Truth in Advertising
One of my life philosophies is being proud of who you are. And I also appreciate men that aren’t afraid to be men. Two of my favorite commercials these days:
Monthly Archive: September 2012
Bourbon Bleg
As discussed over in my Nashville bleg, it seems imperative that a bourbon club be set up. I’m working on how the club will function, but right now am looking for recommendations for bourbons...
Delirium
There are worse things in life than spending a Friday night playing poker with a guy who distributes beer & wine for a living. Delirium Tremens, is what I’m saying. Even when you lose,...
What Progressivism Is (Updated)
Back in 2010, Paul Ryan told Glenn Beck: …what I’ve been trying to do is indict the entire vision of progressivism because I see progressivism as the source, the intellectual source for the big...
Left Unsaid: Why Barack Obama’s Convention Speech Was Far More Ambitious Than You Think
There’s a lot to say about Obama’s speech last night — besides the fact that, yes, as a performance it was underwhelming — but I think David Atkins gets closest to voicing my most...
Hayek and the Socialist Calculation
by James Hanley Apparently Hayek is in season again. James K discussed him just over a week ago, now Jason K (no relation, so far as we know) features him at his real job,...
SRSLY?
Vom. My only question is: What would they have done if it had been Tebow’s number that was deemed “criminal”?
The Distant Horizon: Critiquing Obama’s DNC speech.
Precis: Obama’s a different man now. Gone are the stratospheric rhetorical flourishes, the transcendent promises of post-partisanship. Four years in office has changed the man. My father would have called this a Shechem Sermon,...
First round is on me, Beltway guys and gals…
As I said a while back, I’ll be in Washington DC next weekend covering the Values Voter Summit. Since I know we have a fair number of readers and contributors from the Beltway, it...
The things that you can do with bread and cheese.
What I will write will sound like blasphemy to many, but I say to you, it is not blasphemy, but a new covenant between God and our taste buds. “What is this new covenant”...
Two Masts for Two Hulls
We got the second mast up today. Whatever else she still needs to go sailing, MON TIKI feels like a boat now, and I’m happy to share this picture and this moment with all...
So You Say You Want to Make a Meatloaf?
As far as I’m concerned, there is one way and only one way to make a meatloaf. Growing up, it was simply meatloaf. We ate it. It was delicious. And that was that. When...
At My Real Job: The Austrian School Gets To Work
At Cato Unbound this month, we’re talking about the Austrian school of economics. In his lead essay, Professor Steven Horwitz talks about how Austrians approach empirical questions, arguing that Austrians are indeed doing important...
Have Romney’s Tax Returns Been Hacked?
[ORIGINAL] — So it is being reported, by various outlets, that a “group of hackers” has obtained, through something resembling Mission Impossible/Sneakers like antics, several of Mitt Romney’s prior tax returns.
Democrats Call for New Assault Weapons Ban
In case anyone missed it, the Democratic platform released this week calls for a renewal of the Assault Weapons Ban. This is probably just rhetoric as almost everyone believes that the issue is a...
The Red West vs The Red South
[This post has been cross-posted from Not a Potted Plant. Because a conversation has started over there, I will close the comments here and direct you there for discussion.] In a conversation about national...
Still Republican Kryptonite
Submitted: Bill Clinton is to Republicans as Chipper Jones is to the New York Mets. For all of his “elder statesman” status, he still knows how to embarrass your closer with a walk off...
Spot the Human Capitalists
As you may have heard, Brink Lindsey is returning to the Cato Institute. Don’t ask: I don’t have inside information. The Koch brothers—or zombie Ayn Rand, or Yaron Brook, or whatever malefic presence pulls...
What Not Getting It Looks Like
For most of the last 40 years or so, Pennsylvania has been viewed as an important swing state in Presidential elections. Prior to 2000, it had voted with the winning Presidential candidate for...
