Planks of a Platform

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I’ll use this post to collect some thoughts about planks, a platform for Tea Party activism.

I view the Tea Party not so much as a social conservative movememt, but a no-kidding Constitutional and financial movement which has symbiotoc relationship with many constituencies, some of which are opposed to one another. Therefore, the proper business of a successful Tea Party is to maintain as narrow a focus as possible, and to be as serious as possible in that goal, so that not only does it not alienate constituents through unnecessary distinctions, but it also makes the case for its core concerns in a convincing enough manner that the constituents are content to walk with one another for a time at any rate.

So the gay rights people and … Continue reading →

Ethical Resistance to Communism in the U.S. Government

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This is a working document which I will make public in the interests of doing better work.  I’ll use this post to collect some thoughts about how to conduct oneself in an ethical resistance to the creeping plagues upon our Republic.

First and foremost is that no matter how it is formulated I am not interested in any resistance which does not begin and end with an ethical stance toward the job at hand.

One thing that is clear is that there are a lot of well-intended people out there who step in poo in some form or other, and stink the party up. These folks reveal themselves early, as they are not hiding. There are also some bad actors, who go malignant after wheedling their way in … Continue reading →

A Crucible for the GOP and the Tea Party

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Right now is a deceptively important point in time. The Democrats know this, and so do the status quo Republicans.

Tea Party frustration with establishment Republicans is at levels not seen since 2009. The Obama administration is burying (Barrying?) us with the paper equivalent of human-wave attacks. We have a primary election to start worrying about, which will have us at each other’s heels for a while.

It has been long enough since the smashing Tea Party victory that the thrill has faded a bit, and certainly been doused with cold water by GOP cronyism like Hal “14-term Prince of Pork” Rogers being appointed Chairman of Appropriations, for crying out loud. It is also such a long way to the next election that polls are meaningless, allegiances are … Continue reading →

The Marxism of President Obama: The Mask Falls (1)

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This is actually my second post on this topic, but this is the incident which made his chosen trajectory clear to me. President Obama’s speech of February seventh to the United States Chamber of Commerce was stunning not only for its fall-flat lack of any accomplishment, but more notably for the bald-faced affirmation of Marxist principles.

The speech is a watershed moment in this Presidency, and I feel will be studied from a bit more historical a perspective, given the passage of some time. I won’t spend overlong on details, as the speech can be seen on YouTube (here, here) and certainly is available from the White House. The speech is a half-hour of mostly repetitive formulations of three things: a flawed analysis of what … Continue reading →

The Marxism of President Obama

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One of the hallmarks of Marxism is a fundamental misunderstanding of the way that capital works. The President displays this ignorance proudly as he blames “speculators” for rising oil prices.   I quote:

“The problem is, is that oil is sold on these world markets, and speculators and people make various bets, and they say, ‘you know what, we think that maybe there’s a 20 percent chance that something might happen in the Middle East that might disrupt oil supply,’” he said.
“‘So we’re going to bet that oil is going to go up real high.’ And that spikes up prices significantly,” said the president, who recently launched his reelection campaign.

That’s his assessment of the root cause: evil borrowers and lenders are manipulating markets for … Continue reading →

Leading Leftie Blog Mocks Sarah Palin’s Handicapped Baby on His Birthday | The Gateway Pundit

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Leading Leftie Blog Mocks Sarah Palin’s Handicapped Baby on His Birthday | The Gateway Pundit.

Yeah, click the link, it’s pretty bad and won’t be posted here.  This is one of the reasons I support Sarah Palin for… whatever.  The vicious attacks on her family go unrepudiated, unchallenged, unreported by a media which has it in for her. It’s not as though she’s my first pick (right now there isn’t a single Republican potential candidate who intrigues me even slightly), but two things are clear: First, I’m going to have to pick one of whomever winds up in the final “pool” as it were, and second, I am not about to let a barely-literate and highly unethical cabal of lefty media employees determine who will be the … Continue reading →

Philippine Sea Plate Neither Warm Nor Fuzzy

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This is a shake map from the most recent quake felt around here, provided ( hope they don’t mind) by the awesome Tenki.jp. There’s a big X at the epicenter (this one was 50km deep, which is good), and the rest of the circles indicate how strongly the ground shook at particular points. This was a Mag 5.0, and the scale used (all the 4s and 3s in tinted circles) is the Japanese Shindo scale, a purely subjective assessment of how it felt at a particular point. By the way, I live just about where the southernmost teal “3” circle is.

The massive 9.0 “Tohoku” quake of 11 Mar was on an uncomplicated stretch of a subduction zone: the Pacific floor is shoving its way underneath Japan … Continue reading →