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Moral control
Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Reason online recently ran an interesting article comparing two moralists. One from the left and one from the right. The examples were in the form of books, the first by Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame and the second by Ben Shapiro, a self-proclaimed virgin and anti-pornography (this is a broader category [...]
Hollywood: Liberal or capitalistic?
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Andrew Sullivan recently linked to a Michael Siegel blog response to one of Sullivan’s own posts in which he wondered aloud how often Hollywood has chosen to recognize the brutilization of women in Islamic countries, an idea that seems right in the liberal wheelhouse. I think Siegel makes some interesting points.
Siegel specifically mentions communism [...]
Channel One reunion
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Oprah is on in the background and apparently she is hosting a sort of Channel One reunion. The episode deals with where hurricane Katrina refugees are today. Lisa Ling; a described Oprah correspondent, past co-host of The View, and currently of MSNBC; and Anderson Cooper; now of CNN; are both presenting stories. [...]
Our loquacious president
Friday, February 17th, 2006
I thought this was one of Bush’s more stilted and nonsensical public statements (emphasis mine):
I thought the vice president handled the issue just fine. He went through - and I thought his explanation yesterday was a powerful explanation. This is a man who likes the outdoors and he likes to hunt. And he heard a [...]
Oil independence
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Indeed.
Market conservatives were cool about the initiative, as well they might be. The truth is that the only thing that has ever, or will ever, change Americans’ attitude towards energy is a little thing called price. In that sense the recent rise in the cost of petrol is the best thing to happen for America’s [...]
Abramoff
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Yes! My representative, Gil Gutknecht, received Jack money. I hope each of you are as lucky.
(I really should learn more about this so I know what I’m talking about.)
Give me liberty
Sunday, December 25th, 2005
You have to love Feingold’s response during this Patriot Act debate exchange. It gives me goosebumps. If anyone knows of a video of this out on the Internet, I’d love to see it (and probably break the mystique I’ve now placed around the exchange).
Sen. John Cornyn: “None of your civil liberties matter much [...]
Marriage (even more) on the books
Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
Another nugget for anyone out there who really thinks there is still a conservative political party in existence. The nanny state plans to strengthen our marriages. Apparently the official commitment of couples to one another strengthens our nation, society, and families. Well, unless you want to marry someone of the same sex, [...]
Re-neducation combatant
Saturday, December 10th, 2005
One man proposes his own I.D. No, his I.D. is not a theory.
If you were to redesign things, how would you make design intelligent?
Well, for one thing I would put fewer teeth in our mouths. I would put fewer bones in our face, so that it could drain properly. I would straighten up the [...]