Month: April 2008

An excellent thought to keep in mind in this election season

Maybe I’m a little dense but doesn’t this prove that waterboarding is not so bad? I mean if the anti-waterboarders would do it to one of their own how bad can it be? You can read the full story at Philly.com. Let me excerpt a little. The question is will the Obama regime take on…

There is a picture up at EMC2 Fusion showing the WB-7 Test Reactor vessel. All polished stainless steel with a nice logo. H/T Tom Ligon

A running mate. A Vice (Eliot Spitzer?) President Pick. Mayhill Fowler of “they are bitter because” fame reports. Last night at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama took a question on what he’s looking for in a running mate. “I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I’m not as…

As I have been trying to make clear in these posts, I think Barack Obama’s dismissive approach to people with different views is by no means limited to him. This approach is quite typical of the left, especially of the Democratic Party ruling class left (often referred to by the “embittered classes” as “the elite”).…

For three days in a row now, Barack Obama’s remarks about bitter churchgoing gun-clingers have been on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Today’s story is headlined “Obama says he ‘mangled’ Pa. remark,” and there’s an accompanying exclusive video interview with Inquirer reporters which ought to supply a fix to even the most strung-out,…

The Mead piece on the Jacksonian tradition linked by M. Simon in an earlier post is a good read, yet it is also a reminder that I could no more be a large J Jacksonian than I could be a large L Libertarian. There’s too much populist bigotry in the history of the former for…

I don’t often blog about products or gadgets, but this one seemed, well…. almost touching: It’s called the “TwoDaLoo” and it is billed as “the world’s first toilet two people can use … at the exact same time.” More here: Environmentalism has never been so intimate as with the TwoDaLoo, billed as the world’s first…

Libertarians talk a good game on national defense but hate all wars. Libs do not get that wars are a series of disasters leading to victory. They don’t have the bottom to ride out the disasters and turn them around. They have turned into Copperhead Democrats. They don’t get the American Jacksonian tradition. I’m a…

If I was a lefty politician and really wanted to help the poor you know what I would tell my megadonors? Forget redistribution. You are the experts – start another business. I will get government out of your way. If you are successful we will not tax away your gains if you use them to…

In a post titled “Be careful what you wish for, Rush,” Dave Kopel warns that the prolonged scrapping is making Hillary look better and better qualified to be president: ….I think that that the extended primary campaign is making Senator Clinton into a stronger, more appealing candidate. Not unlike John McCain, she is more likeable…

As I’ve explained before, I’m not so much into Global Warming denial as I am Global Warming Defiance. That’s because the AGW political campaign is the largest attempted power grab I’ve seen in my life, and if there’s one thing I do know, it’s that bureaucratic attempts to solve problems are worse than the problems…

Not my question, but George F. Will’s. The answer here is NO. Even though I’m a small l libertarian, and I like Bob Barr, I can’t support his third party candidacy on the Libertarian ticket. I think beating Hillary in November is too important. And I wish Bob Barr would remember what the Clinton operatives…

“That’s a no-brainer. Of course it’s a violation of international law, that’s why it’s a covert action. The guy is a terrorist. Go grab his ass.” – Al Gore. Heh

She’s talking like she’s Annie Oakley. — Barack Obama (on Hillary’s sudden commitment to the Second Amendment.) The dust has not settled on Barack Obama’s remarks about bitter small-town folks clinging to God and guns. Far from it. This morning I briefly flipped through the radio dial. From left to right everyone was still talking.…

Rumor has it that John McCain is going to be using bits of this in his latest commercial. I thought I’d post the original so those interested could see what the fuss was about before the fussin starts. Bush II has a ranch in Texas. Reagan was notorious for working on his ranch to get…

My favorite version of this was a 45 size 33rpm record that I must have listened to 100s of times. There is no data on this version but it sounds a lot like the one I remember.

This is a video clip from 24 Nov. 2004. The bit on condescension begins around 2:24. So Obama knew that the appearance of condescension was a killer in elections. A lesson obvious from the Nov. 2004 election. So how did he screw the pooch? I think he can’t help himself. He has a political persona…

Justin thought readers might enjoy this animated GIF from the Wiki entry for Concealed carry in the United States. The title is “History of changes to Right To Carry laws,” and it shows the evolution of concealed carry laws from 1986-2006. When I look at that, I see optimism. Why is it that some people…

Obama’s remarks about bitter Pennsylvanians clinging to God and guns made the front page of today’s Inquirer. Curiously, even though it’s a Pennsylvania story, they ran a NY Times piece which does not appear at the Inquirer’s web site. I figured it would be easy enough to find the piece (after all, I only wanted…