Month: March 2010

M. Simon’s mention of drivers licenses reminded me of one of the most annoying features of the health care debate, and that is the false analogy the Democrats make between mandatory auto insurance and mandatory health insurance. Few things insult me more than to be lectured like a child by a lecturer who is demonstrably…

Melissa Clouthier thinks Obamacare is deliberately divisive: I don’t believe health care will go away. I believe it will divide us, create chaos, and turn the conversation away from big dreams and freedom to provincial “my piece of the pie” talk. Health care “reform” makes America small. That’s just the way Democrats like it. She’s…

Bill Whittle is up to his old tricks. And good ones they are. And so now we have it. I thought I might need to try my small part to cheer people up and calm them down, but for once I have underestimated the American people. People, by and large, seem not only calm but…

While I haven’t had time to blog since this morning and now I’m tired out, I’m taking time right now because I consider this statement from Dana Loesch the quote of the day: Last night, a new party was born; the malignant tumor that is the progressive caucus consumed the Democrat party from within and…

H/T DullHawk.com Cross Posted at Power and Control

The Health Destruction Bill has passed and Americans are up in Arms. So the question is “What to Do? Well that is obvious. Throw the Democrats out in November. The great imponderable in American elections is the 30% to 50% (more or less) that don’t vote in elections. My guess is that a lot of…

Now that the best health care system known to man seems officially doomed, it is not surprising that some people on the right are succumbing to doom and gloom thinking. (I don’t want to point fingers, because the point is not who is saying it, so much as whether the argument has merit.) Being a…

Bastards. Yeah, they passed it. (Thanks once again to Stupak and his ongoing abortion con game.) A lot of people are reacting, but I especially liked Megan McArdle’s question: Are we now in a world where there is absolutely no recourse to the tyranny of the majority? There’s always recourse, and one form of recourse…

According to our local paper, fondly called The Red Star, only 25% of house sales in the area are foreclosure sales. Except that I know for a fact that the banks are putting off foreclosure as long as possible so as to avoid as long as they can booking the losses. In Boone, Ogle and…

In what I think was a remarkably idiotic display, Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm proclaimed that yesterday (Saturday, March 21, 2010) all Michiganders should refrain from eating meat! From Friday’s Free Press: Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Thursday that she won’t rescind her proclamation urging Michiganders to forgo meat-eating on Saturday, even as new demands arrived in…

Yesterday there was quite an uproar over the alleged use of the N-word by Tea Party demonstrators in front of black congressional representatives. This morning I see (via Glenn Reynolds) that Dana Loesch has posted a video of the “incident” which debunks the claim that the N-word was used. (Anyone want to bet whether there…

In an earlier post in which I discussed Dick Armey’s gloomy predictions that Obamacare would pass, I opined that while Dick Armey’s remarks might discourage ordinary political activists, they would be unlikely to deter the Tea Partiers: I think that even if Armey somehow did cause the activists to stay home, the real people would…

There are a lot of theories about what looks very much like the image of a face on an apple in front of Michelle Obama on the latest Newsweek cover. I saw Ann Althouse’s discussion, and she thinks it looks like Karl Marx. Here’s Newsweek’s incriminating apple, followed by Karl Marx: Whether it’s Marx or…

I was trying to ignore a Philadelphia area incident which a Wal-Mart customer managed to get on the store’s intercom and make the following “announcement“: “All black people leave the store now.” Observed a friend who emailed me the ink: How hateful! My god, what a blubbering, humorless cry-baby mentality. I wonder what would have…

Probably because I don’t like repeating myself, I don’t say as much about police abuses as I should. Stuff like SWAT team abuses, civil rights violations committed in the name of the “drug war,” and police retaliation against critics, go on all the time, as do a lot of things I don’t find the time…

Glenn Reynolds and Rand Simberg have pointed out something which is culturally very important: the Democrats have lost Howard Stern: When you lose Howard Stern you’ve lost ordinary, everyday people. Politically, Stern is left-center to left-leaning and casually to moderately well-informed. He is done with democrats. He now sees them as communists. Many of his…

It occurred to me that I was wasting my time earlier when I tried to interpret the uninterpretable Joe Biden. So I found Joe Biden’s gaffe-free inner Trololol voice, and decided to just let it speak for itself. As you can see, he has never made more sense. Enjoy.

When ABC’s Jake Tapper asked, “Do you hear back from venerable* [Congressional Democrats] who are worried this bill will cost them their jobs?” the thoroughly incomprehensible Joe Biden shared his “thoughts”: BIDEN: Well, I yes. Some of them I say they say, well, Joe, look, man, I mean, you know, you guys haven’t massaged this…

My friend E. J. Pagel advises me via e-mail that the Cheech and Chong Get It Legal tour is coming to the Rockford Coranado Theater on March 27th. Tickets are $35 and $50 per person. I have a former police officer friend who says that pot prohibition will end in America about 5 years after…

Congressman Tom Perriello tells what is bad about Congress. “If you don’t tie our hands we will keep stealing.” And the difference between Republicans and Democrats? Republicans generally steal less. Faint praise indeed. From Real Clear Politics. H/T Jccarlton at Talk Polywell Cross Posted at Power and Control