According to the January 2022 Harvard-Harris Poll (PDF), the FOX News favorable/unfavorable rating is 46% to 37%. That's a favorable rating of Plus 9! For some perspective, CNN rates 41% to 42%, or unfavorable by -1. FOX News has a big lead over MSNBC and CNN combined in the latest AdWeek primetime ratings :   Week of January 17-23 Cable News Network      Primetime Audience (ave. mil.)    Cable Rank Overall (incl. ESPN, etc.)        FOX                                        2.43                                                            # 1       MSNBC               ...

 "The Democrats' myopic obsession with people's race is dishonoring Dr. King's legacy, of which their ideology of critical race theory is an open rejection. Out of their lust for political power, they are shattering his dream and attempting to shatter the nation." — Christopher Tremoglie, Washington Examiner This blog began a year ago with Biden’s inauguration (1st post here ). Obama, the man pulling Biden’s strings, would himself have done better than what’s unfolding under Obama’s bumbling, broken, beyond primetime ex-Veep. Obama did tell Biden  in 2019, “You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t.” But Biden’s nowhere without Obama. In early 2020, Bernie Sanders won Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, surging past Biden into the Democratic primary lead. It suddenly seemed possible Socialist Bernie would win the Democratic nomination, then lose to Trump. South Carolina, where Democratic primary voters are 56% black, was next. The state’s senior black figure, ...

   “We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate.” — Riverside Church speech, April 4, 1967 It’s Martin Luther King, Jr., birthday. This blog honors King as a racial equality hero. Even at his life’s untimely end, King held to his vision of Americans working together, helping the less favored of all races. Clayborne Carson is founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford. He states King’s most significant contribution to the civil rights struggle was linking black aspirations to more universal democratic and Christian ideals. King inspired civil rights activists to believe in egalitarian values appealing to all Americans. Emphasizing nonviolence and interracial cooperation, he effectively overcame the South’s legalized racial segregation. Later, King was less successful at helping end poverty and de facto seg...

Calif. Gov. Newsom Ignoring His Covid Regs.     Elites are inevitable; their legitimacy and continuity is not. Ours lack the virtue and wisdom needed for good governance and leadership. Instead of expertise, they offer incompetence, malice, and herd-like conformity to self-serving ideological fads. — Nathanael Blake,  Federalist What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.   — Ecclesiastes 1 We have talked about Sir Isaiah Berlin’s “two concepts of liberty.” His “negative liberty” means “leave me alone.” “Positive liberty” means "I know what’s best for you.” By identifying both concepts with “liberty,” Berlin gives each a favorable cast. Berlin’s “liberty concept” dichotomy is only 65 years old. But elites have been around since civilization began. Rulers needed their priests — their intellectuals — to help them draw on “higher” powers others could not see, the “positive liberty” concept of the time. Priests...

Democratic political scientist Ruy Teixeira co-authored in 2002 The Emerging Democratic Majority . The book, as Teixeira himself noted , has proven to be “the most influential Democratic theory .   .   . for building their coalition.” With a conservative white population in demographic decline, the liberal nonwhite population will keep growing, delivering an ever-larger Democratic majority.   Barack Obama fully embraced Teixeira’s “emerging nonwhite majority.” When the Obama administration’s progress stalled after Republicans captured the House in 2010, Obama more forcefully supported Teixeira’s coalition. He used black teenager Trayvon Martin’s death to inject racism into the national dialog; to up nonwhite support for his 2012 re-election. Following a white police officer's 2014 acquittal for killing black Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Obama continued employing racism to re-enforce his coalition. Then months later, when Donald Trump kicked off hi...