Tag: "Freedom"
Will the Internet Balkanize? Not Anytime Soon, I Don’t Think.
If you’re looking for something to ponder this weekend, let me recommend this piece in the Economist about the Internet in the modern age to you (via Melissa Clouthier’s Twitter feed). The article looks at the challenges of keeping the internet open in the face of obvious threats to national security such as WikiLeaks, reassertion [...]
Oh Yeah, Canada!
Guess who is showing some serious leadership chops at the United Nation today. Go on. Guess. No, not Barack Obama. He gave the same old speech that assumed history began the day he was inaugurated, sucked up to the climate change cult and the petty tyrants, and hung Israel out to dry. Guess again. Oh, [...]
Of Course the Tea Party Protests Are About Freedom.
I don’t know John Batchelor except from a fairly obscure late-night talk show he does. It’s not a bad show, though I find it a bit boring, but he seems to do okay with it and good on him for that. However, he also writes at Tina Brown’s site The Daily Beast, where he purports [...]
It Wasn’t Obamacare that Made America Angry, Dems.
Watch this, then ask yourself if it’s really all that unreasonable for folks to be angry at their legislators. She excused her rudeness by saying, “In Congress, we have to multi-task.” Oh, that’ll mollify the people you treated like serfs. I’ve been percolating the thought recently that the voter anger we’ve been seeing over Obamacare [...]
Pelosi and Hoyer Have Crossed the Line
It’s come to this: the official position of the leadership of the House Democrats is that vocal, public opposition to whatever they want to do is “un-American”. This burns me. It’s not enough that Pelosi and Hoyer are lying through their teeth about what their health care scheme will do, once they finally figure out [...]
Live Free or Don’t. Whatever.
Perhaps the most famous state motto in the country, New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die”, turned 200 years old on July 31. That means, of course, that it has to go. After all, young people can’t possibly relate to having to fight for anything other than their right to party. I warn you, if you [...]
That’s What You Said