First Principles

What do you call it when a gift is forced on you, “for your own good” as well as the good of your family and neighbors? And then what happens when you try to give that gift back, and aren’t allowed to? What happens when the response to the attempt to give that gift back […]

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A friend of mine sent me this: These communist dictator Obama posters creep me out generally, but this one just made me smile.  Part of it was that Optimus Prime was such a hero to me as a kid, but there was something else about it.  I couldn’t quite put my finger on it until […]

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The debate over the economic stimulus package gets dumber and dumber.  No one knows how this package will actually “stimulate” the economy.  No one even really knows what that means.  At least, no one in Congress or in the White House. And so in their ignorance, they seize on the only direct metric they can […]

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In Saturday’s RGJ, one of the contributing columnists wrote a piece so absurd, so hyperbolic, that there are only two possibilities:  That the writer is mentally ill, or that he is a Republican impersonating a liberal in order to discredit the Left. For sheer comic value, it must be examined in detail.

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Whoa – not in this country. First there are the unsettling Obama/dictator posters.  Then came the media slobbering love fest.  And now we have a video of a bunch of celebrities literally making public pledges to be Barack Obama’s “servant”. The Obama love-fest keeps getting creepier.

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I’ve always said that people who think global warming is the existential threat its proponents claim it is should go all in.  They should ban Christmas lights, street lights, impose blackout-like energy curfews, enforce limits on home sizes, etc.  We could go back to WWII style gas ration cards, and ban unecessary road trips.  People […]

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Literally:

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