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Archive for June, 2010

Rand Paul Defends Idealism

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, June 7th, 2010. Filed under 2010 Elections, Elections, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Rand Paul, Republicans

Rand Paul had an interesting column in a local Kentucky newspaper over the weekend addressing his post-primary comments about the Civil Rights Act of 1964:
I am unlike many folks who run for office. I am an idealist. When I read history I side with abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas who fought [...]

The Rise Of The Surveillance State

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, June 6th, 2010. Filed under Homeland Security, Individual Liberty, Privacy, War On Terror

From Reason TV a look at how America has drifted, slowly and quietly, into the land of Big Brother:

Republicans: The Other Party Of Big Government

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, June 6th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, George W Bush, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Republicans

Reason’s Matt Welch is preaching the gospel:
Keep in mind, the president is talking specifically here not about libertarian freakazoids who want to privatize their own grandmothers, but about governing Republicans. You know, the gang who, “during the first half of 2001 and all of the 2003-07 period maintained full control of both the White House [...]

There Are Too Many Government Employees, And They’re Paid Too Much

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, June 6th, 2010. Filed under Government, Government Waste, Individual Liberty, Politics

Today In History: D-Day

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, June 6th, 2010. Filed under History

Sixty six years ago today, the greatest amphibious operation in history began:

And, of course, you can never mark D-Day without what may have been the finest speech Ronald Reagan ever delivered:

Quote Of The Day

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, June 5th, 2010. Filed under Quote Of The Day

I’ve decided I’m against term limits, after all. Politicians should get life without parole.
— Stephen Green

Ron Paul Gets It Wrong On The Homebuyer Tax Credit

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, June 5th, 2010. Filed under Economics, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Ron Paul

Congressman Ron Paul is usually on the right side of issues that involve government intervention in the marketplace, but when it comes to the Homebuyer Tax Credit he gets it completely wrong:
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex., who is usually opposed to government intervention in the economy, has introduced legislation to permanently extend the first-time homebuyer tax [...]

James Madison v. Woodrow Wilson

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, June 5th, 2010. Filed under History, Individual Liberty, Politics, U.S. Constitution

George Will had a great column this week describing the political battles today as a battle between visions laid down by two men born 105 years apart:
Today, as it has been for a century, American politics is an argument between two Princetonians — James Madison, Class of 1771, and Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879. [...]

Irony

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, June 5th, 2010. Filed under History, Humor

Brent Bozell: What Glee Needs Is Nicer Homophobes

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, June 4th, 2010. Filed under Dumbasses

Media watchdog nanny Brent Bozell bemoans the fact that there aren’t any nice anti-homosexuals on Fox’s hit show Glee:
Bill O’Reilly recently hosted a “culture warriors” segment at Fox News where both “warriors” agreed that homosexuality is morally acceptable. That same no-debate mentality has been a regular drumbeat on the Fox television series “Glee,” a musical [...]

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