Ball Diamond Ball

This is a ship so heavily damaged that merely preventing new damage will not save her. The water continues to pour in through old damage, and time is running out.We need to use the jurisprudential principle of remoteness to blast a hole in /stare decisis/, so that wrongly-decided cases may swiftly be overturned, and their decedents uprooted, debasing laws and federal programs along the way.

This is my alternative to violence. What do you think?

Do not misunderstand Tea Party quiet right now. We are digesting an unpleasant fact. Even those of us who support Romney as a pragmatic measure are confronting the news that far from not setting things right, he may not even be able to halt the new damage, which is our only reason for … Continue reading →

Issues matter, and winning matters. These two things can work against each other from a Tea Party point of view if the media is allowed to keep them aimed at each other. Therefore, we must work to keep pressure on the media itself, and continually spoil its ability to run interference for Obama.

Attacking Obama on issues of substance rarely works for us. Why? Because he is insubstantial. He hardly exists on paper and while we all know what he is against, few would be prepared to tell you what he is for. This wraith-like figure haunting Washington D.C. has mastered the art of attracting fire without getting hit.

Stop trying to hit Obama, and go after the press instead. That’s all Obama is made of anyway, and … Continue reading →

07 June 2013, i dont see the memorial. I hope its been moved domewhere nuce.  

The bus dropped us off in front of the Tom Bradley International Terminal, and we had seven hours to kill. We wandered. I saw a crane starkly silhouetted at an impressive angle, and went to grab a shot of it. My son took the opportunity to walk along a winding concrete wall through a small triangular green space. Two female security guards or airport police stood nearby enjoying their cigarettes. It took several shots of him, practicing keeping him right on the 1:3 horizontal guide in the viewfinder, as he wound his way away.
He mentioned that some state’s flag was on the ground, and I asked him which one. He … Continue reading →

Shoddy workmanship is theft, and at the moment a worker decides that he is finished with what he knows is a shoddy job, he compounds the theft with a lie. The secret to making work go away quickly is to do it right, and for a subtle reason. If time or another resource is a constraint, then the best job possible within the constraints is the right way, even if there are weak areas. To measure what is right, compare against what is possible, not what is perfect.
The subtlety is that work drags on for people because they wish to forestall the moment they must tell a lie about their theft.  Rather than slow work being an avoidance of free time, which of course makes no sense, … Continue reading →

From time to time we find examples of moral and honest men who nonetheless find themselves overmatched by complexity and the weight of momentous decisions. They are no worse than the average man, and often are of a superior quality, which is how they find themselves in positions where a typical mode of failure becomes a unique catastrophe.

Chief Justice Roberts is not a bad man, but has failed in a position where failure cannot be tolerated. His fact-dancing has only promoted the idea that the power to tax need not be connected to any particular event or condition.

From now on, the government may assess any tax it likes based upon the mere fact of your birth. This Constitutional Crisis has just been made much worse, regardless … Continue reading →

[pullquote]He flouts the law, he ignores the Court[/pullquote]The President is colluding with foreign forces to debase the sovereignty of the States.  His Fast and Furious operation was aimed at disarming and debasing the sovereignty of the American citizenry.   He flouts the law, he ignores the Court, and he sets up czars and panels in their places.   He is a domestic enemy of the Constitution, which every federal employee has sworn an oath to defend.  President Obama is committing treason in no uncertain or subjective terms, and I stand with Arizona.

The first Civil War was fought over a conflict between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence; that is, the rights of the States vs the rights of Man.  To Lincoln, the Constitution can only be … Continue reading →

Oh, man, this is great:

President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents, a last-minute maneuver that appears unlikely to head off a contempt vote against Holder by Republicans in the House.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/20/house-republicans-tee-up-imminent-contempt-vote-against-holder/

This is like Tea Party Christmas.  Obama just opened the door to impeachment. At a minimum, this gives Congress the opportunity to examine Obama’s use of Executive Privilege, which should prove rewarding. This is not any victory for the Marxists in the White House. This is a large chunk crashing down in the collapse of the administration!

Boehner is smart but weak — but this is the only time he has been hitched to Issa instead of McConnell.  Well, maybe he’s … Continue reading →

Thought for a moment there we might have been at risk over these leaks.

Obama said his administration has “zero tolerance” for such leaks and that there would be an internal administration probe.  http://www.kens5.com/news/national/158294625.html

Which is a little like bailing out water from a burning ship.

Facts will matter less in the future, and we should prepare to win in that age.

These days, it is increasingly simple for people to back up whatever opinion they have with facts from a variety of sources.   If I wish to claim that a certain tax scheme is right and good, I am likely to bolster my claim with numbers from somewhere.  After all, utilitarian arguments such as “does it work?” should not be unwelcome in a public policy discussion.   Some facts are sought for and others are generated, while still others simply fall as if from the sky into a person’s awareness.  Such is the nature of our “one point five way” communications environment.

I can access a wealth of hard data from the … Continue reading →