In one my classes today, our professor asked how many of us were gun owners. I’ll spare you the details but it was a logical, if surprisingly blunt, question given the subject of the class that day.
4 out of 14 students answered yes. Of the 4 gun owners, two were women.
If this is a representative [...]
As I have mentioned many times, I am not a fan of political parties. I am more sympathetic to the Republican Party because it sometimes does the right thing on taxes, spending, regulation and freedom, in contrast to the Democrats who invariably get it wrong. But I generally view political parties as unhelpful, if unavoidable.
Given [...]
Baby Manifesto Toddler Manifesto Little-Girl Manifesto has show-and-tell at school today. The theme is “something patriotic” so I picked up a small U.S. flag for her to use. Before we left for school this morning she was walking around waving the flag, then handed it to me and told me to hold it up. She [...]
Jonathan Chait, referencing a Washington Post article, is accusing conservatives of epistemic closure in their treatment of Obama’s comments on American Exceptionalism. Please.
First of all, the description of of American Exceptionalism as “the idea that the United States is inherently superior to the world’s other nations” is wrong. It would better be described as “the [...]
It’s amazing to me that Progressives Regressives still pass themselves off has being pro-freedom. As far as I can tell their ideology is about control and little else at this point. Case in point: San Francisco just banned the Happy Meal.
Can you really claim to be interested in liberty while banning Happy Meals? Maybe they’ll [...]
Oklahoma voters approved an amendment to their constitution that bans the use of Sharia law (as well as international law) in its state courts. A federal judge promptly put issued a temporary restraining order. I find the left’s reaction to it informative.
Politico has a nice concentrated dose of leftwing thought by people who are supposed [...]
You may recall that a few months ago a Malaysian court ruled that Christians had the right to use the word “Allah” in their publications. The response, predictably, was outrage and violence by Muslims. Well it turns out that the Ground Zero mosque imam, Faisal Rauf, had something to say about this.
I’m sure you’re thinking [...]
I can across this in the explanatory comments of the Second Restatement of Torts Law. Restatements are documents produced by the American Legal Institute to describe the current state of laws in certain areas. This comment is in an area on the subject of outrageous conduct relating to the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The rough [...]
You know. The one Obama likes so much.
Would it be okay for the Sons of Confederate America to build a facility next to where Martin Luther King was assassinated?
Would it be okay for the Mormons to build a church near where Matthew Shepherd was murdered?
Would it be okay for the Klan to sponsor the upkeep [...]
I submitted this letter to the editor a couple weeks ago. It was not published and unfortunately I did not save a link for the original letter.
A letter in today’s paper derided Sen. Sessions’ description of Elena Kagan as a “dangerous progressive”, saying progressivism is by definition forward-moving. I disagree. There is little forward-thinking about [...]
You know conservatives are landing punches when the left starts trotting out the “conservatives are anti-intellectual” argument. The ever-predictable EJ Dionne pulled this one off the shelf today.
It’s not that we’re against the systematic study of ideas. We’re all for it. But for too many intellectuals “systematic study” involves “systematically ignoring” anyone to the right [...]
Mrs. Newbie Shooter once told me a story about a crusty old teacher who said she new the leftists had won when economics was pulled from the curriculum in New York. I bring this up because the Wall Street Journal had a great piece today quantifying just how poorly lefties understand economics.
The summary is this: [...]
I received a letter from a private real estate appraisal company which was apparently hired by NJ to perform tax assessments in our township. The letter says the company will be measuring and photographing our houses, and that they will be “conducting an interior inspection”. It further states “it will be necessary…to examine the interior [...]
Woody Allen provides us with yet another example of what the left is really about (power and control). Woody says Obama should “be a dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly.”
That’s surprisingly similar to Thomas Friedman’s dreamy column about the awesomeness of one party rule in China. [...]
I had a letter published in today’s Inquirer. Amusingly, Mother Manifesto read the letter in the paper and said “yeah! right on!” before she noticed it was from her son.
It’s amazing how the people who claim to hear the echo of Jim Crow in the tea parties fail to hear the rumble of Marxism on [...]
Just weeks after ObamaCare has been signed into law we’re already starting to hear that the bill is going to raise the cost of healthcare. So it turns out the majority of Americans who were called reactionaries, racists, liars, homophobes, stupid, uneducated, violent and seditious for opposing it were, in fact, right.
Will the luminaries on [...]
It’s no secret that I find the left to be a pretty disreputable bunch. I don’t have a fancy for people who want to take my liberty away and administer my life for me. I find their condescending we’re-so-much-smarter-than-you attitude particularly loathsome. Perhaps that’s why I so thoroughly enjoy it when they put on display [...]
I was recently debating a colleague on a variety of political topics. He kept repeating an often-heard lefty refrain, “Republicans want to impose their morality on people”. This is a common talking point and, and best, incomplete.
Setting aside the somewhat esoteric issue of whether all laws are a reflection of morality, is it really [...]
I had the opportunity today to attend the Philadelphia Tax Day Tea Party. It was pretty much what I expected: amusing homemade signs, flags aplenty (both U.S. and Gadsden), pleasant and respectful people. I’d even go so far as to say it was better attended than I anticipated, perhaps a few hundred people. The speakers [...]
Tyler Cowan has a link to a new paper analyzing online political reading. One of the quotes is from the paper is:
Visitors of extreme conservative sites such as rushlimbaugh.com and glennbeck.com are more likely than a typical online news reader to have visited nytimes.com.
Setting aside the issue of whether Limbaugh and Beck are appropriately described [...]