Author: Simon

I was talking to a rational liberal friend last night (he is an engineer) and as per usual we got to talking politics. He said something I totally agree with. To wit: “If Republicans stopped trying to get their way on social issues through force of law they would never lose an election.” Think about…

A perfect illustration of my previous post Cultural Socialism Cross Posted at Power and Control

I wrote a very short post on Cultural Socialism that got some very interesting comments given the length of the post (Two lines – a total of 16 words). So I thought I’d Google “cultural socialism” to see how popular the term was. Not very. A total of 2,580 hits. Pathetic. And the post linked…

Cultural Socialism validates government power. For me that is the heart and soul of the matter. Cross Posted at Power and Control

In the war between social and fiscal conservatives the question on everyone’s mind is: who (or what) comes first? Lawrence Reed may have an answer. “If you politically win on all the economic issues, you could lose on all the social ones and still have an avenue as a social conservative to advance what’s important…

Over the last few days I have been piecing together a number of reports on the Iranian nuclear efforts. The reports lead me to some interesting conclusions/speculations. More on the conclusions/speculations later. First let me start with the breakdown of Iran’s enrichment centrifuges from July of this year. Iran has suffered a series of technical…

RTFM H/T Diogenes via e-mail Cross Posted at Power and Control

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The above video is pretty much all you need to understand the gist of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers. The politics is somewhat (an understatement) more convoluted. So what has happened to bring all this into the news? The Washington Post reports. A veteran Justice Department lawyer accused his agency Friday…

Will there be a reopening of the war between North and South Korea soon? Some people think so. In Moscow’s bleakest assessment of the situation on the Korean peninsula yet, Russian deputy foreign minister Alexei Borodavkin said tensions between the two countries were running at their highest and most dangerous level in a decade. “Tensions…

H/T Hill Buzz. Some gay guys I can really get behind. Heh. Cross Posted at Power and Control

A really interesting thing has happened on the way to the election. PJTV’s Tea Party TV today unveiled the results of a special Tea Party poll, which revealed that about one-in-three (32%) African Americans who are likely voters would vote for a candidate supported by the Tea Party movement. “Questions of racism within the Tea…

I’m not sure of the cause but I must say Republicans have much better script writers this year. H/T Hill Buzz Cross Posted at Power and Control

It has come to my attention that there is a contingent in the nation interested in hippie punching [in the comments]. It has become so pervasive that Instapundit has noticed the trend. Well some of us hippies are from the Peace, Love, Watch Out MOFOs contingent of hippiedom. i.e. firm believers in armed non-violence. Unless…

Note that Christine O’Donnell and Rand Paul get face time in the video. And this is an official Republican spot? I like it. H/T McCain – you know – the other one Cross Posted at Power and Control

I had never heard a live version of this (well it is a kind of a medly) before. I like it. I must say that I miss Grace. But this girl makes up in enthusiasm what she lacks in Grace’s talent. And the graphics on this one are spectacular:

You know. I would really hate to see it happen but this may be a case where God needs to sort these folks out. I think I have a slogan appropriate for the age. “Give me liberty or I’ll give you death.” Update: 24 Sept. 1010, 0119z Instapundit links to a piece by Austin Bay…

Well there are reports. But does it matter? Not a bit. Unless this is some kind of counter spin to the Christine O’Donnell/Witchcraft craziness. And Santeria? I belonged to one of those groups once. Not exactly traditional Santeria though. It was designed to attract American Wiccans and fans of Aleister Crowley. In Chicago. On Halsted…

christine2010.com H/T for the photoshop: Hill Buzz Cross Posted at Power and Control