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Death Of FUD: Climate Alarmism
This polar bear doesn't give a hoot about Al Gore Gary Sutton, writing on Forbes.com, reminds us it wasn’t too long ago the official government position on the environment was that we were in the beginnings of the next great ice age. More t...
Harry Reid, Leader
Harry Reid, Leader It is a normal trait of effective leaders that they find points of agreement between disparate viewpoints. Otherwise attempts at progress end in pointless wheel spinning as the factions go at each other with ferocity. Especially ba...
Share The Sacrifice
The mad hatter's haven't been to the real tea parties Representative David Obey, Democrat of Wisconsin, wants you to share in the sacrifice of the soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. But not like you may think. His “Share the Sacrifice Ac...
Boeing And The Pro-Business Government
787 Dreamliner Conservatives are often accused of being pro-business while Liberals consider themselves more pro-people and therefore the better of the two. As a conservative, I accept that accusation and wear it proudly. I am pro-business. Liberals,...
Net Neutrality: Taken For Fools
I, Pandora has had a mixed history on Network Neutrality. Network what? Network Neutrality is one response to fears that infrastructure and service companies, such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, spell doom for the freedom of the internet as they ...
Today’s Interesting Stuff: 10/12/2009
Where’re the headlines? Interesting Reason.org reports on a study published in October 2008 in the Journal of the American Medical Association which busts the balloon of “common knowledge” regarding who clogs emergency rooms and doe...
Can’t Make Everybody Love You
Why so sad, Mr. President? Dear Mr. President, Today is probably not your best day. After the rush of the election, the thrill of victory, the surge of support, and the adulation of the petty tyrants at the UN, your poll numbers have begun falling, y...
Government Successes
Socialized healthcare is just such a big target. A good friend of mine a few weeks ago said his main argument against it is the historical argument: what programs has the United States government run successfully in the past that can serve as a model...
Tim Hawkins: The Government Can
Bill Whittle at PJTV notes that conservatives have, by and large, failed to engage the populace with creative messages. Tim Hawkins appears more than able to do his part to make up for this shortcoming....
Wrong Argument
A friend of mine asks if conservatives and those opposing the “Public Option” canard aren’t allowing themselves to be distracted from what ought to be the first, only, and real argument. The real argument ought not be anything about...
The Wisdom Of Tom Clancy
Jack Ryan, hero of most of the books penned by author Tom Clancy, is given words which President Obama and most, if not all, of the leadership in Washington DC and state capitols across this great nation would do well to hear and heed. In The Sum Of ...
Health Care Update
They [members of congress] had no idea how people were feeling. Their 2008 win left them thinking an election that had been shaped by anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and pro-change feeling was really a mandate without context...
What Is “Business Friendly”?
There are many misconceptions standing in the way of informed consent on the part of the American Electorate. Bugbears and villains and bogey-monsters are trotted out each election cycle to herd the voting populace into the desired frame of mind. One...
The Only Right
The only right I have is the right to struggle. It is a right to potential, not a promise to payoff. And any government or organization or person who takes away my right to try it denying me the basic dignity of humanity. Obama, his philosophy, and h...
The First Lesson Of Economics…
…is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. ~Thomas Sowell...
Does He Really Believe This?
Regarding the energy bill going through Congress right now, Obama claims the legislation “will spark a clean energy transformation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and confront the carbon pollution that threatens our planet”...
Speak Softly…
Consistent discipline works for both recalcitrant children and rogue nations. With children, letting them know their options and the consequences of their choices and allowing them to choose and accept their consequences is the bedrock of discipline....
Walmart And The Healthy Free Market
In case you had trouble guessing: I like businesses. If there weren’t business there wouldn’t be internet, iphones, cars, bicycles, buildings, tents, sleeping bags, fresh produce in the middle of winter, heat and A/C, in cars too, hospita...
A Good Evening’s Thought
All I need is a pipe: This was yesterday evening. I was actually reading Anna Karenina, not Tolkien’s Silmarillion. But the Tolkien book was better for the picture. Frank and Earnest, May 20th, 2009 No Goliath (or GM) is too large to fail. La...
Government Economy: Ignoring Facts
In our increasingly government-controlled (-manipulated, -throttled, -ridden) economy, we get to see how people who do not believe in the free market expect the engines of American capitalism to run. It’s not like we haven’t been able to ...
Tiller Murder
Without equivocation I condemn the murder of Dr. Tiller. Murder is murder, and one murder never justifies another. We live in a land of law and justice. No man is above the law or a law to themselves, when such a personal law conflicts with the law o...
He’s A Crook, She’s Not Right
Burris is a crook. Whodathunkit? And a liar, of the worst kind. Pretentiously hiding behind his squeaky clean image and claiming he’d never talked to Blagojevich about favors that resulted in his appointment to the Senate. Santimoniously sermon...
Castles Of Corruption
Newt Gingrich: Americans should look carefully at the anti-politician, anti-government mood exhibited in California last week. This vote is the second great signal that the American people are getting fed up with corrupt politicians, arrogant bureauc...
Government-Run Business, Epic Fail
As I’ve said before, several times, government involvement and control of business is a recipe for failure, disaster, loss, pain, hurt, evilness, etc. In the Wall Street Journal, John Steele Gordon: In 1913, for instance, thinking it was being ...
Obama Can Innovate
The fawning over Obama has not yet ceased in the mainstream media. BBC headlines a story this morning with the appallingly thoughtless “Obama to curb vehicle emissions“. First off, grammar police here to say: didn’t your mother tell...
Grasping Government Gags
Add this to the heaping mountain of evidence against the Government controlling anything: In Network World magazine issue May 4th, 2009 (hardly the political rag), Johna Till Johnson writes “Of subways, gov’t subsidies and broadband“...
Court Conformity: Proof In The Pudding
The proof is in the pudding, they say. Timothy P. O’Neill claims the history and roots of the current members of the High Court are too similar, their backgrounds too homogeneous, to allow for true justice to be dispensed. According to O’...
You Read It Second Here: H1N1 & Big Brother Medicine
H1N1 (swine) flu isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Gee, it’s just aweful when the bugbear doesn’t live up the trumped up claims the media seems to want us to believe. The Illinois Public Health Director has not drunk the koolai...
Insurance Overhead
Kay Mueller writing in the Indiana Daily Student supporting government-run single-payer socialized medicine claims: “(For-profit) insurers add so much overhead to health care that we could never afford to cover everyone as long as the system is...
Get US Out
Yea, I’m one of “them”. Those notorious bugbears, haters of universalism and globalism and all the peril found therein. You get enough people arguing what ought to be stood for or against, and you accomplish nothing but to create an...
