September 2011
3 posts
You Have The Right To Record The Police →
Tea Partiers, "Sons of Bitches," according to... →
Classy!
January 2011
1 post
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Obamacare Ends Construction of Doctor-Owned... →
whoops
April 2010
1 post
February 2010
1 post
No Element of Society Too Trivial for the Feds to... →
another step on the road to serfdom.
January 2010
5 posts
Eric Holder's Tragic Prison →
“The philosopher Eric Hoffer once wrote that “the plight of the Negro in America is that he is a Negro first and only secondly an individual.” When Attorney General Eric Holder recently called us a “nation of cowards” he was looking through a prism unknown to his Nigerian brothers. Holder, like Mr. Obama, is the product of an education system and a movement for...
Conversion: a beautiful thing →
“I finally saw that there is a tipping point in the amount of taxes you have to pay to support the federal, state and local governments after which you have lost ability to support yourself and your family, to create and grow your business as an entrepreneur, and the right to use your own money for yourself and the causes YOU want supported, which often are causes that never would be...
Ridicule is Obama's [Gold] Kryptonite →
Which is one thing that GWB didn’t seem to mind.
Serfs in the Kennedy Fiefdom →
It’s the hijacking, stupid. As Joseph Stalin once remarked, “The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
September 2009
1 post
Well, that didn't take long.
Remember when I wondered when we’d go from Don’t Tread On Me to Come And Take It?
August 2009
40 posts
The State grasps for control always →
I’m not a “right-wing nut job.” It just goes against my core beliefs to sit quietly while the art community is used by the NEA and the administration to push an agenda other than the one for which it was created. It is not within the National Endowment for the Arts’ original charter to initiate, organize, and tap into the art community to help bring awareness to health care, or energy &...
Whoops! Rangel has more money than previously... →
But it’s so easy to miss Half A Million Dollars when you’re up to your eyeballs in graft.
Cato on Cash for Clunkers
As the Cash for Clunkers program begins to wind down, I nominate it as the dumbest government program ever. Here is what the program will have accomplished:
A few billion dollars worth of wealth was destroyed. About 750,000 cars, many of which could have provided consumer value for many years, were thrown in the trash. Suppose each clunker was worth $3,000 at a guess, that would mean that the...
Nanny:State :: John the Baptist:Jesus →
“Those who resell recalled children’s products are not only breaking the law, they are putting children’s lives at risk,” said Inez Tenenbaum, the recently confirmed chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The crackdown affects sellers ranging from major thrift-store operators such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army to everyday Americans cleaning out their...
Please, stop being stupid. →
How stupid [does the administration] think we are?
Stupid enough to think that a new $1 trillion health-care entitlement is just the thing to restore the country to fiscal health. Stupid enough not to know that almost every entitlement known to man has cost more than originally estimated, with a congressional committee in 1967 underestimating by a factor of ten Medicare’s cost by 1990. Stupid...
Why would we need vouchers when Teachers Unions do... →
In a windowless room in a shabby office building at Seventh Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street, in Manhattan, a poster is taped to a wall, whose message could easily be the mission statement for a day-care center: “Children are fragile. Handle with care.” It’s a June morning, and there are fifteen people in the room, four of them fast asleep, their heads lying on a card table. Three are playing a...
I found the "Two Americas"!
In one America, you don’t have to pay taxes, get to uninformedly tell people how to live their lives, get to spend other people’s money, and don’t get indicted for graft.
In the other America, you’re not a US Senator.
There's a penumbra somewhere →
During the Bush administration, many within the dominant culture expressed concern about the constitutionality of detaining several hundred alleged enemy combatants in Guantanamo.
Whenever legal restrictions on abortion are proposed, many express doubt about the constitutionality of interjecting government between patients and their doctors.
But those voices have been mostly silent about the...
Someone has been reading their 1984. As a primer,... →
Missouri School of Journalism Assistant Prof. Charles Davis, a self-described “near-absolutist First Amendment advocate,” is making a splash with this column advocating that newspapers create a “hate” beat. The “best way to beat hatemongering,” his subhed advises, “is to report it.” I didn’t realize that we were now teaching strategies for...
Another example of: If the Bill is too long to... →
Under current law, taxpayers who lose an argument with the IRS can generally avoid penalties by showing they tried in good faith to comply with the tax law. In a broad range of circumstances, the health-care bill would change the law to impose strict liability penalties for income-tax underpayments, meaning that taxpayers will no longer have the luxury of making an honest mistake. The ability of...
The State needs Rome, The Republic needs Cities →
Urban politicians have widely embraced the current concentration of power in Washington, but they may soon regret the trend they now so actively champion. The great protean tradition of American urbanism – with scores of competing economic centers – is giving way to a new Romanism, in which all power and decisions devolve down to the imperial core.
