Author: Simon

I’ve been seeing a lot of Mark Kirk ads on the ‘net today. The teaser to get you to click is: The Problem is HIM Now which HIM did you think of? The ad is being run by Democrats. Own goal. Cross Posted at Power and Control

H/T commenters at Hill Buzz Our very own Tall Dave, in the comments here, suggests this video too.

If you want government to leave you alone you must leave others alone. It is a hard lesson to learn. And painful. Because there is so much evil in the world. And having government guns at your side to confront it is so comforting. Until the government turns its guns on you. Our socialist friends…

I had hoped by voting for Bush in 2004 that the situation in the Middle East would be so set that even an unsympathetic President couldn’t undo what Bush had done if he did a good job in the Middle East. Bush did a good job. The price he had to pay to the Democrat…

Seriously. I’ve always suspected this but to get a lefty to say it out loud? It must be desperation time. Maybe the end of the line? One can hope. Except my friends on the right seem determined to over reach. Starting the cycle all over again. “This isn’t about President [Barack] Obama,” Rendell said on…

I absolutely will not be drinking three beers in short order, followed by smoking a blunt for this report. The contest I’m speaking of is the alcohol lobby versus the pot legalizers in California. The California Beer & Beverage Distributors disclosed it donated $10,000 to defeat Prop 19 — which would regulate and tax marijuana…

From the tide is turning files. …John Dennis. The San Francisco Republican – a frequent attendee of Tea Party events who is waging a perhaps quixotic war to unseat most-powerful San Franciscan Nancy Pelosi, to whom he has referred as a “wicked witch” – made a campaign stop Sunday at the Cow Palace, where the…

No. Not that kind. (Although if I got an invitation from some nice people I might consider it pending the first mate’s approval. But you already know how that ends.) What I am is your quintessential libertarian swing voter. A proud member of the Leave Us Alone Party. So I’m having discussions at Power and…

Abortion has come up and as usual the discussion gets abrasive. Well I like being abrasive as much as the next guy. So let me start with a fragment of a recent comment well tied to the zeitgeist. Your attitude reminds me of that recent 10:10 adverting campaign. You know, where they blow up the…

Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms should be a convenience store not a government agency. Yeah. I have posted this before. Consider it an oldie but goodie suitable for the election season.

Villainous Company is looking at some studies on the effect of daycare on children. And comes up with this stunner: It’s amusing, in a way, to see the very same arguments being arrayed against Science that have been used for centuries to argue against Religion. In both cases, essential truths about human nature are too…

Eric is looking at the pictures of the number of people on the Washington Mall for the “Steal America Blind” rally yesterday to try and figure out how many people were actually there. I think the discrepancy in the numbers was caused by some people missed by the people counters: And if you judge by…

From time to time my friend Eric gets a good pixel lashing for not discussing what some commenter thinks he should cover. So let me discuss the more profound event. The things not asked for or discussed. Because that which is empty is as pregnant with meaning as that which is full. What is not…

This Peggy Noonan piece matches the music most excellently. Cross Posted at Power and Control

You won’t believe this but every once in a while Peggy Noonan gets it. “Congressman Smith cheated on his wife.” That’s her problem. Cut my taxes. It is one of the reasons I’m supporting Christine O’Donnell in DE. I don’t care about her private views on anything. In fact I find them endearing. She’s not…

You want to put the government in charge of my daughter’s reproductive organs not to mention my mate’s? Are You Fucking Nuts? Cross Posted at Power and Control

He is going to be doing a lot of things. The best one is he will be on YouTube for free. And you know what you have to do. Subscribe Cross Posted at Power and Control

Some one asked in a comment if at the very least Social Conservatives and Republican libertarians couldn’t agree on no Federal funding for abortion? As a small government guy, I’m absolutely on board with that. Now my social conservative friends let me ask you a question. Do you see the perniciousness of instituting Vagina Police?…

There is quite a spirited discussion going on at They Could Never Lose about the relationship between social conservatives and libertarians. And of course the question is, “can it last?” I don’t know. What I do know is that the social conservatives can’t win nationally without the “Leave Us Alone Party”. Of course the social…

In case you have forgotten Coakley is the person Scott Brown wiped the floor with in Massachusetts. I think her opponent in the Attorney General race, Jim McKenna, needs to wipe the latrine with her. Click on the link if you want to help. H/T Hill Buzz which has more of the story. Cross Posted…