In the debate about the repeal of Obamacare, there are people who understand the principles involved, and there are the wafters. The wafters can blow either way, depending upon the prevailing breezes in their district, but wafters they are — whether they blow to the right or to the left. If they blow in the …
A Short Course in Economics
Obama’s presidency is already a failure, approximating the size of the Bailly Crater on the Moon. If the details of your high school study of astronomy elude you, that lunar hole in the dirt is about 26,000 square miles in size. The great theologian Jonathan Edwards believed that typology was embedded in the natural order …
The Third Amendment and TSA Porn Scanners
Many moderns are baffled by the Third Amendment to the Constitution, the one in which the quartering of troops in private homes is prohibited in times of peace, except by the consent of the owner. Quartering troops in time of war was allowed, but only as regulated by law. Some of the amendments in our …
Principalities and Porkers
Here are some quick takeaways from the election. 1. Now the Republicans are on the hot seat. We move from campaign rhetoric, which always gets the juices flowing, to the actual business of governance. Two test cases for you to watch. The first is that certain Republican principalities and porkers are in line (seniority-wise) for …
The 2010 Chainsaw Massacre
One of the hardest things for me to take in the election of Obama was the smug congratulatory blessing of the Europeans. Well, I think we have fixed all that now. I have mentioned before P.J. O’Rourke’s great line that this was not so much an election as it was a restraining order. It is …
Seven Things for Christians to Not Sip at the Tea Party
I think it goes without saying that biblical Christians will vote in November in a way that favors basic pro-life issues, supports a return to some form of fiscal sanity, and rejects all attempts at legislative gender-bending. So much goes without saying. So I am not so much concerned about how our folks vote, for …
Debt as a Basic Human Right
I heard a commentator say the other day that we need to keep the Federal Reserve around, known hereafter as the Fed, because don’t we always need a lender of last resort? I mean, what are we going to do without a lender of last resort? Well, maybe we might not borrow trillions of dollars …
Voting On What to Do With the Class IV Hemmorhage
While the political scrum is messy, as it always is, a narrative is starting to emerge. If we change the metaphor from rugby to movies about Transylvania, that narrative appears to be that a large number of peasants with pitchforts and torches will be assembling at the Castle of the Ruling Elite this coming November. …
Miscreants, Scamps, Poltroons and Punks
A number of years ago I had the privilege of serving as a foreman on a jury, and I bring this up as an illustration of a principle that the American people may be in the process of rediscovering. We shall see. The principle is called nullification, and there are different places it can show …
Schlock and Awe
Perhaps you have seen the thesis advanced by the t-shirt that maintains that “Obama is in over his head”? It is a point of view that becomes more compelling by the day. One of the reasons why conspiracy theories are so prevalent on the hard right is that it is assumed that those doing whatever …