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Repeating myself is no fun. Nor is saying “I TOLD YOU SO.” But in today’s news, I see that President Obama is selling out the left, and making a right turn: Obama sells out the left: a Republican win on taxes By Jennifer Rubin There really is no other way to say it: the Republicans…

Quick question. What gives the Drug Enforcement Administration the right to determine what pain medications elderly people should be getting, when they should get it, and who gives it to them? Kohl wants to change DEA rules that allow pharmacists to dispense drugs to nursing home patients only with a verbal or written prescription from…

When I was exploring a blog which Glenn Reynolds linked recently, I found a fascinating left-wing comparison of Sarah Palin with Mike Huckabee, which is so refreshing in its honesty that I couldn’t resist sharing it: * General GOP crap: Palin believes and pushes a bunch of asinine right-wing nonsense about the economy, environment, guns,…

R.S. McCain is looking at the Jew hating faction of the Democrat Party. And like any good reporter he picks a particularly ugly example for our entertainment and enlightenment. But history intrudes. Nazi Germany is now history. And so is the interregnum it brought to Jew hating. Jew hating in America peaked in 1944. It…

I was reading Beyond The Nanny State which was discussing the TSA and other outrages and came across this comment: I’m not even in a position to go flying, but I must say, why is each and every frequent flyer being treated like a drug-runner in a car in Jersey You don’t get it do…

There is right and wrong. At least I still like to think there is. Drug laws contaminate our sense of right and wrong. Think about it. The big divide in criminal law is the distinction between malum in se, and malum prohibitum. Prohibitory substance laws treat malum prohibitum crime more seriously than many malum in…

Glenn Reynolds has a very amusing editorial comparing Barack Obama to Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel, who has cranked up the knobs to 11. The more I watch this administration at work, the more I think we’re seeing the first Nigel Tufnel presidency. Nigel Tufnel, many will remember, was the fictitious heavy metal guitarist in the…

Well, it looks as if I’ve been in denial about Global Warming. Turns out that it’s killing people: At least 60 people have died across Europe during the current cold snap, as snow plagued transport in Britain on Friday and serious flooding prompted mass evacuations in the Balkans. Seventeen people died in Central Europe in…

While there don’t seem to be very many film directors in Afghanistan, I recently watched an excellent film — Osama — about a girl in the era of Taliban rule whose mother encouraged her to disguise herself as a boy, because that was the only way for the family (which had no remaining men alive)…

The Best Dead version of Good Lovin I’ve heard on YouTube. Cross Posted at Classical Values

Despite our best efforts the holidays are once again upon us, and so in the spirit of the season I’d like to share a recipe that I’ve enjoyed annually for some years now. Traditional Two-Minute Bodybuilders’ Low-Carb High-Omega-3 Christmas Dinner You will need: 1/4 cup olive oil 1/3 cup flaxseed meal (milled) 1 tsp Metamucil…

I love discussing the wedge issues between libertarian Republicans and Christian Conservatives. Evidently it is a subject that interests Instapundit who sent me to Dana Loesch. Who is hot on the subject. Since they brought It up I’m feeling a few words coming on. First a redefinition of sorts: Uh it is not Christians vs…

I really liked Glenn Reynolds’ latest InstaVision interview: I talk with Jim Meigs of Popular Mechanics, who explains the creepy side of the information age. Corporations compile information on you. Can this information be used for nefarious purposes? What happens if a stalker gets a hold of your information? I like to think that at…

It is rich, but Raich has come back to haunt those hoping for a legal answer to Obama Care. Just as I predicted in Letter to a Friend. Reason Magazine has the news. According to a federal judge in Virginia, ObamaCare’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance is constitutional under the Commerce Clause because, under…

I’m a 56 year old man who sometimes enjoys contemplating the beauty of ruins. I don’t want to say that I “celebrate the beauty of decay” because that might sound decadent and distract from my purpose here, which is to stick to an activity considered normal and wholesome. Contemplating the beauty of ruins is certainly…

One of the hot topics of today is the DADT quagmire, which I don’t feel especially compelled to discuss right now — mainly because I don’t like joining in news-driven choruses in rote response to the appearance of news items. (Allahpundit noted that despite the hype over the poll that’s generating the current fuss, “there…

I was over visiting Stacy McCain’s thanks to Instapundit where there was a discussion going on about a Muslim gang that raped white women and girls – some as young as 12 – in the UK. So of course the question of culture comes up. And of course the decline in morals in the West.…

…mental illness? I have to say, Clayton Cramer dug up quite a gem here: It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type. In a review of the relevant literature it is shown…

Via an email, I learned that the University of Michigan is hosting an event that I am going to miss. (Boo hoo!) Ted Rall [discussed infra] will be speaking, as well as hawking and signing copies of his latest book — “The Anti-American Manifesto.” Which means that if I weren’t busy that night, I might…

I have to agree with Matt Welch’s criticism of Bill Kristol’s call for forceful state action against Wikileaker and accused rapist Julian Assange. I happened to catch Bill, who I have past admired, saying much the same yesterday while watching Special Report on Fox News for the first time in years. Krauthammer was even worse,…