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 [...]
I just want to take a moment to poke my head up from the law books to make a prediction of sorts: if Jerry Brown beats Meg Whitman for governor of California, what’s left of California’s economy is toast. Jerry Brown represents everything that’s wrong with California’s economy: massive debt, overspending, crushing tax burden and [...]
So, it seems there’s an artist who as a very political piece that involves Jesus having sex. A lot of people are understandably offended. It’s worth noting, however, that they are expressing their annoyance without riots, deaths and violence throughout Christendom. The artist has not gone into hiding. He is not under 24 armed guard. [...]
I’m always amused when the left falsely accuses conservatives of engaging in the very behavior that the left actually indulges in. A nice example was in today’s (still bankrupt) Inquirer.
At the lefty wanna-be-Glenn-Beck rally, one Peggy Brown gave us this piece of analysis:
“Fox News, that’s about as bad as you can get” and…conservative personalities Beck, [...]
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 think our side can serve up a heaping plateful of We Told You So. ObamaCare will, indeed, raise the cost of healthcare.
The Inquirer did a charming hit job on its editorial page today. I’ll give them a little credit for creativity since this one is a visual trick. Here’s a screenshot and a link to the editorial.
That’s a picture of Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett next to a headline that says “Enabling prostitution”. The editorial is [...]
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 [...]
Did you ever get the feeling the legacy media coordinates the coverage (and non-coverage)? Did you ever sense they weren’t very neutral but were actively taking sides? Did you ever feel like they were making things up that were patently untrue? Or that they were attacking certain people for having politically incorrect views?
Well, you were [...]
The Inquirer had a piece today that was a pretty obvious attempt to paint the Tea Parties as being similar to neo-nazis: The Tea Partiers are against illegal immigration. There is a neo-nazi group patrolling the border region (like the Minutemen). So, the Tea Partiers must actually be nazis or at least nazi sympathizers. The [...]
I had a letter to the editor published in the Inquirer in response to their anti-McDonald editorial. It’s not the most exciting piece of writing but it works.
When Rep. Kanjorski (D-PA) made his recent comments about how a program he was supporting wasn’t for “minorities” or “defectives”, my reaction was “queue the silence”. Sure enough, there’s been a whole lot of nothing made of it.
So, I’m just going to make a simple observation. Isn’t it amazing how you can say some remarkably [...]
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: [...]
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has refused to overturn the shockingly bad call that robbed Armando Galarrago of a perfect game. As much as I hate to say it, Selig got it right. Not for any of the reasons I’ve heard on sports radio, like human error is part of the game.
Nope. It was the right [...]
Donna Brazile has a thoroughly inane piece over at CNN where she says the BP oil spill fiasco proves we need big government.
Of course, she never actually says what authority or resource the government lacked that would either have prevented the mile-deep blown well or allowed it to react better. Is it her contention that [...]
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 [...]