Daley Gator and I have a long exchange in the comments of his blog about the origins of the Civil War. A friendly Progressive and I discuss gun control in the wake of the Aurora Shooting. And the circle of life rolls on.
At NRO’s Corner: The laws of this nature are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of… Read More Charles Cooke Quotes an Old Philosopher on the Wisdom of Gun Control
In the comments of Althouse puncturing the pomposity of EJ Dionne: 1. Something must be done. 2. This is something. 3. Therefore it must be done. Of course, what this leaves out is: 4. If you disagree with 3, you must disagree with 1. Racist.
The reaction of the progressive types to shootings have a quality of ritual to them. It’s rather like starting a witch hunt after a bad harvest or a cholera epidemic. A handful of bogeys are always invoked: We blame the Right. The killer may have been some Tea Party type. Because, you know, they’re so… Read More Gunman Goes Nuts. Progressives Blame Guns. Nothing Changes.
Protein Wisdom has a pretty substantial list. A few standouts: Use Medicare health for insurance Join the military Apply for food stamps Receive welfare Enter a bar So the Proggies and the Obama Administration would have us belief that poor people and minorities never use Medicare, food stamps, or welfare, and never join the military… Read More All the Things You Need a Photo ID to Do
Stacy McCain offers up the new attack ad. You can demagoge about corporate fatcats until Demosthenes himself says “Dude, we get it,” and people play right along. But when you ask the question: “So what’s the government going to do that’s any better?” You won’t get an answer that makes any sense. We have an… Read More Romney Concludes That People Dislike The Government More than Bain Capital…
Mission Creep. Our president is rather fond of making law enforcement decisions on a piecemeal basis— see Dream kids and DOMA— so why not make this one of the ones he declines to enforce? He could pretty easily make a federalism argument for not going guns-blazing into dispensaries obeying state law, and in fact, that… Read More Obama’s DOJ Harder on Pot Dispensaries Than Bush’s was…
I mentioned a little ways back that I was looking into the way Joseph Campbell had influenced George Lucas as a mythmaker. This is hardly news; Lucas has openly admitted his debt to Campbell. In fact, he’s rather loud about it. And this interests me. During that long, 17-year wait between Return of the Jedi and… Read More The Jedi With a Thousand Faces, Part 1
[Insert Mayan Calendar Joke Here] The Romney campaign doesn’t seem to know how to respond. For centuries, business leaders have been inept when writers, intellectuals and politicians attacked capitalism, and, so far, the Romney campaign is continuing that streak. One thing is for sure. As Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute has said again… Read More David Brooks Starts to Sound Like Jeff Goldstein
Via Hot Air: “The so called War on Drugs has not succeeded in making significant reductions in drug use, drug arrests or violence,” the Democrat wrote during the Reddit “ask me anything” chat. “We are pouring huge amounts of our public resources into this current effort that are bleeding our public treasury and unnecessarily undermining… Read More Cory Booker Utters the Truth We All Acknowledge But Cannot Act Upon
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