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The Manhattan Declaration And The Joker
This is not Hugh O'Shaughnessy Sometimes the cynics are so ludicrous you can’t help but laugh. It’s the only thing you can do in the face of huffy and misguided rants such as this one: No one who surveys the statistics of abortion in ...
Proofs Against Moral Relativism
Some things just fail on their own The best counter to moral relativism is still the quip “is that so?” delivered with the appropriate raised eye-brow. Any sufficient response to that query must consist of a positive statement of an absol...
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...
The Ideas Of September 11th, 2001
PJTV’s Andrew Klavan On The Culture, September 11th, 2009. One of the best remembrance videos I’ve seen. What are the ideas behind the terrorists actions? The ideas behind our response? What is the power of an idea? How can such great pow...
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...
Don’t You Wish
Don’t you wish sometimes you could lie, cheat, steal, deal underhandedly, and in general act immorally in order to accomplish what you thought was best in this world? I do. With the state of our nation and it’s populace, lies are more bel...
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...
Is There No Dissent?
President Obama is still hoping he gets health care socialized before fall gets much underway and the Democrat leadership is anxious to deliver their messiah something palatable (to him and them) before he spurns them and finds a new set of disciples...
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...
Review: American Patriot’s Almanac
Words mean things, and ideas have consequences. If you don’t agree with the above statement, The American Patriot’s Almanac will be just one more collection of quaint sayings by old and dead men. Euripides is said to have said “The ...
Wrong Ideas…
…come packaged with so much glitter it’s hard to convince ‘em that other things might be better in the long run. ~Andy Griffith An accurate description of the task of those trying to show the failure of liberal policies as much as t...
My Thoughts On Michael Jackson
It’s been all over the place and most everybody has the same thoughts: the world has lost wonderful talent as it has lost Michael Jackson. Conservatives, Liberals, Christians, Heathens alike are, for the most part, mourning the loss of this ski...
If You Love Wealth Better Than Liberty,…
…the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forge...
Around The US
From the Mud Monster file: Roland Burris (yup, that guy) “failed” to disclose a lot of stock options. He plans on amending his mandatory financial disclosure report to the Senate to reflect the fact he was caught. Again. I believe that al...
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....
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 ...
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...
What is our problem?
What makes us so special? Rather than embarking on a long dialogue, as is my norm, I want to instead throw some things out on the table for you to think about. First . . . do we really readthe Bible, or do we just preview it through our Americanized ...
Dilbert . . . in this new economy
Here is a priceless article out of the WSJ. There are no real “slick” lines in the article or fancy catchphrases, just sound, well though out reasoning. The article details how the economies woes are no longer the fault of the Bush admini...
Chipotle And The Beneficent Free Market
This is a slight commentary on Chipotle (the restaurant chain) and how it symbolizes the significant superiority of the free market economy and accompanying extreme wealth and their many benefits to the world at large. Have you eaten at Chipotle? If ...
Potent Presidency: Words Mean Things
When the most powerful man in the world says something, anything, it carries a significantly greater weight than if Joe Schmoe on the corner says even exactly the same thing. An account executive or a cable repair man can joke about their kids school...
Obama: The Man And The Idea
(A)s we revel in this gush of happy feelings it is important to recognize that not all change is good. It is important to recognize that we need to pin our hopes on solid ideas or our hopes will be quite hopeless. On that depressing note I beg your p...
