Tag: "Nanny Fascism"
President Obama: The State of the Union is…Hey! Get Back in Line, You!
I admit, I didn’t watch President Obama’s State of the Union address. I rarely watch big Presidential speeches live; I get a far better sense of the speech when I wait a little bit and read the full text (and you can get that text from the peerless Andrew Malcolm here). I’m glad I read [...]
Stripped-Down Grannies, Curly Bulbs, and What’s Next?
Mark Steyn wrote about the same TSA stories I noted over the weekend and his conclusion, well, I couldn’t have written better.
The TSA: Keeping You Safe from Teenagers’ Purses and Little Old Ladies
Why do we allow the TSA to continue to exist? This is a serious question, folks. There isn’t a person alive who can name one terrorist the TSA has caught, not one plot the agency’s automatons have thwarted with their rigid adherence to rules built by brainless bureaucrats.
Our Problem is Too Much Freedom, Says the Super Smart Guy.
Peter Orszag, the former Director of the Office of Budget and Management in the Obama administration, thinks we have entirely too much democracy. According to him, we need lots of commissions and panels that will just do things for us, without all that messy voting and debating and gridlock. In an 1814 letter to John [...]
Sheer Delusion: HHS Launches National “Shut Up and Sit Down” School Campaign
If I had to pick one major difference between conservatives and progressives, it would be that conservatives choose to deal with the world as it is while progressives believe they can alter the unalterable until it matches their view of what the world should be. You will not find a better illustration of this difference [...]
The Left’s New Civility: Hostage Tactics and Death Threats
You would expect, given all the talk from Democrats about how we need more civility in our political discourse and how “violent rhetoric” is as dangerous as actual violence, that the left would react to last night’s vote in Wisconsin with moderation and calm. Except they haven’t quite figure out how to manage a civil, [...]
It’s Not a Death Panel If It’s Just One Person, Right?
I don’t suppose it’s far for me to point to this story and mutter “Death Panels” under my breath because an actual panel isn’t involved. It’s just one woman who, thanks to the her national government, wields a ridiculous amount of power and wants to let babies die because she thinks the money spent to [...]
Why is Michael Moore a Socialist? It Rhymes with “Wreconimic Lupidity”
Someone decided it would be a good idea to sit the Baron Harkonnen-ish Michael Moore in front of a camera and capture his gaseous emanations for posterity. The result was a cloud of stale socialism and self-righteous stank that Doug Powers, Bryan Preston, and Jonah Goldberg all treated the same way you’d treat the air [...]
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