Wash Post’s Cohen: GOP Should Compromise… Like They Did With Slavery?

Richard Cohen is what passes for an opinion editorialist in the Washington Post — not a learned one, just a bloviating one. Cohen’s latest, “The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” is at the same time as self-loathing as it is historically stupid. Not only does this nonsense Cohen ladled out upon us all serve an example […]

 

San Francisco Landlords Go Galt

Believing that housing should be provided at someone else’s expense, progressives are no friends of landlords, whom they persecute at every opportunity. Imagine how much fun it must be to provide people an opportunity to rent homes in a city completely run by moonbats — namely San Francisco. Some landlords have had enough: In San […]

 

Taxing by the Mile

The primary purpose of federal taxes is not to raise revenue. If it were, the Laffer Curve dictates that rates be lowered, as Reagan and JFK illustrated. Since Big Government prints all the money it wants, essentially taxing us through inflation, the only point of direction taxation is to exert control. That’s why the Obama […]

 

Hats Off to Canada

Even as Barack Hussein Obama tries to force the center-right USA to the left by ramming through exceedingly unpopular legislation like ObamaCare, Stephen Harper is leading more liberal Canada in the opposite direction: Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper won his coveted majority government in elections that changed Canada’s political landscape with the opposition Liberals and […]

 


Federalist Papers Identified How Democrats Would Destroy Us

Our fourth president, James Madison, has been called the father of the Constitution for not inconsiderable reasons. Madison was highly educated, widely read, and well thought of. He was also a prescient man. Madison was so prescient that in February of 1788 he was able to describe the precise reasons why his beloved Republic would […]

 

Man Arrested for Reading Bible

Since this didn’t happen in Saudi Arabia or Iran, it could only have been in moonbattery-ravaged California — a man was actually hauled off in handcuffs for reading a Bible aloud: When Mark Mackey, a member of the local Calvary Chapel, showed up to the DMV office in Hemet, CA on February 2, he had […]

 


Free speech, in all its glorious ugliness

Barry Rubin sounds a tocsin at Pajamas Media about the way in which political correctness is slowly but steadily eroding free speech in America, leaving us to speech norms more commonly seen in repressive Middle Eastern countries. As he explains, there’s a reason “the authors of the American Constitution forbade limits on freedom of speech: […]

 

Obama Administration to Top Pharmaceutical Exec Howard Solomon: You’re Fired

Obama may be a communist by upbringing and inclination, but at this point his “fundamental transformation of America” more closely resembles fascism. Under communism, the government directly owns everything, and everyone works for it, essentially as a slave. In subtle contrast, fascism allows for ostensibly private concerns that in reality are run by the government. […]

 


Passover and the suffering necessary to end tyranny

Tonight marks the first night of Passover, the ancient Jewish holiday celebrating the Jews’ release from bondage and, I think, their reaffirmed commitment to God. I wrote the following post last year for Passover, and republished it once more a few months ago. It focuses on Iran, but I think you could easily substitute Syria, […]

 

Tim Berners-Lee: Internet Access Is a Human Right

Now that we are endowed with our fundamental rights not by our Creator, but by the liberal ruling class, practically anything can qualify as a human right. Tim Berners-Lee found one right where you might expect: Two decades after creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee says humans have become so reliant on it that […]

 

The Tyrant and His Chains: A Reminder to Reid, Graham & Obama

From NewsReal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! In 1989, the offices of my neighborhood newspaper were firebombed by a terrorist. Molotov cocktails ignited a blaze that gutted the first floor of the building, incinerated furniture, and left computers and telephones all but vaporized. A short time later, […]

 

Afghanistan Murder Apologists Reid & Graham Call for Free Speech Limits & Koran Burning Inquiry

From Newsreal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! This is utterly revolting: U.S. lawmakers said Sunday they would consider a request by AfghanPresident Hamid Karzai to formally condemn a Florida pastor’s decisionto burn the Koran, after the act triggered deadly riots in Afghanistan. Note that once again it is being said that one act […]

 

Medicare Is Mandatory

How nice of the government to thoughtfully confiscate our hard-earned money and use it to buy us subpar healthcare under Medicare. But what if some people would prefer to write off the loot expropriated, and pay again for superior private care? Under rule by liberals, they are out of luck: [T]he idea of patient choice […]

 


TSA wants your DNA

I’ll bet you thought the TSA’s “enhanced” patdown procedures could not possibly get more invasive. Think again. Beginning this summer TSA will start collecting travelers’ DNA. According to a report from The Daily the Department of Homeland Security plans to deploy portable DNA scanners at U.S. points of entry. They’re about the size of a […]

 

FCC’s Michael Copps Demands His Critics Be Silenced

Most of the insidious bureauweenies eating away America from within remain as faceless as they are unaccountable. But a few distinguish themselves for their open belligerence toward our fundamental liberties: Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps made a case for a government hand in media policy in a speech to the FCBA [Federal Communications Bar Association] […]

 

Canada Takes Tentative Step Toward Freedom of the Press

Even in Canada, though it often gutters low, the flame of liberty is still alive. A CRTC [Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission] proposal that could make it easier to broadcast false or misleading news has prompted confusion and criticism among opposition MPs and consternation in at least one of the unions that represents Canadian journalists. […]

 

Jesse Ventura May Not Have Time To Bleed, But, Plenty Of Time To Sue DHS

Ventura may a massive 9/11 Truther, and, surprisingly, that wacko viewpoint doesn’t enter in his lawsuit, but, he does have a good darned point Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be […]

 

Readers Choice of My Top Fifteen Posts (on The Lid) For 2010

Since it the end of the year many of my favorite bloggers are making their choice of their favorite posts of the year. For example John Hawkins posted The 15 Most Popular Political Posts On Linkiest For 2010 and The 20 Most Popular Non-Political Links On Linkiest For 2010 this morning. As I will be […]

 

Why Our Government Backed Communist Coup Against Democratic Ally

Manuel Zelaya, a corrupt thug with close ties to organized crime, tried to seize totalitarian control of our ally Honduras, with the apparent goal of reducing it to a communist police state in the orbit of Cuba and Venezuela. Appallingly, despite America’s long history of supporting freedom, Zelaya’s fellow leftists in our government backed him […]

 

Indiana County Throwing Man off His Own Property For Living in Camper

A county government in Indiana has decided that a man that is bothering no one, a man living a very simple lifestyle, a man living on his own property must be evicted from it. Why have these jackbooted government thugs decided that this must be done? Because the man has the gall to live so […]

 


Congress Giving FDA Power Over Our Food

(The outrageous attacks by our government on our freedoms and liberties are coming in wave after wave. From attempts to take over the Internet, to attempts to eliminate free political speech with incumbent protection acts, to all manner of other usurpations, every day government is attempting wild power grabs. We are being attacked on every […]

 

Smitty, Good Luck and Godspeed….

Smitty (AKA, Chris Smith) over at The Other McCain has announced in a recent blog post that he will be reporting to Kabul, Afghanistan in time for Christmas, and that he will not be writing anymore blog posts until late 2011. To be specific, Smitty wrote the following about his upcoming deployment to Afghanistan: “Stacy […]

 


King Street Poll Watchers Absolved of Harassment

At one of the last poll watcher training sessions held by the King Street Patriots on November 1, Assistant Harris County Attorney Doug Ray made an admission that contravenes the media meme that charges KSPs poll watchers with harassing voters here in Harris County, Texas. All week the media and Democrats have charged that voters […]