Rebuking the Rebuker of the Rebukers
Ed Martin called it right.
In my view, there is an enormous overburden of crap that the GOP could be criticizing about the Democrats. They spend too much, they have a warped view of what freedom is, they are bullies. Every one of their policies have the opposite effect of what they are supposed to do. With such a target-rich environment, you would think that everyone in the Republican Party would have more than enough to complain about long before they made their way down the list to another Republican.
You would think wrong. Continue Reading
Ed Martin is now Chairman of Missouri’s Republican Party.
Quick question – do you know who the chairman of the Missouri GOP is?
For many in America – myself included – the “fiscal cliff” is a forgone conclusion. We are going over. Exit polls in November showed a substantial number of Obama voters still blame President Bush for economic troubles and America voted for more of Obama’s medicine. The GOP was wrecked by FDR for decades, even though the Great Depression ground on despite (or because of) the New Deal. Post-cliff deprivations might be worth it to the President for a new Progressive hegemony. It’s not like any of his friends will go hungry.
This week I have been writing a great deal about gun rights, just not on this blog. Below are links to the blogs I’ve been writing over at The Truth About Guns, a great blog that covers everything from gun reviews to self-defense tactics to hunting gear to politics. You can guess what I have been writing about. Here are links to some of my latest pieces:
“Gun Free Zones” are so incandescently stupid that only college-educated liberals could take the idea seriously. Review any recent mass shooting and you’ll not find one person who was saved by a “No Guns Allowed” sign. Bringing a placard to a gunfight is an idea that richly deserves unfettered ridicule by every man woman and child who gives a damn about public safety in a world where monsters live.
I think quiet horror and reflective prayer are the appropriate response to the mass murder at the Sandy Hook school in Connecticut. We who have lost a child know the incoherent grief confusion and the desolate wall that slams down on your spirit in the immediate aftermath of the news that your baby boy or little girl is no more.
Lately, I’ve noticed some folks of a leftist persuasion making the point that President Reagan really ballooned the deficit. They even have a nifty chart showing how Democrats were minding their own business and only passed the budget that Reagan asked for.
Can wrecking the economy be a successful strategy for ensuring political success? According to scholars who describe the Curley Effect, it can (
Some months ago, I went to a local shooting range with a guy I met online (it sounds worse than it was, though if you are going to meet someone online, meeting them armed and in the presence of other armed citizens strikes me as eminently sensible.)