There has been a fair amount of discussion in the blogosphere about debating anti-gunners lately. Newbie Shooter has chimed in with some suggestions to make it a little more fair for the antis (a noble gesture). No doubt they will ignore him since their position isn’t based on rational analysis but emotion and power.
I actually [...]
The stimulus bill is taking a justifiable beating in the polls. It has become a pork-laden parody of leftwing social engineering. The economic theory it relies on is, of course, nonsense. The Wall Street Journal summed up the fallacy perfectly:
The person who is taxed…[to pay for each dollar of the stimulus] will have $1 less [...]
The Wall Street Journal had an editorial that nailed the real scandal involving Tom Daschle. It isn’t that he didn’t pay his taxes. It’s the power grab engineered by big government types that made his small fortune possible. It isn’t a sleazy exception that happened despite the left’s view of government power. It is a [...]
The Obama presidency is not off to a great start for ethics and honesty.
Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, only paid the back taxes he owed for years after he was nominated.
Tom Daschle, HHS nominee, also owed back taxes. He’s expected to be confirmed.
There’s the “we won’t torture detainees” executive order with the fine print that basically [...]
Here is a great example of the arrogance of the left.
It was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer and found online here.
For one thing, they don’t get the idea that we don’t torture. For all the bluster we hear from them the fact is that what we’re debating is the grey area below torture. The left, [...]
With Obama in office and the executive orders on Gitmo and terrorist interrogations out, we are hearing a more about Geneva Convention Common Article 3. So I thought I’d take a look for myself. I must say, it’s a rather unrewarding read.
Article 3 - defines acts that are cannot be done to noncombatants in “armed [...]
I keep hearing lefties make jabs at former Pres. Bush by saying the new administration would not interfere with science and would make environmental policy decisions based on science rather than politics. There are a several points to be made here.
First, is that science itself is amoral. That’s not pejorative. It is simply the fact [...]
A thought for you: America’s relationship with the left is like a guy’s relationship with a high maintenance girlfriend. She loves him just the way he is except for trying to change him in ways that make him unrecognizable to all his old friends.
The left is once again peddling the nonsense about torturing of terrorist detainees.
Let’s get a few things straight.
As has been repeatedly stated (and ignored by the left) U.S. policy does not allow torture.
We have the most professional, ethical and restrained military literally in the history of the world. That’s not an exaggeration.
The left and the [...]
The self-proclaimed tolerant, rational and sophisticated on the left keep offering justifications for the attempted assault on our president by an Iraqi journalist. Are we to understand that it is acceptable to assault someone if we are passionate in our belief that their policies are bad?
I keep seeing the assertion that “it will take decades [...]
After mulling over the recent incident in Iraq where a “journalist” hurled his shoes at Pres. Bush, I have a couple things to say. First, as has been noted in places other than the leftwing media, it is an implicit recognition that the Bush administration’s policies have actually been quite succesful in the end. If [...]
I think Bill Bennett once said “Politics is what we do. Culture is the air we breathe.”
I was reminded of that recently when I read a piece by Jason Lee Steorts at National Review. He made the following remark:
It would be unfair in the extreme to deny that many young, educated voters have reflected thoughtfully [...]
One of the left’s key complaints about ”McCarthyism” was the resulting blacklists. Hollywood lefties still idolize the unapologetic communists the ended up on these informal lists. So why, then, do they support blacklists for supporters of causes they don’t like?
Writing on the passage of California Proposition 8, a consitutional amendment banning gay marriage, Mark Morford hurls the following insults:
Or maybe it’s all those sad, white, central portions of the state, the huge chunks of voters who live in places without much culture or perspective or major universities, who only hear certain strains of spiteful [...]
Here’s another recent example of leftwing hate (source). Sen. Joe Lieberman had the audacity to hope for a president other than Obama. For that, he is a rat?
Isn’t the left always yammering about the importance of dissent? As I’ve said, they love dissent so long as you don’t dissent from their views. Their views, of [...]
A tame example of leftwing hate:
Hope won out over fear, and Santorum’s view of the world has become obsolete.
Right. Clearly if someone (Rick Santorum in this case) is convservative they must be an obsolete, knuckle dragging Neanderthal.
We owe it to ourselves and our country not to do to Pres. Obama what the left did to Pres. Bush. We will certainly fight him on the issues but let’s resolve to keep it civil. Despite their own behavior, the left believes conservatives are angry, uneducated neanderthals. If we keep it classy some of [...]
The other letter was in response an endorsement of Obama by a Republican columnist.
This is an open apology to Michael Smerconish. In my faulted view, you were a right-wing zealot and undeserving of the public “power of the pen” you enjoy. Nonetheless, your article last Sunday, “McCain fails the big five tests,” stunned me and [...]
There were two letters to the editor in the Philadelphia Inquirer recently that I thought summed up very well the state of the art of left wing derangement.
The first letter, responding to a commentary on Obama’s wealth redistribution plans, complained that it
presupposes a “right” to possess obscene concentrations of wealth.
“Presupposes a right” to keep the [...]
A left leaning colleague of mine recently said he hated “the macho crap” that’s been coming out of the White House for the last eight years. This is a fine example of something I’ve noted previously: that many people who think they are urbane and sophisticated show themselves to be, in fact, naively parochial.
Let’s review, [...]