December 19, 2008 – 11:18 am
Via Political Wire:
“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.”
And as I watch GM execs salivating as they approach the teat the White House has just extended, I wonder how they’ll manage to turn things around in three months, when they’ve spent years supposedly attempting to “be viable.”
Be prepared to stroke another huge check [...]
December 14, 2008 – 12:24 pm
How about a bailout for the taxpayer? Heaven knows I’m no Newt Gingrich fan, but this badge, and the one I’ve put in the right sidebar link to an article by Newt detailing the efforts of Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert (R) to use the billions in bailout money to declare a 90 day Federal Tax [...]
December 11, 2008 – 8:38 pm
If our Congressional douchebags representatives persist, you will be watching 43 of these bad boys on the high banks of Talladega in 2009:
Of course, this represents what you could buy in a showroom. The race version is always “green”, and will come with extra heavy-duty batteries. The specter of the big one will be [...]
December 5, 2008 – 10:00 pm
75 years ago today, the largest liberty-infringing, misguided moralistic social engineering experiment in the history of the United States ended, with the repeal of Prohibition1
As with most prohibitions on most things, the Prohibition era achieved the exact opposite of its aspirations: the cost of bad and dangerous liquor went up; drunkenness and its associated [...]
November 23, 2008 – 4:12 pm
Via The Agitator, a civics exam which was administered to 2500 people. The average score by elected US public officials on this exam was a paltry 44%, while the general public clocked in with 49%, an F in most of the schools I attended1.
I don’t understand how anyone, regardless of station, can’t do better [...]
November 10, 2008 – 5:26 pm
There won’t be another Clinton in the White House for a while, anyhow.
No more of these sad sacks:
Dick Cheney
Condolezza Rice
Michael Chertoff
Kip Hawley
Michael Mukasey
I fervently hope the cure won’t be worse than the disease.
-k-
November 4, 2008 – 8:48 pm
Washington Post Editorial Headline:
Vote!
‘It will make you feel big and strong.’
And, then, I came across this post referencing the WaPo piece, written with passion and eloquence that I can only dream of:
This attitude reflects the myth that political action is as noble, or even nobler, than private actions. Much more so than if I [...]
November 4, 2008 – 8:15 pm
Just one more day, and the government can go back to screwing us quietly instead of auditioning for the job of screwing us.
Indeed.
-k-
November 4, 2008 – 6:37 am
From the comment thread on this post from Anarchy in Your Head, this:
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. — Lysander Spooner
If someone attempts to crowd ahead of you in line at the polls today, it wasn’t me.
-k-
November 2, 2008 – 1:34 pm
While visiting the Lawrence(KS) Journal-World website to get the link for the previous gridiron post, I paused for a moment on the story on the front page: Obama has received more contributions from Kansans than McCain. The Google map on that link shows a lot of blue; I take it that these are the [...]
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