Month: July 2011

As I often wonder why I hate politics so much, I was intrigued by Thomas Sowell’s recent observations: It is hard to understand politics if you are hung up on reality. Politicians leave reality to others. What matters in politics is what you can get the voters to believe, whether it bears any resemblance to…

   The United States of America is the most revolutionary land based on the most revolutionary idea in the history of mankind. A year before I married my husband, my best friend from childhood married a Frenchman. She became a French citizen the year before I became an American citizen, and for her that meant…

Here’s a thought from Glenn Reynolds, writing in the Washington Examiner:  If there’s one issue you care about a lot, get involved there. Gun rights activism crosses party lines, but has had a major influence in expanding liberty — over the past decade, the growth of Second Amendment rights has been one of the major…

Has discussing crime or crime statistics become a new taboo? For some time, real estate agents have been forbidden to disclose crime statistics in a neighborhood of interest to a potential buyer: According to the guidelines of the Fair Housing Act and preventing blockbusting, real estate agents are not supposed to discuss the crime statistics…

It isn’t every day I get photographed with a tyrant, but it happened today. Here I am at the Toledo Art Museum with Domitian. I’d almost rather have a Republican looking over my shoulder.

I brought up the question of abortion and as usual the usual pointless discussion ensued. A couple of my conservative friends chimed in and all they could talk about is philosophy and morality. I, being a more practical sort due to my engineering training, would prefer to talk policing. Or if you will: what can…

I think it is unconscionably cruel of Mediaite to make Rick Sanchez publicly humiliate himself with a column this way. I mean, come on guys. Have mercy. He was fired from CNN, and he’s probably really sorry about the paralyzed kid he ran over and the whole “Jews control the media” thing. Let the poor…

I am delighted to report that my proposal for sex withholding to force Ann Arbor to repair its roads (as is being done in Barbacoas, Colombia) was linked by P.D. Lesko’s A2Politico, Ann Arbor’s leading political blog. Better yet, an important classical reference was added. Withholding sex to induce behavioral compliance is a very old…