Random Observations about...
June 2010

Home Buyers' Tax Credit

My wife and I have been looking to buy a home in recent months. You would think we would have...

Kagan Confirmation & Citizens United

Listening to NPR, if you read outside the liberal bubble, is a bit like visiting an alternate reality where everything...

Journolist

When contrasting, say, European/UK/Canadian coverage of the climate change scandals (plentiful) with that that in the US ("What scandal?"), or...

Best Friends are Evil!

In 1848, John Humphrey Noyes founded the Oneida Community in Oneida County, New York. (The silverware company derives from this...

Fourteen-Year-Old Charged with Abduction

... for trying to help a lost three year old girl find her mom: Edwin is quite the kidnapper. He...

George W. Bush, Democrat

I like George W. Bush; I think he's a man of good character. Depending on the issue, I didn't and...

X-Men as Nazism

To cut to the chase: I suppose Sentinels and related concepts might have been harmless as long as they were...

"The Stone" -- A Fantastic Journey Inside the Liberal Bubble

Grab your pith helmets, boys and girls! It's Progressive Safari Time! Those living in New York City and other "liberal"...

Gallup: 49% say Democrats are too liberal

I keep hearing this repeated, on conservative blogs, as if it's good news: From the Gallup organization comes the news...

Legal Vices Become Mandatory

Many vices, once allowed, become essentially mandatory. Consider gambling. Once a neighbor state allows gambling, locals demand their tax dollars...

John Wright on Personhood

A year or so ago, I had a protracted debate with an atheist on human rights. I pointed out that...

CNN: BP finalist for pollution prevention award

Obama's been breathing fire and making threats; it's as though he thinks BP hasn't contained the spill, so far, out...

Modern Science is Unconstitutional

Let me start by making a simple observation, in somewhat complicated terms: The negation of any statement resides in the...

Iraqi WMD Went to Syria?

I was frustrated. I felt we — the US and any allies who agreed — needed to move into Iraq...

Women Changing Tires

Overheard an interesting conversation today: A woman was talking about having gotten a flat tire, started to change it, and...

Gaza

I don't usually criticize people directly for holding other views than mine — except, I hope, on fairly clear factual...

Peace is Patriotic

It seems to me the left is always a bit touchy about their patriotism. I don't know why (or perhaps...

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