Drill Baby Drill
Well, the left has moved into full “I told you so” mode. They are taking the recent incident with the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig as proof that oil exploration is inherently dangerous to our environment. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is one isolated incident and not really indicative of the safety … Read more
Razing Arizona
I got a couple of angry comments about yesterday’s post, accusing me of indifference to civil rights. It’s not that I’m indifferent, it’s just that I’m not an absolutist. There are a lot of well-accepted exceptions to our fundamental civil rights, so what’s one more? The right to free speech doesn’t let you yell ”Fire!” … Read more
Arizona Status Police
There’s been a lot of controversy about the recently signed Arizona law (SB 1070) which makes it a lot easier (by which I mean mandatory) to determine the residency status of people in Arizona. There’s a lot of back-and-forth as to what the bill actually says, so here’s the relevant portion: ARTICLE 8. ENFORCEMENT OF … Read more
“Sort of the Best Thing I Ever Did”
Dick Cheney was on Dennis Miller’s radio show last Thursday, when the following exchange took place: MILLER: By the way, my, I also want to thank you, on the list of things I feel I should thank you for, almost kicking Patrick Leahy’s ass. Thank you very much. CHENEY: Heh heh heh heh. MILLER: I … Read more
Gerrymandering the Uterus
Well, this whole census situation has got me thinking. Sure, it could be used to gather people into internment camps, like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) strongly did not say: But the census data are also used to determine how many Representatives each state gets, and where the federal government allocates funds. So, if we can’t … Read more
The Violent Left
David Gutmann at the American Spectator recently published a thought provoking article, in which he explains that the most violent language historically comes from the left, despite the most fervent claims and wishes of the ‘lame-stream’ media. From the article: I agree that there is no place in our politics for ugly threats; but I … Read more
The Bachmann Curve
In my never-ending quest to learn more about Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), I ran across this frightening revelation (from December 2009): “The federal government now owns or controls 30 percent of the private economy. Just over a year ago, you couldn’t say that. Just over a year ago, 100 percent of the private economy was … Read more
The Electoral College and Fairness
I hear a lot of complaints about the electoral college, and from both sides of the debate. Some people believe it over-represents the less populated states since they get more electoral college votes per resident. For example, California gets 55 electoral college votes with a population of 36,961,664 people, whereas Wyoming gets three electoral college … Read more
Unreasonable Accommodation, Part Two
The Republican Heretic is also covering the recent Mike Huckabee interview, and in a post yesterday he covered another part of the same interview that deserves comment. Huckabee was asked about a law, recently passed in Arkansas, that prohibits same-sex couples from becoming adoptive or foster parents: Interviewer: “Arkansas passed a ban on gay adoptions … Read more
AZ Does It
Posted by ThomPaine on April 28, 2010 · 4 Comments
There continues to be a chorus of whining from the left about Arizona’s new anti-illegal alien law. It’s not scheduled to go into effect until August, but it’s already the worst thing to happen to America since Gitmo. And that’s actually not a bad analogy, come to think of it. When a situation gets bad … Read more
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