This is big stuff, perhaps even more important...
Watchfrom fiatch:
Guest: “We’ve just been Cheneyed by a guy named Barack Obama who said he’d never do this… Every line was crossed….”
Host: “He’s such a charming liar, though.”
via Robert Murphy’s “Principled Leftists Realizing that Bush + Eloquence = Obama”
The grand bipartisan project — centralize vast federal power over everything — continues, but the going is thankfully getting tougher for...
If only we had a President Canute →
President Obama in his public pleas for the plan appears to be truly upset that his benign view of it isn’t obvious to all. In his op-ed Sunday for the New York Times he said, “We’ll cut hundreds of billions in waste and inefficiency in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid.” Hundreds of billions? Just like that? This is nothing but an assertion by one man....
Where "Cynic" = "You disagree with me" →
But the strangest thing about Obama’s cynics-and-naysayers gambit is that it’s no gambit at all. Every single time Obama implies (or says outright) that the people who disagree with him are confused, that they aren’t listening properly to what he is saying, they they are in the thrall of liars, or that they are fearful or mean-spirited—he’s doing it in good faith. ...
Greenpeace Liars →
The outgoing leader of Greenpeace has admitted his organization’s recent claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was “a mistake.” Greenpeace made the claim in a July 15 press release entitled “Urgent Action Needed As Arctic Ice Melts,” which said there will be an ice-free Arctic by 2030 because of global warming.
Although he admitted Greenpeace had released inaccurate but...
Nope, no problem here. →
Gosh, what a surprise: A committee of their fellow senators has decided that Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad did nothing unethical when they took out loans from Countrywide Financial on the kind of favorable terms not available to us mere mortals without their financial or political standing – or a personal connection to the head of Countrywide.
The very Select Committee on Ethics did recognize that...
Rationing By Any Other Name →
Robert Wright notes that “we already ration health care; we just let the market do the rationing.” This is a true point made by the proponents of health care reform. But I’m not sure why it’s supposed to be so interesting. You could make this statement about any good: “We already ration food; we just let the market do the rationing.” “We already ration...
Who's afraid of a little "suggestion"?
“Remember that legislation itself is only half the problem with Obamacare. Whatever bill passes, hundreds of bureaucrats in the federal agencies will have years to promulgate scores of regulations to govern the details of the law. “This is where the real mischief could be done because most regulatory actions are effectuated beneath the public radar. It is thus essential, as just one...
Anti-Statists Rising →
This ain’t about the taxes.
Anti-Statists Rising →
This ain’t about the taxes.
AP Reports: Add $2 Trillion to that planned... →
The Obama administration expects the federal deficit over the next decade to be $2 trillion bigger than previously estimated, White House officials said Friday, a setback for a president already facing a Congress and public wary over spending.
The new projection, to be announced on Tuesday, is for a cumulative 2010-2019 deficit of $9 trillion instead of the $7 trillion previously estimated. The...
UPS/FedEx:USPS :: Private Space Industry:NASA →
NASA is a jobs program, not a space program! Its purpose is to employ civil servants and industry contractor personnel, carefully spread around congressional districts and pouring taxpayer funds into their economies.
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Fitting the Facts to the State Narrative →
Listen, you broadcast dinosaurs: You don’t control the horizontal or the vertical anymore, got it? We can adjust our sets any time we want to. We have our own cameras these days. The whole world is watching now.
The Broadcast Media naturally benefits from the rise of The State. Trust them like you trust a used car dealer.
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Anti-Statists →
This ain’t about the taxes.
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Anti-Statists Rising →
This ain’t about the taxes.
Thanks, Cleon! →
So the Bush-era inability to articulate positions, to balance budgets, to explain what we were doing in Iraq, to admonish Wall Street grandees to slow it down a bit, translated into Obamism. By 2008, we did not wish to hear the surge finally worked and Iraq with it, that Bush gave billions to African AIDs relief, worked with allies, ran a clean government, and kept us safe from terrorist attacks...
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Obama Unscripted →
Impromptu Obamanomics is getting scarier by the day. For all the president’s touted intelligence, his un-teleprompted comments reveal a basic misunderstanding of capitalist principles.
[snip]
The proliferation of Obama’s gaffes and non sequiturs on health care has exceeded the allowable limit. He has failed repeatedly to explain how the government will provide more (health care) for less...
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Once they get their cake, they'll be distracted →
The growing movement in favor of constitutional conventions across the country in a time of fiscal crisis contains a warning: if legislators won’t lead responsibly, citizens might start leading themselves.
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The less The State speaks, the better
To the average citizen, the bureaucratic instructions on a Federal or State form carry the force, power and fear of a Law.
The State cannot make “suggestions”. It can only ever deliver directives.
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“Free people can treat each other justly, but they can’t make life fair. To...”
– Andrew Klavan