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And what sort of political regime/philosophy tries to silence its citizens? A guy wrote a book about it: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change Cross Posted at Power and Control

I’m flying to Seattle* for a few days, and blogging will be erratic. With any luck, though, M. Simon and TallDave might be posting, and I’ll be back Tuesday anyway, so regular readers can just keep coming back to their hearts’ content. *Of course, it’s raining right now in Detroit, so I may be optimistic….

I like some of the ideas presented. Like a national market for insurance. I’m not sure of all the ideas presented but at least they are ideas vs. the government swallows everything. In other related news the President has delayed releasing the latest economic report until after the health care vote. My assumption is that…

President Obama is satisfied with his insurance. Obama says it’s not about him. “I have great health insurance and so does every member of Congress,” the president said in remarks prepared for his news conference Wednesday night. “This debate is about the letters I read when I sit in the Oval Office every day, and…

Here is a link that will help you decipher the hand signs. So why rap music (which I generally hate) and hand signs? Well I have a story about a political rally. And the “singer” in the video performed at the rally. Multiple shootings were reported at a Wednesday night concert on the Texas Southern…

Ace makes a great point on one of the many problems on the health care bill: On Fox & Friends, they offered another good talking point: Currently 90% of all Americans are covered by insurance. Obama’s vaunted plan will cover, theoretically, another 7%. So: We’re destroying the entire system to move from 90% to 97%…

On the occasion of the death of the inventor who developed WD-40 as a water displacer, Ann Althouse says this: …tell us about your WD-40 stories. How about just one? Honestly, I was beginning to think no one would ever ask, and I’m delighted that Ann Althouse gave me an excuse. I’ve had so many…

This is the best version I could find on YouTube (musically). The video is kind of plain though.

What’s a RINO these days? Someone who voted for McCain instead of a third party candidate? Someone who prefers Mitt Romney to Sarah Palin? Don’t get me wrong. I prefer Sarah Palin to Mitt Romney, but that does not mean that I think Romney supporters are RINOs. The problem with the call-everyone-who-disagrees-a-RINO approach is that…

H/T Hot Air Cross Posted at Power and Control

Well now we know why the bill has a mandatory Advance Care Planning section in it. Under Obama Care you are going to need it a LOT sooner than you think. H/T Hot Air Cross Posted at Power and Control

A lot of people say that that politicians don’t have principles, and it often seems that they don’t. But as I pointed out earlier, there is one overarching principle that tends to dwarf all others to the point where it might delay or kill the full implementation of socialized medicine: The only thing which might…

I was reading the comments at a Town Hall post and came across this one. Recently, I stopped to grab lunch at sandwich shop/gas station. It was busy there so I parked in the hinterlands. While walking to the store I passed the gas pumps and I noticed a young black man about 30 splashing…

It seems like the Democrat Party is not happy with some Democrats. The DNC announced that they will start running ads in Blue Dog districts to punish them for their vote on Waxman-Markey. They may do the same for any Democratic nays on ObamaCare. This is great. I remember not so long ago when they…

What do you do when you’re stuck in the present, but the present doesn’t matter? You get frustrated. As I said earlier in an email, I think there’s a lot of political frustration because any elections are still quite a ways in the future, and anything can happen between now and then. What the politically…

One of the things conservatives tend to forget is that loathing the left does not necessarily translate into loving the right. AJ Strata discusses this phenomenon, and argues that some purists on the right don’t care, so long as they get to feel superior: The center right Reagan coalition was torn asunder by the purists…

Cross Posted at Power and Control

It looks like the Obama Birth Certificate issue is heating up. In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, the group Americans for Freedom of Information has Released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro,…

I hate to sound like a pessimist, but I think E. J. Dionne is right about the Democrats having the votes necessary to impose socialized health care: …with 60 votes in the Senate, Democrats can, in principle, work their will on health care without any Republican support. Obama is bound to make compromises, partly to…

Via Ann Althouse, a horrifying account of an Iranian volunteer government security man who was considered so good at his job that he was given “the honor” of being an official government rapist. He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I…