The McArdle Memo — III — Fundraising, The Takeover, Third Party Watch has received a set of documents whose description matches the documents that Miguel Duque allegedly sent to the LNC. One of these was a memo from Angela McArdle to the LNC, whose retransmissal to the LNC apparently upset LNC members. We are now reprinting this memo in sections.…
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Our source has supplied us with the memorandum that we infer led to LNC criticisms of Miguel Duque, including the committee appointed to prepare recommendations in his case. It’s rather long, so we will circulate it in sections over the next several days. You are reading a memorandum from Angela McArdle to the LNC, transmitted sometime in May 2023. We…
No, that’s not a typo. I said lost not won. Of course most people currently living in the US would call it a victory. The winners get to write the history books. However, if you were someone who lived on this continent before the relentless swarm of invaders headed inward from the eastern shore, you would say lost. The same…
A post from Stewart Flood forwarded by George Phillies You may or may not remember reading about the Hoovervilles. Ad-hoc camps in several cities, most notable outside of the District of Columbia, put together by former servicemen who came – peacefully – to demand their back pay from World War I that the government had deferred and held hostage. There…
I return to a basic theme: The purpose of a political party is: To Advance its Agenda via Political Action. To run Candidates for Office and Win Elections. To Use Electoral Victory to Put Its Program into Effect. What sort of candidates can we run for office? I’m going to identify four levels of candidate commitment: The paper candidate. The…