Voting
I voted by absentee ballot yesterday. I’m not one to do that, ordinarily. I like going to the polls on voting day. I like the atmosphere of civic duty. I like the people standing around (even in the rain) with … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Liberty
The UK government tax collection agency says…
…all your money really belongs to us anyway, so why not just skip the middleman: you! Perhaps it’s only a matter of time, although for now the proposal is still considered “radical:” The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth … Continue reading →
It’s a free country!
Back when I was a child, there were a few choice phrases that were in every kid’s repertoire of snappy repartee. The first was the all-purpose sarcastic, “Har de har har har” (already discussed in this post and the comments … Continue reading →
Richard Fernandez on the professional left
Brilliant, as usual: The professional structure of the Left eventually creates a common organizational culture. One of the reasons that the Left does so well working with foreign intelligence agencies, Islamic extremists and even criminal syndicates and crooked unions is … Continue reading →
Obama, America, and the Ground Zero mosque
No one should be surprised at President Obama’s defense of the planned mosque at Ground Zero. It’s another in a long series of stands Obama has taken that runs counter not only to the opinions of the majority of Americans, … Continue reading →
Defying the abyss: a witness to the Nazi takeover
Commenter David Foster has written a two-part book review of historian and author Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler (part I is here, part II here). I would say “read the whole thing.” But I’ll amend that a bit and say instead, … Continue reading →
Talking to liberals
A while back, commenter “Steve H.” asked a question. It’s one to which I unfortunately still don’t have a good answer, although I’m highlighting it because it’s a question I’ve been increasingly asking myself for some months now: We all … Continue reading →
BP’s “small people”
As if the public’s anger at BP wasn’t already strong enough, the company’s chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, put his foot into another pile of steaming doo-doo when he said: [Obama’s] frustrated because he cares about the small people, and we care … Continue reading →
More on Minow and Harvard Law School’s treatment of Stephanie Grace
Eugene Volokh, who was born in the Soviet Union and came to the United States as a child, reminicises about thought control in the country of his youth and relates the atmosphere there to what happened at Harvard Law School … Continue reading →
Immigration reform: Obama and Congress vs. the citizens of the United States
Used to be that when the leaders of Congress said they would move on a certain bill (or not move on a certain bill), you could kinda sorta believe them. Now trying to figure out what’s really happening is like … Continue reading →
Language and that “controversial” Arizona immigration law
The new Arizona immigration law is described in nearly every MSM article as “controversial.” And I suppose it is, if by “controversial” you mean the usual definition of arousing “strong disagreement.” The word also fits the bill, however, if you … Continue reading →
Congress becomes Madison’s “overbearing majority”
I’ve got a new essay up at the Weekly Standard. In it, I unearthed some great—and extraordinarily relevant—quotes from Federalist Paper #10 by James Madison. Follow the link to read; come back here to comment (the WS has no comments, … Continue reading →