progressive, my ass.

When your home state hands out longer jail sentences for owning the wrong sort of sheet metal tube than for repeatedly molesting a young child, you have to start looking for a new name for your legal department, because “justice” it ain’t.

a quick personal bias check.

I appreciate all the replies to my Glenn Beck/uniform jacket post.
I do have one question for all of you who left a comment.  You don’t need to answer it in public, but be entirely honest with yourself.  Read your comment(s) again, and ask yourself this:
Would my reply be the same if the guy on the [...]

i’m not holding my breath for tax refund checks.

Everyone’s beating up on the ZOMG EVUL CAPETALISTS for the credit and housing market bubble, and living for years off of inflated and largely imaginary gains.
How come nobody ever mentions the money raked in by the government in capital gains taxes, income taxes, and other assorted tax burdens attached to those inflated gains?  I mean, [...]

QOTD for the fans of local rule.

From a  comment thread on BoingBoing:
People keep telling me that the more local the government, the more responsive and receptive they are to your needs. And then I remember homeowner’s associations and disregard most of that.

health care as a human right, part the 58th.

Picture a little town in Flyover Country, U.S.A—let’s call it Liberty Falls.  You know the kind: three stoplights, one gas station, a little corner grocery store, white picket fences, and a covered bridge.
Liberty Falls has 1,000 residents, and one doctor, a kindly old country doc who’s a few years shy of retirement.  Everyone who has [...]

feeling crabby.

I am not Presidential material.  Not that I could become President even if I wanted, since I’m not a natural-born citizen, but even if the pesky eligibility question were resolved via the Schwarzenegger Amendment of 2012, I’d not run if nominated, and refuse to serve if elected.
How do I know I don’t have what it [...]

unbelievably tacky, yet unrefined.

Regardless of your political stance or beliefs, there are some things you simply Do Not Do, no matter how much you disagree with a political opponent:
You do not yell “YOU LIE” at the President of the United States in the middle of a speech to both houses of Congress.
That holds especially true when the man’s [...]

of unintended consequences.

One of the side effects of Senator Kennedy’s death has been the metaphorical pee-pee dance in which the Massachusetts House Democrats have engaged.  With Kennedy’s Senate seat unfilled, they’re looking to pass a law that lets the governor pick an interim replacement for the job, so MA won’t have just half its Senate votes in [...]

spending what you don’t have.

So the budget deficit is going to hit 1.7 trillion dollars this year.  Mind you, that’s just the gap between government expenses and government revenue for the current tax year, not the national debt.
It’s kind of difficult for most people to envision just how much money we’re talking about here, so I’ve done a few [...]

a handy guide to political outrage.

You know what I’m really sick of lately?  The instant role reversals between conservatives and liberals as soon as we get a new tenant in the White House.  What was acceptable and right before suddenly becomes all wrong when the other guys are doing it, and vice versa.
(And don’t think I’m pointing the finger at [...]