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• 10.22.08
  Greed-based voting
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  This morning while getting some internet and coffee, I overheard a conversation at the next table. The nice elderly couple were explaining to the waitress how they used to vote Republican, but this year were voting for Obama. They were concerned that the Republicans had run our country so far into debt. They were also concerned that they weren't getting enough Medicare spending and whatever else it is that older people want the government to do for them. I guess some people are their own worst enemies. Too bad it's the younger generations, like ...
  
  
• 10.10.08
  How to restore confidence
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  Let's see. The last time the stock market had a good day was in response to the defeat of the Big Bailout. I wonder how it would respond if it would get rescinded. It would be worth a try, don't you think? Here's another idea to restore confidence in the economy. Both presidential candidates and their VPs should withdraw from the election on the grounds of general cluelessness and lack of seriousness, as demonstrated by their stances on the Bailout. Let the two party conventions reconvene and choose someone else. You ...
  
  
• 10.06.08
  How about a recession for Congress
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  How about if we rescind the Big Bailout from last week as a positive step toward restoring confidence in the economy? Who could possibly have confidence in the government's Hair of the Dog method of handling it, given that they gave us more of what led us to crisis in the first place? Headline from today's WSJ: "Markets Fall on Rescue Doubts; Dow Closes Below 10000" Markets around the world tumbled, reflecting investors' lack of confidence despite stepped up relief efforts by the Fed and European governments. The Dow industrials fell below 10000 and European stocks fell to 20-year ...
  
  
• 08.24.08
  Religious, not spiritual
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  I get the impression from the comments posted to this article by Julie Burchill that The Guardian has a lot of readers who don't like Christianity. Great fun to read them. The article itself was OK, too: I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious. and Once, of course, I was a teenage atheist; and ...there is something profoundly immature about atheists. That surly, self-satisfied certainty... H/t to Arts & Letters Daily
  
  
• 08.18.08
  Call things by their right names
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  This is so frustrating. Why do ordinarily sensible people like Kathryn Jean Lopez refer to pro-abortion people as pro-choice? They are no more pro-choice than so-called pro-life people are pro-life. More accurate terms would be pro-abortion and anti-abortion. Or pro-abortion-choice vs anti-abortion. But the last thing you'll find on the Democrat side is anything pro-choice. If Barak Obama ever comes out in favor of this kind of choice, then maybe we can call him pro-choice. But it won't happen.
  
  
• 08.08.08
  Crazy Reverend
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  I had to laugh when we saw this billboard at a stoplight between I-80 and US-20 near Bristol, Indiana. The billboard also said something about Crossroads Community search Church. I see that some bloggers have picked up on it already.
  
  
• 08.07.08
  Left-libertarianism
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  I posted the following over at the Libertarianism forum on LiveJournal, under the heading Left-libertarianism = Totalitarian libertarianism Q.  Would it be fair to characterize left-libertarians as people who want the freedom to choose for themselves while denying choice to everyone else? A.  Yes.
  
  
• 08.02.08
  The value of non-expert opinion
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  Here's a keeper discussion (Atlantic Monthly, Matt Yglesias, ht to PostModern Conservative) on the great value provided by all these blogs written by people who don't know what they're talking about. Article title: "Does this blog suck? Do all blogs suck?"
  
  
• 07.27.08
  Don’t like the laws? Ignore them.
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  Conservatives should have figured this out long ago. Instead of whining about Supreme Court rulings, ignore them. That's what the District of Columbia is doing. The Supremes upheld the right of citizens to keep and bear arms, so the government is now putting new restrictions on that right so as to render it meaningless. Democrats (and George Bush) have long understood that the laws are meant for other people. Gas taxes too high? Democrats assume that when they're on partisan political business, they are doing the Lord's Work and don't have to pay ...
  
  
• 07.16.08
  Nancy Pelosi’s world
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  James Kirchick of the New Republic writes in The Weekly Standard about "The Democrats' Popularity Fetish." He rightly points out that Obama's cavalier attitude towards free trade and towards meeting with dictators is hardly going to make America popular outside our country. But he closes by questioning whether we should be all that concerned about "global opinion." Conservatives have long liked to sneer at global opinion, and it's true that popularity shouldn't be our first priority. They don't really need encouragement in that attitude by Kirchick. But I say we should care about others' opinions. GWB would have done well ...
  
  

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