He didn’t mean to discriminate against Jews, Catholics and homosexuals when he had them herded into gas chambers. He was just trying to carry out his lawful duties more efficiently with inadequate resources. There was nothing political about it at all. Just ask him.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
The Wisdom Of Elon
And, since we will run out of oil anyway, why risk the future of all life on Earth simply to delay sustainable energy?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 24, 2013
I don’t have time to respond right now — I’m getting ready to go down to La Jolla for the ISDC. I may write something on Sunday. Anyway, feel free to discuss in comments.
[Update a while later]
FWIW, I retweeted to Elon with this link.
The Manhood Of The West
“They are a civilization whose core has been destroyed.”
ObamaCare’s Fatal Flaw
…is it taking effect?
the Obama administration is openly admitting that their health law won’t work without the willing cooperation of people who can expect to be harmed by the law — including young people, doctors, and health industry workers.
As author Ayn Rand’s noted in her novel Atlas Shrugged:
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides.
That’s what is happening with Obamacare.
But this also means that Americans have a powerful weapon — their ability to say “no.” If the Obama administration needs our willing cooperation for their law to work, we can fight back by withdrawing that cooperation. As Dr. Megan Edison recently wrote in response to the call for her and her fellow pediatricians to funnel more patients into ObamaCare, “Primum non nocere. I will not comply.”
Nor should any of us tolerate this tyranny, particularly in light of recent events.
The Real Voter Suppression Of 2012
Voter ID didn’t reduce turnout, but the IRS may have.
History may very well view the past election as illegitimate. If so, there’s not much we can do about most of the races, but there is a solution for the top one.
Lois Lerner
The American people have a right to know both how deep and how high the corruption of our government runs. The White House has an interest in minimizing the scandal, and surely that is Obama’s objective if he is trying to throw Lerner under the bus. Let’s reserve judgment on her and make sure not to let off the hook the man whose re-election the IRS’s abuse of power helped to advance.
I don’t want her scapegoated. As Michael Ledeen suggests, she (and the others whom the administration is trying to sacrifice and scapegoat) should be immunized, so we can get to the truth. And if part of that truth leads to the president, let’s just hope for the sake of the country that the vice president is implicated as well.
What Aren’t They Telling Obama
A new trending Twitter hashtag.
Protest The IRS
Tomorrow. At high noon.
It will be interesting to see how the media responds this time. Will the Tea Partiers still be racists, or rebels with a cause?
Looking Ahead To A Bright Future
Glenn Reynolds reviews a new book co-authored by mutual friends — America 3.0
A Do-Nothing Congress
Call me crazy, but this sounds like good news. Given the vast improbability of them doing anything good, nothing seems to be preferable to me.