This is a good article on the subject, which pretty much summarizes my opinion, which is the basic “moderate libertarian” (is that an oxymoron?) point of view. It doesn’t really deal with the issue I see as vital, however, which … Continue reading →
…and the firestorm around it— The topic makes me weary, weary, weary, to see that everything that we predicted is coming to pass. What began as a simple “gay people ought to be able to get married” morphed seamlessly into … Continue reading →
I think that this comment from “Eric,” our resident strategist, is worth highlighting: …[I]t’s up to the Republicans to counter the Democrats. It’s up to the Right to counter the Left. Yes, the Democrats have been taken over by the … Continue reading →
It would be so transformative, you know. Hope and change: “If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country,” Obama said, calling it “potentially transformative.” Not only that, Obama said, but universal voting would “counteract … Continue reading →
Ace points out that in the OU SAE case, even the ACLU (boy, that’s a lot of acronyms in one sentence) has been extremely reluctant to admit that the university acted unconstitutionally in expelling the two student ringleaders of the … Continue reading →
Some drunken frat boys (it’s not clear how many) from the SAE chapter at the University of Oklahoma sang a very racist song while on a chartered bus and were videotaped doing it. So now the national fraternity has banned … Continue reading →
[Via Drudge.] WND reports: In a deliberate “show of force,” federal and local police forces raided a political meeting in Texas, fingerprinting and photographing all attendees as well as confiscating all cell phones and personal recording devices. Members of the … Continue reading →
Perhaps it’s both. The Obama administration has decided to attempt a ban on a popular type of ammunition through some creative statutory re-interpretation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE): …[T]he Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and … Continue reading →
Anyone surprised at the vote? Didn’t think so. The general trend is for greater and greater control by agencies in matters that may seem innocuous, technical, and/or unimportant at the time but can have wide-reaching effects especially when they are … Continue reading →
[UPDATE 9 PM: The shooter has been identified as Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein.] Danish authorities haven’t been quick to give out the details of yesterday’s dual attack in Copenhagan, but so far it appears that it is mirroring the recent … Continue reading →
I’ve often had a similar thought, which the following passage by Roger Kimball expresses so well (and “liberal” and “liberalism” in the following doesn’t just mean “liberals” as in “progressives,” but also “liberals” as in “classical liberals”): Liberal regimes have … Continue reading →
…that folks who thought we should abolish the IRS and simplify the tax code were wacko. Now they make a lot of sense to me, particularly Ted Cruz: Now that Republicans control Congress, Cruz said the party must seize on … Continue reading →