Weiner Schnitzeled?
by Smitty Trying to go for a slightly less gruesome title than The Lonely Conservative. I can’t think of too many people I’d rather see squeezed out of Congress due to gerrymandering. If they screwed up and left me in charge, I should like to see an open source map algorithm, as well as completely […]
Fortunately, It’s Wisconsin …
. . . so liberals will have plenty of cheese to go with their whine, as the new law limiting the power of government-employee unions is enacted. Note the biased implication of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel headline: Collective bargaining law published despite restraining order Yes, despite the judicial majesty of Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi, […]
You’re Supposed to Be Shocked
The Republican governor of Alaska has nominated a conservative for the panel that approves state judges. Democrats want you to scream in horror to learn that Don Haase thinks sex outside marriage should be against the law: One blog post on the Eagle Forum Alaska site praised efforts at criminalizing adultery in Michigan, and [Democrat […]
Economic Terror Plan for ‘Redistributing Wealth and Power in the Country’
Such eminences as Barbara Ehrenreich and Cornel West were featured speakers at Left Forum 2011, a conference held this past weekend at Pace University in New York City. Left Forum traces its history to a series of events first organized as the Socialist Scholars Conference and sponsored by Democratic Socialists of America. The theme of […]
Does Mitt Romney Agree With Bill Maher?
In case you missed it, hate-filled HBO “star” Bill Maher one-upped his own most tasteless anti-Palin slurs: Question: Has Mitt Romney ever spoken out forcefully in Gov. Palin’s defense? Because some people have noticed the crickets chirping: Joseph Fein, a party insider from the Los Angeles area, said some people feel they can’t trust Romney. […]
California GOP: Falling Down
“After LA lost the aerospace industry during the Clinton Administration, we lost a half million aerospace workers, voters and donors.” — former California GOP Chairman Shawn Steel That quote reminded me of the 1993 movie Falling Down starring Michael Douglas as a laid-off Los Angeles aerospace engineer trying to make sense of a world falling […]
Mises on ‘Christian Socialism’
“Christian Socialism, as it has taken root in the last few decades among countless followers of all Christian churches, is merely a variety of State Socialism. … Agriculture and handicraft, with perhaps small shopkeeping, are the only admissible occupations. Trade and speculation are superfluous, injurious, and evil. … It is the duty of legislation to […]
The Wisconsin Restraining Order as a Harbinger of 2012?
by Smitty Walsh at The Corner is sounding just a teeny bit alarmist about what’s going on in cheeseland: Yes, a mighty jurist in Dane County with the Dickensian name of Maryann Sumi has halted publication of the new law restricting collective-bargaining privileges for the state’s public-sector unions until she can rule on its merits. […]
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