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Audacity of Truth
Marginalizing Terror:
"Why? Whether it’s al Qaeda Central, or two twisted, perverted, cowardly knock-off jihadists here in Boston. Why do they do what they do?”
VP Biden, speaking at the memorial service for slain MIT police offer Sean Collier - 4/24/2013
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BREAKING: Politician refreshingly honest on a topic – media, pundits rush to condemn
(NOTE: I’m working to fix the Tweet links in this post so that they show up as actual tweets. Thanks.) Sigh. Via The Politico: COSTA MESA, Calif. — Mitt Romney held a hastily arranged press conference here to engage in damage control hours after a video surfaced that showed him at a private May fundraiser [...]
Profiles in epic failures: @MikeBloomberg’s “let’s combat obesity!” Twitter feed
No need for me to comment. Read and judge the highlight (lowlight) reel for yourself (via @ThePantau): Is purchasing two 16 oz sodas too much of an inconvenience to help reverse a national health catastrophe? bit.ly/LfNTte — Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) June 4, 2012 ——————- The facts tell us if people are served smaller portions of [...]
How De Tocqueville foresaw Obama and the progressives, part two
**Posted by Phineas Early nineteenth century prose isn’t easy reading (meandering to the point, it seems, was an art form, then), but I’m going to have to knuckle under and read De Tocqueville’s works; the man was obviously a political Nostradamus. Here he is describing one of progressivism’s defining characteristics to a “T:” “A man’s [...]
How to undo ObamaCare? A problem of philosophy
**Posted by Phineas There’s an interesting article at The Weekly Standard, by Jeffrey Anderson, looking at the difficulties the Supreme Court faces as it decides what to do about ObamaCare. As Anderson describes it, there are five choices: Upholding the law in its entirety; Minimally overturning it by striking down just the individual mandate; Go [...]
Temperature check: Is Barack Obama preferable to Mitt Romney?
Santorum – yesterday: SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Rick Santorum played off of the Mitt Romney campaign’s Etch A Sketch gaffe today when he told an audience that the country might be better off with President Obama than with a candidate who will shift his positions with ease and who he believes is not very different [...]
Could 1st-year contract law derail ObamaCare?
**Posted by Phineas Oh, this is interesting, to say the least. The Institute for Justice has filed an amicus curiae brief (PDF) in the ObamaCare case soon to be heard by the Supreme Court. The crux of their argument is that the mandate compels the individual to agree to a contract, but, under centuries old [...]
Dear Rick Santorum: Get your hands off my slot machine
**Posted by Phineas Sigh. There are just no limited-government conservatives left in this race, are there? We all know about Mitt Romney and the indefensible individual mandate in RomneyCare. So, fine, we’ll just vote for the true conservative in the race, the man who savagely and effectively attacked Romney’s legacy, Rick Santorum, right? Right? Ehh… [...]
(Video) Must-viewing: Daniel Hannan at CPAC 2012
**Posted by Phineas The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was held this last weekend in D.C. I didn’t attend, sadly (1), so I’ve been working my way through the speeches I would have attended, looking for some to share. Boy, have I got a good one for you. Daniel Hannan, a Conservative member of the [...]
Memo to the GOP Establishment: STOP trying to manipulate conservative voters (UPDATED)
Most people who know me understand that I rarely ever use the terms “RINO” and “establishment” seriously. And in the instances I do, it’s usually sarcastically to make fun of someone one who has mistakenly interpreted my disagreement with other conservatives as a sign of my alleged “RINO” tendencies. The terms “RINO” and “establishment” [...]
America’s fork in the road: the Tea Party vs. the Occupy Movement
**Posted by Phineas Here’s a good video from Encounter Books and narrated by Bill Whittle on the choice the US faces in 2012 between two populist movements: the largely classical-liberal Tea Party and the progressive-and-further-Left Occupy movement (1). The video provides a clear and succinct summary of the deep philosophical differences between the two groups, [...]
