Author: Doubleplusundead

…but that isn’t going to assure victory over the left, not in the long term. A counterculture will have to grow to counteract the left’s longstanding cultural dominance in America.:  Note my choice of words, I specifically avoid declaring we “need to take back our culture,” or “we need to create a counterculture.”:  It has […]

David Brooks is always fun to kick around, so let the fun begin.:  Brooks is another one of these columnists who has run with this, “Tea Partiers are just wingnutty versions of hippies, why, they’re no conservatives at all!” idea.:  Oh, sure, there are some small similarities with the New Left, but the idea that […]

The FOIA proves its usefulness once again, we’ve discussed Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) organization before, but we now know a lot more about their strategy thanks to FOIA and some hardworking Second Amendment activists.:  A few months back, the WaPo reported that Bloomberg’s group sent a 40 point blueprint to increase gun control […]

Believers in the Second Amendment have much to be happy about, even with having a strongly anti-2nd president in power, and a party in control of Congress that traditionally doesn’t respect the 2nd Amendment. Not only have pro-2nd activists generally held the line on rights, they’ve expanded them in some cases. Obviously we had the […]

Feeling stupid yet, GOP leadership? So now the GOP leadership gets to walk around with two black eyes, the first delivered by Hoffman and conservative activists, the second by their chosen candidate.:  All this on top of the fact that they threw away over $1 million on Scozzafava’s campaign.:  At this stage, even if Hoffman […]

Yeah, I know, another David Brooks post, but he’s the ultimate human pinata and great blog fodder.:  He starts off by correctly noting that both the Democrats and GOP are fiscally reckless jackasses, and also correctly notes that the UK far ahead of us in bankrupting their nation with insane government programs and spending.:  All […]