Month: April 2010

The conservative position: Some one could be doing something bad and the evil goes unpunished – we must pass a law. The liberal position: Some one could be unfairly taking advantage of another in an economic transaction. The evil goes unpunished – we must raise a tax. Which is why I am neither a liberal…

It’s that time again. I was surprised to see my own entry here. Can CV readers spot my contribution to keeping the Earth out of an ice age? Remember folks, much of the world gets dangerously cold every year. If you’re not doing your part to help, you’re no better than some lunatic stuffing people…

One thing I missed in last night’s post about the Ann Arbor Tea Party is a video clip I shot which shows the deliberate disruption of one of the speeches. Tony DeMott of the Campaign for Liberty was talking about Mitt Romney (to whom the Ron Paul supporting DeMott is resolutely opposed), when a goofy…

The Examiner reports that The Emperor of Hemp, Jack Herer, has died. Jack Herer, much beloved Emperor of Hemp and marijuana hero. is dead at age 70. Herer was a tireless advocate in the battle to end marijuana prohibition. He was perhaps the world’s most famous activist for the decriminalization of marijuana and the utilization…

Three Tea Parties in one day, and I’m back. I can’t believe I went to all three! This morning I attended a “Taking it to the Street!” meet on Haggerty Road in good old Northville, Michigan, then in the afternoon I attended a Tea Party rally in Plymouth (both of which were organized by Rattle…

Palin-Romney in 2012? Or maybe that was Romney-Palin? Yes, I guess it was the latter. Anyway, I’m not that keen on Romney, but I’m wondering whether it would work. So, apparently, is Sarah Palin — if the headline “Mitt Romney-Sarah Palin in 2012? You betcha!” is to be believed: Conservative superstar Sarah Palin opened the…

I know I haven’t said anything about it (probably because there are just too many wrong things in too many places and I can’t write posts about them all), but I think what’s going on between the United States and Israel right now is especially horrifying. Our most loyal, stalwart ally, and the only real…

Noting the organized effort to deploy Tea Party crashers, Ann Althouse offers some words of advice for those who might feel overwhelmed: 1. If any Tea Partiers feel tempted to express themselves in a manner that can help their opponents paint the movement as racist/extreme/violent, they need to resist that temptation. If they now think…

I got an e-mail from Tea Party Patriots. Many have asked about the news that there may be “infiltrators” at tea parties around the nation. A website (crashtheteaparty.org) was recently set up. The creator, though he tried to hide his identity, has been outed; his name is Jason Levin, and he’s a middle school teacher…

On Saturday I went to a Tea Party event in Lansing, Michigan where I spent over three hours. There were vendors walking around hawking Gadsden flags, but at no point did I see any table or vendor selling “STRAIGHT PRIDE” signs, nor did I see anyone wearing a “STRAIGHT PRIDE” T-shirt. A reporter named Todd…

Just try to imagine the deafening shrieks of “McCarthyism! Oppression! Mob tactics!” if we substituted, say, Al Gore for the subject of this piece. Remember, this is the same MSM that ignored the Edwards adultery story for years and allows climate shillionaire Gore to bar them from his events with little scrutiny. But this story?…

Watch the second part. See the discussion at Bring your cameras and video recorders. This seems like a pretty good camera for the price. More than enough pixels for the Internet. Kodak EasyShare C180 10MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.4 inch LCD This video camera had decent reviews: Kodak Zi6 HD Pocket…

Even though I’ve been over this ground before, there’s a point I made in the last post that deserves emphasis. The fact that it deserves more emphasis annoys the hell out of me, OK? Not just because I am sick to death of repeating myself, but because I think this is such basic stuff that…

To what extent is it reasonable to judge a group of people by the actions of an individual member of that group? I don’t think it’s reasonable at all, but a lot of people — especially activists — seem to do it. And of course when it happens the activists on the other side have…

From the blurb at YouTube: Desiree Bassett of Connecticut shreds guitar like no other her age! sit down and enjoy! The song is called “Power & Force, which is also the the title of her all original CD. Desiree also wrote this song at the age of 10. Desiree has a fan club where you…

This is about the best take on the Tea Party participants (as opposed to the “leaders”) that I have read so far. Beyond their fiscally conservative principles, the ideology of the people involved in the tea party movement tends to vary dramatically. So far, tea party activists “haven’t been interested in politics,” Fitton said. Which…

Camden, New Jersey has a problem. For nine months last year, Ron Mills was locked in the Camden County Jail. For nine months he held firm to his story that the drugs he was charged with possessing didn’t exist. Last month Mills’ story was validated when a former Camden police officer admitted in federal court…

As it’s Monday, and I got all politicked out over the weekend, I thought I would take a brief break from writing about politics. Perhaps I am being naughty, but earlier I received a very nice email from a reader who was actually inspired by a series of posts about my adventures in rice cooker…

I wouldn’t normally have written a blog post about something as mundane as going to the post office to mail an overnight letter (something that it turned out can no longer be done), but no sooner did I return from my mini-adventure than I saw that the GAO is warning that the Postal Service is…

Yesterday I drove to Lansing, Michigan for the Tea Party Express rally in front of the State Capitol building. While I’m no estimator, it was a good-sized crowd, and I read that there were thousands of people at the earlier rally in Grand Rapids. That may explain why the event started an hour or so…