The real question is whether or not the Court will “sever” the provision from the rest of the law. I predict a robust smackdown of the mandate itself, combined with a weasel-worded upholding of the rest of the law with a shoddily justified severance. I predict that the court will decline to comment on whether a law passed through reconciliation with the aid of a fraudulent neutral accounting is a law at all. Honk if you know what I’m talking about.
Jane Fonda, communist traitor, is slated to play Nancy Reagan in yet another progressive crapfest from the capital of degradation Hollywood. Google’s first hit on this sorry story is from Vogue (go figure), with the headline calling Nancy Reagan a “conservative icon”. Newsflash, Vogue, and the rest of you goose-stepping, poo-flinging progressive commie trolls:
We never viewed Nancy Reagan as a conservative icon; we have always viewed her as the loving and devoted wife of the President we love. That makes her one of us for better or for worse, through thick and thin, no matter what. Nancy Reagan is good people, like family, and we will never let you take her.
Just would like to point out that once again, passengers have taken care of business in the air. Not only has the TSA never stopped a real threat, they never will. They sit back and spin yarns about deterring attacks, but the TSA’s ratio of sexual-assaults-to-maniacs-subdued is not encouraging when compared to that of passengers in general.
We are over ten years into the DHS experiment, which was designed to tear down the Gorelick Wall, and at great expense. Not only is it a complete failure, with the Wall back up and functioning (bureaucratic personal paranoia beats duty to protect a faceless public again), but Gorelick herself now serves as an advisor to Obama’s Pentagon. And for all the money spent to fail, the DHS actually refuses … Continue reading
[pullquote]posts incessantly about politics in Turkey[/pullquote]The problem is a particular editor, and much to her potential horror, I have sprinkled this post “liberally” with some salty vocabulary. She’s an editor, and for all I know, she bankrolled the whole Ricochet.com operation. So maybe it’s hers and the rest of us can just go fuck ourselves. For some reason, she posts incessantly about politics in Turkey where she lives, and wants us all to know that they are not a threat; just misunderstood… by… well us, apparently. I live in Japan, but I don’t think Ricochet.com is where to bang on about it. Now she seems like a nice enough person, but the fight in which we are currently engaged is a battle against nice-enough people whose notion of … Continue reading
This stuff is child’s play when your opponents are children.
Announce outrageous power-grab with vocal minority support.
Amid furor, weakly defend worst part of it.
Announce that the worst part will be withdrawn.
Resume the bad parts but in different phrasing.
The key is to keep several of these processes in motion at all times; long … Continue reading
I recall Steve Jobs’ point about looking out the window and realizing that everything you see was built by people not better than you or me. Not smarter, not stronger, just working toward a goal. Jobs said that thought changed his life.
The #Occupy types have committed a stupid error, incited by the Marxist destroyers of our culture. When faced with a realization like Jobs’ above, you see it for what it is: not a fact about other people, but a choice about yourself. Those who accomplish nothing of note must convince themselves that they did not fail. They do this by trying to convince others that they did not fail, and thus mutually reinforce their conscience-salving illusion.
This is similar to the way that those who have … Continue reading
I propose the blanket legalization of abortion if the putative mother will file charges of rape or incest in court.
Whenever I debate abortion with a person who favors it, the incest or rape issue is trotted out as the big reason that none of my points are valid. There is a saying that hard cases make bad law, and at any rate, the Pareto principle tells me not to waste my time with the numerically insignificant intractables.
1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient). –The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform
I was … Continue reading
Professor Paul Rahe has opened an artillery barrage on candidate Romney. Expect this to echo off the hills for a good long time.
Romney is a managerial progressive on the model of Herbert Hoover, Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, George W. H. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, and John McCain. He is what Dewey called “a New-Deal Republican.” He was a consistent supporter of programs like Obamacare until this election campaign, and the minute he thinks that he can get away with it, he will once again show his true colors. We may find in the Fall that we have to vote for him because the other alternative is far, far worse (which it undoubtedly is), but we should not kid ourselves about … Continue reading
One of the fundamental difficulties with conservatism is that it is by nature a defensive position. Each new attack is clothed in a new and flashy style, guaranteed to amass large numbers of those least likely to be bothered by logical inconsistencies, and who have heard all of our arguments before. After all, when we defend a position, any defense based upon the soundness, consistency, and moral desirability of our position will not change from one attack to the next.
The key to this is to defend fixed position by breaking up attacks before they get close enough. This was Breitbart’s specialty. He recognized the significance of the fact that the media is on the other side. One implication is to stop trying to convince our enemies that … Continue reading
