Jay Gaskill
The Policy Think Site

Most Recent Commentaries:

• The War for America (June 15, 2013)
  A major inflection point is that convergence of moment and circumstances that present an opportunity to move the wheel that alters the course of history. The American recovery will be accomplished over a decade through a number of these inflection points. The simple awareness of these fulcra, the lever-points of change, the informed sense of when and where they present themselves, is the key to power – to do good or ill. Our ignorance or neglect of these key opportunities has resulted in being gamed and will continue to do so until we wake up.
• Revenge in Boston (April 17, 2013)
• Modeling Margaret Thatcher (April 14, 2013)
• The Faulty Foundations of Progressivism (March 28, 2013)
• Compassion Versus Social Justice (March 22, 2013)
• The Arch Crumbles at Dawn (January 16, 2013)

Archives for 2012:

• The Coming Fiscal Drag (November 27, 2012)
• Part Two:  The Double Leftist Hijack (November 26, 2012)
• Part One:  The Coming Struggle Over Values (November 25, 2012)
• Wake Up, The Jihad Is Here (November 18, 2012)
• Turnout is Fair play (November 6, 2012)
• Mother Jones and the Freedom Tipping Point (September 24, 2012)
• Is Obama in Trouble Because "He didn't do enough?" (September 14, 2012)
• The Rise and Fall of Modern Progressive Liberalism (September 11, 2012)
• Post-Convention Analysis (September 9, 2012)
• Paul Ryan - The 100% Solution (August 13, 2012)
• Why Rugged Individualism is Not the Essential Value of Freedom (July 7, 2012)
• Commerce Clause Power Abuse and the Obama-Care Case (July 1, 2012)
• David Brooks and the Deferred Structural Reckoning (June 18, 2012)
• On Not Exploiting the “Gay” Issue, Part One in a series (May 13, 2012)
• Never Again - or - Not My Problem... (May 12, 2012)
• The Norwegian Predator – Grendel’s Bastard Spawn (April 22, 2012)
• Mr. Zimmerman and Florida Justice (April 18, 2012)
• Morality & Politics (April 9, 2012)
• Be Careful What You Pay For (March 28, 2012)
• Wake Up Call: The March 16, 2012 POTUS Executive Order (March 20, 2012)
• Why We Are Narrative Prey (March 16, 2012)
• The Search for Therapeutic Conservatism (February 22, 2012)
• The Three “T’s” of the 2012 Presidential Election (February 21, 2012)
• David Brooks and the Great Divide (February 1, 2012)
• Nuke (m) Gingrich vs. Milk (toast) Romney? (January 27, 2012)
• David Brooks, Heraclitus & Romney (January 21, 2012)
• FDR 1932 - Romney 2012? (January 15, 2012)
• Romney Regret? (January 13, 2012)
• Why We Are Well Beyond The FED Rescue Point (January 12, 2012)

Archives for 2011:

• Living in the Ayn Rand Universe (December 15, 2011)
• Paul Krugman Was (December 13, 2011)
• Monsters Without Grace (December 9, 2011)
• When the Sleeping Giant Wakes (November 8, 2011)
• Obama, the Failed, Meets the Imperfect GOP Candidate (October 29, 2011)
• The Mormon Cult Kerfuffle - Bigoted Texas Pastor Blows Bile (October 10, 2011)
• Re-hire Me, Please (September 21, 2011)
• It's About the Maintenance, Stupid! (April 9, 2011)
• Fear Of The Future & The Nuclear Litmus Test (March 18, 2011)
• Japan and our Nuclear Future (March 17, 2011)
• Are You Bored With Egypt Yet? (February 20, 2011)
• While the Administration Twitters, Egypt Teeters at the Edge of Chaos (February 8, 2011)
• Thugology 101 (February 4, 2011)
• A Different Fundamentalism (January 17, 2011)
• Nihilism: The Tucson Gunman And the Other Parallels (January 14, 2011)
• Enter the New Year & Realistic Hope (January 2, 2011)
• Murders are on the Decline? (January 1, 2011)

Archives for 2010:

