Category Archives: Uncategorized

The Skeptical Conservatives

The Skeptical Conservatives website is now up. It will serve as an aggregator for the the TSC affiliations. I’ve also created a Facebook fan page. I’d appreciate it if you’d “like” it so that we can get the vanity URL … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on The Skeptical Conservatives

24 hours until campaign 2012 starts!

Open thread I guess….

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | 6 Comments

Joe Manchin looks like Joe Theismann

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The Establishment vs. Sarah Palin

Long story in Politico, Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin. On the one had Palin has not too hot fav vs. unfav. numbers. On the other hand the economy is likely to be stagnant leading up to 2012. I think … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 43 Comments

Trucker demands religious accommodation for refusal to haul alcohol, tobacco

[cross-posted from Overlawyered] Age of accommodation, cont’d: “in Reedy v. Schneider National, Inc. (E.D. Pa. filed Oct. 15, 2010). Vasant Reddy says that he has ‘a sincerely held religious belief that he cannot consume, possess, or transport alcohol or tobacco,’ … Continue reading

Posted in law, Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Playing the Victim

This report caught my eye: Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich screened his Catholic documentary “Nine Days That Changed the World” Monday night in Washington Hall and urged the audience to carry the film’s lessons into an increasingly … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Republican Kitsch

I heard some of the news conference introducing House Republican’s “A Pledge to America” today.  While some of the individual proposals—such as ending government control of Fannie Mae and repealing the health care law (good luck)–actually have some concrete meaning, … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | 14 Comments

Magical Thinking Watch: “Promise Neighborhoods”

The Obama Administration has announced the latest desperate twist in the country’s nearly half-century-long evasion regarding the central truth of inner-city dysfunction.  Twenty-one social service organizations, schools, and universities have received $10 million to draw up plans for a cradle-to-grave … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 24 Comments

Islam and HBD

A friend writes concerning Mr. Hume’s post Islam, generalizations, barbarism, and structural conflicts: The tone of Mr. Hume’s essay is, in your terminology, a “culturist” one, of a “Blank Slate” kind. Example: “Moving specifically to Muslim perspective the experiences of … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 14 Comments

The Dalai Lama, Again

Via PTI: Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said today that China should learn religious harmony and non-violence from India. Describing himself “as the Son of India,” Dalai Lama, who was in Amritsar for a night halt on his way … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 4 Comments