By Greg Perkins from NoodleFood,cross-posted by MetaBlog How do you quickly explain -- or at least motivate further exploration of -- subtle ideas that would challenge "what everybody knows"? It's just hard, a skill to be practiced, which is why I eagerly listened to the (quite excellent) debate bet...

By Roberto 'Tito' Sarrionandia from Tito's Blog,cross-posted by MetaBlog Today I got together a parcel for my Conservative candidate Simon Hart. After thinking long and hard about it, I chose Atlas Shrugged as the book to send him.I also sent this letter. Dear Simon Hart, I enclose, a...

By Roberto 'Tito' Sarrionandia from Tito's Blog,cross-posted by MetaBlog GAZA CITY (AFP) — Firebrand British MP George Galloway on Tuesday donated thousands of dollars and dozens of vehicles to the Hamas-run government in the Gaza Strip after arriving in an aid convoy. "We are givin...

By Gus Van Horn from Gus Van Horn,cross-posted by MetaBlog If you're from Houston, ... ... or know someone who is, be sure you stop by/send him to Live Oaks to consider virtual mayoral candidate Brian Phillips' petition for reduced government: Whereas, the proper purpose of government is the protect...

By Paula Hall from NoodleFood,cross-posted by MetaBlog Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) is challenging part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional, which is good. Any challenge to legal discrimination between same-sex and opposite-sex marriage is a good thi...

By noreply@blogger.com (Edward Cline) from The Rule of Reason,cross-posted by MetaBlog There are qualified parallels between what American colonists protested and rebelled against in 1774-1775, and what modern Americans ought to be rebelling against today. As Congress passes legislation intended to ...

By Gus Van Horn from Gus Van Horn,cross-posted by MetaBlog It seems I'm not the only one asking asking whether Barack Obama is evil or stupid. Myrhaf comments on Roger Kimball's raising the same question. ... Obama could not do better at harming our economy if he was trying. Since his election, Amer...

By Scott Powell from Powell History Recommends,cross-posted by MetaBlog In tackling the question of presidential rankings for just the Founding presidents I came to realize what an incredibly difficult thing it is to sort out even this small group, let alone all forty-three presidents so far.  With...

By noreply@blogger.com (Edward Cline) from The Rule of Reason,cross-posted by MetaBlog When I finished reading and marking up a transcript of President Barack Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress on February 24, there was possibly as much of my own ink on the pages as in the speech its...

By Roberto 'Tito' Sarrionandia from Tito's Blog,cross-posted by MetaBlog Of all the events on the Christian calendar, there is not one so repulsive, so anti-life and so altruistic as Lent. Lent is a 40 day celebration of suffering. While originally it was a period of religious fasting...