Month: July 2011

I’m opposed to term limits.  I mention this because jj made a spirited and persuasive argument in favor of limits in a comment to a recent thread.  I’m opposed on both practical and philosophical grounds. As a practical matter, you don’t want an amateur deploying troops in Afganistan.  You don’t

I just had an odd thought.  Republicans have drawn a line in the sand:  no new taxes, no restoration of the old tax levels, all deficit reduction must be accomplished by budget cuts.  This is a fairly extreme position.  While most Americans aren’t eager to have tax increases, I think

Over on Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds links to John Hawkins’ (at Right Wing News) contention that conservative blogs are having a tough go, especially in light of the left’s increasing dominance of the blogosphere. However, Reynolds think one commentor’s response to the post is worth noting: Smaller blogs don’t need to be high-readership affairs

From Canada’s National Post comes a fitting epitaph for our country’s demise:   “The real story of Reckless Endangerment is more a story of democracy corrupted than it is a story of financial fraud. It is a story of America’s great wounding of herself. And even now, with this book,

San Francisco police shot and killed a man last night. http://www.ktvu.com/video/28575181/index.html The man was running away.  If you didn’t know the facts, would you think it is more likely that the police shot an unarmed man for no reason or that they shot an armed man who was shooting over

Sadie suggested we discuss the debt ceiling.  I’m no expert and haven’t followed the matter that closely, but I have some random thoughts to get the conversation started. 1.  The budget is like a patient in need of a life-saving operation.  Those on the far right argue against raising the

I live in a small town of 12,000 people that has a very inviting and walkable downtown. I strolled to the bank yesterday and noticed that a couple of young people had set up a Lyndon LaRouche “Impeach Obama” table directly across the street from the town’s busiest restaurant. As

We spent several delightful hours at the British Museum today. It is an amazing treasure house full of the treasures dug up from the earth or salvaged from the garbage heaps of the non-Western world. That last point is important. I heard someone at the museum claim that the British

Who likes really good, erudite, amusing writing from a milblogger? (At this point, all of you should be waving your hands in the air and hollering “I do! I do!”) Assuming I’ve correctly anticipated your response, I’ve got good news for you. One of my long time military Internet friends

First try at inserting a YouTube video, that is both funny and relevant to our discussion (sort of):   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7stz35gN44&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]

Zach’s claim that blacks still vote for Democrats “because many Republicans won’t even support the simple justice of laws guaranteeing equal access to public accommodations” is the purest form of nonsense, of course.  There is zero chance that Republicans would take away equal access even if they completely controlled all

DQ asks a very good question: what is the endgame of the Left?   Our alphabet soup group tries to address another good question: why do black people so reliably vote Democrat?   Our responses were many, but they included the argument that poor people have been cultivated by big

I’ve recently read Primetime Propaganda, The True Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV, by Ben Shapiro, about which more in a later post or two.  It’s a good book, though it practically ignores whole areas of television programming, those areas that now dominate the ratings and tend

I’ve now had three full days in London, which is enough time to form some impressions.  First, it’s a much cleaner city than I remember from 30 years ago.  The cars burn their fuel more cleanly, the tube trains and buses are new and shiny, the underground is cleaner and