First Principles

Caligula sent a horse to the Senate. Minnesota is just sending part of the horse. — Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit May our Republic fare better.  Frank(en)ly, I think we’d be better off with the whole horse.

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As a former sailor, I have to appreciate this line from Instapundit: Drunken sailors generally spend cash that they’ve already earned themselves, rather than running up debt to be paid by others. If our politicians started spending like drunken sailors, it would in fact represent a dramatic improvement. I can only imagine the damage we […]

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“If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” – Thomas Paine

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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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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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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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As a brilliantly concise and colorful summation of my post below, I offer this via Big Bend Bikers: Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the entire economy of […]

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After skewering the origins and logic of hippy bumper stickers “Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism” and “Patriotism is the Last Refuge of Scoundrels,” the New York Post’s Ralph Peters takes on Obama’s campaign sloganeering: My fellow Americans, there is nothing audacious about hope. Hope is what makes people buy lottery tickets instead of […]

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From the Weekly Standard: When Obama delivered his famous (and effective) “just words” rejoinder to Hillary Clinton’s barbs, the speech inadvertently revealed the emptiness of Obama’s rhetoric. “All men are created equal” was indeed more than just words. It was more than “just words” because the men who signed the document that made that claim […]

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