Ernst Schrieber, commenting in the Protein wisdom post linked earlier, offers this New York Post article: In 1911 — in the wake of a notorious Gramercy Park blueblood murder-suicide — Sullivan sponsored the Sullivan Act, which mandated police-issued licenses for handguns and made it a felony to carry an unlicensed concealed weapon. This was the… Read More The Strange Birth of New York’s Gun Laws
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
[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
Protein Wisdom has the skinny. Basically, they’re going to spend billions of state bond debts and federal grants to build high-speed rail. Of course, in order to get people on board with this, they’re going to throw a bunch of money at existing local light-rail infrastructure, because that will create jobs. By the way, Trains are… Read More California and Trains: A Match Made in the Smoke-Filled Rooms of Sacramento
Jeff Goldstein embraces — outlaw-style — the new federal power to tax: Writing my congressman to demand that liberals be “taxed” for not carrying arms, going to church, and driving battered old F150s. You know, for the costs to society of not being prepared, conscienced, and self-reliant. Welcome to your bright tomorrow, comrade. Once you get the… Read More Unintended Consequences, ObamaCare Edition
Jeff Goldstein describes the new racial show trials. In a campaign reminiscent of the Soviet show-trials of the late 1930′s, where the “enemies of the People” publicly confessed their “crimes” against the Soviet, The University of Minnesota – Duluth (UMD) is actually sponsoring a campaign, declaring “whites” the enemy of the people and showing these enemies confessing their crimes of… Read More Another Opportunity for Honkies to Express their Superiority Over the Wrong Kinds of White People
David Hogbert of Investor’s Business Daily was at yesterday’s hearing in Rockville that got Aaron Walker sent to jail for blogging about a public figure. The magistrate who did so was semi-retired and clearly did not grasp how Google works. “I find that this is worse than harassment. It’s a nasty, dirty thing to do… Read More Judge Mortimer Cecil Ira Ogilvie McTavish Confused on What This Gosh-Fangled “Internet” Is… UPDATED
The Progressive celebration of free speech continues. As our late-night-owl readers know, after Twitter reinstated conservative activist Chris Loesch’s account in the wee hours of Sunday night/Monday morning, the progressive flag-spam lynch mob — a vicious group of free speech-squelching Twitter users who trigger automatic suspensions by falsely “mass reporting” conservatives as “spammers” — took… Read More Twitter: Where Dissent is Punished.
At Patterico, the usual desperate flailing to find cover for President Pup-Eater McFailpants is diagnosed: The slogan is a multiple entendre, but one of those entendres, intentionally or not, is evocative of a nasty racial stereotype about black men. See? It evokes. And your intentions don’t matter, because meaning is determined by the interpreter. See… Read More Obama isn’t Working, Because Mitt Romney is a Raaaaacist, or Something…
In my anti-gay-marriage apologia, I mused about what new taboo the cultural left would set its targets on once gay marriage became the norm. Protein Wisdom has found it: “after-birth abortion” infanticide. Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus’ health. By showing that (1) both fetuses… Read More The Joy of Baby-Killing
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