Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
This, from Art Rhodes: As one of the handful of lawyers that participated in the Florida recount back in 2000, I am amazed that we have gone from a few dozen lawyers on each side to 7,000+ lawyers on each side. Even in Ohio during the 2004 Presidential election, on the Republican side there were only about …
Continue reading "The Political Parties Bring on the Lawyers"
New York Governor David Paterson thinks that calling Barack Obama a community organiser is a racist slur: "I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black' in a sense that it would be a negative. But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican …
I agree with Rogers Holding CEO Jim Rogers that the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae takeovers are socialistic: "America is more communist than China is right now," Rogers told CNBC Europe's "Squawk Box Europe" September 8. "You can at least have a free market in housing and a lot of other things in China. And you can …
This from Abu Daoud: Folks always say they want someone who can deal with the Islamic nations intelligently and who understands them. Someone like Palin who actually BELIEVES in her religion, unlike pseudo-Catholic VP nominee Joe Biden who supports abortion rights, is that kind of person. My experience indicates in a very solid way that …
I've griped about the high incarceration rate in the U.S., and now I have company: The United States has crossed, for the first time, a dismal threshold: One out of every 100 American adults is in prison, according to the Pew Center on the States. Five states have reached the point where they are spending …
Back in February I wrote a piece entitled John McCain: My Father's Conservative, where I chided many Republicans who would rather see a Democrat elected rather than vote for McCain. Thanks be to God, the Republican Party has gotten past that, and done so in a glorious way. In the process it has seen McCain …
Continue reading "John McCain: My Father’s Conservative Sticks by his Woman"
This, from Sarah Palin's speech earlier this evening at the Republican National Convention: Senator McCain's record of actual achievement and reform helps explain why so many special interests, lobbyists, and comfortable committee chairmen in Congress have fought the prospect of a McCain presidency - from the primary election of 2000 to this very day. Our …
Continue reading "The Republicans Stampede Away from George W. Bush–at the Convention"
I originally published this piece 31 July 2005. I'm putting it up again because a) it's Labour Day weekend, and b) the political season is finally becoming a conscious reality for most Americans. It's a repeated warning about over-reliance on state institutions to advance an agenda of any kind. Since that time the Democrats have …
Continue reading "Blast From the Past: On Trade Unions and Churches"
In the last part of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, one of the most important victories that took place before the Ring was killing the Nazgul Lord. It had been prophesied that he could not be killed by a man, so the deed was started by a hobbit (Merry) and finished off by …
Continue reading "Sarah Palin, and the Most Dangerous People on Earth"
Sometimes this man amazes me: Suppose, for example, you're a voter, and you have candidate X and you have candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything but you don't think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that, on the other half, …
Continue reading "Bill Clinton, Candidate X and Candidate Y"
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