Month: July 2009

  • Democrats Can’t Deliver

    President ∅’s minions say the Democrats can’t deliver on their health care bill without the help of Republicans. And the Republicans are not helping. President Barack Obama’s push to overhaul health care needs Republican votes, lawmakers from both parties say. Democratic and GOP officials acknowledged Sunday that Obama’s ambitious plan would not pass without the…

  • Something Must Be Done

    There is an organization called Climate Justice that works to get Climate Change Laws (CO2 taxes) enforced. They are looking for cases. I sent them this letter: It has come to my attention that global temperatures have stalled with CO2 rising and that the head of the IPCC says we will be cooling until 2020.…

  • The Drug War Is A War On You

    Here are some other videos in the series. This one is especially heart wrenching: Unable To Help – the Good Juice Love, Death, and the War On Drugs: I’m Not A Good Deal These videos were prompted by a comment at Who Pays? by Ms. Cris Ericson. (1) The Vermont Board of Medical Practice has…

  • Two Trillion And Counting

    Cross Posted at Power and Control

  • Sarah Palin Is Reading A Book

    Sarah Palin is reading a book. Thomas Lifson writing for the American Thinker: Sarah Palin has already demonstrated a capacity to connect with ordinary Americans. This charisma frightens and angers many and the left, and not a few Republicans as well. I fully expect Governor Palin, whose mind displays the quality of a rapid learner…

  • Slow Down

    India is not going along with the climate change scare. India has taken the hardest line in the negotiations so far. Along with China, India refused at the meeting of the Group of Eight industrialised nations this month to sign up to a target of cutting global emissions by half by 2050. The countries were…

  • Beware Governments Bearing Gifts

    There appear to be quite a few major downsides to the health care plan currently being debated. 1) As noted in my earlier post, not having coverage will essentially become illegal. You will be fined and enrolled against your will in the government-run plan if you don’t carry coverage. This will be called “helping you.”…

  • I Found A Joke

    I found a really good Obama Joke in the comments at ECN magazine: A woman in a hot-air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour…

  • You get what you pay for?

    Take a look at this line. No, it’s not to board a plane, or go through screening. (I’d already done all that, gotten my bag, and thought the worst was over.) That’s the Seatac Airport’s Budget Car Rental line, and it was far worse than any of the other lines — as bad as any…

  • GatesGate

    Obama’s really stepped in it this time. By calling police “stupid” in the Henry Louis Gates arrest without knowing what actually happened, he put himself firmly on what turns out to be the wrong side of the issue. The cop was not only right to investigate (there had been several break-ins in the area, including…

  • Modern Tribalism – Reminices Of A Red Diaper Baby

    An interview with author Harry Stein by Glenn Reynolds. A discussion of liberal tribalism. Here are links to the books discussed in the interview: I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican: A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: (and…

  • Shut Up

    And what sort of political regime/philosophy tries to silence its citizens? A guy wrote a book about it: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change Cross Posted at Power and Control

  • Announcement

    I’m flying to Seattle* for a few days, and blogging will be erratic. With any luck, though, M. Simon and TallDave might be posting, and I’ll be back Tuesday anyway, so regular readers can just keep coming back to their hearts’ content. *Of course, it’s raining right now in Detroit, so I may be optimistic….

  • A Plan To Destroy 4 Million Jobs

    I like some of the ideas presented. Like a national market for insurance. I’m not sure of all the ideas presented but at least they are ideas vs. the government swallows everything. In other related news the President has delayed releasing the latest economic report until after the health care vote. My assumption is that…

  • Obama: “I Have Great Insurance”

    President Obama is satisfied with his insurance. Obama says it’s not about him. “I have great health insurance and so does every member of Congress,” the president said in remarks prepared for his news conference Wednesday night. “This debate is about the letters I read when I sit in the Oval Office every day, and…

  • Shootings In Houston

    Here is a link that will help you decipher the hand signs. So why rap music (which I generally hate) and hand signs? Well I have a story about a political rally. And the “singer” in the video performed at the rally. Multiple shootings were reported at a Wednesday night concert on the Texas Southern…

  • Choice And Risk

    Ace makes a great point on one of the many problems on the health care bill: On Fox & Friends, they offered another good talking point: Currently 90% of all Americans are covered by insurance. Obama’s vaunted plan will cover, theoretically, another 7%. So: We’re destroying the entire system to move from 90% to 97%…

  • the old and the stuck want to stay that way!

    On the occasion of the death of the inventor who developed WD-40 as a water displacer, Ann Althouse says this: …tell us about your WD-40 stories. How about just one? Honestly, I was beginning to think no one would ever ask, and I’m delighted that Ann Althouse gave me an excuse. I’ve had so many…

  • Factory Girl

    This is the best version I could find on YouTube (musically). The video is kind of plain though.

  • How many anti-Romneys this time?

    What’s a RINO these days? Someone who voted for McCain instead of a third party candidate? Someone who prefers Mitt Romney to Sarah Palin? Don’t get me wrong. I prefer Sarah Palin to Mitt Romney, but that does not mean that I think Romney supporters are RINOs. The problem with the call-everyone-who-disagrees-a-RINO approach is that…