Month: March 2009

My friends when Pat Buchanan says legalize drugs, political support for the drug war has collapsed. How does one win a drug war when millions of Americans who use recreational drugs are financing the cartels bribing, murdering and beheading to win the war and keep self-indulgent Americans supplied with drugs? There are two sure ways…

To FDR’s famous “we have nothing to fear but fear itself,” I’d offer an amendment: “We have nothing to get hysterical about but hysteria itself.” This morning, Drudge linked a “news” report from WorldNetDaily (where else?) which is little more than a regurgitation of a minister’s repeated claims that the end is near. Excerpt: AN…

Mr. Obama is big into alternative energy. Wind. Solar. Geothermal. However, even his supporters have doubts about his energy plans. I like Barack Obama but I have doubts about his presidency when I hear him saying that the US will “double the amount of energy that comes from renewable sources by the end of my…

I received a couple of emails from libertarianish readers which not only fit the general theme of this blog, but which might shed some light on the state of libertarianism today. I’ll start with one from Bill Goodwin (Editor of FreedomPolitics.com), who links “What it feels like to be a libertarian“: I’ll tell you. It…

I don’t generally write about things with which I am not fully conversant, and I haven’t been in Michigan long enough to consider myself an expert on Detroit. For starters, I still haven’t been there. I spent three months here in Ann Arbor, then three months in California, and I’ve only been back for a…

I’m not talking about the economy. That is already done for. I’m talking about Obama’s coming crack up. A commenter at Gateway Pundit makes an interesting observation. He thinks we’re all idiots who will swoon over him for eight straight years. Even so, he’s starting to have a kind of permanent sheen of flop sweat…

Stuart Taylor has a column up about how he was fooled by Obama’s rhetoric. Having praised President Obama’s job performance in two recent columns, it is with regret that I now worry that he may be deepening what looks more and more like a depression and may engineer so much spending, debt, and government control…

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago , another is from Tennessee , and the third is from Minnesota . All three go with a White House official to examine the fence. The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then…

I haven’t written about my favorite artist, Salvador Dal&iacute, in quite some time. But I see that vintage Dal&iacute YouTube videos continue to appear, and I thought this one was wonderful. The title is “Salvador Dali with silver ink.” Certainly the above is not political in nature, although I’m sure a PostModernist would find no…

The DC Examiner’s Chief Political Correspondent Byron York has just asked Rush Limbaugh if he had “any numbers he could share on just what effect the increased visibility has had on his business.” According to Limbaugh, the numbers are “through the roof” — which prompted the following economic observation from York: …the most decisive economic…

I realize this is a departure from the culture war, but I am facing a war nevertheless. A potentially deadly fish versus turtle war. Normally, the latter eat the former, but in the case of my demented (and nearly outgrown) tank, the fish (a pair of demented Flowerhorn cichlids — “an abomination to the hobby“)…

Via an email, I learned of this video of “a leg trying to steal a bone,” and sure enough, that is what the poor dog thinks is going on: Fortunately, Coco (who did not like the video) would never do anything so dumb as snarl at her own leg. Otherwise, I’d be very worried.

This debate between Stephen Green and Will Wilkinson on “liberaltarianism” fascinated me. The philosophy is explained here by the latter, and dissected (maybe even deconstructed) here by Stephen. At the heart of liberaltarianism is antiwarism, and as an advocate of strong national self-defense, I side with Stephen on this debate for that reason alone. But…

I’m reading No Quarter for a change and I came across a “Progressive” who is unhappy with Obama. Remember how we (meaning, progressives, liberals, Democrats, fair-minded people) got really upset when the Republican majority used all kinds of tricks to get their way? It made us mad. But now, Obama is thinking of using a…

Rush is on fire. Listen. I will update this later.

In an interesting PJM piece, Adam Graham observes that “the war on Rush is a proxy war on movement conservatives,” and I agree. It’s a proxy war against all conservative opposition to Barack Obama, and I say this as a non-fan of Limbaugh. I also think that the war against the Tea Party movement is…

There are more at Doug Ross. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I was sure Obama’s election coupled with his agenda would lead to a failure that would be obvious to the majority of Americans within six months of his inauguration. It has taken less than six weeks. I read an anecdote some where today about a guy who was checking out his purchases at a grocery…

Well, I suppose this was inevitable. (There’s a similar sticker on Ebay with Palin’s name added.) But if you don’t quite fancy the campaignish look, Cafe Press offers plenty of other models to choose from. Like this: Or this: Not to be outdone, Amazon has a slightly slicker version: I’m not much of a fan…

I’m wondering how many readers out there use Twitter, and of those of you who do, whom do you follow? I notice that Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert haven’t tweeted in quite awhile. Karl Rove, our former paymaster, is sure to note exactly when and how often he’ll be appearing on FOX News. I, for…