "There are numerous studies done in Maryland showing a direct correlation between decreased crime and increased trees." – Del. Brooke Lierman, Democratic Comptroller nominee
Goucher Poll Tells Us What We Already Knew: New Poll is just another data point telling us that Dan Cox is doomed at the ballot box.
State-Level Unions Trying to Buy Off Frederick County: What does county government have to do with abortion? Nothing. But that's not stopping two Democratic-aligned unions from pushing the issue in the County Executive's Race.
Unsurprisingly, Cox Not Committed to Accepting the Election Result: Dan Cox denied the results in Maryland in 2020. No surprise he won't commit to accepting them this time.
Cox to Hold Fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago With Trump: If you have a spare $1,776 you too can hang with Dan Cox and Donald Trump
Kim Klacik Picks Fight With Fellow WBAL Personality: WBAL knew what they were getting when they hired Klacik. A classic frog and the scorpion tale
Sports
Gunge Matenderson: A cockamamie solution for a non-problem problem
Let's Have a Real Playoff, 2022 Edition: Once again, I am beating the drum for a sixteen team playoff
Shameless Plugs
My latest for The Baltimore Banner: Your political flags shouldn’t fly at our government buildings.
I’ll join WBAL Radio this morning right after 6:30 am to discuss my column.
The Monday Thought
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
- Thomas Paine
In case you were the last person on the planet to not realize that I was critical of government agencies flying political flags in The Banner last week, I was critical of government agencies flying political flags in The Banner last week.
The premise of course is that political flags, whether they be the gay pride flag or the Let’s Go Brandon flag, should not be flown in government buildings. Anybody who has been reading me would not be surprised by this.
Socialist Baltimore Twitter got word of it. So here’s a sample of the dumpster fire that my personal Twitter became last week.
So yes, I got to spend my birthday dealing with all of that.
The nonsense isn’t just on Twitter either:
But when it comes to the subject of human rights and inclusiveness, it’s not a matter of opinion; it’s a matter of right and wrong
I didn’t know flags had human rights.
The most amusing point, as always, is the fact that everybody wanted to debate about sex and nobody wanted to talk about the core issue that I wrote about. Which is the fact that the government should not be putting its imprimatur on ideas that would give them what amounts to state sponsorship.
Emerson wrote that “To be great is to be misunderstood.” Well, I’m not that great, but I have been misunderstood. Again. As I oft am in my writing, nobody wants to talk about the point and everybody wants to talk about their point.
And to think half the GOP spent five+ years calling me a RINO…….
My piece touched a nerve and told some uncomfortable truths. Mission accomplished. But it also highlighted the absolute totalitarian nature of these folks.
These progressives are totally unaware of their own illiberalism. Fish who don’t know they’re wet. These people are incapable of realizing they are mirror images of MAGA. They are incapable of reason, incapable of rationality, and incapable of honesty. They are looking only for something at which to direct their two-minutes hate.
Anyhoo, I look forward to continuing slaying the sacred cows of the right and the left for a long time to come.
