The blog Bleeding Heart Libertarians featured an interesting piece today (h/t reason.com) on requiring a license to rear children. The basic argument made by the author, Andrew Cohen, is thus: The state should require parents to be licensed. That is, there is no moral right to raise a child, and we would do well to think of it as a privilege that the state grants | Read More »
I’ll admit: I honestly don’t have a horse in the race this time around. I have a list with constantly shifting components, but there’s not a single candidate this Primary season about whom I am really excited. I’d like to be — and maybe it’s just because I’ve been taking so much time off from political writing and ranting — but this time around, I | Read More »
See, this is what happens when I ignore the news for a while. Generally, I like to keep an eye on educational news because, children are, after all, our future. But, I somehow missed news over last weekend about this 11-year-old kid being suspended for comparing somebody to Obama. And it wasn’t even Hitler. Now, if you don’t have time to hit the link, | Read More »
With the budget topping the Congressional — and indeed much of America’s — agenda, there’s a lot of talk, from the Obama Administration, to Congressional Dems, to Leftist Pundits, about the need of the wealthy to “pay their fair share.” Unfortunately, what none of them seem willing — or able — to do, is define it. What exactly is their “fair share?” What’s the equation | Read More »
By now, most people have heard the story of the three GA girls who were maliciously selling lemonade outside of their home, for what can only be described as the nefarious intent to earn money. Obviously, the most immediately troubling thing about all of this is the willingness of goose-stepping “civil servants” to harass children for the horrifying crime of doing what kids have done | Read More »
OMG, you guys! Random Politician just spoke at a random event and blew me away! And this comes on the heels of his Random Action for which he was specifically elected. I think I just found my dream candidate for 2012! Conservative Bona Fides? Did you HEAR his speech? Did you WITNESS the carrying out of his specific mandate by doing the exact Random Thing | Read More »
As Republicans rally in an effort regain majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, one pick-up they should be able to count on is New York’s 23rd District. The basic formula is there. Previous to the Special election to replace John McHugh, a Republican had held that seat for decades. It is still a strongly Republican District. In fact, a Republican should have won the | Read More »
On June 2nd, Republican leaders in New York chose a candidate for Governor. The man they chose, a favorite among GOP elites, was Rick Lazio. Of course, in New York, as in other states, it is ultimately the voter, and not the elites, who make that final determination. Last night, the voters chose Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino. In a similar — though much more publicized | Read More »
If you listen to the polls, any Republican winning the NY Governor’s chair this year seems pretty much like a pipe dream. In fact, look at them long enough, and you might be tempted to believe New York will remain a very blue state across the board. On the other hand, New Yorkers are angry. They are frustrated. A majority favors a repeal of the | Read More »
If you haven’t already seen the new NRA ad for their latest get-out-the-vote campaign, it’s well worth a look. Not only because it raises an excellent point about the wannabe Rambos talking revolution or secession, but, darnit, it’s funny. Nobody would deny — well, nobody familiar with the actual Constitution would deny — that the Second Amendment exists as a means of protecting the citizens’ | Read More »
Iraq War veteran Charlie Price and his wife Dawn aren’t happy. The couple, rightly proud of Charlie’s service and the nation he serves, had a flag displayed in a window of their Oshkosh Apartment. The flag had been in the dining room window since November, But on Tuesday, the couple was served notice: remove the flag or face eviction. The headlines on these stories are | Read More »
By now, we’ve all heard about Mexican President Calderon entering our soil and daring to slam one of our sovereign states to the President’s face. And, of course, we heard about our President’s massive smackdown of this petty ruler’s hubris by spelling out for him Mexico’s own, far more rigid (and, dare we say, fascist?) immigration policies. Except, of course, it didn’t happen that way. | Read More »
David Paterson appears to have some ethics problems. From allegations of interference in a domestic abuse case, New York’s governor has moved right on up to accepting gifts. Allegedly. From the Watertown Daily Times: New York’s Public Integrity Commission has charged embattled Gov. David Paterson with an ethics violation involving a gift of free Yankees tickets for the 2009 World Series that could cost him | Read More »
