Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

We all know that smoking is conservative, because Republicans tend to defend tobacco, while Democrats tend to attack it. With that principle in mind, I decided to look back in time at cigarette ads. Sure enough, I spotted what can only be called “cultural conservatism” in this ad: And there’s no denying that genuine Paleo…

It looks like the community dis organizers need some help. From Mr. Obama. WHAT exactly does a “community organizer” do? Barack Obama’s rise has left many Americans asking themselves that question. Here’s a big part of the answer: Community organizers intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to customers with poor credit. In the name of…

Via Glenn Reynolds, I am delighted to see that the Ayers story is starting to be reported in the MSM. Well, the New York Post might not be the New York Times, or the Washington Post, but it’s a start: CHICAGO – While Barack Obama has long downplayed his connection to Bill Ayers, a co-founder…

I’m of two minds about the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” theory of Obama and Ayers, which is explained here and represented in the following chart: While I first heard about it last night thanks to a comment from Donna Barber, it is a very interesting theory and it might well be true. In that respect, it is…

The Boston Globe, normally a reliable liberal paper, says that Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank (D – Corruption) has a lot to do with the mortgage crisis. It opens with a quote from Cong. Frank ‘The private sector got us into this mess. The government has to get us out of it.” That’s Barney Frank’s story,…

ACORN is about vote fraud in Michigan. Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families. Advertisement The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for…

Cross Posted at Power and Control

A sports blog this is not. Regular readers know that the above might even be understatement, as I have less than zero interest in athletic events. Where it comes to sports, I’m like an alien visiting a strange planet. This has never been more true than since the move to Ann Arbor, Michigan where I…

Gateway Pundit has the details. This is MacRanger of Macsmind. As you know I was hacked by operatives of the Obama Campaign last month. Well, it happened again. Basically they flooded the site with “sql bombs” according to the host that caused the shared server to stop running. Subsequently be had to disable the site.…

Remember Barack Obama’s “me too!” bracelet? In an amazing twist, it turns out that the woman who gave it to him does not want him to wear it anymore: Ryan’s father Brian — who is no longer married to Tracy — told Wisconsin Public Radio that his ex-wife had misgivings about Obama wearing the bracelet…

Is there a First Amendment right to intimidate people? What is intimidation? I don’t see easy answers to these questions, because to a certain extent, demonstrations — and demonstrators — are intended to intimidate. (I have experienced this personally on a number of occasions, and I won’t bore readers by quoting yet again from numerous…

I’ve been in Ann Arbor for almost two months now, but I’ve hardly met anyone other than a few people in the neighborhood. One of the coolest things about blogging, though, is that it can turn out you know more people in more places than you realized. I tend not to think of bloggers in…

Fanfare for the Common Man

The video is about 9 minutes. If you would like more details on how we got into this mortgage meltdown mess may I suggest The Best Congress Fannie Could Buy. H/T No Quarter

I don’t think I’ve ever said “I’m not an economist” as many times as I have in the past few weeks. But I’m not. My point is that I, along with a lot of people who are not economists, continue to sound off on a daily basis about extremely complex economic issues of vital importance…

“If This Campaign plays to type, McCain will hit an absolute home run tonight and the narrative will shift yet again.” So says the Corner’s Rich Lowry. With a buildup like that I guess I’ve gotta watch. Right now I’m making blackened catfish with red beans and rice. You know, a Southern flavored dinner for…

Last night when I heard (via this link that M. Simon sent me) that the Obama campaign is threatening the licenses of TV stations that run NRA anti-Obama ads, I noted that Team Obama does not go ballistic unless the information is seen as: — devastating; and — dead right on the facts. The way…

H/T The Patriot Room