Month: September 2011

“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.” That was the Labor Day threat issued by Teamsters Union President James Hoffa, Jr. in a warmup to a Labor Day speech by President Obama here in Michigan.…

There’s an old legal saying that “hard cases make bad law.” In light of what I just read about a man who faces a 23 year sentence for uploading a five-minute YouTube video, I would add that hard cases can result in worse things than bad law: they can make me agree with Glenn Greenwald.…

Typical Conservative “I’m too stupid to figure out how to fix this without putting a gun to people’s heads. Lets pass a law.” Wait a minute. That sounds like a Typical Liberal. It is getting hard to tell them apart. ===== This repost of a segment from another post was prompted by Eric’s Quadrupling the…

While I am old enough to remember the debate over whether “life” begins at conception, there has recently been a rhetorical shift in terms. Now, the argument is increasingly over whether “personhood” (including the rights of citizenship with all attributes thereto pertaining) begins at conception. Not pregnancy, mind you. Fertilization. If personhood really does begin at…

I was looking for reviews of Sarah Palin’s speech in Indianola, Iowa and came across something interesting. Quite a few articles on Palin’s speech were titled Crazy Train. Evidently they are reposts of an article by a certain Sara Jones. Oh. Yeah! Crazy. Here is a a post from the Crazy Train. As tired and…

Conservatives For Palin (C4P) has a round up of news reports on her speech. Update: 5 Sept 2011 0448z Here is a transcript of Palin’s speech.

Here’s another vexing question related to my previous post about “the culture.” I have long adhered to a clueless view along the following lines: If you don’t like something, don’t buy it. What I think is happening is that a number of people across the spectrum think more along these lines: If you like something…

I think I may have left a rather huge hole in a rather large argument I’d rather not have when I referred to “the culture” as a euphemism last night. When I was a kid, the word “culture” meant what my dictionary says. Rather than laboriously copy it, here’s a photo: There is a Wiki post…

This is a joke I have heard before. In the version I heard the encounter took place in a synagogue. ==== A wealthy, older couple strolled in Central Park. They happened upon a beautiful, fashionabl­y dressed young woman walking her dog. The husband smiled and went over to the woman, chatted for a few minutes…

I wonder if he looks the same on the other end. And NO! I don’t want to find out. From Speech fiasco an ‘audacity of weakness’. H/T Instapundit

Why is it that anyone cares so much about what is euphemistically called “the culture”? To the extent I am still able to think about such things (which is debatable after nearly a decade of blogging about them), Mark Steyn got what little remains of my brain cells firing when he said this: Even if…

I live just blocks away from Michigan Station, and I was watching today’s football game when it started to rain a bit. No big deal, but I went out in the yard and got a few drops on me, and came inside to go back to the game and — the idiots that run these…

I’m philosophically aligned with the Right To Life movement. Where I part ways with most of that crowd is the method for solving the problem. Which leads me to repost some comments I made on another thread about the issue. I’m not going to post a link (it is not hard to find) out of…

Via Glenn Reynolds, some words of wisdom from American Glob: I don’t believe it’s possible to be a Libertarian and support Democrats. I agree. For starters, economic issues are far more important than social issues, and Democrats are, by definition, almost always wrong on economic issues. In practice (for me, at least) when I dislike…

I have long thought that one of the most annoying aspects of the war on drugs is invasive drug testing, whether of employees, students, athletes, government officials, etc.. Despite our long (pre-1980s) constitutional tradition of bodily fluid freedom, most drug testing is mandated or directly encouraged by a myriad of government agencies or programs. I don’t…

The 4th Amendment makes it difficult for the government to go after clandestine activities. Do you think there is a reason for that? The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable…

Of course I was a Geek before being a Geek was a good thing. That was back in the days when hackers were the good guys. Still. It is nice to feel appreciated. Cross Posted at Power and Control

W. R Mead is discussing the virtues of Justice Clarence Thomas. He has many. I especially like his dissent in Raich and also his views on Kelo. But that is not my point. We have a “Conservative” scholar who pipes up with this gem in the comments. (Bolding mine) Roe v. Wade is cut from…

Cenk Uygur is complaining about Obama’s political strategy. The essence of his complaint is that Obama has none and that there is no point in waiting for one. We’re holding our collective breath in vain. If you will hold it a little longer you can prove you are true blue. Cross Posted at Power and…

We are just past the the tenth anniversary of the first publication of my article Heroin. By this time it is old news. Medical protocols have changed with respect to illegal drug use (it is now looked on as an attempt at self medication), but we have heard nothing significant on this subject from ANY…