Dear Mr. President, As you know, millions of individuals have risen up in the past year to protest your designs on our Health Care system in this country. These individuals, and their complaints, were glossed over by your administration, as you doubled down and committed to passing your legislation, your way, because “Americans want it.” But, Sir, I am an American, and I do not. | Read More »
(h/t World Net Daily, as emailed to me by a friend) Not really sure how this failed to cross my RADAR when it happened, but it is interesting. In essence, the Executive VP here is suggesting that the Statists have a very compelling reason to grant amnesty. Not because it’s the right thing to do — because, really, who the hell cares? No, the reason | Read More »
Today on my show, I was having some fun with the story (courtesy, “The Smoking Gun”) of two women who traded sex for a pack of smokes, were unsatisfied with the sex (which, to be clear, was what THEY offered in exchange for cigarettes), and filed rape charges. Add to this story the accompanying mugshots and, well, there is much in the way of radio | Read More »
It was a narrow victory for Owens when Conservative Doug Hoffman conceded victory last night in New York’s 23rd congressional district. Pundits and spin doctors are lining up to tell the voters what Owens’ victory means on both a local and a national level. personally, I’m not listening. If it’s anything like the pre-election spin, it’s going to be almost uniformly wrong. the fact is, | Read More »
Last night, I received a call on behalf of the Susan B. Anthony List. The group — whose stated goal is getting “pro-life women” elected to Congress — is mobilizing to NY-23 in support of Doug Hoffman. The caller informed me that the group is sending out volunteers and community organizers to hand out SBA literature and Hoffman signs, and to rally social Conservatives to | Read More »
October 1: So it’s official, I’m rooting for the Republican to win. As a congresswoman, she could either move even more to the left to properly represent her progressive-trending district and be a pain in the side of the GOP caucus (they have nothing like our Blue Dogs), or Democrats can field a real Democrat to challenge her in 2010. Markos fears Hoffman, and rightly | Read More »
It was a visibly embarrassed Thorbjoern Jagland that gave today’s press-conference. After an international outcry of befuddlement over the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s awarding of its highest honor to Barack Obama — a man, in a departure from normal Nobel protocal, with absolutely no actual accomplishments in his life — the Committee called the conference to, in the words of one observer, set the record straight. | Read More »
How low the Democrat party has sunk since the heady days when President Harry S. Truman adorned his desk with that now-infamous slogan! “The buck stops here.” Now that is leadership. I, of course, wasn’t alive during the Truman presidency and honestly haven’t studied his administration well enough to say one way or the other whether the words on that plaque were just that, or | Read More »
Former Republican Presidential Candidate (and my personal pick for the job, if we’re to be completely honest about it), Fred Thompson sent out a letter to supporters of his political action committee, urging support of NY-23 Congressional Candidate Doug Hoffman. In that letter, Thompson refers to Hoffman as the “True Conservative” in the race for NY-23 — an assessment with which, given the record of | Read More »
MoveOn.org sent out an email to supporters today, about “going on the offense” in the health care debate. In spite of a recent poll they cite further in the email, it seems MoveOn feels its cause has been hurt by constantly being on the defensive against Republican attacks. To that end, they plan on attacking Republicans they feel are “vulnerable” with a series of ads | Read More »
In any economic evaluation, you have to balance long-term goals and short-term goals in a way that will ultimately benefit the “Bigger Picture.” In other words, though it isn’t always the case, sometimes you have to sacrifice short-term prosperity in order to benefit greater in the long run. Recent decisions by New York State, however, seem to suggest a willingness on the part of the | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by Jeff Tell any pro-ObamaCare Democrat that socialized healthcare doesn’t work, and you are sure to receive the smug reply that “countries with a single-payer system have a higher life expectancy.” Technically, that’s true. But, as the saying goes, there are “lies, damned lies and statistics.” The lie in this particular set of stats is indeed not in the stats themselves, | Read More »
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