• Israel (December 25, 2010)
• Leaked:  Next State of the Union Address (December 7, 2010)
• We Need to Stop the START Treaty (December 5, 2010)
• Bernanke’s Gamble: Bubble, Boom or Bloodbath? (November 9, 2010)
• Truth or Dare: Hillary on Obama’s 2012 Ticket? (October 7, 2010)
• The Escape From Delusional Economics & the Catastrophic Failure of Magical Thinking (September 16, 2010)
• 9-11, Never Forget Why! (September 12, 2010)
• Detecting Moderate Islam (August 27, 2010)
• The Two Most Dangerously Seductive Ideas of Our Time (July 17, 2010)
• Oaktown Riots -- Again (July 13, 2010)
• Guilty (July 9, 2010)
• Demise of Free Speech Firewall Under "Justice" Kagan: The Litmus Test (May 26, 2010)
• One Wave, Many Surfers (May 24, 2010)
• Potty Parity - Congress Sees Lingering Gender Discrimination in Unequal Toilet Facilities for Women (May 14, 2010)
• Kagan (May 12, 2010)
• Politics & Polity: Our Rodney King* Moment (March 30, 2010)
• What Hath Obama Wrought? (March 20, 2010)
• Doubling Down on Health Care: What Was Said & What Was Meant (March 6, 2010)
• Crisis, Gridlock & Policy Sweet Spots (March 5, 2010)
• China, Inc., Part Three (February 5, 2010)
• The Coming Tsunami Correction (January 17, 2010)
• Murders are Down, Economic Distress is Up? (January 2, 2010)

Archives for 2009:

• Comforting Four-Year-Old Crime Victims (December 30, 2009)
• On Not Severing our HUMBILICAL Chord (December 8, 2009)
• Darwinian Medicine (November 25, 2009)
• Clark Kent for President (November 15, 2009)
• FORT HOOD III, Perfidy & Treason -- Connecting the Dots (November 11, 2009)
• Fort Hood & the Most Dangerous Virus (November 8, 2009)
• To “B” or Not? David Brooks and Obama's Problem (November 3, 2009)
• Legislative Malpractice - The Whores Rule (October 27, 2009)
• The Real Reason for President Obama's Nobel Award (October 12, 2009)
• Polanski in the Slammer - Get Out of Jail Free? (September 28, 2009)
• Tom Friedman's Crack (September 24, 2009)
• Forgive Us, Renew Us (September 19, 2009)
• Iran - Who Will "Bell the Cat" and at What Cost? (September 17, 2009)
• Obama's Big Health Care Speech - SALE or NO SALE? (September 13, 2009)
• Obama's Wednesday Speech to Congress: Too Late? (September 8, 2009)
• Our Leadership Crisis (September 3, 2009)
• Why Health Care Reform is not a Moral Issue (September 1, 2009)
• Is it Really Time to say "NO" to Health Care Reform (August 25, 2009)
• Saving Obama from Himself (August 13, 2009)
• When Does Obama Crash? (August 3, 2009)
• Is This To Be A Health Care Delivery Train Wreck? (July 27, 2009)
• Sotomayer and the Firefighters (July 16, 2009)
• The Free Lunch Addiction: The Curse of Contemporary Liberalism (July 7, 2009)
• 24 Hour Storm Warning - The House is about to Punish the Economy with "Cap and Raid" (June 26, 2009)
• History is Taking Obama's Measure (June 16, 2009)
• Obama at the Crossroad - Lost in Space or Grounded in Fiscal Reality (June 14, 2009)
• Seven Pounds (June 13, 2009)
• N. Korean & Iranian Nukes:  The Classic Hostage Standoff Redux? (June 12, 2009)
• Foreign Terror Combatants Have Miranda Rights (June 11, 2009)
• Running out of Oxygen in the Political Terrarium (June 8, 2009)
• Demons of the 21st Century (June 1, 2009)
• Gay and Lesbian Activists in California ask: NOW WHAT? (May 29, 2009)
• The Sotomayor Nomination: Another Liberal for SCOTUS (May 28, 2009)
• The Future of Leftwing Redistributionist Politics (May 27, 2009)
• A Time to Remember (May 25, 2009)
• When California's Fiscal Toilets Overflow - Who Do You Call? (May 21, 2009)
• Toying With CArz - The New York Times Advises the Car Industry? (May 20, 2009)
• Liberal Vampirism (May 17, 2009)
• Liberalism as a Secular Religion (May 16, 2009)

Biography - Jay Gaskill

Jay describes himself as a neocon California lawyer, having once served as the Alameda County Public Defender. Jay's website, The Policy Think Site at www.jaygaskill.com, hosts two conservative blogs, "The OutLawyer's blog" and "The Human Conspiracy Blog".

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