Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Yesterday, I posted about the differences between gay sex (which is none of my business, so you can do what you like) and gay marriage (which is a significant state institution that cannot be treated in a libertarian way). I was not arguing against gay marriage, per se, although I
Continue readingOne of my Facebook friends posted the following: The libertarian in me agrees with a lot of the post. I’d like government to stop playing nanny to people. It would make for smaller, cheaper, and less intrusive government, not to mention more individual freedom and personal responsibility. But, as the
Continue readingI promise that this post will be about what Sheldon Adelson had to say in an interview with Alana Goodman of Commentary Magazine. Before I get there, though, I need to begin with a little story of my own. Readers of my newsletter know that I had lunch last week
Continue readingI thought I’d share with you some of the things my friends have posted on Facebook. First, a cartoon that’s obviously meant to support the Progressive open border policy, but that just as obviously proves the opposite: I understand that you’re supposed to read the cartoon to mean that, without
Continue readingI blogged the other day about the fact that Chick-fil-A seemed to have pulled a Komen and caved. Now they’ve issued another statement, plus a statement from Huckabee. These two statements seem to indicate that Chick-fil-A carefully carved out a loophole for itself. All I can say is Hmmm…. It’s
Continue readingRemember when the Susan B. Komen foundation pulled out funding for Planned Parenthood, because PP provides almost no services relevant to breast cancer? And remember how conservatives defended the decision because PP provides almost no services relevant to breast cancer? And then remember how the Komen foundation ignored conservative approbation
Continue readingMoveOn.org has created an online poster that has been getting a fair amount of play on Facebook. The page is entitled “The #1 Reminder Every GOP Lawmaker Needs To See.” It then quotes “American Hero” Jamie Raskin, a law professor, before successfully running for Maryland’s State Senate himself, testified before
Continue readingI’m not commenting on the merits of the decision, which I haven’t read, or on the merits of Prop. 8, which we’ve already hashed over at this blog. I am commenting, however, on my utter lack of surprise with this ruling from the 9th Circuit, affirming the district court decision
Continue readingCassie Jay is a young woman who makes unabashedly Leftist films. Back, in 2010, she made a documentary called “Daddy I Do” that attacked abstinence-only education. Even in liberal Marin, this movie caused a bit of a kerfuffle, as the local art cinema first agreed to show it, then backed
Continue readingIn connection with the British judges’ decision barring as foster parents people who disapprove of homosexuality, I posited that making gay marriage a Constitutionally protected civil right could expose conservative faiths to lawsuits. Many had a hard time envisioning this, but legal expert Richard Epstein had exactly the same thought:
Continue readingRodney King got his 15 minutes of fame for (a) getting beaten up while resisting arrest; (b) having his name attached to some horrific riots; and (c) plaintively asking “Can we get along?” The last is a great thought. I’d like to get along with people better myself. “Getting along,”
Continue readingIn an earlier post, I said that Obama’s decision to turn his back on DOMA, despite his professed support for traditional marriage, does not make him a Harry Truman. Rich Lowry explains much better than I could why Obama’s current position is not a principled stand but is, instead, another
Continue readingDavid Limbaugh does as good a job as any I’ve seen of explaining precisely what’s wrong with the President’s announcement that, because he disagrees with the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, he’s removing it from judicial purview.
Continue readingI’ve always admired Harry Truman for his ability to go forward with moral acts despite the fact that these acts were at odds with his personal prejudices. Although he was a good old fashioned Southern anti-Semite, in 1948, at the UN, he voted for the State of Israel, because it
Continue readingThe Indiana legislature is working on a bill to ban gay marriage. On my “real me” facebook, several of my friends characterized this as an act motivated by hate: “Stop the hate!” “Boy, they really hate us.” “Could they be more hateful?” I found this formulation interesting, perhaps because semantics
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