The Leftists have got their message together lately. As Barack Obama rails against the insurance companies raising their premiums, I got the following message from the group Health Care for America Now in my e-mail: Today we’re taking it to the streets. The insurance companies are having a conference in Washington, DC to plot how to kill health reform. Thousands are gathering as we speak | Read More »
We’ve come a long way since the days of minority segregation in sports. It has been 74 years since Jessie Owens won gold and Matthew Robinson won Silver in the 200-meter dash at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, right under the nose of Adolf Hitler. Matthew’s brother Jackie would break the color barrier in Major League Baseball 11 years later. Doug Williams was the | Read More »
While I had been thinking about something like this for several weeks, the document that follows was very much inspired by Nessa’s diary of a few days ago. I’m not declaring it to be the official RedState Resolves (I’m fairly certain that Erick Erickson and the rest of the Mods would have something to say about that!). This is intended as my statement of Grievances | Read More »
Several months have passed since my first set of Intemperate Thoughts. These are random thoughts that are short bits of reason. They are generally cynical, sometimes funny, often politically incorrect but (I hope) frequently insightful looks into the nature of politics, government, and everyday life. Enjoy! So, we have to spend money on Welfare for people who can’t find jobs, but we have to have | Read More »
I realize that it’s politically incorrect to defend whaling, but as is often the case with political correctness, I just don’t care. “Captain” Paul Watson, head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society fleet has harassed the Japanese whaling fleet for years. Discovery Networks even developed a show called “Whale Wars” around the exploits of his ships, the Bob Barker, Steve Irwin and Ady Gil. The Ady Gil | Read More »
You can always trust the government to pull an Orwell and regularly use words that mean the opposite of their political meaning. Take “Non-Discretionary Spending,” for example. What is, by its nature, the most discretionary part of our budget, social programs like Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, are called “non-discretionary.” The money that funds what our government is meant to do, that is, the courts, regulatory | Read More »
Can we just admit that the Stimulus was an $800 billion mistake that did absolutely nothing to help the economy or stimulate jobs? Can we admit that Keynesian economics are, at best, a scalpel being wielded as though a they were a machete? Can we admit that no centralized government planning will ever lead to greater economic prosperity? Because if you really can’t admit that, you really | Read More »
The concept of a silo is a rather simple one: A vertical tower or a shaft dug in the ground where items of like types, usually freshly harvested grains, can be kept. Silos are useful for storing large quantities of like products. The millions of kernels of corn, wheat and other grains harvested on a given day are placed into a particular silo so that | Read More »
Timothy Barton President, OUP USA Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 U.S.A. Phone: 212-726-6000 Dear Mr. Barton, I am writing this letter as a formal complaint. It has come to my attention that the New Oxford American Dictionary has defined the term “teabagger” as “a person who protests President Obama’s tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as | Read More »
It was about 13º Fahrenheit in Atlanta this morning at 8:00am, making it one of the coldest days in recent history. The cold snap has lasted over a week already seems unlikely to stop until Tuesday or Wednesday. While many conservative pundits have commented that this weather is “proof” that the Global Warming™ alarmists’ claims are false, the vast majority do it tongue-in-cheek. As the | Read More »
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