Occupy Wall Street, Democrats, the Obama administration, Davos, the Communist Party, and various and sundry fans of government have recently gotten on yet another predictable kick about replacing capitalism with some form of highly regulated central planning. When people are free to buy what they want and make what they want, they say, the marketplace goes wild, dogs and cats start living together, the poles | Read More »
It’s always dangerous to overthink. But right now I’m cogitating on the GOP primary contests and how to characterize the people who support each of the candidates, and wondering if I have thought enough. Who are the candidates and their supporters? Mitt Romney: His supporters are the country club Republicans and the people who base their support on who they think will win. As other | Read More »
Just 23% say the US Government has the consent of the governed. This result of a new Rasmussen Poll is startling in its simplicity. It simply states that in the opinion of the people, their representatives have not been representing them but doing something else. How else could the American people have come to the conclusion that their own government rules in their name but | Read More »
We are in the first, heady days of the Obama 2012 Campaign. Let’s see what is going on. What will Obama run against? He will run, naturally on Hoax and Chains, just as he did last time. But this time instead of running against George W. Bush, he will run against John McCain, or at least his foreign policy as embodied in the foreign policy | Read More »
The other night I watched The Social Network. At the beginning of the movie Mark Zuckerberg sat down in his Harvard dorm room and in a drunken coding binge wrote a web application that asked users to compare female faces for who was hotter. Then the application ranked the results. Zuckerberg sat back and watched as it went viral so quickly that it brought the | Read More »
The public labor union bullying of the elected legislature and governor continues in Wisconsin, where Scott Walker stands resolute in his plan to balance the budget not only this year, but also for the future. Gold plated union pensions and contracts negotiated through an incestuously corrupt process threaten to bankrupt the state in the near future, and have created a $137 million deficit this year | Read More »
Don’t take this too seriously. It’s just a bit of fun. William F. Buckley’s Desk… And Nat Hentoff’s Desk… And Albert Einstein’s Desk… And Barack Obama’s Desk… Have a better caption than the one I put in the title? Let’s have a caption contest in the comments. X-posted
In the past week many flocks of birds have been dropping dead out of the sky, fish have floated belly up on various rivers, and bumble bees are buzzing off to drop dead too. Some have been blaming Bush, others have been blaming invisible airplanes, anti-missile technology, UFOs, Obamacare, Global Warmening/ Coolening, and Santa Claus’s hypersonic sleigh. But the most amusing reason I’ve heard is | Read More »
The 2-Year tax rate extension negotiated between Obama and some Republican congress-critters looks like it will get through and be passed. But this will not be before Nancy Pelosi’s pork brigade finishes larding it up with a bunch of noxious spending to make it more palatable to her gang in the House and Harry Reid’s gang in the Senate. As per plan, it will also | Read More »
The Tea Party Patriots and the Claremont Institute both scheduled shindigs to welcome the Freshman class of Republicans to Washington DC on the same day, at overlapping times. It’s a classic tempest in a teapot. Leaving aside hurt feelings, territoriality and resentments it’s important to make a few points. The Tea Party Patriots event begins with brunch and goes 11:30AM to 3:30PM. The Claremont event | Read More »
Judge Andrew Napolitano gave a terrific speech at RightOnline 2010. After a few funny anecdotes about his judicial career he began by quoting the movie version of St. Thomas More in his defense against charges of treason. Some men think the earth is round, others think it flat. It is a matter capable of question. But if it is flat, will the King’s command make | Read More »
I just came back from the best fireworks display I’ve ever seen. I wish you could have been there with me. We went to the beach right by the yacht club where the locals dock their 15, 20, and 30 foot boats, with a view of the bridge on one side and the Gulf on the other. Straight ahead of us was an island painted | Read More »
According to long established tradition in the English common law, and as explained by the eminent Blackstone, the three rights in the Declaration of Independence are as follows. Life is the right to live, intact with one’s limbs, eyes, and organs. Any physical damage that cripples or removes a limb, or eyes, or kills one violates this right. This definition was important because according to | Read More »
Canadians are so polite it’s just amazing. For example, the other day Ann Coulter received a letter from a mind-reading provost at the University of Ottawa warning her to watch her mouth or she might be arrested and thrown in the hoosegow. The interesting part went like this. Canadian law puts reasonable limits on the freedom of expression. For example, promoting hatred against any identifiable | Read More »
Pelosi’s gang have the greatest claims for this bill. They can promise the world, since nobody has yet seen the bill. It might as well be the chupacabra, because it’s just as easy to see. I also suspect the bill’s a killer, just like the NHS and the X-Files version of the chupacabra. Can anybody tell me if I missed anything? Supposedly this bill is | Read More »
The Captain’s Journal, The Media, the New Media, and U. S. Intelligence Takeaway: DoD Intelligence is finally recognizing the usefulness of open source intelligence and accurate history as practiced by bloggers sitting in basements, and as compared with the relative uselessness of politicized intelligence coming from the official US intelligence community. Shannon Love at Chicago Boyz, Why Alternative Power is and will Remain Useless Quote: | Read More »
Courtney Cook wrote an infuriating essay for Salon that exposed the contempt she held for her marital oath and her first husband, a soldier deployed in an overseas combat theatre when she left him. You’d be surprised how easy it is to leave a soldier on deployment. You can do it with a letter. (He can’t argue with you. He doesn’t have a phone.) If | Read More »
The Free Dictionary defines ‘tolerance‘ as follows. tol·er·ance 1. The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others. That’s what tolerance used to mean, before Orwellian progressives performed their cunning linguistic tricks on it. Now the class-obsessed left has divided tolerance into two classes: partisan (good) and repressive (bad). The dirty secret is that both their meanings are | Read More »
All over the US, especially in big cities but it happens in small towns too, people apparently rise up out of certain graveyards to vote every four years. This has has probably always happened, but this is 2010 and we don’t have to allow vote fraud to continue into the 21st century. If you are allowed to vote, then your vote should be counted. If | Read More »
To the tune of Winter Wonderland Shift bells ring, are you listening, In the streets, blood is glistening. Revolution in sight, We’re toiling tonight. Progressing to the workers’ motherland. Gone away is our history, Here to stay is equal misery. We sing labor’s song, As we go along, Progressing to the workers’ motherland. In the meadow we can build a snowman, Then pretend that he | Read More »
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