[Update: I got quite a lot of negative feedback about the "tone" of this entry. I admit I was ticked off when I wrote it and probably should have let it sit for a day or so. Having said that, I stand by the point, which I think is valid. However, I do confess to being, as one commenter said, "tone deaf." ] | Read More »
In 1985 director Terry Gilliam (of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” fame) released a movie called “Brazil.” If you’ve never seen it, track it down and watch it. It makes the case against Big Government more eloquently (and horrifyingly) than anything else I’ve ever seen. In the first five minutes of the movie, the following things happen (remember, this movie was made thirty | Read More »
“I do know that, first, you have to get mad.” — Howard Beale in “Network” I recently mentioned Ann Coulter in a diary entry and was surprised to get some comments back saying things like “I cringe when she opens her mouth” and “she comes across as shrill and fighting for the sake of fighting.” Let me address that and come to the defense of | Read More »
I just finished filling out my 2013 “State of the Republican Party Survey” which the GOP mailed to me (probably paid for with some of my generous contributions from last year.) So, since you asked for my opinions, I’m going to include some thoughts which the survey didn’t have room for. First: Less direct mail. During the last election season, I was bombarded by | Read More »
In the 1984 movie “All of Me,” starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin, there’s a hilarious and very telling scene about “missing the point” that illustrates what’s going on with the sequester, Republicans, and the media. The movie’s plot is complicated, but it boils down to a critical scene where Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin are arguing over whether they should sleep with young, beautiful | Read More »
I’m using another diary as a jumping-off point for this. I hope the author doesn’t mind. From this diary: It is open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh show and a caller makes the case that there is no hope to defeat Obama. So Rush asks him, “do you think that the administration will continue to deficit spend and that the debt will continue | Read More »
I listen to a lot of talk radio. I listen to left-wing talk radio, and I listen to right wing talk radio. Mostly I just have it on as background noise, a kind of low-level audio equivalent of the “headline crawl” that runs across the bottom of your TV screen while you watch the news. Today, I heard something on KPFK (Los | Read More »
Ezra Levant is the founder of Canada’s Western Standard, which used to be a print publication but I hear is now online-only (a shame). In 2008, he was sued and dragged before one of Canada’s ironically-named “Human Rights Commissions” on charges of, basically, upsetting Muslims by publishing the infamous “Muhammed Cartoons.” (The complaint was eventually dropped.) Ezra Levant is not a household name | Read More »
Google the words “republican apologizes” and you’ll get (approximately) 3,480,000 results. Google the words “democrat apologizes” and you’ll get 1,920,000 results. The obvious conclusion is that Republicans spend a lot more time apologizing for things. The question is: Why? As conservatives, we are (I hope!) convinced that our ideas are sound, and that they represent the way forward for America if our country is to | Read More »
Republicans don’t seem to be taking the 2012 election losses well. I hear that some of us are off at a retreat somewhere, plotting a comeback of some kind. Others (like me) have stopped contributing any more money to the GOP for a while (I gave, too generously, in 2012). Still others are no doubt curled into a ball, weeping uncontrollably. | Read More »
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