Author: Ron Coleman

Slate Magazine is diagramming Sarah Palin’s sentences, and concludes — surprise! — she’s a doofus. Scanning this article (it is not worth more than a scan), what is remarkable is that despite being one of the best all-around destinations on the Internet for good, insightful writing, when it comes to politics Slate remains utterly unselfconscious […]

Glenn Reynolds didn’t love the McCain performance at the debate, but finds folks who think the old man did great. His conclusion: You should never trust my judgment of these things, as I remember thinking that Carter won the Carter-Reagan debates. But Obama clearly won the post-debate spin, anyway. Well, is there anything — anything? […]

Don’t make me do this!: The North Koreans say they’re going to rev up their nuclear reactor because the United States hasn’t moved fast enough for its totalitarian taste on a disarmament-for-aid agreement: It is the first time the communist nation has confirmed a reversal of steps taken since last year to disable its nuclear […]

Anyone out there still thinking “four years of the Democrats to teach America a lesson“? I’m sure no one but me missed the dustup over photographer Jill Greenberg’s unprofessional behavior in her purported role as photojournalist. It’s so embarrassing even the center-left Atlantic is embarrassed (via Insty) by her antics. Here’s the thing. Dirty tricks […]

What do you get from the Democrats if you do a Google search for SARAH PALIN SPEECH? And what are the intellectual property law implications of it? Well, at least as of last night, you got something other than what you were most probably looking for, if you clicked on the top “sponsored link” for […]

Don’t feel too bad if you don’t know that Richard Greene has a radio show called “Clout.” It’s on Air America which means, of course, that the title is pretty ironic, even if it isn’t meant that way. Greene is one of those lefties who cannot fathom any reasoned basis for disagreement with his political […]

Bruce Weinstein sends along his latest column in Business Week, “The Ethics of Protesting.” A Code of Ethics for Protesting Yes, we have a responsibility to speak up when we are upset by what’s going on in the world, but there are better and worse ways to do it, from both ethical and practical perspectives. […]

“How many Democrats does it take to lose the most winnable election in American history?” Do you ever think about how many consecutive presidential elections Democrats have characterized as “the most winnable election in American history”? I would say that would include every single election that a Republican has won since since after 1980. (No […]

The headline reads: Bloggers enraged over “pretty face” fakery – Yahoo! News What does the story have to do with bloggers? Not a darned thing! Bloggers were up in arms on Wednesday over China’s decision at the Olympic opening ceremony to have a pretty little girl lip-synching for the real singer who had crooked teeth. […]

Last week was a pleasant enough week, blogging-wise, because I experienced an Instalanche over at Likelihood of Success. Why should you care? Because that brief (not unprecedented) moment of attention resulted in yet another lesson about the way the left sees the role of truth, media and the American way. I had commented on a […]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn died. Two years ago this October, on the occasion of the even of elections, I wrote on Dean’s World the following about how and why I became a conservative. That story began with Alexander Solzhenitsyn: I recognized that I was a conservative during high school, when in support of a paper I was […]

Robert Spencer on Muslims and “hate speech” laws: [T]he unrelenting and unanimous practice among Muslims of labeling any honest discussion of the elements of Islam that jihadists use to teach violence and supremacism as “hate” will bear bitter fruit in this: if it indeed becomes illegal in the U.S. to say something that Muslims deem […]

Paul Alan Levy sends this along: The latest abuse of trademark law to suppress discussion of topics of substantial public interest comes from not from a company, like most of the trademark abuses previously discussed on this blog, such as here and here, but from the Republican National Committee, which has threatened to sue CafePress.com […]

Wolf Howling makes a thorough argument that socialism, not “mere” liberalism, is at the root at the disintegration of law and order in Britain, which you have to read in full to appreciate. The conclusion: This is all a case study in why the philosophy of Karl Marx should have been interred with his bones. […]

The Feds “seized” IndyMac, the loosey-goosey mortgage lender: IndyMac will reopen fully on Monday as IndyMac Federal Bank under Federal Deposit Insurance Corp supervision, but tensions ran high as customers at a branch at its Los Angeles-area headquarters read a notice in the window saying it was closed. At another branch down the road, a […]

The brilliant Penn Jillette makes a living from being a skeptic. Skepticism, he reports in the LA Times, isn’t good enough for the “reality based community,” however — not on matters central to the canon: [S]omeone asked us about global warming, or climate change, or however they’re branding it now. Teller and I were both […]

The AP wants to make damned sure you get their point: [T]alk turns to the state of the Union, and the Optimists become decidedly bleak. They use words such as “terrified,” “disgusted” and “scary” to describe what one calls “this mess” we Americans find ourselves in. Then comes the list of problems constituting the mess: […]

This was originally posted on Dean’s World around the last national election. It’s kind of a blogger’s little Conscience of a Conservative (hence I changed the words “think” to “once thought” in the third-to-last paragraph when posting this today, as my conscience demanded). It seemed as if this piece could perhaps be an appropriate bit […]

O’Connor federal courthouse Earlier this week I was here, in the stupidestly-designed courthouse on God’s brutally-baked brown desert earth — the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse in sunny Phoenix, Arizona. It is truly a marvel of arrogance. Imagine being so utterly uninterested in anything besides how you’d like your box of Erector Set pieces to look […]

Chrysler reports that it’s shutting down minivan production. “Foreman said, ‘These jobs are goin’, boys, and they ain’t comin’ back … to your hometown.” Bruce was right then, and he’d be right to say it now, too, but not for the reasons he thinks. It’s not because of free trade, or even because folks in […]