16 Reasons to Fear and Loathe Mitt Romney
A good primer:
The following are 16 reasons why Mitt Romney would be a really, really bad president….
#1 Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed by the U.S....
Oil Alert For Older Cars
In order to comply with federal requirements that key emissions control components on new cars such as catalytic converters work (and can be warranted to work) for at least 120,000 miles...
Diversity Vs. Halloween
An interesting article...
Can Your Neighborhood Pass The Trick-Or-Treat Test?
By Paul Kersey on October 31, 2011
It’s fitting that Ray Bradbury, the author of the acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451, considered his most important...
Are “The Troops” Virtuous?
Fred says no -
War and the Free Will of Pool Balls
By Fred Reed
I read frequently among the lesserly neuronal of the supposed honor of soldiers, of the military virtues of courage,...
Ignorance is Bliss
This guy is routinely good - and routinely right!
By Paul Craig Roberts on October 28, 2011
I have come to the conclusion that Big Brother’s subjects in George Orwell’s 1984 are better...
Another Clover Autopsy
Another Clover (my term for people who reflexively defend anything and everything government does - because it's government that's doing it) recently sent me the following in response to something I'd...
Steve Jobs hated Big Brother, too
This is an interesting nugget about Jobs' disdain for state-issued license plates:
The multitude of mysteries revealed following the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' death now includes one that puzzled car...
Old Car End Run
I've written before about peacefully finding alternative ways of doing things that makes it possible to avoid the edicts of oppressive government. Here's a way to do that on four wheels:...
10 Easy Steps to Tyranny
Naomi Wolf gets credit for this:
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six...
On Lincoln and FDR
Here's an excerpt from a top-drawer article on two of the great political thugs of American history, Lincoln and FDR:
Another interesting comparison of the situations affecting the decisions of Lincoln and...