African Official: Please Stop With the Aid Already, You’re Killing Us…

In Der Spiegel, a Kenyan economist named James Shikwati attempts the Herculean task of explaining economics to a journalist. Shikwati: … for God’s sake, please just stop. SPIEGEL: Stop? The industrialized nations of the West want to eliminate hunger and poverty. Shikwati: Such intentions have been damaging our continent for the past 40 years. If… Read More African Official: Please Stop With the Aid Already, You’re Killing Us…

7 Jan 20137 Jan 2013 AndrewLeave a comment

Thoreau Merits a Response

Civil Disobedience was a quick read, and provocative, if also strangely tedious, and occasionally downright whiny. So provocative, in fact, that I feel an essay coming on. I’m thinking long form, semi-fisking, rather like the opening chapters of John Locke’s First Treatise on Government. Check this space for further details.

4 Jan 20134 Jan 2013 AndrewLeave a comment

Leviathan and Civil Disobedience

Jeff Goldstein makes things nice and sparkling clear, like a good intentionalist should: Either you are a constitutionalist or you aren’t. If you aren’t, then in the most important ways you are anti-American. As such, you are my enemy — and a person looking to enslave me, my children, and those who matter most to me.… Read More Leviathan and Civil Disobedience

3 Jan 2013 Andrew2 Comments

Captain White Just Rearranged the Hell Out of Those Deck Chairs.

Which is to say, “There are too many metaphors here applicable to the Senate’s 89-8 passage of a “fiscal cliff” bill in the middle of the night (around 2 a.m. this morning).” Read the Whole Thing, because it’s kind of bracing to realize just how well and truly screwed we are. Via Other McCain.

1 Jan 20131 Jan 2013 AndrewLeave a comment

David Gregory Confronts White Privilege

By embodying it… Too good to pass up, as they say. As is the pretzel logic of those grasping to give Gregory a pass. If you start wondering why journalists seem to have some kind of a pass to break the law, and what constitutes a “journalist,” and even what distinguishes them from “swine,” you… Read More David Gregory Confronts White Privilege

27 Dec 201228 Dec 2012 AndrewLeave a comment

Piers Morgan, Freedom Fries, and Other Jokes That Progs Don’t Get

Right now there’s apparently a White House Petition to get CNN jawflapper Piers Morgan deported to the that happy realm whence he came. Something to do with his flubbering commentary on Newton and the 2nd Amendment. I haven’t read it, and I certainly haven’t signed it. Because punishing idiotic speech is not what we do… Read More Piers Morgan, Freedom Fries, and Other Jokes That Progs Don’t Get

26 Dec 20126 Oct 2014 AndrewLeave a comment

A Sober and Objective Summation of The Media Response to the NRA Presser…

“Guns are Bad. M’kay? The NRA defends guns. They’re bad. Because Guns are bad. M’kay? Putting armed guards in schools is bad. Because they’ll have guns. And Guns are bad. M’kay? The Second Amendment is real bad. Because the NRA likes the NRA. And the NRA is bad, so the Second Amendment must be bad.… Read More A Sober and Objective Summation of The Media Response to the NRA Presser…

21 Dec 2012 AndrewLeave a comment

New Victories in the War on Women

Patrick Moran, who gained himself some notoriety when he was caught in a video sting conspiring to steal hundreds of votes in Virginia, just got severely punished for beating the ever-loving crap out of his girlfriend. And by severely punished, I mean plead down to minor assualt and given probation. If you’re outraged by this,… Read More New Victories in the War on Women

12 Dec 2012 Andrew2 Comments

Darkness on the Edge of Town: Unions and Islamists Lock Arms for the Horst Wessel Song

Public order and civilization cannot survive when a community feels it is entitled to commit violence when it is thwarted. Instapundit links the story of an Egyptian ex-diplomat who was kidnapped and beaten by the Muslim Brotherhood amid the continuing chaos of Egypt. “They captured me, they dragged me and beat me all the way,”… Read More Darkness on the Edge of Town: Unions and Islamists Lock Arms for the Horst Wessel Song

12 Dec 2012 Andrew2 Comments