Author: Simon

Via The Volokh Conspiracy’s – The GOP’s Pot Problem I came across this bit from National Review – Taking Back the Joint. If the GOP is going to be competitive in 2016, it has to communicate to young people that intrusive federal government makes their lives worse. It has to communicate that it’s the party…

Bill Quick often picks up on pieces I write. So I thought I’d return the favor. Aw. Those Damned Libertarians Wouldn’t Eat Our Tasty Shit Sandwiches. Generally the GOP offers its Libertarian wing nothing. This year they offered up a Prohibitionist who was also not a fiscal conservative. Less than nothing. The Libertarians got a…

Eighteen members of Congress have asked the Federal Government to leave the States, Colorado and Washington, that have legalized marijuana alone. They are: Steve Cohen – Democrat Tennessee Jared Polis – Democrat Colorado Diana DeGette – Democrat Colorado Ed Perlmutter – Democrat Colorado Barney Frank – Democrat Massachusets Earl Blumenauer – Democrat Oregon Jerrold Nadler…

I can tell by the comments I have received that I am not getting through to some of you on how the Republicans can get more votes in national elections. So let me give it to you straight up. Stop attacking the people (and by extension their friends) you want to get votes from. Bad…

Ambassador Stevens – killed in Benghazi – was rumored to be smuggling arms to the Muslim Brotherhood. Yahoo news now admits that some of the rockets raining on Israel came from Libya. Just a few years ago, Palestinian rockets were limited to crude, homemade devices manufactured in Gaza. But in recent years, Hamas and other…

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…

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’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…

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…

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…

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…

Democrats – it is the purpose of the government to steal from those who are too rich. Republicans – it is the purpose of government to administer beatings to the unrighteous. Theft won over beatings. But it was close.

I got a link in my e-mail to an interesting article. Victories for Liberty Outweigh Tuesday’s Losses. You should read the whole thing but near the bottom of the article this caught my eye. …after the attacks on the grassroots of the party launched by the Romney campaign, party leaders and special interests, in many…

Clare Spark has a few words on the election. …the nation is polarized around capitalism itself, whether or not our market society can offer upward mobility and a better quality of life for all persons willing to work. Let us not forget that “capitalism” is a relatively recent development in the world, and, in the…

Not Safe For Work H/T the commenters on Zero Hedge