Constitutional Democrats?

I keep hearing speakers this week at the Democratic Convention talk about upholding the Constitution. Since when did they care about the Constitution? Which part of the Constitution upholds their beloved Welfare State? And which part of the Constitution allows the illegal wiretapping which even many Democrats in Congress have voted for? Constitution my foot. [...]

Bill Clinton tells the same 75 year old lie

Last night Bill Clinton wowed the dot com bust nostalgics with his usual charm. There are things about Clinton that I find to be personally likable. He’s fluent in English, for one thing. None of the positives, however, undoes the simple fact that he is a Statist and a modern Liberal. His rhetoric, while false, [...]

Madeleine Halfbright on foreign policy

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Halfbright spoke a few minutes ago at the Democratic convention. She fretted over the Bush administration’s tendency to “embolden the enemy” with its foreign policy. That’s true so far as it goes, but this is coming from the woman who said that the sanctions against Iraq were “worth it,” even [...]

Watching the socialist orgy in Denver

A certain kind of macabre curiosity came over me tonight when I returned from my run, so I turned on the Idiot Box to see the idiots in Denver.  Hillary was speaking.  She wore the orange pantsuit, which is the color I thought she might pick when I saw the assortment earlier in the day [...]

ICEL, bishops decide not to charge royalties to those offering music for free download

I hereby take back my remarks earlier this month in which I called ICEL and the bishops “tyrannical.” The big publishers may be, but ICEL and the bishops have hammered out a very liberal policy concerning musical settings of the liturgical texts which are made available for free download: They will not be charging any [...]

Pete Seeger on public education

Seeger brings a poetic approach to the pernicious ideas which are taught in State schools in America. My heart goes out to the students that must return to their cell blocks sometime in the next few weeks. Would that we had a real education system which taught them how to think (you know….stuffy stuff like [...]

Hillary supporters entertain America with their implosion

Read the comment section of this story.  This is what the politics of demographics will get us.  I heard some clown that the local Philadelphia news interviewed on Saturday night about the selection of Joe Biden for the VP pick say that Hillary was “more qualified” and that she was hoping “for a woman…..”  It [...]

Where does an anarchist find order?

We have spent only a little time on this blog discussing the virtues of anarchy and the ways that it would play out in real life. In a previous post, I mentioned that anarchists, far from advocating chaos, promote a system of order that does not make use of the State or of the government. [...]

Obama picks Joe Biden

Word has leaked that Barack Obama intends to nominate Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) for the vice-presidential slot on the Democratic ticket. While I obviously wouldn’t like the great majority of Joe Biden’s politics, I will say off hand that he does strike me as genuine, which is a rare commodity these days to be sure [...]

What Michael Phelps teaches us about America

I swore to myself, and even indicated to my readers, that I wouldn’t be watching the Olympics. Too often these games come across as a nationalistic orgy which thoroughly offends my sense of anti-Statism. It was only the second day, however, when I caught myself being mesmerized by the amazing feats of Michael Phelps, and [...]