Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Jeff Soyer is discussing the Democrat’s position on gun control. And of course the Dems want to reduce gun deaths by gun control but it is politically impossible. If they wanted to reduce gun deaths why not eliminate Drug Prohibition? The elephant in the closet. It worked for alcohol prohibition. I note it is never…

Rick Moran argues that the GOP race is a mess, and it’s certainly tough to disagree with that. It is entirely possible that there will be five primaries with five different winners, and a “small but not impossible chance” that they could enter their convention without a nominee. A Thompson win in South Carolina would…

I watched the Democratic debate last night and I wasn’t at the computer, so there was no live blogging. IMO, there was no clear winner. But by mutual consensus, it was agreed that race was not an issue. Whether sex is an issue I do not know. Hillary clearly wants to be a minority of…

American Digest has a post up about Hillary’s Diebold effect. It seems that in areas where the Diebold machines are used Hillary’s vote totals are up about 5% over other areas even when confounding factors like race, gender, and economics are taken into account. The math whizzes on the problem calculate the odds that it…

H/T Karridine

Pat Buchanan thinks things are bad. Basically, the economy is ruined, and we are hopelessly in debt, on the verge of economic collapse, and there is no hope: With the dollar sinking, oil surging to $100 a barrel, the Dow having its worst January in memory, foreclosures mounting, credit card debt going rotten, and consumers…

In today’s New York Times, Dean Barnett gives an honest assessment of the Mitt Romney has has known, worked for, and admired for years. After laying this out, he turns to why so many people (including me) don’t like Romney: The Mitt Romney I got to know was warm and likable. He had an electric…

Now that MRSA (methicillin resistant staphococcus aureus) is reported to be spreading among gay men (the Inquirer had this, and Glenn Reynolds linked the Times version) I’m sure that one demagogue or another will claim it’s time to round up the homos, and quarantine them. Why? Because they are more likely to have it, that’s…

Via Sean Kinsell, I learned that Jeff Percifield of Beautiful Atrocities (who’s incidentally now back after a too-long hiatus from blogging) has a letter to Camille Paglia published in her Salon.com column. Excerpt: Longtime fan here. As a Reaganite homo, couldn’t disagree with you more on politics, but who cares? Surely a drag aficionado like…

Link: sevenload.com Jeri talks about the campaign and the Huckabee vs Thompson fight. The question of the moment is: where is the Reagan Coalition? The smaller government is better government people. Is the heart of the Republican Party left/populist or right/libertarian? HT Instapundit

Brendan Loy is discussing the eruption of a mini race war in the Democrat party over some recent remarks by the Clintons. One commenter had some nice things to say about this comment I made: It is time for Obama to have a Sistah Soljah moment. Let him denounce the race hustlers like Al Sharpton…

This is dedicated to the crazies at talk.polywell who are working on technology, that if it pans out, will take us to Jupiter and beyond.

That’s what Brendan Loy says about Barack Obama’s deliberate decision not to take the high road, and instead “let this racial stew fester”: At a conference call with reporters this morning, somebody asked Barack Obama about the Clintons’ recent controversial remarks and Hillary Clinton’s response to the kerfuffle. Thus, Obama had a golden opportunity to…

Despite the fact that I was a McCain supporter in 2000, I haven’t written much about John McCain, largely because I long ago wrote him off after the disastrous and unconstitutional McCain Feingold bill. (Well, there was one exception; when James Wolcott went out of his way to call McCain an “insatiable warrior,” and a…

When I was going to ET school in the Navy on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay, I had a girlfriend, Nancy, whose parents owned a victrola similar to this machine as well as a number of other music makers from the 1870s to 1920s. One kind they were especially fond of was a…

Fred gave the right non-answer to the question. However, he looked pained. I think he knows more than he is letting on. If my reading of his expressions is any good. Which is going to lead next to some rampant speculation. Fred and Hillary were both Watergate lawyers. This is a fact. Here is an…

Yes we are. But not all doom is equal. Scott Wickstein compares the state religion of modern environmentalism to the rise of the early Christian Roman state, and says he feels like a Pagan: I am not sure what will really qualify as comparable milestones in the rise of environmentalism as the official faith of…

Larry Elder has Sharpton’s rap sheet. The music is not pretty. Capitalism Magazine says the Rev. Al. is The Democrat’s David Duke. Networks of the Left looks at Al’s connections to the left side of American politics. Rich Lowry on Sharpton’s business. Race hustling. Rich thinks Al would like to be #1 in the business.…

While I didn’t have any time to think it over yesterday, I did notice Glenn’s link to the seemingly horrendous development in men’s fashion now being promoted at Brooks Brothers. If you think the one Glenn linked was bad, by all means check out these other outfits. (The last one is a real killer if…