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I love the environment; it’s the environmentalists I hate

I’m a somewhat contrary person. (Right now, those who know me well are probably off laughing hysterically somewhere at my understatement.) Because the environmentalists are pushing so hard, from Al Gore on down, my instinct is to push right back. Pushing back makes me sound as if I don’t care about the environment, but that’s […]

Big Government Provides

Milton Friedman famously said that if you put Big Government in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years there would be a shortage of sand. Put it in charge of the public restrooms at Coney Island and you get this: The city is so hard up for cash that it’s rationing toilet paper in […]

No, John Adams Did Not Pass the First Obamacare Law

Every few weeks for months now leftist bloggers have been happily touting the “fact” that our second president, John Adams, passed the first “national healthcare law” one that supposedly forced Americans to buy a form of healthcare. Unfortunately for them, this is simply untrue and comparing John Adams’ sailor’s relief act to Obamacare is misleading […]

Shame On Obama’s Ambassador to the U.K.

The political hack that Obama sent to be our ambassador to the United Kingdom has shown himself to be just that, a useless, inexpert, political hack. This hack didn’t bother to attend a large dinner given to celebrate the life and work of an American president, embarrassing Americans and British alike. Last weekend, to celebrate […]

“Killing To Control”

Bloody L! Congrats to W. F. Owen – long time British Army Theorist, Little Satan fan and GsGf’s  asymmetrical warfare counselor – scored a significant coup with publication in the latest issue of British Army Review (PDF available here and at Small Wars Journal)  with the delightfully crunk deadly ditty: “Killing Your Way To Control” […]

Obama Reduced To Playing AA Ball

For those who aren’t familiar with minor league baseball, double A baseball is two steps below playing in the majors. Sometimes, a player will jump up and play in the majors, but, will usually be dropped back to AA for more development. And, as the Politico points out, Obama is basically playing small ball, terming […]

But what do you eat on “Tau Day?”

Replace Pi with…Tau? “I know it will be called blasphemy by some, but I believe that pi is wrong.” That’s the opening line of a watershed essay written in 2001 by mathematician Bob Palais of the University of Utah. In “Pi is Wrong!” Palais argued that, for thousands of years, humans have been focusing their […]

$278,000 Per Job

The Weekly Standard recently reported that the stimulus cost, on average, $278,000 per job saved or created. The joke that we’d be better off dropping the money from planes is starting to become reality. I made a video about it below.

That’s what I’ve been saying!

The Hoover Institution’s Michael McConnell, on whether or not the federal debt ceiling is “unconstitutional:” The theory is bunk. Yes! Bunk! That’s what I’ve been saying! McConnell, a Stanford University law professor and former federal judge, uses a lot more words to explain himself than I did (as one might expect from a hifalutin’ law […]

Remembering Entebbe

Yid With Lid reminds us that July 4th marks more than just America’s independence day. (H/t: Sadie) It’s also the anniversary of Israel’s spectacular rescue at Entebbe in 1976. That was another place and time, when most in the world actually cared about Jewish lives. I wrote about the rescue back in 2007 and reprint […]

Stimulus Jobs Cost $278,000 Apiece

Jobs are not created by government, but by the absence of government. Bureaucrats can only fabricate temporary and economically illogical positions by sucking money out of the economy that would have been used to create more numerous, permanent, and useful jobs. For example, the primary pretext for Obama’s budget-busting Porkulus spree was the easing of […]

Saddam Hussein Torture Doctor at Work in British Hospital

Under socialized medicine, there is little incentive to become a doctor. Fortunately, Britain’s liberal immigration policies allow them to be imported from abroad: A doctor involved in horrific torture by Saddam Hussein’s henchmen is working in British hospitals. In an astonishing immigration scandal, border officials have allowed the suspected war criminal to treat thousands of […]

Obama’s America: Rationing Toilet Paper

Back in 2005 Democrat Senator Dick Durbin said that our soldiers were just like Nazis and were running the Soviet Gulags. Well, obviously Durbin and his extremist, left-wing hatred for our troops is off base, but we are seeing something in Obama’s America that is reminiscent of Soviet Russia: toilet paper rationing. Apparently, things have […]

Chicago: Two Anti-American Conferences Held on Independence Day

While patriotic Chicagoans attended parades, BBQs and otherwise celebrated our Independence Day holiday — and while Democrats stayed home and brooded — two of the most anti-American ideologies imaginable met to plot their revenge on the USA. Not only did representatives of these two ideologies meet, but they met in the same town, on the […]

Hooray! China’s Pollution Saved Us From Climate Change (Hoax)

Climate alarmists are really, really digging for an excuse to remain relevant China’s rapid industrial expansion may have halted global warming for much of the last decade, climate scientists claimed. They said sulphur pollution from China’s coal-fired power stations helped to keep world temperatures stable despite soaring greenhouse gas emissions. Burning coal releases carbon dioxide […]

Happy 2nd Birthday To The Economic Recovery!

One question: how’s that hopey changey thing working out for ya? Because even ABC News is wondering if you feel better yet: The Economic Recovery Turns 2: Feel Better yet? This is one anniversary few feel like celebrating. Two years after economists say the Great Recession ended, the recovery has been the weakest and most […]

Two on San Francisco

“Geez Frisco, lighten up“. S.F. doesn’t realize that social legislation is like garlic. Used sparingly, it can provide a useful kick to a dish. Overused and it makes people run away every time you open your mouth. “San Francisco goldfish ban exposes the pathology of America’s bourgeois liberal nutjobs“. The goldfish ban might seem like […]

Off This Week

I’m on vacation this week. Thanks to all the other bloggers at RWN for filling in and I’ll be back next week, same conservachannel, same conservaplace!

What Nation Building at Home Really Means

President Obama’s synopsis of the recent speech he gave describing his Afghanistan troop withdrawal was, “America, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home.” What on earth does that mean? Though lofty and nearly unimpeachable as a safely vague slogan, it is hardly new or unique to Democratic speech making. There has been […]

Patriotism when you don’t love your country

As I do every year, I went with my family to our town’s Fourth of July Parade. It’s a great parade, with all sorts of community groups participating, including the various chambers of commerce; Little League baseball teams; bagpipers (Marin is home to a thriving bagpipe community); an impressive selection of WWII vehicles from from […]