Month: February 2013

What brought this on? I just got told by ANOTHER Republican that I can’t be a fiscal conservative if I’m not a social conservative. Fine. I will no longer be a fiscal conservative. You don’t want my vote? You won’t get it. And no surprise – I got told direct that my vote is unwanted.…

The reaction of a lot of people to this report about a Big Brother “health” database is that it’s nothing to worry about as it’s not happening here: GPs are to be forced to hand over confidential records on all their patients’ drinking habits, waist sizes and illnesses. The files will be stored in a giant…

Nice video from the 60s. A real classic, which I think has a haunting quality.

Hey, I not only like dogs, I LOVE them. However, certain misguided animals are being used by their evil masters to destroy our constitutional rights: …even if you are neither a lawyer nor a super-libertarian, you might wonder 1) how often this sort of thing happens, 2) how it came to be that police can…

I ran across this: Conservatives Launch New Social Network to Escape Facebook ‘Censorship’. Here is the story: Fed up with the threat of “censorship” on Facebook, a group of a conservatives are launching their own social network called “The Tea Party Community.” The site, which doesn’t even officially go online until Saturday, has already attracted…

I was reading How The Republicans Lost The Election and about 1/4 of the way through the first thing I thought was – the Libertarian wing of the party could do this. And what was the first comment? The Libertarian wing of the Party can do this. And what does the “base” want? Fewer Libertarians…

The subject came up on this thread. This was my answer: I used to be a socialist. Until I figured out that the incentives were all wrong. In a static system – not too bad. In an advancing system you want the greatest rewards going to those making the greatest advances. And preferably you want…