Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A close friend (and regular reader of this blog) saw Barack Obama speak earlier today at a town hall meeting at the Strath Haven High School where he took this picture from his second row seat: (Click on the picture for a larger version.) My friend thinks Obama is a better speaker than Bill Clinton,…

Distinguishing coerced sex from consensual sex can be especially difficult. — Human Rights Watch in a report on prison rape. Traditionally, rape is a crime to which consent is a defense. Consent to intercourse, that is. However, when sexual intercourse takes place between an adult and a minor, neither side has the right to consent.…

“This isn’t exactly news.” So says Hot Air about the claim by Jerry Zeifman that “he fired Hillary for unethical behavior and that she conspired to deny Richard Nixon counsel during the hearings.” (Via Glenn Reynolds.) Well, no, the new report in question is not exactly new news. Nor was it exactly news when I…

Now that I’m back, I thought I’d look at two disturbing murders — one local and one national. Here’s what they have in common: Both were committed by teenagers Both are being called “hate crimes” by supporters of the victims. Beyond that, they have little in common. The local murder occurred shortly before I left,…

I just came across a blog Stop Barack Obama that has a post up by an anti-fascist Black guy In Defence of Hate Speech, Lies, and Obama. “The center” refers to photos on the site. The next clown to diss sanity and discuss Black Liberation Apology on “Nation Publican Radio,” was the braided brotha in…

James Edmund Pennington says in a piece at The American Thinker what I have been saying in comments here and there for several weeks. He says that Obama has the nomination locked. Why does he say that? Because Democrats can afford to lose an election. They cannot afford to alienate their core supporters. The current…

On the solemn occasion that is today, a reminder of why we remember:

I’m finally back, and it’s a balmy 69 degree spring day in Philadelphia. Birds are singing and daffodils are blooming. It’s hard to believe that yesterday I was standing in freezing rain looking out over a frozen lake. Literally, from winter to spring in one day. Some fresh snow (on old snow) on State Street…

This is an oldie buy goodie. I first published this in September of ’06 at Power and Control == Across the sea, Corpses in the water; Across the mountain, Corpses heaped on the field; I shall die only for the Emperor, I shall never look back. Japanese Popular Song: Umi Yukaba The war against Islamofascism…

Jon Henke at The Atlantic dishes dirt on the Democrat candidates. Commenter Karen has this to say about the post. Rev.James T. Meeks is a superdelegate and a Illinois Senetor. So Obama has to vet superdelegates and he is responsible for everyone now. So Clinton is responsible for Eliot Spitzer as well correct? You make…

I think it fits this election well, especially the ending. We have a comments section. Let us know what you think.

I think this video does more to explain Al Sadr’s “victory” than all the pundits the lefty’s can muster in the whole nation. Compare the amount of outgoing fire from the American and Iraqi Government forces to return fire from Al Sadr’s boys. I think that brrrrrrrr sound you hear from time to time is…

At least that is how James Joyner is spinning it. Let me excerpt from a comment there (with typo fixed): Sadr could have made this much messier than it was if he wanted to So true. He could have had 5,000 dead to clean up instead of only 500. You have to give him credit…

Libertarianism (without the surrender component) can bring us all together again. You know that Goldwater thingy. He really hated cultural socialists as much as he hated economic socialists. He was always firing away at socons. The Reagan revolution was a culmination of all that. It is how he brought “Reagan Democrats” into the fold. Stick…

The only strategy capable of defeating the communists is the widest possible unity of all the class and social forces whose interests run counter to those of the most socialist section of the transnationals. You know we might like to start with economics. If the party was focused on 1. Economics 2. Defense 3. Individual…

Here I am in a cold-to-the-bone (mid-thirties) rainstorm in Madison, Wisconsin — a place which seems more full of itself than any of the Midwest places so far. I liked Ann Arbor, which seemed more laid back and reminded me of a snowy Berkeley, but this place…. Maybe it’s just the weather; maybe I’m a…

Republicans are not happy with John McCain. Captain Ed has the news. The remorseful are mostly in the comments. Like this one: McCain will never fail to disappoint Republicans and kiss the asses of his true political opponents. Anti-McCain Republicans just drive me nuts. I can see you favoring socialized medicine, but isn’t losing the…

HT Perfunction via Instapundit. For those of you who are history buffs Perfunction has an audio of the last message from Corregidor with a voice over giving words to the Morse code message.

This is an oldie but goodie that I first posted at Power and Control in October of 2005. I think it still rings true. == Front Page Magazine is doing a symposium with a number of leftist who have broken with the faith. Tammy Bruce has some very interesting things to say about the kind…

I believe we must turn to a source we can trust. Al Jazeera. The headline is: Sadr orders his fighters to stand down. What are the terms? UPDATED ON: SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2008 19:27 MECCA TIME, 16:27 GMT – [it is currently 1805z] Al-Sadr’s nine-point plan, agreed with the Iraqi government, was issued by his…