For conservatives, the causal connection between virtue and success is not merely ideological, it is also deeply personal. It forms the basis of their admiration of themselves. If you ask a rich person whether he ascribes his success to good fortune or his own merit, the answer will probably tell you whether that person inhabits [...]

The Honorable Nydia M. Velazquez
The United State House of Representatives
Rayburn House Office Building Suite 2466
Washington DC 20515-3212
The Honorable Charles Schumer
The United State Senate
Hart Senate Office Building Suite 313
Washington DC 20510-3201
Please Repeal the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.
Between 1997 and 2006, incidence of elevated blood lead levels in children fell by 84%. According to the Center [...]

The other day I observed that one of my friends in Seattle had added his middle name as “Hussein” on facebook, presumably as a nod of support toward Obama and stab of mockery at those politicians and media clowns who would play on the “terrorist” implications of the name. I thought this waas hysterically funny [...]

I never thought I’d say this, but this time I think Rush Limbaugh says it best:
For all his talk about a new kind of politics, he chose Biden, and he could have picked Hillary or some other woman. This Sarah Palin, she knows about getting knocked down. She’s going to be debating Joe [...]

I haven’t been blogging about politics in the past few months because frankly, there are bloggers out there saying it better and with more energy than I could muster, I don’t want to beat dead horses, and I’m sort of holding my weary breath and waiting doggedly for the change of administration come November. I [...]

“This decision will give Americans the lived experience that ending exclusion from marriage helps families and harms no one”

–Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry, who noted that same-sex marriages were legal in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, South Africa and Spain, quoted in the NYT.
Holy crap! A state government did something not horrible! I’m [...]

This is a bit old but I just saw it and thought I would share it. Richard Littlejohn at the DailyMail reports on a recent string of murders.
We do not share in the responsibility for either their grubby little existences or their murders. Society isn’t to blame.
It might not be fashionable, or even acceptable in [...]

I just read this extremely irritating article by some git named “Tad” who spends way too many paragraphs whining about how British women are inferior to American women because they don’t put enough effort into making themselves sexually attractive to men such as himself. I want to slap this guy’s snotty face clear off his [...]

Those among us who are rational human beings look at the facts about comprehensive sex education versus abstinence-only sex “education” and scratch our heads. There is no indication that the latter helps young people prevent unwanted pregnancy and disease or even that it deters them from having sex. The former, statistically speaking, does a far [...]

Most political differences seem to come down to very basic principles. It’s hard to even argue with someone who holds a completely different view of what is “good” or “moral” than you do, and easy to talk at cross purposes when you are espousing different views or goals for the future.
I just checked out YourMorals.org, [...]