Author: Ron Coleman

On Facebook last week I sent a message to 100 or so politically-engaged FB “friends” along the lines of, have you ever noticed that on the Internet there’s almost nowhere to breathe if you’re a conservative but not a libertarian? In fact I did a search of “groups” on Facebook using the word “libertarian” and […]

Harold Meyerson: Take it from a democratic socialist: Laissez-faire American capitalism is about to be supplanted not by socialism but by a more regulated, viable capitalism. And the reason isn’t that the woods are full of secret socialists who are only now outing themselves. Judging by the failures of the great Wall Street investment houses […]

Instapundit defends those protesting Davids: RICK MORAN THINKS THE “TEA PARTY” PROTESTS are amateurish and disorganized. . . . Of course they’re amateurish. Most of these people have never organized a protest before (hence the tendency to do things like forget bullhorns). That’s what you get at the beginning of a movement. But it’s much […]

NYU’s administration doesn’t think collegiate protest is so groovy when you’re The Man: After renewed calls for negotiations between NYU officials and student body protestors after a night of intense rioting, those who were still barricaded in the college cafeteria Friday have finally ended their sit-in protest. I have never understood what leverage students have […]

A blog called Zero Hedge says “the world almost came to an end” last September — and we’re hearing about it just now: LiveLeak has caught a scary moment of previously undisclosed insight by Paul Kanjorski where he reveals some facts that have not been captured by the media previously. At 2 minutes and 20 […]

Yes, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and it’s that time of day of the United Nations — actually describing objective facts related to the Israeli-Arab conflict that depart from the “noble savages” script regarding Palestinians. Get this: Christopher Gunness, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, said Hamas […]

Last week it was the O-Team preparing for lighting raids on Obama-brand-equity rustlers. But maybe the Obama Administration needs to set its own White House house in order, as the AP reports that the AP is coming after President Obama for its piece of icon pie. It turns out that The Image is based on, […]

Bloomberg News reports that “my generation”‘s President is every bit as thoroughly modern as you’d expect. In other words, no unauthorized drawing down of his icon-equity will be permitted: White House lawyers want to control the use of the president’s image, recognizing the worldwide fascination about Obama’s election, First Amendment free-speech rights and easy access […]

In Long Island federal court last week, I lost hard, I lost bad, and I lost big. Did I lose fair? If you’ve got the stomach for it, read this and decide. Here’s the problem, and why conservatives should care: If you read my analysis at LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION you’ll see that something is terribly […]

I heard about this story on sports radio Friday morning, and while I appreciated the hosts’ outrage, I think they missed the point: A Texas high school girls basketball team has apologized for winning big. The Covenant School, a private Christian high school in Dallas, defeated Dallas Academy last week in a blowout: 100-0. . […]

Every year around Super Bowl time I post an item about the NFL’s overzealous efforts to impose a gridiron grip on all aspects of its somewhat valuable SUPER BOWL trademark: In 2007, the NFL tried to claim ownership of the euphemism of choice for the Big Game, THE BIG GAME Later that year, someone picked […]

Rank antisemitism, of the “back into the ovens” variety, is now officially unremarkable in the streets of liberal Western democracies. Give Glenn Reynolds credit: Believe it or not, his running links to each publication of a column or blog item pointing out the gross Sturmer-ization of the world media about Israel — “It was the […]

The “Muslim world” and its friends caterwaul constantly that America never gives its leaders and its people fair consideration, that it doesn’t treat them as “full partners” in various and sundry “dialogues” and “processes,” and that it unfairly favors the literate and liberal Zionist regime that causes all the world’s problems. It’s really quite a […]

YouTube is at it again, or something. We’ve blogged before and even taken to the airwaves to discuss the political abuse of YouTube’s terms of use, the copyright laws and the trademark laws. YouTube seems to have a great deal of tolerance for pretextual use of supposedly content neutral rule systems that just happen to […]

A few months ago a well-meaning friend — ok, ok, a consultant — told me that if I really wanted my blog to take off at this mature stage of the development of the general blogosphere, a good way to do it would be to get involved in Twitter. At first I was utterly stumped […]

