Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Speaking of outrages, don’t miss the recording of an on air PBS interview from 2001 in which Barack Obama discusses how best to implement the redistribution of wealth. (M. Simon linked it earlier, and I don’t want to be duplicative, so just scroll down to his post to listen.) Obama says that the courts might…

I think I’ve figured out what may be going on with the Philadelphia Inquirer writer whose recent column argued that white people should not be allowed to vote, and because it touches on a longstanding paradox, I thought it merited a post. This is not about the merits of the deliberately inflammatory argument that white…

Yep. White people are messing up the election. But there is a fix for that. Don’t allow them to vote. As a lifelong Caucasian, I am beginning to think the time has finally come to take the right to vote away from white people, at least until we come to our senses. Seriously, I just…

This bit by Obama advocating wealth redistribution was up at Drudge but I got my hint from Hill Buzz. One point that Hill Buzz makes is that the Obots have not shown up to contest this bit of history. Here is their theory: Whenever Obama is in trouble, these people clam up. The worse something…

Sgt. Mom looks at the deep wounds Sarah Palin has opened in the guts of the American aristocracy. Sarah is not one of them. She is a mom with five children. Way above the 2.1 considered normal. She kills her own food. A job best left to the servants. All in all a backwoods rube…

Apparently there’s no end to defecting conservatives: I’m announcing my full support for Senator Obama because trillion-dollar-a-go-go entitlements, tax hikes, socialized health care, and federally-funded day care for three-year-olds are exactly what we small-government conservatives are looking for. So says Mark Steyn, in a real shocker which Glenn Reynolds linked earlier. Better read it all.…

A few choice quotes, as overheard at the United Nations: One American employee here seemed puzzled that he was being asked whether Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was even a consideration. “Obama was and is unstoppable,” the official said. “Please, God, let him win,” he added. […] “It would be hard to find anybody, I think,…

Gas prices are falling so fast that I’m actually worried: CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) – A national survey shows gas prices continue to decline, tumbling nearly 53 cents a gallon in the last two weeks. The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline at self-serve stations was $2.78 Friday. Mid-grade was at $2.93 and premium…

Obama’s Computer McCain’s Computer

The folks at Hillbuzz have managed to corner a Real Pollster™ to find out what is really going on in this election. I was having dinner a night ago with a friend of mine who is a statistician for a well-regarded private polling company. They do some work for Republicans in California, but most of…

It might be a bit late in the game for my liking, but I’m glad to see that McCain is finally raising what I think is the best argument in his favor: ALBUQUERQUE (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee John McCain , trailing in the polls, raised the prospect on Saturday of a complete Democratic takeover…

Reason links this very amusing YouTube video showing Bill Ayers calling the cops on reporters and Bill O’Reilly advising Obama to throw Ayers under the bus: (Via Glenn Reynolds who’s having fun with O’Reilly putting on Ayers.) While I also love the delicious irony of seeing a man with a notoriously murderous attitude towards police…

You think you have First Amendment rights? Well, yes, you do. But try saying something that offends the ruling class, and you’ll see what happens. In a previous post, I characterized the invasion of Joe the Plumber’s privacy thusly: The way they have done a complete, invasive background check on this citizen is shocking. While…

I love the logic at work here. Nervousness about Barack Obama hurts the market. Yet the more the market hurts, the higher Obama goes in the polls. This would seem to be correlated in this chart: This reminds me of the way people who are afraid of getting bitten by a dog will often end…

Yesterday’s post about Ayers became so long with updates that it’s looking cluttered. When I started it, I had not seen the video about Ayers and his buddies’ plans to murder 25 million Americans, nor had I had a chance to examine his book Prairie Fire in much detail, although I did note that Ayers…

It should probably be the “wronged parties”, but then we would be talking about citizens. Which will come up eventually but not quite in that context. And what is the context? Obviously some one is getting it. What the heck am I gibbering about? The inevitable political season wheeze that “we need to punish a…

In the early days of the Obama phenomenon, I harbored hopes that Barack Obama’s viable candidacy might cause a sea change in the way America sees itself in terms of race, as it does appear to be genuine evidence — in the broadest possible sense — of the final demise of American racism as we…

What? You think this is some kind of Godwin joke? No my friends, it is not. It is for real. A. Hitler has made a Credit Card (CC) donation of $19.45 to the Obama Campaign. Obama has all the safeties turned off on his credit card (CC) verification system. Frankly, its easier than I’d believe…

Is California in play? You might think so given this report from Yreka, California in The Siskiyou Daily News. Last week, Louise Gliatto, a volunteer at the Republican campaign office, handed out the last McCain-Palin yard sign. The last campaign button went a few days earlier. There is a good supply of McCain-Palin bumper stickers,…

I’ve written a number of posts about Bill Ayers, and I was especially horrified by his organization’s plot to blow up American soldiers at the Fort Dix NCO club. And while I know that terrorists are generally unconcerned with civilian casualties, still, I had not read about Ayers’ role in an attempted Detroit police station…