How it let leftists screw it up. Sam is spinning in his grave.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
A Nation, Suckered
When you have big government, you have big bilking.
Highly Creative Living
Eighteen principles, from Justine Musk (yes, Elon’s ex).
[Update, late evening]
I would belatedly point out that Justine Musk is a more-than-admirable person in her own right, independently of her prior relationships, and my apologies for any implication otherwise.
Paul F. Dietz
Has anyone heard from him recently (i.e., in the last couple years)?
[Evening update]
OK, look, folks. I’m not stupid. I’ve done searches. I’m asking people who actually know him, and might know what’s up.
Nixon’s Imperial Presidency
Has Barack Obama achieved it?
He’s certainly gotten away with a lot of things that no Republican ever would, including all the lies and broken promises.
The Books
Where are they? We’ve got (perhaps literally) a ton of them, which are a pain to move, but we haven’t been acquiring many lately.
Competition
Is it always good?
We Need A Waiting Period
…not for guns. For laws.
Just Tell Men That Rape Is Wrong
A dispatch from a sane planet.
[Update a few minutes later]
Not directly related, but it’s pretty nutty as well:
The question, in a nutshell, is simple: Does it violate the Equal Protection Clause to prohibit race-conscious admissions? Ironic, isn’t it?
The frightening thing is that there are no doubt some “justices” who will think it does.
The Eighteenth Brumaire
…Obama is not a communist, even in the twentieth century meaning of the term. Communism is about state ownership of the means of production. The Obama administration does not seek ownership. In fact, where it acquired ownership through the bailout, the administration now works to divest itself. What Obama is building is a large government bureaucracy whose expanding limbs find their way into every facet of human existence, a government that does not own the means of production but controls them by increased and oppressive regulation and taxation. Obama’s political inspiration is more likely to be Mussolini or Peron, even Hugo Chavez, than Lenin or Stalin.
As I’ve long noted, the difference is pretty much transparent to the serfuser.