Obama energy plan would open Atlantic and Gulf drilling, says CNN. File this under Iron Law #2: Money and Power Will Always Find Each Other. Related question: is principle over party now truly dead, or was it always? … [Continue reading]
The Free Market versus Racism
Had an interesting conversation with the wife tonight while watching the College episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit. She suggested that diversity experts were useless, a nonsense creation of the PC movement because most people would prefer to … [Continue reading]
Zombie James Madison will kill us all…
...if we don't get the General Welfare clause under control. He will rise from the dead. And he will eat our brains. That's my theory after reading this, which argues for the constitutionality of health care reform on several stunningly wrong … [Continue reading]
Stunningly Useless
As the Washington Post editorializes, the National Broadband Plan, issued forth last week by the FCC, has set its sights on...well, on doing what was already going to happen without their help: BY THE Federal Communications Commission's own account, … [Continue reading]
Everything old is new again
But this modern world, modern civilization, does exist only where men have been, for a short two centuries, free from these ancient state tyrannies, called controls. Free thought, free speech, free action, and freehold property are the source of the … [Continue reading]
RC’s Iron Laws
I've gone hunting for these too many times to count, so I'm posting them here for posterity. My thanks to reason commenter R C Dean: You get more of what you reward and less of what you punish. Money and power will always find each other. If … [Continue reading]
On Selfishness
A friend of mine recently quipped on Facebook that opponents of health care reform were selfish, and that such selfishness was the height of irony coming from Christians. Granted, this was an internet argument. It's dumb of me to even care, much … [Continue reading]
TANSTAAFL!
Since Congress is unable to understand there's no such thing as a free lunch, I'm unable to keep my mouth shut and mind my own business anymore. Welcome, fellow loonies, to the new blog. I hope you like it. … [Continue reading]