With it being rodeo time here in Houston, I’ve been so busy that I’ve neglected to post lat Friday’s results from the Watcher’s Council vote. Well, here they are. There’s some good stuff here, so you definitely want to take……

Those of you who have been reading Soccer Dad for awhile, know that I’m a member of the Watcher’s Council. We are a group of twelve bloggers who submit two posts every week for the consideration of the council and vote on the best. There is a thirtee…

The Financial Crisis White Paper – Free of partisan cant, The Provocateur presents a step by step account of actions that caused our current financial crisis. In addition, check out his critique of Alan Greenspan. The Failure of Non-violence in Tibet -…

This week’s Watcher’s Council submissions: * The Provocateur – The Financial Crisis White Paper * The Razor – The Failure of Non-violence in Tibet * Joshuapundit – About Those Israeli ‘Settlements’ * Soccer Dad – A first for freeman *……

Why are you “determined not to go back”???

Excellent link, btw…

Even if someone told you that A plus B equals a terrorist attack, you won’t believe it because you won’t be able to see in your mind’s eye how that could possibly happen.

The same is true with outlawing guns. For a person that grew up within the restrictions of law and community, they cannot imagine how a law will do the opposite of its intention. Even if they have experienced this very state of being, having a law do the exact opposite of its stated purpose, they won’t be able to connect the dots to the new situation. When a person’s world view consists of following the law, it is hard for them to visualize how people who don’t follow the law would act. There is a disconnect between point A and point B, to the effect that if you tell them that banning handguns will give only outlaws handguns, people won’t believe it because they don’t see how they could be. They may even understand the intellectual argument on our side, but they still don’t get it. They can’t allow themselves to get it. The mind has closed itself off, as a defense mechanism, the same people people regress or lose their memory. It’s too damaging otherwise, you see. Too hard. Too difficult. Too inconvenient.

Worse, Adams was given undue credit in the TV series for Constitutional contributions that a man of such Puritanical, political ineptness could ever have claimed.

I didn’t see the final discs…too slow and I could already see the TV series attitudes writ large.

The genius of Hamilton was badly slighted and the horrible ideas of Jefferson (still with us today in countless failed ways) are overly approved.

“Delusional, paranoid thinking,” we young bien pensants used to reassure one another.

These days, looking at gun-control-fetish leftist strongholds like Detroit, St. Louis and Washington, DC, I’m thinking that maybe those crazy Birchers were on to something.