A sounding…
Even a perfectly just man who wants to give advice to a tyrant has to present himself to his pupil as an utterly unscrupulous man. Leo Strauss, On Tyranny Thus, the voice of the Machiavellian – and the Sully-ite, too. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2010
In my own name only…
Why this building, there? Leaving aside some melodrama – “insane,” “looming horror,” “surrender” – that question sums up the reaction to Cordoba House, a.k.a. “The Ground Zero Mosque,” a project of the the Cordoba Initiative (CI) that last week added … Continue reading
Posted in International Relations, Religion, War
Tagged Ace o' Spades, Bin Laden, collective guilt, Cordoba House, Dextro, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Islamophobia, Rick Barber, Rod Dreher, War
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Endless Unstoppable Flows of Bad Ugly Stuff That No One Seems To Be Able To Do Anything About
This post isn’t really about the BP oil disastrophe – not that anyone yet seems quite sure how much of a disastrophe it is, even politically. This post is just here to ask whether the cloudy ominous unstoppable confusion of … Continue reading
Look out below, the (other) sequel
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-five percent (45%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval … Continue reading
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell in Manhattan
I don’t see a good reason to be against the building of a mosque/cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero. In fact, the arguments in favor sound quite reasonable to me. But, then again, I don’t hate and fear Islam. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, War
Tagged Dextro, Ground Zero, HotAir, Islam, Islamism, Manhattan, War
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"Our rights come from God"
The Constitution, our dear Constitution, did not give us our rights. Our rights came from God and they are inalienable rights. The Constitution created the government to protect our God-given and unalienable rights. Thus Sarah Palin in her speech earlier … Continue reading
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Try…
… “our rights come from our existence and our basic similarity.” fuster @ Zombie Contentions – Does anyone really hold those truths to be self-evident?.
We hold these truths…
…to be consistent with a Civilized Society, that all men must be treated as if they were equal by our Government, and under our laws and jurisdiction, that Civilized People have determined that our citizens have inalienable rights, such as, … Continue reading
Does anyone really hold those truths to be self-evident?
The Constitution, our dear Constitution, did not give us our rights. Our rights came from God and they are inalienable rights. The Constitution created the government to protect our God-given and unalienable rights. Thus Sarah Palin in her speech earlier … Continue reading
The DeVore Camp Thinks Someone Should Drop Out of the Cali Senate Race After All
The DeVore camp, via a post by Erick Erickson distributed to the candidate’s “morning briefing”/”fellow patriot” e-mail list, is trying to spin a new Public Policy Institute of California poll that puts Carly Fiorina narrowly ahead in the California GOP … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged 2010 Elections, California Senate, Carly Fiorina, Chuck Devore, Erick Erickson, Republican Party, Tom Campbell
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Look out below…
…a lot of traders are short tonight. The classic follow-up would be a big down move in the morning, followed by a short-covering rally at least closing the “gap,” (also a classic trade). The main likely alternatives, in order of … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
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Chuck DeVore Should Drop Out of the Senate Race in California and Endorse Carly Fiorina
Chuck DeVore is a solid conservative, very well-qualified to be senator or to hold other important offices or positions, but he doesn’t seem to have a prayer of both overtaking Carly Fiorina and defeating Tom Campbell in the June 8 … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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Chuck DeVore should drop out and endorse Carly Fiorina
Chuck DeVore is a solid conservative, very well-qualified to be senator or to hold other important offices or positions, but he doesn’t seem to have a prayer of both overtaking Carly Fiorina and defeating Tom Campbell in the June 8 … Continue reading
NEW OLD IMAGES
Don’t usually say much about my movie poster biz, or about new images as I add them to the site gallery. Don’t plan on making a habit of the former, but think I probably should of the latter. So from … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Movies
Tagged Dirty Dozen, Movie Posters, Site Features, Spider-Man, Supergirl
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Forgetting Wilson (Reply to Jonah Goldberg)
Much as I might enjoy debating the comparative progressivism of President Warren “Racial Amalgamation There Cannot Be” Harding; much as, armed by biography, I’m ready to stand up for Professor President Thomas Woodrow Wilson against the dextrosphere’s leading anti-intellectual intellectuals, … Continue reading
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