Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
New Yawkers used to have a reputation for being tough. They didn’t take sh*t from anybody. In Mayor Bloomberg’s New York, though, the citizens have allowed themselves to be turned into mewling babies (although not formula-fed mewling babies). Our favorite Taiwanese animators have now taken on Bloomberg’s reign of .
Continue readingWonderful, wonderful video: Incidentally, apropos the fact that government agencies are stockpiling weapons and ammunition, Charles Cooke explains that the numbers aren’t that scary when one considers how many people serve in the various agencies, along with the fact that sometimes the agents have to confront people angered by agency
Continue readingSadie sent me an email: Would you post this and ask your clever and knowledgeable readers to answer mine or Dirty Harry’s question: Well, do you feel Lucky. Well do ya, Punk? I am not feeling warm and fuzzy. Admission: I am warm enough, but very fuzzy on details about
Continue readingA friend send me a link to to this poster:
Continue readingI wrote a few days ago about the fact that the State of California Department of Education has gone after the Kentfield School District in Marin County, because the District’s food program relies on PTA volunteers, rather than on paid union members. Our local paper has an update on the
Continue readingI hate the smell of cigarette smoke. Hate it! Hate it! Hate it! That hatred is entirely separate from hating the way cigarettes harm people’s health. Even if they were healthy, the smell would disgust me. Having said that, I hate even more ordinances that prevent people from smoking cigarettes
Continue readingOne of the things that unites conservatives is an abiding dislike of government inefficiency. Government is just about the only entity that can take two of your dollars (not two of its dollars, but two of yours) and then make them do the work of one, or maybe none. Every
Continue readingI left for vacation a day or two after the whole Chick-Fil-A/free speech matter arose. I was aware of it, through my minimal contact with the internet, but obviously couldn’t comment upon it. The one goold thing about waiting so long, though, is that others provide the perfect commentary. In
Continue readingthe government will screw up through indifference and people will die. Not because government is “bad” or that the people in government are “bad”, but because people are people and government can never be better than our collective human nature.
Continue readingGay Patriot posted the other day about yet another anti-Walmart protest. His point was that the protesters, rather than being excited about real paying jobs coming to L.A., insisted that they would be better off with some hypothetical Mom and Pop jobs that might arise if they protested Walmart with
Continue reading[UPDATE: Since I wrote this post, there is now reason to believe that Roberts issued his opinion for the wrong reasons, not the right ones. If I were to rewrite this post today, I would be less charitable to the man. Nevertheless, putting aside Roberts’ motives, I stand by the
Continue readingABC reports that President Obama treated two service men and two local barbers to a high-fat Father’s Day lunch (high-fat, at least, for Obama), and then left without paying the tab: Amid the bustle of President Obama’s surprise stop for barbecue Wednesday the White House apparently overlooked one key detail:
Continue readingI have been following with interest the running comment thread on my post asking about whether electric cars are actually cleaner, or if they just shift pollution outside of the consumer’s view. Very quickly, and probably inevitably, the post shifted to a cost-benefit analysis, which aimed to compare fossil fuel
Continue readingDQ raise very important points about the power of language. The examples of “austerity” and “stimulus” certainly need to be addressed. But, let me address another problematic term: “government spending”. Far too many people seem to equate government spending (syn. taxes, benefits, welfare, rebates, investments, stimuli, grants, outlays, funding, etc.)
Continue readingI’ve been suffering from an ear worm for the past few days. Every time I read the headlines, I hear President Gerald Ford’s voice in my head. He’s always saying the same thing, too: A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to
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