Month: March 2009

It looks like Obama fever is starting to wane. At least that is what the anecdotal evidence from Larry Kudlow would indicate. Noteworthy up here on Wall Street, a great many Obama supporters — especially hedge-fund types who voted for “change” — are becoming disillusioned with the performances of Obama and Treasury man Geithner. There…

It is rather obvious that this is not a music video. Despite the fact that images of naked and semi-naked women are involved. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Via an email, I learned about a fascinating incident in which a woman called 911 because a McDonalds restaurant had run out of Chicken McNuggets: ARCH 3–Angered that her local McDonald’s was out of Chicken McNuggets, a Florida woman called 911 three times to report the fast food “emergency.” Latreasa Goodman, 27, last Saturday called…

The hard-hitting Geert Wilder film “Fitna” is a classic example of the kind of opinionated advocacy which Americans take for granted as protected free speech. Agree with Wilder’s point of view or not, the ability to see it is what the First Amendment guarantees. Right? So what’s the big deal about letting people see it?…

I’m not much of a fan of Rush Limbaugh (see yesterday’s post), but when he gets it right he gets it right. And he sure got it right yesterday in his explanation of what’s been baffling so many people: The president is presiding over economic failure. The president is watching it, doing nothing about it.…

Normally I don’t go in for cutesiness, but this is so cute I thought I’d share it. If only there were an Aesop’s fable to go with it… Of course, as anyone who uses Google probably knows, today is Dr. Seuss’s 105th birthday. (Which makes me feel old, as I grew up thinking of him…

Reviewing Rush Limbaugh’s CPAC speech, John Hawkins warns the conservative movement that losing the next election might be more devastating than what has already happened: Conservatives have better solutions than either the left or the moderates in our own party can come up with — ready to go, ready to improve the lives of Americans…

Big protests in our nations capitol. It seems that Congress runs on a coal fired power plant and that the Greenines are going to be out in force today to shut it down. Now this is not a bad thing. Congress should be the first to live by the policies it intends to impose on…

What is free speech? I tend towards a very broad view of what should be protected, but the exact parameters of free speech never cease to intrigue me. Is religious speech so different from political speech that it should be afforded a different type of protection? If so, why? Should religious speech be more protected…

The Obama Administration is working on a treaty to cut mercury pollution. The Obama administration has reversed years of U.S. policy by calling for a treaty to cut mercury pollution, which it described as the world’s gravest chemical problem. Some 6,000 tons of mercury enter the environment each year, about a third generated by power…