To say that the Presidency of Barack Obama has been a disaster from a governmental restraint perspective is the understatement of the century. Granted, the century is still young. But can anyone doubt that Terry Michael’s claims that libertarians should… Continue Reading
The core issue of L’affaire Sherrod is that no one, anywhere along the way, from Andrew Breitbart to the NAACP to Tom Vilsack, used any kind of critical thinking skills.
Almost exactly nine months ago, I offered an opinion which contained an element critical of conservative media after it appeared that the White House had chosen to disfavor Fox News. (Conservative Readers, I hope, will note that I was more… Continue Reading
This blog has an odd name and there’s a lot of social conservative stuff there that sits poorly with me. But a friend writes there and he just freaking nailed it today. It’s sad to see that incumbents, even in… Continue Reading
The prize goes to Patrick at Popehat for his post “The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good, But The Good Is The Enemy Of Bureaucrats, Those Who Hate Personal Freedom (For Other People), The Nanny State, And Grant Money… Continue Reading
At the suggestion of Ordinary Gentleman Rufus F., I undertook to read Chris Hedges’ new book The Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. I found it a seductively-written polemic, lacking in scholarly research but… Continue Reading
There is a building near the corner of Broadway and Park Place in New York City, occupying a spot either two or three blocks north of the edge of the World Trade Center reconstruction site depending on how you count… Continue Reading
This is big news. He’s timing his retirement so that Arnold Schwarzenegger, and not his successor, gets to name the next Chief Justice of California.
A simple link. Prof. Taylor hits it right on the head. If the fear is that “during troubled times, fearful and naive people will turn to dangerous radicals,” I suspect that a picture of any sufficiently polarizing Republican could pretty… Continue Reading
In less than twenty-four hours, I have learned that SarahPAC has raised over $866,000 and spent over $742,000 flying its celebrity politician about the country. The ability to raise numbers approaching a million dollars a quarter, and less commented on… Continue Reading