I’ve openly admitted before that my early and somewhat enthusiastic support for the Bush Administration’s post-9/11 terror policy was a mistake. I didn’t think PATRIOT was that big a deal, and I even got behind the Iraq thing, which was regrettable. To paint as charitable picture of myself as possible, I did think […]
The title is shamelessly lifted from my friend Thoreau at Unqualified Offerings. Yesterday, the lot of cowardly bed-wetters we’ve elected to carry out the farcical puppet show we call governance decided to grant the unpopular Bush administration carte blanch to violate whatever natural and Constitutionally guaranteed rights they damn well please. From the […]
Rogier Von Bakel points out exactly why I won’t be voting for Guiliani should he get the GOP nomination:
“Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.”
Yes, that’s exactly what freedom is, you authoritarian jackass. Exactly. Read the […]
We’re still a long way from actual primary voting, but it’s never too early for polling! In any case, Not Paul Begala at Blog, P.I directs our attention to the latest round of polling regarding the upcoming Democratic primary. He also puts up a handy chart (which I have shamelessly hot-linked):
As you can […]
The NYT reports on efforts by FCC Chair and Superdouche, Kevin J Martin, to persuade Congress that his regulatory agency needs even broader authority to regulate television content.
No longer content to dole-out bandwidth like a Dickensian gruel-meister and prosecute broadcast networks for daring to expose children to the horrors of the occasional breast, the FCC […]
At least nobody here is proposing death certificates for fetuses.
Rep. Stacey Campfield, a Republican, said his bill would provide a way to track how many abortions are performed. He predicted it would pass in the Republican-controlled Senate but would have a hard time making it through the Democratic House.
First of all, I simply […]
There are a lot of reasons I find the state as a whole at least marginally upsetting at times, sex-toy ban, no alcohol sales before noon on Sundays, the fact that churches get to disrupt traffic patterns so people can get in and out of the parking lot more easily… Anyway, a lot to […]
[Via Drudge] Yesterday LA County voted to look into following New York’s lead in banning Trans-fats from food in restaurants.
New York’s ban, the first in the country and to be expected from somebody like Bloomberg, took regulatory nannyism to an entirely new height. Banning trans-fats lacks even the “what about the workers” excuse that […]
…shall stop Dubya from reading the US mail.
Now, far be it from me to discourage a learning-disabled person from trying to read more, but I’d rather that he not read MY private mail. However, Bush has decided to attach a signing statement to a postal reform bill affirming his right to open mail […]
First,I’d like to thank Timothy for hosting us Inactivists while our blog is inactive. If I ever get up some gumption or something I’ll go out and buy him a thank-you present. But I’m too inactive for that sort of thing. In the mean time, it’s only fitting that my first blog […]
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