Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be-bomber of an American airplane on Christmas Day, is being treated like he held up a candy store. As Charles Krauthammer said so well in his recent column, this is nuts!
As Heather MacDonald notes in her piece in the Wall Street Journal, the recession of 2008-09 has undercut one of the most destructive social theories that came out of the 1960s: that the root cause of crime is poverty and social injustice
I’ve really gotta stop reading the HuffPo. Did anyone else see “Supreme Court to Hand Government to Republicans, Again: This Time, Forever.” by Paul Abrams today? Man, does that piece ever make your blood boil, or what?
Essayist Gerald L. Early once wrote that 2,000 years from now, America will be known for “the Constitution, baseball, and jazz music…the three most beautiful things our culture has ever produced.”
Tough to argue with that.
But if the Constitution is to be enshrined in this immortal trio of Americana, why do today’s leaders continue to dismiss what’s written inside? [Read more →]
Ok, before we get started, I need to ask if anyone in the audience has a forklift or light crane I can borrow? Looking over my outline for this post, I’m having serious trouble keeping my lower jaw held up off the floor and I require some heavy duty mechanical assistance to put an end to the uncontrollable drooling on my carpet that is resulting from it. I’m going to actually defend Rush Limbaugh here, and it’s having the adverse effect of making me lose control of some of my minor muscles…
10. He started horsing around, and then things just got out of hand.
9. His ex-girlfriend once told him he was hung like one.
8. Seriously, have you seen that horse?!
7. During the playoffs, he misheard when someone said he should be rooting for the Phillies!
6. He read one of the signs of the swine flu was feeling a little hoarse.
5. He knew he’d never have to pay palimony to a palomino.
4. The horse looks exactly like his old girlfriend.
3. He claims he was looking for a stable relationship.
2. His daughter said, for her next birthday, she was hoping for a pony.
1. He was put up to it – by a small step stool.
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Here in the rural South, I’m often asked “Why are you a libertarian?” or “What makes you a libertarian?” when I mention to others what political persuasion I hold. Living in a State that went McCain by seven points, I am often surrounded by Republicans who seem to think that libertarians are just another face in the “Big Tent”, like we’re their slightly dopey little brother, and that given time, we’ll eventually mature into full blown GOPer’s. But I think they are mistaken when they make that assumption. In my opinion, there are very serious discrepancies between a true libertarian and a Republican Party statist!
Over the course of the next few posts, I’m going to try to hit the highlights and explain exactly what kind of libertarian I am.
Anyone interested and plenty who are not have seen the Attorney General, Eric Holder, making his arguments as to why the transfer of Khalid Sheik Muhammed from Guantanamo to the Southern District of New York for trial is not just Good; not just Superior to the previous status quo, but rather Necessary. Indeed, he claims to be correcting a derilection, committed by You Know Who. [Read more →]
Justice in Roman Polanski’s case will never be served, because his case is not about justice. It’s about this week’s opportunity for everyone who weighs in on it to grandstand as a defender of justice and protector of the underdog, each side conspicuously yanking the blanket of public attention to keep its own listing stack of arguments warm while leaving the salient points of the other side hanging. There’s no blanket big enough.
“He’s a child rapist!” — “He’s an artist!” — “He’s a child rapist!” — “He’s an artist!” — “A child rapist!” — “An artist!” — “A child rapist!” — “An artist!”
A plague o’ both their houses. He’s a child rapist and an artist. [Read more →]
This is no way intended to address Roman Polanski’s guilt or innocence or whether his recent arrest for having sex with a 13-year-old over three decades ago was fair or unjust. I merely want to point out that he may have had the most extraordinary life of anyone born in the 20th century; indeed, he lived more by the age of 40 than many families do over generations. Consider: [Read more →]
Let me set the scene… you are in Walmart and your 2-year-old is tired and crying but you are trying to squeeze in a last minute shop. A guy in your aisle tells you that “if you don’t shut the baby up, I will shut her up for you.” You ignore him because although he may be an ass you don’t expect him to actually do anything. Then, when your little girl continues to cry into the next aisle, this strange man grabs your baby and slaps her across the face four or five times. That’s what 61-year-old Roger Stephens did in a Georgia Walmart. [Read more →]
Newsweek, it goes without saying, is a tedious, dreadful rag which nobody on earth should buy unless threatened with death or — at the very least — castration. [Read more →]
For the record, I know how Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates felt — just a little bit — when he was arrested by white police officers for the crime of answering the door in his own home. By now the facts and meaning of Gates’ arrest have become an international incident viewed through the prism of race and resentment, especially after President Barack Obama used the words “acted stupidly” to describe the behavior of the Cambridge, Mass. police in the Gates’ house arrest. Such is the power of race in America to distort and magnify every issue. [Read more →]
The hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor have been depressingly familiar in certain respects, even if the outcome is predictable. The whole spectacle is reminiscent of hearings past and prefigures those still to come as a blend of grandstanding, stonewalling, and humbug. [Read more →]
Did you read where that guy in New Jersey who stole $1,200 worth of lobster tails from a casino kitchen in Atlantic City pleaded guilty and made a deal with the prosecutor. He was sentenced to four years in prison. Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, Vince Fumo is sentenced to 55 months (with good behavior, less than four years) in prison after being convicted unanimously in a jury trial of every stinking charge in the 137-count indictment against him in a trial that seemed to go on for 55 months.
What could possibly bind these two men in crime? A taste for lobster, perhaps. [Read more →]
Only an individual with the most daft understanding of poetics would fail to appreciate the tragic irony of Dr. George Tiller, famed late-term abortionist, being murdered by a “pro-life” advocate in the lobby of his Lutheran church as he served as an usher.
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Panicked by the possible legalization of gay marriage in New York State, the National Organization for Marriage went all out with a local TV spot. The load-bearing line in the spot is: “The rights of people who believe that marriage is between a man and a woman will no longer matter.”
What rights are these? [Read more →]
Barack Obama has been talking about shaking up the Supreme Court by making his first appointment a non-judge. If he really wants to rattle Scalia’s cage, he’ll give the nod to Saul. Criminal attorney Saul Goodman boasts a haircut described as “business mullet” and works out of a New Mexico strip mall with an inflatable Statue of Liberty on its roof (his office is filled with similarly cheesy/ patriotic décor). Loud, flirtatious, and utterly smitten with himself, he’s a clown with a knack for getting what he wants. Oh, and he’s actually only pretending to be Jewish for the benefit of his largely Hispanic clientele: “My real name’s McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys.” [Read more →]
10. Seriously, did you see that vacuum cleaner?!
9. Due to the bad economy, he was out of money for hookers.
8. She made the first move.
7. Just one in a series of girlfriends who sucked the life out of him.
6. He’s only human!
5. It was the anniversary of their first date.
4. Somebody had sudsed it up and it was looking particularly fine!
3. He was trying to make his home vacuum cleaner jealous.
2. It was purely physical; he didn’t want any attachments.
1. His wet vac was on the fritz.
NFL player Ryan Moats, of the Houston Texans, was rushing to the hospital with his wife, whose mother was about to pass away. Right by the hospital, he ran through a red light when there was no crossing traffic, as they wanted to make it to the hospital before she died. He was then pulled over in the hospital parking lot by an over-eager police officer, who detained Moats despite the situation having been explained to him. He intended to detain Moats’ wife as well, but she ran into the hospital and did manage to be there for her mother’s final moments. Moats was too late. [Read more →]
