Author: Simon

It has to be reset/rebooted frequently to make it work reasonably. Are you having similar problems? Mine began about 4 or 5 weeks ago. I have been in communication with Comcast frequently about the problem. Two truck rolls later (plus one they did on their own for line/POP server maintenance) and still no resolution. I…

Eric sent me a link to Patterico who is discussing the latest SWATing incident and peripherally his SWATing. Well I had to drop one on him. You may be amused. Or not. == Militarized Police are a threat to liberty. First they came for the dopers… And I applauded. Then they came for Patterico…. And…

No one gets out alive. Make your minutes count. I was inspired by rereading my comments here about Olema. Especially the one about “Diamond” and his M1911.

A decidedly anti-Jew site has published an article on the coming failure of the Euro. The article is excellent and makes no mention of Jews. But the commenters are under no such restraints. But how did the Jews get in the position they are in today? Let us try to find the man behind the…

What I don’t get is why none of the media reports I have seen on Fast and Furious connect it to Drug Prohibition. Such a big forest to only focus on a few trees. How about the 50,000 Mexican dead in the last 5 years? How about the 50,000 Americans? Or is it because BOTH…

According to this report China is going down hard. The Chinese economy is in the final stages of largest Ponzi scheme ever devised. Minsky outlined three distinct phases in the credit cycle: In the first phase known as the hedge phase; economic actors borrow money to invest in order to create goods to sell for…

When Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan Sarna from Tablet Magazine on Vimeo. The author is a bit florid in his retelling of the story but it is an interesting one. It may also explain why Jews were Republicans until the advent of Father Coughlin and FDR. Forward a Jewish Socialist Magazine makes a good…

Money quote: “when the entitled elect themselves, the party accelerates, and the brutal hangover is inevitable”. H/T Zero Hedge

Eric was discussing the latest pander to gays by the President. I made a prediction in the comments but I want to front page it so I can eat crow (tasty dish if you are in to that sort of thing) if I’m wrong and gloat if I’m right. === I expect a pander to…

Soon the Supreme court will decide if ObamaCare is valid law based on the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. A lot of Commerce Clause jurisprudence turns on the Wickard vs Filburn decision which said that a man growing grain for his own consumption affects interstate commerce and thus can be regulated. But this could lead…

Some on the right are up in arms about the 300 or so Mexicans killed by Fast and Furious. I guess they have forgotten the 50,000 Mexicans killed in the last 5 years by supporters of Drug Prohibition. Roughly 150 times as many dead. If Fast and Furious is a horrible crime what is support…

And if they are what are they smoking? Wait. I’m getting my topics confused. I blame old age. Let me go back to the beginning. And God said, “Let there be light”. Nope. Not that beginning. Just wait. I’ll get unconfused in a moment. OK. I’m having a discussion at The Economist about tax revenue…

We didn’t used to talk like that when I was her age. Well maybe we did but no one (other than fellow geeks) understood us. And back then the important stuff was the speed of our CPUs (50 MHz – WOW) and the number of pixels on our CRT screens. And is it VGA compatible?…

No one was in the bus. There is speculation that it may have something to do with abortion politics but no one knows anything for a fact. Here is my attitude on the matter of abortion: Any Government strong enough to outlaw abortion will be strong enough to make it mandatory. Which is why I…

Commenter Neil asks: So the right seems to be rebelling against repression, but two posts later you claim this election is between the communists and the fascists? What gives? Good question Neil. There is the old right – Romney – and the New Right – the TEAs. One is morphing into the other. They are…

This one is making the rounds. Over 1 million YouTube views so far. H/T the commenters at The Ulsterman Report

Bill Quick of Daily Pundit emphasized a point I made in a recent post. The coming election – no matter who wins – will not be transformative because the choice we are being given is between the communists and the fascists. i.e. one view of how big government should operate and another. I do believe…

Does Congress finally have the goods on Holder and the Gunwalker Project? Multiple, previously highly credible, sources close to the Gunwalker investigation report that there are at least one and perhaps two sources within the Department of Justice headquarters who have approached the Issa Committee seeking whistleblower status. One source, who reported that there were…

Eric was looking at some new water regulations regulating rain water puddles that amount to a taking of private property. Enviros gone mad. I left a comment which I’m turning into a post. The trouble is not just the enviros. We have a whole host of folks who say “I believe in liberty, except for…