There’s an interesting brouhaha going on in the California Theater community. The Sacremento Bee reports:
Gay and lesbian artists called Monday for an artistic and audience boycott of California Musical Theatre after learning that its artistic director donated $1,000 to a campaign that backed banning gay marriage in California.
Scott Eckern was not available for comment […]

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The terrific PJ O’Rourke has a great article in the Weekly Standard entitled We Blew It. It’s complete genius and I urge you to read the entire thing.
My favorite bit:
What will destroy our country and us is not the financial crisis but the fact that liberals think the free market is some kind of […]

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This Reason article by Radley Balko sums up a lot of the reasons I like Palin. Reason as a whole has been pretty opposed to the Republicans this year, maybe because the editor in chief wrote the book McCain: Myth of a Maverick. I pretty much agree with them about McCain, but Øbama […]

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Great sum-up of the speech here.
Despite the Clinton years, the Democrats seem to be stuck to some considerable degree in the 1970s and this speech would have been better given at the 1972 convention. Back then we really were isolated because of a war, faced unfriendly governments even in the West, had genuine economic problems […]

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The Constitution is a product spec for limited government.
The dissenting Justices in the Heller case are equivalent to developers who completely disregard the spec, or treat it as mere suggestion, and code whatever they personally think the product should be instead.
The Stevens dissent is a ludicrous read, ultimately saying that the Second Amendment […]

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Good news people! Only four Supreme Court justices don’t give a damn what the Constitution says!
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban […]

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Well, maybe these particular thugs don’t break legs, but Wesley Snipes will be imprisoned and held for three years by a group of extortionists he refused to pay protection money to.
If only the depredations of this marauding gang could be resisted.. But they have quite a bit of firepower.

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Being forced to work without compensation equals slavery. Happy freedom from slavery day everyone! Until next year anyway…

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Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch argue for the libertarian center.
Since the 1970s, the Democrats and Republicans have been leaking market share like a Chevy Nova leaking oil. In 1970, the Harris Poll asked: “Regardless of how you may vote, what do you usually consider yourself — a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, or some other […]

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Premise: Supreme Court rules 2nd Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. All states eventually become shall issue states, where any person with a clean criminal record can buy and carry a handgun.
Larry: That’s insane, people would be shooting each other over parking spaces. It would be a shooting gallery […]

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Playwright David Mamet has a great piece in the Village Voice talking about his recent political conversion. I realized a lot of the same things in the past few years when I went through the same kind of conversion.
This is, to me, the synthesis of this worldview with which I now found […]

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I’ve started watching The Wire on my iPhone, and coincidentally the writers of the show have published a screed against the drug war in Time magazine.
If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Save for a prosecution […]

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Economics commentator Donald Luskin endorses Ron Paul. He lists many of the reasons I support Dr. Paul myself, and puts the conspiracy and weirdness baggage in its proper perspective.
For all his apparent extremism, there’s no other candidate who has managed to excite both Democrat and Republican voters by combining an anti-war message that irritates […]

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Tucker Carlson on the trail with Ron Paul, a bordello owner and a pair of prostitutes.
The first time I heard Paul talk about monetary policy, I’d felt like a hostage, the only person in the room who didn’t buy into the program. Then, slowly, like so many hostages, I started to open my mind and […]

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I believe we should have a law that would make Congressmen criminally liable for voting in favor of legislation that clearly violates the Constitution or Bill of Rights, such as this little doozy. It does offer a fine lesson in unintended consequences though, as I will illustrate.
This is what the SAFE Act requires: Anyone […]

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Frederic Bastiat, from Selected Essays on Political Economy, published 1848.
If each man has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty, and his property, several men have the right to get together, come to an understanding, and organize a collective force to provide regularly for this defense.
Collective right, then, has its principle, […]

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They told me that if George W. Bush was elected, homosexuals would be persecuted, and they were right!
Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt.
Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes […]

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This will be quite unsurprising to those who know me. Heh.

Your Inner European is Dutch!

Open minded and tolerant.
You’re up for just about anything.

Who’s Your Inner European?

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The question of what to do in Iraq today must be separated from the decision to topple Saddam Hussein four and a half years ago. That decision is a matter for historians. By any normal ethical standard, the coalition’s current project in Iraq is a just one. Britain, America and Iraq’s other allies are there […]

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Christopher Hitchens writes about the family of a young soldier killed in Iraq, who was partially motivated to serve by Hitchens’ own writings on the moral case for the war in Iraq. This is powerful stuff that I don’t even want to excerpt, go to Vanity Fair and read the whole thing.

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