Month: October 2009

Since the White House has declared War on Fox News I’m putting a link to Fox News near the top of my sidebar at Power and Control. I suggest all bloggers against Government Censorship do the same. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Eric of Classical Values and I have been having an e-mail discussion of management styles provoked in part by his article on Chairman Mao: Proudly emulating the bold and imaginative attitude of Chairman Mao! My attitude was to always treat those below me with the same attitude I treated those above me. Respect. Because good…

While a lot of attention has been paid to Anita Dunn’s quotations from Chairman Mao, and there’s been a lot of criticism for her praise for Mao as her “favorite political philosopher,” I don’t think that most people (either on the right or the left) have really had the heart to engage in a serious…

The Euros are balking when it comes to paying to prevent climate change. As if restricting the output of plant food could actually accomplish that goal. Environmental campaigners slammed Europe’s governments tonight after latest talks to settle funding levels for climate change broke down without agreement. The European Commission has put a price of up…

Wondering who might be behind the non-public registration, Glenn Reynolds links a site which asks a very disturbing but mis-phrased question: Is it true that the Left will kill Obama? Here’s the theory: The buzz all over the ‘net is that if it looks like the Republican challenger is going to win in 2012, the…

Always open up in the attack mode: There is no way to know for sure but is it possible that the proponents of Climate Catastrophe are being paid by Al “I’m going to make billions off of carbon trading” Gore to push his agenda? He and his friends stand to make a LOT of money…

No sarcasm this time: WASHINGTON — Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by the Justice Department. Credit where it’s due: this is by far the most sensible administration we’ve seen on this…

In a post titled “Jacob Weisberg Loses It,” Dave Price has a lot of fun demolishing some of Weisberg’s more ridiculous assertions in Newsweek. Clearly, poor Weisberg has lost it. Assuming, of course, he ever had it. What I find myself unable to ignore is another incredible Weisberg assertion. Did you know that CNN’s bias…

In my post about erototoxic end times, I was in too much of a hurry to explore a paradox I might as well call the erototoxic paradox. (I decided to call it the Erototoxic Paradox because I think the model operates along similar lines to a poorly understood phenomenon the cardiologists call the French Paradox.)…

Here is a headline I never expected to see in my lifetime. U.S. Steel Exports Surpass Imports. So far it is only for the month of August. Still. A steel industry trade group said the United States exported more steel than it imported in August for the first time in more than 50 years. But…

Noting that Marge Simpson has posed for Playboy, Glenn Reynolds says, simply, The end times are upon us. Well, he’s right. The end times are upon us. And the end times are erototoxic! I could not make this stuff up if I tried. No seriously. There are people who apparently sincerely believe that cartoon porn…

His tirade against Fox News would some have some semblance of coherence if it at least made a pretense toward intellectual honesty. What’s most distinctive about the American press is not its freedom but its century-old tradition of independence–that it serves the public interest rather than those of parties, persuasions, or pressure groups. What’s most…

According to Vodka Pundit (about 2:30 into a 4 minute video) I’m the number four blog in his top ten for this post: An Epiphany On The Left?. H/T EricF via private message at Talk Polywell Cross Posted at Power and Control

Watts Up With That has some excerpts from the treaty. Skimming through the treaty, I came across verification of Monckton’s assessment of the new entity’s purpose: 38. The scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention will be based on three basic pillars: government; facilitative mechanism; and financial mechanism, and the basic organization of…

There are few things I hate more than being a scold. Especially because of all of my condemnation of scolds and scolding, having to be a libertarian scold makes me feel like a hypocrite, and little better than the scolds I criticize. I don’t like people who criticize the moral failings of others, especially when…

So… the government forces the sale of the company to the unions, and the unions squeeze the competition. This is not what a free market looks like. No doubt our Nobel Laureate-In-Chief will explain this is just good healthy “competition,” a la the public option. As Nola Dog suggests in Megan’s comments, it’s probably not…

Linking a post which explains how the Tea-Party Activists Complicate Republican Comeback Strategy, Glenn Reynolds opines, Well, they should. Well, I don’t know whether I should. Perhaps I shouldn’t. Are libertarians like me just supposed to swallow whatever pride we still have after years of supporting “National Greatness” conservatism, and keep our collective traps shut…

I just got an e-mail from Roland Burris (who claims to be my Senator). He wants me to know that he is here to help. As Congress debates contentious issues such as health care reform, climate change, and our continued economic recovery, it is more important than ever to keep in touch so that I…

Life sure is complicated. While I have blogged about the war on sex, there’s a related meme which I hope doesn’t turn into a war (although maybe it already is in some circles), and that is the idea that there is some sort of duty for those with good genes to reproduce. I would hesitate…

It seems that some Chicago Police Officers may have gotten themselves in trouble for some little indiscretions at the G-20 summit. The video apparently shows about 15 police officers in riot gear posing for a photo with a man they detained kneeling in front of them. Kyle Kramer, the 21-year-old University of Pittsburgh student forced…