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  • Collective guilt

    A comment to M. Simon’s earlier post highlights the hopelessness of the abortion debate: If we keep killing our children, we don’t have a civilization anyway. It’s actually the one issue I’m willing to die over, just as I would have given my life to end slavery had I lived 150 years ago. We? If person…

  • Thank A Veteran – Legalize

  • Not A Word

    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…

  • So we cannot trust Petraeus not to keep his fly zipped… And therefore?

    Some people I greatly respect are quite upset at General Petraeus for having sex with a woman other than his wife. I just left the following comment for someone who sees cheating on a spouse as indicating a general lack of trustworthiness: What he did was wrong. No argument there. I don’t see why personal…

  • Beer made me remember to write this post!

    Wow, I just realized that I haven’t written a post today. No time. I am too exhausted by politics to have anything to say, and I’m delighted that M. Simon has taken up the slack. I noticed an interesting study, though. There have been many claims made about a connection between aluminum and Alzheimer’s. I’m…

  • The Parties

    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.

  • Republicans Lost – Liberty Won

    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…

  • Women Will Not Go Back

    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…

  • There Is A War Going On And The People On Drugs Are Winning It

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

  • Political analysis is a slippery slope that leads from linking to drinking

    M. Simon is a proud 1%er who voted for Gary Johnson, and his recent post made me do some homework. Like other people, I too have been curious about whether Gary Johnson was a factor in Obama’s victory, so I went to the Reason article’s link to a wonderful interactive state-by-state database and looked at each state to determine…

  • I’m A 1%er

    Gary Johnson pulled one million votes. About 1% of the total. I voted for Johnson. 1% free.

  • “Prison camp” is so gay!

    Michael Savage typifies the sort of “conservatism” that makes me want to vomit, and as I have said a number of times, if Savage is a conservative, then I am not, nor do I ever want to be, a conservative.  (I like to think he isn’t really a conservative, but I guess it’s not up…

  • ReThinking Morality

    I was under the impression that Jesus was against making morality a political issue.

  • The Partys Made Promises

    One of our commenters asked: OK, the Democrats did the “vote for us, get free stuff” thing first and aren’t going to quit. Given that nobody wants to be told to eat their vegetables, what’s left for the GOP to offer? “We will leave you alone, totally.” has considerable appeal. See Colorado. See Washington State.…

  • More Good News

    Colorado Legalizes. Washington State Legalizes Massachusetts Goes For Med Pot

  • And Now For Some Good News

    According to Google’s Election Map Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, looks to be winning about 1% of the vote nationwide. That would make 2012 their best showing in a long time.

  • News that sucks

    Well, it looks like Obama is going to win Michigan, Ohio, and even Florida (which shocks me, as I thought Romney at least had that). I’d love nothing more than being wrong, but I’d say Obama’s got it. Ugh. MORE: The fools on Fox are waxing about the “conservative base.” Spare me! The “conservative base”…

  • Whoever is elected will be in charge. Well, sort of…

    There is an election in this country tomorrow, right? And whoever wins is supposed to be in charge of the Executive Branch of government, right? While these questions seem obvious on their face, reading this is enough to make many people wonder who really runs things, and whether the president in fact has power the Constitution supposedly…

  • “Collapse in Michigan”?

    Sorry I haven’t had time to post much lately, but I am in a pre-election dither. Almost every pundit has written off Mitt Romney’s chances in Michigan, but if this poll is to be believed, Romney and Obama are in a dead heat. Who are you most likely to vote for in the Presidential election…

  • Nerds And Stuff

    I thought a little relief from the last days before the election might be in order. Probably Not Safe For Work. But most amusing. In a semi-adult childish way. Another bit of amusement in the same vein.