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Today Your Car; Tomorrow the Totalitarian State?
Okay, civil libertarians, it’s about the time where the rubber hits the road. We’ve heard a lot of talk from some quarters about how our rights are being eroded right out from underneath us thanks to seven years of His Fascist Chimpitude. Now, I’ve yet to actually see one of these eroded rights, but I [...]
She Really Is Clueless, Isn’t She?
Two rules for television hosts: 1) If you’re going to do a segment on campaign “humor”, be sure you bring your sense of humor to the set. 2) If you’re going to do a segment on campaign “humor” with a guy who wrote the book “Generation S.L.U.T.”, make sure you understand the guy’s dry and [...]
John McCain: He Was For The Democratic Process Before he Was Against It?
David Freddoso, until recently a confirmed Fredhead like me, saw much to like in John McCain’s statement to the marchers at yesterday’s March for Life. Here’s the bit he thought was pretty good: While our nation struggles with the issue of abortion and the division it has wrought on our society and culture, Americans on [...]
Civic Virtues? Nah, Our Kids Don’t Need To Learn Those…
Here’s the story. Last monght, there was a food fight in a local Washington, DC high school that got a bit out of control. Food, drink, and trays flew which caused a bit of a mini-stampede to get out of the cafeteria. Fortunately, no one got hurt. After two days with no cuplrits fessing up [...]
Is Domestic Violence Against Men Okay?
From Dr. Helen, a video PSA that purports to tell me that adultery is bad but that sure looks like it’s saying that domestic violence against men is AOK. The group that has put it out is advocating the principles in a book written by L. Ron Hubbard. Dr. Helen wants to know if the [...]
For Universal Health Care and Other Platitudes, Amen
At some point, the Democratic candidates are going to be asked about the hypocrisy of using church services as campaign stops while railing against religious folks for wanting their views to be an important part of the nation’s fabric. I wonder how they’d answer. I suspect the real answer is that they don’t take religion [...]
Abortion, Nazis, and Carrots. What??
So long as embarrassing columns like this one keep masquerading as a reasoned argument, we’re never going to satisfactorily solve the abortion debate in this country. How ridiculous is the column? Well, here’s one of the author’s big arguments: Harvesting carrots, on a consistent pro-life hypothesis, would constitute something of a massacre. Ooooooooookay. If that [...]
Making Tiny Communists
I came across an interesting article called “Why We Banned Legos” written by a couple of teachers who proudly proclaim that they had banished Legos from their Kingdom of Education to teach their children a “community of fairness” and “social justice”. Basically, they decided to indoctrinate the children into the failed world of communism and [...]
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