Author: Eric Scheie

When I read news stories, sometimes it’s not the news that fascinates me so much as unstated (and unexplored) subtexts lurking within. This morning Drudge linked a rather dismal-looking story about a new trend in Russia to have the government enforce “traditional values” (which I suppose means the KGB working in conjunction with the Orthodox…

Did you know that there is a very powerful drug which causes hallucinations, bizarre behavior, and addiction, and yet is completely legal to buy and sell anywhere in the United States? You think this sounds too amazing to be true? Watch the following chilling documentary for yourself and get the facts about this deadly threat.…

Back in November of 2008, a lot was going on. So much that the hostile foreign takeover of the American beer giant Anheuser-Busch didn’t get as much attention as maybe it should have. Sure, Bud lovers were outraged, but I wasn’t a Bud lover, so I didn’t really care. I was more worried about what…

I enjoyed this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vsVCHE7ayPE%3Frel%3D0 Early on, you’ll see the charmingly blurry tattoos on the arms of the proprietor, who is played by none other than R. Lee Ermey. Gun lovers and Second Amendment lovers will love the video, while gun haters and Second Amendment haters will doubtless hate it. Because after all, it “glorifies”…

Bob Scheiffer is a devious old lefty who hides behind a carefully contrived Middle America ethos, and I have never trusted him. However, his latest remark comparing Americans who want to preserve their constitutional rights with Osama bin Laden and with Nazis is simply too much for me to stomach: …what happened in Newtown was…

A conservative I am not. I often wish I had never heard the word. From the beginning of this silly blog, I keep lamely saying that the reason I vote for the right is not because I like the right, but because I hate the left more. Not all that big of a deal, because…

“When that constitution was written, people had muskets.” Jon Stewart (quoted at Reason) thinks that is funny. Which I’m sure it was when he said it, because Jon Stewart is a master of comic delivery. But a lot of people (especially those who rely on Jon Stewart as their voice of common sense) might miss…

A graphologist I am not. I don’t especially care about people’s handwriting, and I think people ought to be able to sign their names any way they want without being judged. However, appearances are appearances, and I am not 100% sure I really want this signature appearing on the nation’s currency: Via Glenn Reynolds, who…

A friend emailed me a link to an update about Mayor Bloomberg’s war on painkillers, with the following comment: Some people are addicted, so let’s limit everyone’s access! What an ass!!!!!! Liberalism WILL kill us. Yes, especially when it is bipartisan nanny state liberalism of the Bloomberg variety, because there is nowhere to turn. Bloomberg…

Tired of modern politics yet? I don’t know if anyone is in the mood for a medieval conspiracy theory, but I just learned about a good one. I’ve been reading up on the history of the use of hops (which most people know is a relative of marijuana; both being in the Cannabaceae family), and…

While I lost my temper a little the other night, a reminder today about the sheer petty-mindedness of our president on the gun control issue made me think I wasn’t mad enough. Europhile pacifist that he is, the man does not believe in the right of self defense. As a state senator in Illinois, President…

Surreal as it may seem, thanks to M. Simon I have just learned that New York Governor Cuomo — yes, the same Governor Cuomo who wants to destroy what remains of the Second Amendment in New York — now wants to liberalize marijuana laws. To a libertarian like me, this is obviously a mixed message. And…

What the fucking hell is going on with this stupid country? I’ve been running a case of the flu so I haven’t felt like blogging, but that does not mean events have stopped. I just went to Drudge earlier and saw these headlines: WHITE HOUSE THREATENS ‘EXECUTIVE ORDERS’ ON GUNS… ‘The president is going to…

Last month I wrote a facetious post, mocking what struck me as a ridiculous idea. The government can mint two platinum coins, declare they are worth $1 trillion each, deposit them at the Fed, and then move the money directly into Treasury accounts. Don’t laugh! Economists are actually endorsing this harebrained idea… That was then.…

Last April I wrote a post title “Fool us twice?” about the anti-Second Amendment policies of BofA. Well, guess what? Engulf and Devour has been at it again, and this time it’s even more outrageous, for they have illegally frozen perfectly legitimate funds deposited by a firearms manufacturer in the course of business, simply because they don’t…

As I’m fighting off what seems to be an insistent toehold of the flu right now, blogging isn’t a priority, but I did read about an interesting claim earlier that seems worth addressing. According to some Muslims (including that leading American front group CAIR), Islam has senior title to America. Why, you ask? Because, claims CAIR,…

Via Newsbusters, I found this true gem by Troubador at Daily Kos: …the murder-suicide massacres we see from time to time are the purest expression of the conservative mentality as it now exists in this country. I’m glad someone finally figured out the murderous essence of conservative purity. Clearly, Stalin, Mao, and the Cambodian killing…

In a WaPo article about the horrendous gun control legislation now in the works, a discussion of the importance of timing reveals the blatant opportunism at work. Timing is imperative Obama’s advisers have calculated that the longer they wait, the more distance there is from the Newtown massacre and the greater the risk that the bipartisan…

Here’s something you don’t see every day. A leading environmentalist named Mark Lynas, who has long opposed GMOs (probably because evil big corporations like Monsanto are involved) actually took the time to study the science. Not only did he conclude that he was wrong, but he has apologized: I want to start with some apologies.…

Here’s Joe Biden in 2008, sounding almost line Charlton Heston when he promised that if Obama “tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem“: Nice. Via Ted Nugent, who trusts that Biden still maintains those sentiments. Go Joe! Ain’t YouTube wonderful?