Glenn Reynolds’ column on the Obamacare arguments hits on an oft-ignored theme: The subjects entrusted to the federal government by the Constitution — those largely “external” powers — simply don’t lend themselves to corruption. On the other hand, when the government lays a heavy regulatory hand on almost every business and industry, the temptation for… Read More The Bigger the Government Is, the More Corrupt
It’s been fun enjoying the schock and upset of proggies at the possibility that Obamacare could be smacked down. John Podhoretz summed up decades worth of conservative griping about the left in a single paragraph: They’re so convinced of their own correctness — and so determined to believe conservatives are either a) corrupt, b) stupid… Read More Let’s Not Start Pulling Each Other’s Taffy Just Yet…
I kind of like Spike Lee as a filmmaker. Do The Right Thing is a complex tale that looks at racism and groupthink from all sides. Malcolm X is a damned interesting story about a fascinating figure who was larger than his times. And I mind a time when I really liked 25th Hour. But… Read More Spike Lee, Putting the “Twit” in “Twitter”
Look: if I was black, I would probably be angry about Trayvon Martin, too. It would bring up all that ancestral memory of days when a black man could be killed out of hand for nothing. However, I’m not black. So I’m free to say that this kind of thing: …is a bunch of racist… Read More Racism is Acceptable So Long as it’s the Right Race…
…and according to Walter Russel Mead, even Democrats are eventually going to have to embrace this reality: Republicans and anti-blue statists will want to fix this because bad government is big government and takes a terrible toll on the economy (cumbersome procedures, bad decisions, a large and expensive staff). But smart proponents of a strong… Read More The Debt Can’t Go On Forever…
She’s a Buddhist, which is to say, an apostate, which would also deny her communion. Oh. She walked into St. John Neumann Church in Gaithersburg with the intention of causing trouble. When Fr. Guarnizo tried to explain to her that he could not give her communion unless she went to confession, Johnson’s lover checked the… Read More So it Turns Out That the Lesbian Denied Communion at Her Mother’s Funeral isn’t even Catholic Anymore…
A rare political post (h/t Instapundit): In the United States, right now, women have preferential treatment – by law – in any company that gets federal funds (which heaven help us, right now, is most of them.) Women live longer than men. Cancers that affect females get more money and more attention than those that… Read More Sarah Hoyt Speaks Truth to Power
So says John Stossel at Reason: (h/t Insty) We have 160,000 pages of rules from the feds alone. States and localities have probably doubled that. We have so many rules that legal specialists can’t keep up. Criminal lawyers call the rules “incomprehensible.” They are. They are also “uncountable.” Congress has created so many criminal offenses… Read More You Don’t Know What the Law is…
We love to hate her because she’s a self-besotted nincompoop who will not go away. Although posing for Playboy would seem to be a desperate grab at fading relevance, she does so with her clothes on as part of an interview. So she hasn’t gone all the way down…yet. PLAYBOY: Conservatives are as hard on… Read More Why We Wingnut Bloggers Love to Hate Meghan McCain, and Why We Get Away With It…
Jon Stewart does not overhear himself: 1. What Rush Limbaugh said was offensive. 2. What Bill Maher said was offensive. 3. There are, and ought to be consequences to stand-up comedians who cross the line — as in the cases of Michael Richards and Tracy Morgan. 4. ????????? 5. Shut up, Fox News!
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