Author: Simon

I’m getting questions from here and there. It is my premise that the vote to strip abortion out of the Health Destruction bill allowed the bill to pass the House. Well a lot of Right thinking people have questioned that premise. They ask me, “how can you know for sure?” Well I can’t. But the…

In a previous post I was discussing the tension between social conservatism and fiscal conservatism in social conservatives. So I of course I needed to see how my congressman Don Manzullo voted on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment which prohibits federal funding of abortion and federal subsidies for insurance coverage of abortion. My Cong. Critter did good.…

Eric at Classical Values has several posts up on how anti-abortion Republicans greased the way for passage of the health care bill in the House. You can read them at anti-abortion RINOs? Is there such a species? and The best way to keep something out of a government program? No program! and Federal crackdown leads…

Senator Joe Lieberman has a few questions about the Fort Hood attack. Sen. Joe Lieberman’s call for the investigation came as word surfaced that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there. Whether Hasan, an Army psychiatrist,…

Eric and I have been having some fun with human logic over at Classical Values. I started it with Defeating Libertarian Logic and then Eric chimed in with No Man Can? So I have been getting all logical with my anti-abortion friends. Well I don’t like it either. I just don’t think it is a…

You have met them. Those oh so logical Libertarians where every acceptable thought has to be a verified part of a system. They have to tie themselves in logical knots to come to the proper logical conclusion. Ralph has a few words about that. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by…

Yes indeed. A female police officer, Sgt. Kimberly Munley, put an end to jihadi Nidal Malik Hasan’s murderous rampage at Fort Hood. A female civilian police officer is being hailed as a hero in the aftermath of a gunman’s rampage at Fort Hood — an outbreak of violence that the officer is credited with ending…

Libertarian Republican has some excellent news for Constitutional Republicans. You know, small government, low spending. I’m just going to give short excerpts. Follow the links for details. Republicans sweep Westchester County, New York on Anti-Tax message Voters ousted Democratic supervisors in Yorktown and Lewisboro and elected GOP majorities in both towns, as they did in…

This is in honor of the fallen at Fort Hood and for the wounded who will need our ongoing help. Here is one way to help: Project Valour-IT helps provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries. Items supplied include: #…

It seems that a Libertarian can actually win in one of the most liberal areas of the country. New York City. Libertarian Dan Halloran wins City Council Seat in New York City Dan Halloran was elected to the Queens City Council in District 19. He was nominated by the Republican, Conservative, Independent and Libertarian parties.…

Resist Net has this from Walid Shoebat a former jihadist. TO WHAT LEVEL IS US MILITARY, FBI, CIA, DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY INFILTRATED W. MUSLIM JIHADISTS? In the wake of the cowardly Ft. Hoot mass fatal shooting of 11 or more unarmed U.S. soldiers by Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, America has the right to know…

More Ayn Rand videos. The above video is from 1979. Obviously well before our current dust ups in the Middle East. And don’t forget her novels: The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged Cross Posted at Power and Control

Smaller government and lower spending. And this time we really mean it. Heh. Cross Posted at Power and Control

It looks like Sarah Palin may not be able to pass the Republican Abortion Litmus Test. This is a report from March of 2009. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) recently appointed Anchorage Superior Court Judge Morgan Christen, who once served on the board of Planned Parenthood, to the state’s Supreme Court, the AP/Anchorage Daily News…

The lady, Jessica Corry, was a press secretary for a Republican Senator. Here is some more information on her. She and her husband have a few words to say on Huffington Post. While leaders from both major political parties whisper privately about the insanity of the drug war, they decline to take a rational public…

Maine has voted against legalizing gay marriage. And of course cultural conservatives are crowing. Or at least greatly relieved if you can believe the pictures. The final tally is not in but the numbers are running about 53 to 47 against. But Maine also voted on medical marijuana. And the results there are a little…

I’m having a little discussion with a commenter at The Other McCain about abortion. I know more than a few social conservatives read this blog so maybe they can help me out. Here is the comment I was replying to: The Indentured Servant Girl said… M. Simon: women were not, and would not be charged…

First off. I got my numbers from Obama/Keyes and Kerry/Bush. So let us start with the numbers. Also let me add that this is going to be somewhat simplistic since I did not look at exit polls to determine who did what and why. It should give some idea of what went on though. Not…

Libertarian Republican reports. Libertarian Republican has just learned that 73 elected officials on the county level throughout Texas have just switched, are in the process of switching, and will be switching by the end of the week, from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party. The news comes to us from Bryan Preston, Communications Director…

I’m having a long conversation about the future of the Republican Party at The Other McCain. There is a lot of back and forth and if you go to the link you can follow the discussion. What I would like to present here is my conclusion. I was replying to a comment by BD. BD,…