Month: March 2009

The honeymoon that any new President generally gets (typically 100 days) is over. About 40 days early. Bad news for The One. President Obama’s honeymoon is beginning to fade. Members of Congress and old political hands say he needs to show substantial progress reviving the economy soon. Some Democrats have started to worry that voters…

I was reading a blog by some college kids, the Undercurrent, that looks at the contradictions of the present Republican coalition. In the aftermath of the substantial Democratic victory in last November’s election, Republicans nationwide are reported to be doing a great deal of “soul searching.” Indeed they should. After all, times are not looking…

Frank J. Fleming thinks the problem with Barack Obama may be that he is too awesome: …I am an enlightened individual who fully understands and appreciates President Obama (pbuh), but can we expect the same from other countries with non-Obama leaders? Those people have never produced a person like Obama, not to mention elected him,…

In another predictable development, the gun grabbers have seized upon the Alabama shooting incident as a pretext to demand a return to the “assault weapon” ban: Gun-control activists have renewed calls for the federal government to reinstate a ban on so-called assault weapons in the wake of Tuesday’s deadly shooting rampage in Alabama. Stricter national…

In a remarkable coincidence, the day after I wrote about the dinner party elite, I see this report that Barack Obama is assiduously courting them: While publicly identifying with the nation’s have-nots, the Obama administration has been cultivating the Beltway social elite behind the scenes. Earlier this year, the Obama administration invited top editors of…

There are plans afoot for a floating city off the coast of San Francisco. A floating city off the coast of San Francisco may sound like science fiction, but it could be reality in the not-too-distant future. The Seasteading Institute already has drawn up plans for the construction of a homestead on the Pacific Ocean.…

The Democrats are going to use prohibition induced violence to take away our gun rights. Because only criminals should be allowed to have guns or drugs. I have been saying for several decades that drug prohibition would lead to gun prohibition. Way to go Conservatives. Because like you know. Prohibition works. Cross Posted at Power…

Breasts and popular music. Now there is a topic that grabs my interest. It seems to have grabbed the interest of Discover Magazine as well. Except we are not talking Lenny Kravitz. We are talking 17th Century ballads. People who yearn for old-fashioned public decency might be surprised to talk to historian Angela McShane-Jones at…

In a piece asking whether voting matters anymore, Jeff Pope discusses political arrogance: Political arrogance is far more dangerous than social arrogance. In civil society arrogance is the simple disdain for others due to class, wealth, education, or breeding. It is a trait that America, being egalitarian from its founding, strongly rejects. Political arrogance, however,…

In his analysis of how the Rush Limbaugh controversy is dividing the GOP, Rick Moran makes the following observation: The right is in Dante’s ninth circle of hell, condemned to be encased in solid ice with only their heads showing, with those positioned next to each other forced to gnaw on their neighbors’ necks for…

Lest we forget that today is the fifth anniversary of the Madrid terror attacks, Jos&eacute Guardia has posted a memorial. Jos&eacute says that “sometimes it’s almost impossible to find the words, so this is what I could to as a tribute for the 5th anniversary of the Madrid terror attacks.” Remember those who died in…

The big news last night and today is the report of a man who killed his mother, burned down her house with her inside, then went on a shooting spree. No one seems to know why, but I expect a lot of people will be blaming the gun. Alabama State Trooper John Reese told “Good…

Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose is an excellent book that explains in simple language his philosophy and how he came by it. Here is a page of links to other Milton Friedman videos and articles. H/T Atlas Shrugs Cross Posted at Power and Control

Click for a larger view. The old time religion is declining in America. When it comes to religion, the USA is now land of the freelancers. The percentage. of people who call themselves in some way Christian has dropped more than 11% in a generation. The faithful have scattered out of their traditional bases: The…

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Earlier I appeared on PJTV’s Roundtable, which you can watch absolutely free by clicking this link. I was honored to be on with Ed Driscoll and Rick Moran, and I’m just delighted that PJTV featured the post I wrote earlier: “The Obama Two Step.” If the above link doesn’t work, just go to PJTV and…

Even the New York Times was sounding the warning. Nine and a half years ago. In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin…

I’m surprised at Dave Weigel (a guy I usually respect, who’s a Contributing Editor of Reason Magazine — to which I am a loyal subscriber). Surprised and annoyed, and I’ll explain why. After citing Glenn Reynolds’ link to a Gateway Pundit story linking a WorldNetDaily report, Weigel says this in an update to a story…

While there’s no way to ascertain for sure whether Barack Obama’s disastrous economic policies are malevolent or incompetent, I found it interesting that yesterday he went out of his way to deny being a socialist (by pleading that he thought it was all a joke): “It was hard for me to believe that you were…

From Bob Krumm, a dire warning: Never in my lifetime have I seen the nation as ripe for a third-party takeover as it is now. But if President Obama and the Democratic Congress further propel the economy down a rat hole, the party that emerges might not be the kind we want. There would be…