15 May 2012
OK, that may seem a little silly, but hear me out. We are not just in a fight for liberty and the founding principles. We are in an existential fight for all of Western Civilization. Sure, it would be nice to rollback 100 years of progressive nonsense and return to our (possibly imagined) Constitutional roots, but there’s more than that. Between the collectivists and the muslims, millenia of civilization (back to Homer, kids) are in …
12 May 2012
It’s terribly unfortunate that, out of an entire four-year cycle of politics, we’ve not seen the national economy recover in any substantial way. That’s a long time for it to be languishing the way it’s been. But it affords us a unique educational opportunity because we’ve been able to watch two presidential administrations — one archetypically liberal, running for re-election, and the other one whatever passes for “conservative” in this day & age, and not …
6 May 2012
When it comes to Kerodin’s Convention in DC, I am in. From the first day they passed the seat belt law in Colorado, 1986, or thereabouts, I knew it would come to this. I chaffed at the first sign of a government obsessed with my safety and knew that one day it would grow to the point that something would have to be done about it. It never stops at common sense, once they snare you …
5 May 2012
Constitutional scholars do not impress me. I have listened to any number of them, including Representative Trey Gowdy, who recently ripped Kathleen Sebelius over the Obamacare issue. Okay, that was good and I enjoyed this video of the confrontation. Refreshing as it was, and instructive on the absolute ignorance of the Constitution and the Supreme Court and any measure of weighing Constitutionality against a bill put before congress that the Obama Administration has, even at the …
1 May 2012
Today the world is different. Our nation is different. As Americans we are being pulled in different directions, called on by society to remain silent and acquiescent to the great ramrod of collectivism, or asked to risk everything for principles and ideals that are at the heart of Americanism, but no longer supported by our government(s). Indeed, to demand that the government recognize and operate under these very ideals upon which it is based is considered …
30 Apr 2012
Now here is a picture that’s worth a zillion words… Look what’s going on there now. Green line is retraction incidents, measured in “notices” per 100,000 publications in scientific journals. Now, you could argue there may be problems with measuring it this way…but nevertheless, if the plotting is shaped like this, it’s gotta mean something. And the line more or less gels with public perception of the problems with science across time, if it doesn’t …
13 Apr 2012
Here’s the problem as I see it, whenever I attempt to communicate some ideas to the readers of this blog, I run into a problem. It is not that Romney supports guns and Obama wants to take them away, it is that every politician wants to take them away, either from an ideological police state mentality, or from a law and order, “make it safer for our guys, the government guys”, point of view. Does …
10 Apr 2012
The announcement of Santorum only confirms what we all knew, that no matter who got the GOP nomination there would be a big-government liberal in the White House after the 2012 election. The announcement only sets the field. Santorum would have been no different, in my estimation, none of them would. I know I have been through this before, but there is no, none, zero chance that any government stooge will ever do anything to …
7 Apr 2012
So the kid’s here for spring break, of which today is the last day. The fiancee and I are driving him back to Nevada today so he can resume school. We had a blast with the go-karts and the trip to the shooting range, where I lost my .40 S&W virginity and managed a decently tight grouping in spite of the wicked recoil on the Beretta. Also upgraded his home-built with a new 2GB video …
5 Apr 2012
It occurs to me that the best of us seek the justification of the Constitution to act, to not appear lawless and out of control. We seek some sort of sanctification, legitimization in our desire for liberty. We are not unreasonable about this, we don’t demand the destruction of our government, only that it would work the way it has promised to work. We want to be able to count on something. In the face of that …
This is why I say it is time for action. They have taken off their masks and they are Stalin, some are Stalin in drag. Can anything be more clear that these people are traitors? I hate to use that word, but what other definition would fit as well?
My problem is they are proud and determined traitors and just because they have the protection of the media, they think they can get away with it.
It won’t get by me.
The spectacle of the Statists wringing their hands and caterwauling over the, “gasp!”, reading of the architectural specification for the Federal government was more than revealing. It demonstrates as clearly as any recent event that there is no middle ground possible between conservatives dedicated to limited government and those who believe in no such thing.
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Too funny!
Kenny, maybe you’re living rent-free in the minds of NRO contributors. See NRO this a.m.. The Tease for Andrew McCarthy’s piece ‘Constitution Fetish’ reads, “It’s as if Dracula were complaining about a crucifix fetish.”
The piece is pretty good, but not does not reference Sobran’s legendary treatment of the topic.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/256625/constitution-fetish-andrew-c-mccarthy
Wouldn’t that be fun.
American Thinker suggests a more aggressive approach.
Yep. I speculate that there may be some plumbing work necessary, since the brain appears to be contaminated with fecal matter.