Victor Davis Hanson has a very lengthy and interesting article today on the various Republican candidates. I can’t say I’m terribly excited about any of them. You’ve got Newt who is all over the place on issues and frankly, makes me think it’s more about him and his love of power than any thought of public service. You’ve got Romney who I can’t even understand why he’s running in the first place as he doesn’t seem to be very passionate about anything. There’s Santorum who I...

Because of the way the media treats those of us who are right of center politically, when we get into social situations, we are used to just keeping our mouths shut. But it turns out that a lot, perhaps even most, people are right of center (in the United States anyway) but we often don’t realize it because we get so beaten down that our opinions on liberty and freedom are so “unfair”. So usually a discussion will slowly unwind where a person stands bit by by.  First, you start o...

We heard endless about the unsubstantiated charge that some Tea Partier spat on an African American congressman but amazingly, the atrocious behavior of the Occupy movement has largely been ignored or excused. I have friends and family who practically seethe with hatred towards “fucking tea baggers” who I know are sympathetic for the Occupy Wall Street people. What the hell is the matter with these people? While I don’t consider myself a “Tea Partier”, I cannot grasp the antipathy dire...

So, on the one hand, I like the idea of having a 0 emissions house. On the other I have philosophical objections to the federal government picking winners and losers. So I have some trepidation as I install the 20KW solar array because of the almost insane level of tax incentives on it.

The answer is almost always: No, actually it doesn’t. In almost any debate, we’ll hear about how the “United States is the only X that does Y [or doesn’t do]”. Except that’s not the case when you compare apples and apples. One of the constant, long-time, ongoing debates in the United States is one that Europeans now find themselves in as well – where do the “states” stop and the “union” start? When you dig into countless numbers of political topics, you find that opposition t...

Did you watch the most recent “This Week” on ABC? You get a real idea of the bankruptcy of the political left through the dishonesty and pettiness of its advocates.   http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9585338

Discussion I had on Treehugger.com:   We all need to make money, that's a given in this modern day and age. The issue greens have with "capitalism" is that it is done almost completely devoid of conscience and consideration for the long term outcomes. ("This asthma medicine may help control your asthma symptoms that have not been brought under control by existing medications.... this medication may increase your risk of death from asthma.&qu...

I live near Detroit. This is where good intentions leads to.

As someone on Twitter pointed out, the same people who want universal healthcare are the same people who are hoping Rush Limbaugh will die. Whenever the government gets involved in something, it becomes about politics. I don’t want health care decided by politicians. As the Stimulus spending has shown – the best predictor of who will get government money is whether they agree with those spending it.

Ironically, this article comes from the much hated (by some) “Faux News”: http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/politics/2009/12/31/big-stories-mainstream-media-missed What is interesting is that for all the angst about Fox News that I see online that its popularity is often due to reporting things that simply get ignored elsewhere. I prefer bias by commission rather than omission.

Rush Limbaugh has been hospitalized with chest pains.  As usual, left-wingers are out there hoping he dies. http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2009/12/limbaugh-hospitalization-brings-out.html

Years ago I wrote “What if global warming zealots are wrong?” Will they apologize? Will they feel any shame for all the bile and nastiness they heaped on those who were merely skeptical? In the past couple of years, the evidence in favor of manmade global climate change has not worked out so well for the zealots. This past week saw what may be the beginning of the end for the whole global warming movement with the outting of hundreds of emails that allegedly detail countles...

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/16/newsweek-fighting-for-survival-drifts-towards-irrelevancy/ I used to subscribe to Newsweek.  From the time I was a teenager into my 30s I was a subscriber. I liked their news coverage. If I wanted in depth detail accounts of world events, Newsweek was fantastic about it. Then something happened after George W Bush got elected. They started to drift ever further to the left. More and more of their content became editorial (i.e. left wing ran...

Great article today at Town Hall. “4 reasons the American Dream will be over unless we act” Great quote: "In 1985, just 16.5% of filers paid no income tax." Today, " roughly 120 million Americans – 40 percent of the U.S. population – are outside of the federal income tax system." Meanwhile, the top 50% of income earners pay 97% percent of the income taxes. "In 1945, 41.9 workers supported each (Social Security recipient), while today o...

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/10/court-upholds-.html I’d say this is a good call by the court even if I think the law itself to be foolish for California (talk about incenting people to leave).