First Principles

A few days ago I blogged about the badly reasoned attacks of “hypocrisy” from Las Vegas City Life blogger Steve Sebelius.  He found my post, and yesterday attempted to justify his initial argument with some more bad analogies and a dirty joke.  Apparently the Las Vegas City Life website doesn’t do trackbacks, so I’ll do […]

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In President Obama’s speech Tuesday night, he complained on several occasions about his “inherited deficit.”  I heard him do it again this morning.  It was a classless dig and unnecessary to say, but beyond the rudeness it of course was true, at least to a point.  George Bush spent too much money on social entitlements […]

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Via House of Eratosthenes, best summation of a Non-State of the Union State of the Union speech ever:

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During the Bush Administration, there were a few members of the military who deserted their country and their brothers in arms.  In order to justify their treason, they decided on their own that the Iraq war was Unconstitutional.  Their legal reasoning was absurd, but more importantly, they didn’t have the authority or standing to make […]

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Oh good Lord.  (Seen yesterday morning in Carson City, NV, on a utility van of all things.)

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From Big Hollywood’s highlight/lowlight reel, here’s number 4 on the lowlights: Let’s just say that last night Hugh Jackman did for Wolverine what Hayden Christensen did for Darth Vader. Heh.  I would have said the total shunning of Gran Torino should have that spot, but I love the line anyway.

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Apparently, the Culture of Dependence isn’t just something Obama wants Americans to take part in with regard to their own government.  Now the Secretary of State is begging China to buy up more and more of our country, so we can be dependent on and at the mercy of a rising foreign power.  Brilliant! In […]

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Las Vegas City Life columnist Steve Sebelius doesn’t think so – at least not without being a rank hypocrite! Wait a second — you’re telling us that two Assembly Republicans totally disagree with the concept of the stimulus package, but also that they think Nevada didn’t get enough in the stimulus package? What kind of […]

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As I was perusing through one of Instapundit’s many great links earlier today, I followed one and found this comment on another article that really caught my attention.  It’s worth quoting in its entirety: Please continue to talk about this. I love that so many people are talking about how unfair it is for people […]

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Yesterday in the RGJ, there was a piece by local columnist David Jacobs snarkily noting that neither George Bush nor Congressional Republicans (back when they held majorities) were all that fiscally conservative.  He further suggested that lack of economic smarts helped cause the economic problems we have now. He’s right. So why, then, would he […]

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Amused Cynic points out this centuries-old but all-too-relevant warning from James Madison in Federalist No. 61: It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; […]

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At a protest of President Obama: They held their signs up high: “Don’t tread on me,” “Spend all you want, I’ll pick up the tab,” “I’ll keep my freedom! You keep the change!” “Free fertility drugs now.” And “B.O. smells and so does Socialism.” A Gilbert woman, with a sign that said, “Fund bikini wax […]

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Embattled Sen. Roland W. Burris’ legal and political problems deepened Tuesday as Democrats in Washington and Illinois signaled that they would support an investigation into whether the senator lied under oath about his appointment to the Illinois Senate seat. So who would have thunk that a guy appointed by an impeached Chicago politician would be […]

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I recently received a fascinating small business take on the stimulus, which articulated very well some thought I have had that have been percolating for awhile.  The bottom line is that while we may argue about whether spending or tax cuts are the best way to “stimulate” the economy, the worst possible thing you can […]

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Despite harboring insurgents killing our soldiers in Iraq, and supplying Hezbollah terrorists elsewhere in the region, Obama has decided to make overtures to Syria a first-month priority, sending no less than John Kerry to that country to make sure they know how friendly we are these days to our certain-to-be-soon-to-be-former enemies. (For some unrelated reason […]

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Remember when the bailout had to be passed NOW NOW NOW?  When every second counted?  When every hour that went by meant hundreds of lost jobs that could otherwise be saved?  Obama himself wrote of the urgency of each day: Because each day we wait to begin the work of turning our economy around, more […]

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Waking up to reality after being in a dream world is never a pretty thing, as evidenced by this profanity laced screed excoriating a fellow “journalist” over at the Huffington Post.  It’s from a very liberal (self described Marxist) who nonetheless realized that he couldn’t deny the truths of our still fragile but undeniable success […]

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Via Instapundit and a bunch of other people, a Calvin & Hobbes take on the “stimulus”: Read the whole strip here.

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On the stock market’s reaction to the non-information given to us by Obama’s treasury secretary, the man who was so singularly indispensable that we were forced to disregard his tax cheating: He came. He spoke. The market tanked. He went. The market tanked some more. Such is the power of Treasury Secretary Geithner.

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“Leadership” requires “Decision making.”  In order to make a decision, you have to look at two or more choices and make a value judgment about them – which one is better than the other?  You have to “discriminate” between the choices. But extreme liberalism teaches us that choosing one value over another and discrimination are […]

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