Loughnertarians. Have you argued with any Ron Paul people? You may be familiar with that infuriating style of argument they use, where they don’t listen so much as they parse, and scan your words for opportunities to demand definitions. They … Read More
I’m tired. You’re tired. We’re enjoying the holidays, and grateful for a decent excuse not to work on the political thing for a bit. I want to write about many things, but you know what? I’m tired of writing, and … Read More
House Freshmen (sent by the Tea Party) are defying the GOP, the Democrats, the Senate, the White House and the media on this nonsensical payroll tax cut maneuver. Here’s one quote from among many gems in a Politico piece, and … Read More
Okay, it seems self-serving to “hat tip” Rush (I mean who the Hell is Haakon Dahl?), but I think I figured out the answer to his puzzlement over a New York Times piece. NYT is not giving up on the … Read More
Part of the ACLU’s whitewash of our crumbling rights as citizens. It turns out that some kid star from Sesame Street was an illegal immigrant, thanks to his parents. They tried to jump in line by overstaying a visitor’s visa … Read More
Talk to the hand: [Update: This post was one of several in response to Jimmy Fallon’s band playing “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” when Michele Bachmann walked onstage, and incomprehensibly, all that happened was a band member was “severely reprimanded”. I (still) … Read More
The Constitution is the instrument by which we arrange for our own government to act in accordance with the noble principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence. Therefore, it is sometimes the Court, sometimes the States, sometimes the populace, … Read More
Abraham Lincoln was guided by an over-arching belief in the rightness of our nation’s founding concepts: …we here highly resolve … that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Barack Obama … Read More
As I discuss in my post on Ethical Resistance, the ends are not so much what determines who is a domestic enemy of the Constitution. Face, it, many people would like to change the Constitution, and that desire is not … Read More
Right down to the de-industrializing impulse that winds up massacring intellectuals and reducing millions to the enslaved subsistence farmers, too busy starving to fight back. A friend of mine, who is a good guy and a committed social and fiscal … Read More