From the inimitable Johnny Dollar at Olbermann Watch: A new year means a time to look back and honor those who have achieved greatness in the year preceding. For that reason, we take this opportunity to reveal the winners of the 2008 Olby Awards, as determined by the Olbermann Watch Awards and Recognition Committee. If […]

Apparently, Instapundit thinks comparing apples and oranges is better than making solid analytical arguments when you think you can make a cheap score against one of those old-fashioned “morality” based public policies: IS SELLING PEOPLE PORN worse than robbing them? Apparently, the Justice Department thinks so. Perhaps things will be better in this regard under […]

Pajamas Media columnist M.P. MacConnell writes, regarding the “How the Netroots Brought Down Obama’s Spymaster.” (Via Glenn.) Get this: Regardless of political affiliation, the “Netroots” (a term used to describe those whose political activism is primarily manifested online) are a mob, and as is normally the case in mob attacks, there are ringleaders. In this […]

It would be best if New Jersey, where I live, had taxation, social and economic policies that encouraged economic growth instead of discouraging it, but it doesn’t. And it is ironic that those most vulnerable to bad economic policy routinely vote into office the people most responsible for the policies that contribute to their misery […]

It’s a brave new world, and their favorite son is not even in office yet: Workers who got three days’ notice that their factory was shutting its doors have occupied the building and say they won’t go home without assurances they’ll get severance and vacation pay. About 250 union workers occupied the Republic Windows and […]

Instapundit links to John Thompson, who writes: The Mumbai attacks represent a scenario that few Western police and security forces have dared envision. Fewer still have prepared for it. The basic strategy: use a large number of attackers to overwhelm a target city’s ability to respond, and then suddenly switch focus to high value targets […]

K. Ryan James (who is in fact a bit of a big deal): So for Barry, when did it all become about Barry? Now note that I somehow missed the moment when Barack became “Barry.” I picked this up on right wing blogs all too late to get in on the fun and, as regulars […]

I wondered if perhaps the Mumbai attacks were enough for Reuters “news service” to admit the existence of terrorism? Here’s the article. The answer: Nope. “Militants” all. “Fighters.” Because after all, if they’re merely killing you-know-whos … who’s to say? Ron Coleman says every day on Likelihood of Success, where this item was cross-posted Add […]

Extremist Muslims lashing out angrily at the West, as leverage on the Hindu majority in India, have slaughtered over 100 people in the Indian city of Mumbai. These people were killed, in classical Islamist terrorist style, for just being who they are. So naturally the Jews were on their list of targets too, and the […]

Instapundit: THOUGHTS ON gay rights and the G.O.P.’s future: “It’s not that we’re likely to crack more than 35% of the gay vote (well, maybe 40%). But, to win back the suburbs, Republicans can’t alienate suburbanites. And anti-gay attitudes don’t resonate with families who have known gay people in college -and maybe even in the […]

Pace Emmett Tyrell, now is the conservative crackup. Melissa Clouthier is right: You really have to take a few minutes to watch this, the whole thing, to get a sense of where we aren’t going, and how we aren’t getting there. I don’t know what to make of it. First of all it’s hardly clear […]

Princeton University announced last month that Shirley M. Tilghman, the University’s president, will serve as “one of the founding trustees for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, a new international, coeducational, graduate-level research university that is being created near Saudi Arabia’s second largest city, Jeddah.” Isn’t that an odd choice for a high commissar […]

We took our kids to the Norwalk Maritime Aquarium last weekend, and forked over a bunch of dollars so they could see an IMAX film about the Grand Canyon. It was, in many respects, a real pleasure. The awesomeness of God’s creation was well depicted in the soaring photography, and we learned a lot about […]

This is the last of the Info-Me-Cials that were already published (the last two were on Facebook only until now). The theme: Big government, wealth redistribution, high taxes and union giveaways work great — just remember what they did for New York City! Ron Col — oh, never mind….

Lots of people have noticed that Barack Obama’s speeches don’t really say that much. He seems to be able to “inspire” a certain kind of person just by being Obama. It’s a visceral, emotional reaction, like the very best found in supporters of leaders of… let’s just say governmental systems not called “democracies”… some of […]