Month: February 2012

Ulsterman has a new Insider report. Let me give you a bit of the flavor which echoes Sarah’s most recent screed. UlsterMan: The RedState story? On Santorum’s big government – his less than conservative record? Insider: Yeah – that stupid sh-t your put up on the blog. Knock that sh-t off. Like right now. No…

I was busy last night leaving snips of rage and erudition at various places around the ‘net. The topic is important enough that it deserves some more attention. I touched on it at Fertile Ground. It is the relationship of PTSD to politics. All I can telly you from a personal perspective is that if…

The closer we come to the elections, the more I alternate between rage and sheer unremitting depression.  This post is as much as anything a way to organize my thoughts. There is no doubt that this year of all years we are faced with not just a very weak field, but a field that makes…

I’m so sick of being negative that I’m feeling negative about negativity. I often wish I had never heard of politics. The presidential race is incredibly irritating, and I am not only sick of it, I am sick of my pessimism about the results. It seems like we’re in for a lose-lose. Whoever wins the…

FrackNation on Kickstarter I got a heads up on this from the Ezra Levant blog. You might also wish to have a look at Gasland

From Watts Up With That?: The wind power industry is predicting massive layoffs and stalled or abandoned projects after a deal to renew a tax credit failed Thursday in Washington. Unlike so many I do like seeing wind turbines on the landscape. I see them as giant mobile sculptures. But they were not sold to…

Sarah’s excellent post about the Republican “war on women” made so many good points that I feel a bit guilty about neglecting the issue. First, I think Rick Santorum added to the confusion deliberately created by President Obama, George Stephanopoulos, and others when he sounded off on contraception. That he is on record as opposing…

So it’s come to this. Whether because it has been legislated away or voluntarily surrendered, Americans’ privacy has largely disappeared. Our rulers are getting ever bolder, so robot drones are now poised to fly over our homes. A few kooky types like libertarians and whiners at the ACLU are sounding the alarm, but the law enforcement…

One of the most galling aspects of government is that the people who engage in reckless spending and make irresponsible decisions are never held accountable. Instead, the citizens are. By their nature, governments cannot go broke. Instead, they simply go on. And on. Harrisburg is perfect example. And unless voters wake up en masse, what…

Neo-Neocon is discussing the state of man/woman relationships in America. Quite a few commenters blame the communists and particularly the Frankfort School although other chief culprits in that vein are mentioned. And they do have a point. Up to a point. What they are missing is this: what is the ground in which these ideas…

We have a lot of libertarian friends around here and for that I’m very grateful. But that gets me into arguments all the time about the proper role of the American Military in the world. I was reading Gerard Vanderleun and he used a phrase that I think will clarify my position. Prison rules Or…

They don’t make music like this anymore. I just love Grace doing rock with a cool jazz sensibility. And the drumming? Exquisite.

While I have written many posts reminding readers of what I have said over the years, sometimes I need to remind myself of what I have said. More times than I can count (and long before the Tea Party movement’s inception) I have advocated an alliance between libertarians and social conservatives. Hell, FWIW I even…

When Ron Paul recently asked “why is it we can’t put into our body whatever we want?” he was speaking in the context of the war on drugs. But the war on drugs might have merely supplied the pretext, and set the stage for a much broader application of the question. These days, what Ron Paul…

Sometimes I love Ron Paul. Especially when he says things like this: VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul decried the “war on drugs” Thursday night, telling supporters in Washington state that people should be able to make their own decisions on such matters. Voters in Washington are likely to decide this year…

I’m so fatigued by reading about politics that I am starting to misread politics into non-political headlines. Earlier, when I saw a headline proclaiming that “parasitic wasp is no match for a drunken fruit fly,” I assumed it was some snarky political junkie analyzing the election or something. Wrong. It really was about an alcohol-related battle…

The latest Ulsterman discusses money laundering by the Obama machine. If you are new to the issue keep reading. It starts to get clear near the end of the piece. My money is on the drug cartels, among others.

While I have been trying to sleep through the sudden Santorum surge in the hope of making it go away, Ace has a very articulate series of impassioned posts which are not only waking me up, but are making me feel guilty that I am not doing enough. An erstwhile Perry supporter, Ace now faces…

I can remember back when I was a kid, when being against birth control was seen as almost as nutty as not believing in evolution. It all seems so damn long ago. Way back in the modern era, when no one knew how backward we were. This is not to say that I use birth…