Month: November 2012

The line “freakin’ taco fest in here” was acclaimed the best line of the piece by the commenters here. Where you can watch the video. I thought so too.

Republican Governors are having a meeting. They are discussing the Presidential election. They are getting advice from a Governor who has actually won election in a Democrat State. The most astute proposal came from New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, a Latina Republican with a record of bringing traditionally Democratic voters into the fold. In 2010,…

Sarah in the comments at her blog asked me to write an article on the present and future of nano-technology. You can find the article on nanotech and links to her blog post at The future of nanotechnology is now.

Doug Hagmann has a column up called The alligator at our door where he discusses how we got into the mess we are in. While discussing the situation with a friend, the friend says: He shook his head and looked at the ground, his voice trailing off to nearly a whisper. “The federal government is…

In a perfect example of how easy it is to waste other people’s money, FEMA sold off brand-new, perfectly good emergency trailers for a small fraction of the price the government paid: Federal officials sold hundreds of emergency trailers for disaster victims at fire-sale prices in the months before Hurricane Sandy churned toward the United…

Denny’s will be cutting back employee hours and adding a 5% surcharge to customer bills to pay for Obama care. And the response of our brave Republicans in Congress? We won’t fight it. But the Republicans in Congress are on the right side of the abortion question which should make the Republican base so ecstatic…

I’ve quoted Greg Gutfeld before, but I don’t keep track of him (or anyone else) as I should. But I know his name so I clicked on Glenn Reynolds’ link to his latest piece which discusses why conservatives aren’t cool: Why aren’t conservatives cool? Why are they perceived as intolerant when it’s the other side…

I’m on the Illinois Libertarian Republican list. The topic of abortion comes up frequently. In this bit I posted to the list I explain to a member of the list why the abortion question (although better than 2/3rds of Americans are anti-abortion) is an electoral loser. ========== Ah. But that is your problem with winning…

According to the conventional wisdom, McCain lost to Obama in 2008 because the Republican base stayed home. What I want to know is how come Mitt Romney in 2012 got fewer votes than McCain did in 2008? McCain, 2008: 59,934,814 Romney, 2012: 58,938,376 The conventional wisdom this time is that the base was energized and…

I am astounded at the amount of attention being paid to another sex scandal, and I like what this blogger said: It’s amazing how the Press will dramatize situations such as this one, while ignoring scandals such as Operation Fast and Furious and the Benghazi Affair which have stained the Obama Administration. This is not to…

Eric did a post on Compromise. Here is my answer: There were other versions of “Long Tall Sally” with better visuals. But this one had better audio by a smidge. Yeah. I was a recording/on the air engineer for radio stations in another life. And here is my answer to my answer. An explanation of…

According to Berry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMddte6yD2w And according to Burke: All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter. So if happiness was founded on compromise, then how do I pursue it without further compromising our founding principles?

While Veterans Day falls on November 11, the official holiday is today. Which means it isn’t too late to honor a veteran, or just thank one. I did so earlier, and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank M. Simon, who is a proud veteran. And if you don’t know any veterans to thank,…

The Terri Schiavo case came up in the comments. One commenter said that what the Republicans in Congress did was harmless. Commenter CRH replied: Far from harmless, sir. Terri Schiavo was when Team Red lost the 2006 election. At the time I was deep in the heart of Dixie, operating with some Liberty Caucus Reds…

The Republicans have made abortion central to their political identity. It is a vote loser. They are also deeply into Drug Prohibition – another loser. Abortion Prohibition will work no better than Drug Prohibition. In addition – depending on how abortion is defined a number of contraceptive practices may be banned as well. Why not…

A comment to M. Simon’s earlier post highlights the hopelessness of the abortion debate: If we keep killing our children, we don’t have a civilization anyway. It’s actually the one issue I’m willing to die over, just as I would have given my life to end slavery had I lived 150 years ago. We? If person…

I was visiting a Right Side blog looking for their take on Legalization in Colorado and Washington State. And I couldn’t find a word on the subject at the blog I checked. So I wrote the editor of he site a letter. Not a word about the Legalization Votes And what they mean for the…

Some people I greatly respect are quite upset at General Petraeus for having sex with a woman other than his wife. I just left the following comment for someone who sees cheating on a spouse as indicating a general lack of trustworthiness: What he did was wrong. No argument there. I don’t see why personal…

Wow, I just realized that I haven’t written a post today. No time. I am too exhausted by politics to have anything to say, and I’m delighted that M. Simon has taken up the slack. I noticed an interesting study, though. There have been many claims made about a connection between aluminum and Alzheimer’s. I’m…