Search results for: “Schumer”

  • Build a better world by destroying wealth!

    A post by Ward Farnsworth at Volokh on “rent seeking behavior” reminded me of one of my objections to lawyering: ….there are two general ways to increase your wealth: by creating things people want, or by fighting over prizes that already exist — things other people have created or found. Either strategy might be more…

  • Honesty deferred?

    I agree with Glenn Reynolds and J.D. Johannes: “Support the troops. Let them win.” But the Vietnam generation is still sharply divided. I can’t find a more perfect example than Senator Charles “just-like-in-the-days-of-Vietnam” Schumer who is bound and determined to plunge the country into another glorious defeat. Of course, he’ll say the war was “unwinnable,”…

  • Defusing the FMA?

    A brief word on decision by the New York Supreme’s decision that same sex marriage is a matter for the legislature. (Excellent roundup from Glenn Reynolds, who also links Gay Patriot’s thoughtful post on the subject.) I think it is a matter for the legislature, and that’s why I also agree with GayPatriot that the…

  • Insured to the last breath?

    I’m feeling really old fashioned and out of it today. Picking up the Philadelphia Inquirer, I saw this story about a Republican governor whose latest triumph is a bill requiring everyone in his state to have mandatory, private health insurance — something it seems only the kooky Cato Institute opposes: BOSTON – The most radical…

  • Statistics have a disproportionate impact on freedom

    Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, and newspaper editorial boards all seem to be echoing the same meme: guns should be traced: The National Tracing Center database is an essential resource for law enforcement. Beyond enabling law enforcement to trace the history of a gun linked to a crime, it helps identify patterns of gun theft and…

  • Why I avoid the appearance of caring about certain things . . .

    I’ve never cared for Tom DeLay, and I don’t see why I am supposed to be jumping up and down over his indictment. The way some people are carrying on, you’d think the fabric of the Republic were at stake. Yet from what I can see, he’s accused of some conspiracy to commit campaign finance…

  • Clone a toad, go to jail!

    A word on the damning quote Glenn Reynolds found yesterday: SCHUMER: OK. Let me ask you, then, this hypothetical: And that is that it came to our attention, Congress’, through a relatively and inexpensive, simple process, individuals were now able to clone certain species of animals, maybe an arroyo toad. Didn’t pass over state lines;…

  • Moore from Hollywood’s closet?

    I guess it’s because I’m back in Berkeley, but certain blog posts — like this one from Confederate Yankee — are triggering intermittent outbursts of Berkeley nostalgia: I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning, it smells like… bacon. Yes, the fat frying this morning belongs to none other than Michael Moore. Moore, who…

  • Go ahead! Make me swoon!

    Hey, anyone new to this blog, be sure to check out my blogfather! He is a credit to the Second Amendment, and right now his famed weekly check on the gun bias is up. Take a look at the picture he has posted of the drooling anti-gun vultures, shown after their latest gun-grab vote. Kerry,…

  • More guns, less digestion!

    Today must be Cool Picture Day — because I just found a great new blog with numerous color photographs like this one showing a wall of guns. (Thanks to the Flea.) Hey, anything that gives Charles Schumer indigestion is all right by me! I have a “gut feeling” that Senator Schumer would like the Maxim…

  • The Great Big Penis

    The Great Big Penis Debate, Enlarged? Crucify Jello? Hello? I guess like many new ideas, my proposal to crucify spammers is already encountering resistance. I may be on “shaky” ground here, so let me be more specific. “Pinning down a spammer is like trying to nail down Jell-O.” Point well taken. I may have to…