I went to one Tea Party/Tax Day Protest yesterday, a friend of mine went to another, and I haven’t spoken to anyone who went to the third one, which was not really a rally/protest because (a) it was held at a hotel, and (b) it was limited occupancy. You needed reservations. The reviews are in: if we are going to have a vibrant, active Tea … Continue reading Friday Morning Quarter-Backing the Tax Day Tea Parties in Austin
This link forwarded to me this AM. Looks familiar. http://patriotpost.us/petition/declaration/ Continue reading The Patriot Declaration
Watching the US House pass the healthcare bill two nights ago left me shaking my head and my ire at democrats skyrocketing. I can’t and will not listen to them, and refuse to believe they can ever be trusted with the keys to the country. Eleven states are prepared to file suit against this legislation and I hope against all hope they are successful. (Brings … Continue reading Liberty dies to applause and to cheers of “yes we can”
For whatever reason, my personal brand of self-expression seems to tickle Kathryn. What can I say? After 6 minutes of actuarial foreplay, with a climax of “If you think that [the American people] want a government takeover of health care, I respectfully submit, you aren’t listening to them,” my conservative bodice is officially ripped. What isn’t shown in the video is the sputtering, rambling, shambling, … Continue reading K-Lo’s My Homie
Barack Obama urges his supporters to get “in your face.” The attempt to silence critics that Michelle Malkin recounts deserves much more attention than its been getting. Continue reading Just when I thought it couldn’t get uglier…
Barack Obama is complaining to the Department of Justice and threatening stations and networks with legal action to stop them from airing an independent ad that links him to domestic terrorism by way of his association with Bill Ayers. As Michelle Malkin points out, that doesn’t bode well for freedom of speech under an Obama administration. Obama calls the ad an “appalling lie.” But everything … Continue reading The New Censorship
For some time now, rates of violent crime in Europe have been far higher than in the United States. Now, increasingly, it has a racist and religious edge to it, as gangs of North Africans and Turks attack native Europeans. Links to Muslim immigration are obvious, though information suggesting as much is officially suppressed. What strikes me, but Europeans rarely remark upon, is the role … Continue reading European Violence and Gun Control
Wretchard quotes Mark Steyn, speaking in Vancouver before he goes on trial: What we’re up against is not primarily defined by what’s going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those are still essentially military campaigns and we’re good at those. … it might be truer to say that this is a Cold Civil War – by which I mean a war within the west. The real … Continue reading Steyn in Vancouver—One Time Only!
Brian Hollar reflects on happiness and Iceland: While it is true that people in wealthier countries are happier than people in poorer countries, there is only weak correlation inside those countries between happiness and wealth. (In other words, if you live in a wealthy nation, earning a lot of income probably won’t buy you a whole lot of happiness relative to a modest income.) My … Continue reading Hollar on Happiness
Michael Malone writes in today’s Wall Street Journal about the new frontier of widespread entrepreneurship: The entire world seems to be heading toward points of inflection. The developing world is embarking on the digital age. The developed world is entering the Internet era. And the United States, once again at the vanguard, is on the verge of becoming the world’s first Entrepreneurial Nation…. In the … Continue reading The New Frontier
The View from Alexandria 