My Visit To Left Wing Land, Part 5: Mother Jones

After that, I went to Whole Foods to do some shopping. Previously, I never shopped at Whole Foods, as I was sure that their management was all lefty – until I read this great article in Reason Magazine about the founder of Whole Foods, and his libertarian leanings Since then, we’ve been shopping there regularly. Since they cater to lefty types, they carry a bunch of lefty magazines. I caught the cover of Mother Jones as I was heading to the cashier: the title was “The Superrich Are Eating America, Can Obama Save Us?” The unbelievable stupidity of that just floored me: a) the superrich are the ones which keep the economy going, they are rich because people gave them money for something they produced, not theft b) they still have faith that Obama can champion their cause (In my eyes he is simply another opportunistic politician looking out for himself – even progressives are unhappy with him) and c) that they feel that the government can “save us” from anything. It was the icing on the cake: after attempting to discuss issues with liberals all day, I gave up: these creatures simply do not have the capacity to understand and change, well at least most of them don’t.

My Visit To Left Wing Land, Part 4

In the end, most everyone on HuffPo was not interested in any logical fact or argument Pretty much all of the people I talked to had basically taken their ability to think and reason, put it on a shelf, and just walk in lockstep with the talking points of the progressive Democrats. It was sad, actually. After this, I was thinking, they are not really an enemy, I can’t really hold any hatred for them, they are really more to be pitied. An enemy is one you can hate since they really do have malice towards you, for example like a terrorist who kills or enjoys killing. These people are more misguided and lazy: its tough to think, its difficult to reason: its much easier to shelve that and just let some politician tell you that they will take care of everything and everything will be alright.

My Visit To Left Wing Land, Part 3

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As usual, I got the “you are a hateful Bush lover” insults, asking where the Tea Party and Libertarians were while Bush was wrecking things: I replied that libertarians had always been around (I mean the libertarian party has been around since 1971, libertarian thought since before America was formed) and never really liked Bush either. He may have been fine for the first little while, but after 9/11, all that changed. Plus the Tea Party formed mostly in response to the Bush bailouts, and simply continued during the Obama bailouts. The old saw, that the Tea Party was organized by corporate interests, was hauled out yet again, and I countered with “you really think corporations are behind a movement which slams corporate handouts?” Plus corporations are about as bad as governments when it comes to conspiracy, I doubt that they have the ability to pull one off.

My Visit To Left Wing Land, Part 2

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After that, the discourse was rocking: however I noticed the exact same thing as I get from liberals everywhere: that they have a completely closed mind, that they are not open to any kind of fact and argument, that they simply repeat talking points over and over again. In addition, they are really a bunch of whiny little brats. In fact, one the first responses was “wahh, this blog isn’t like it used to be” (well, I added the “wahh”). I guess HuffPo was a nice safe place for these people to live in their own little world, far far away from reason and reality, and us big bad conservatives came in there to ruin their day. Aw, doesn’t free speech suck? I guess for these people it does: all they ever wanted to hear was their party line, and there was really no reasoning with them.

My Visit To Left Wing Land, Part 1

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I’ve been purposely staying away from places like the Huffington Post because I can’t really stand not only the slant of the publication, but the shrill tone of the articles. However this weekend, I noticed an article by Andrew Brietbart, of Big Government fame, on there, regarding the NPR sting, where they slammed the Tea Party for being racist. His article indicated that this was a win for the Tea Party, as this just made NPR look like idiots. So I commented, mentioning how I believed that the Tea Party looks at things from a purely fiscal perspective, and simply wants to reduce taxes for everyone. What did I get for my factual and reasoned argument: a one line insult. So I responded with, well I thought I might get some reasoned discourse on here, but I guess I was mistaken. After that the ball was rolling: I actually got a number of other readers fanning me on there.

Obama Jokes And Golfs, While The World Is Aflame

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I don’t know about you, but instead of joking and golfing this weekend, I, and probably most Americans, spent the weekend with our eyes glued to the televisions and the internet, while reports of the devastation in Japan were coming through. I didn’t really have it in my heart to attend a dinner, joking and laughing with journalists and fellow politicians at Gridiron. I didn’t then go golfing: I ‘d feel bad enjoying myself like that when there were tens of thousands of people suffering in Japan. Of course, our President is not troubled by such things. like most liberals, he has the uncanny ability to completely ignore and compartmentalize any suffering in the world other than his own. Like most narcissists, he exists to further only his own pleasure. He has no empathy whatsoever, be it for the suffering Japanese, Libyans, Egyptians, or those Americans on the unemployment line. I don’t know about you but empathy is a trait I feel a President needs to do the job. Again, he’s not a good fit, and come 2012, let’s fire him.

Must Everything The Mainstream Media Report Be Biased?

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Amid the devastation in Japan, it seems that all reporting must now be politicized by the mainstream media. As the earthquake and tsunami swept over Japan, pundits blamed man-made global warming – although how global warming can be connected to an earthquake is beyond me. As the nuclear plants begin to fail due to the earthquake, possibly leading to meltdown, pundits decried nuclear power. In fact, the nuclear scientists have spoken up, saying that the mainstream media is purposely reporting far worse conditions in order to help foster panic about nuclear power. Somedays it seems like they wont be happy until we are riding our bikes to a farm for work. What kind of society would be ideal for these people? Amish? 7th century Islam? I mean, how much of our modern civilization would they strip back in order to map to their fanatical ideology? Or do they just want us paying for the privilege of living in the modern world.

921 - Japan Eathquake - Nature Wins - My HuffPo Visit

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On Today's Show:

• The devastation in Japan: earthquake followed by tsunami. My heart goes out to everyone there. One moment, we are living our lives, feeling fully in control of everything, believing that we have mastered this plant, the next, nature contradicts us. How can we ever believe that we truly have any kind of power over the brute force of this planet?


• I visit the Huffington Post and other liberal blogs over the weekend to see what its like over there. It's actually a lot of fun to poke at liberals, didn't realize what a bunch of whiny babies they were. They HATED any kind of dissent, whined and insulted anyone who tried to have a reasoned debate instead of walking in lockstep with their world vision.

The Left's Idea Of Civility: "you will be killed"

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This is apparently how to win friends and influence people, union style:

Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit

that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.

via "Please put your things in order because you will be killed" (Wizbang).

Obama: It Would Be So Much Easier To Be President Of China

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Usually Obama is pretty careful about overt discussions of his longing so be a dictator instead of an elected official. He actually said “it would be so much easier to be President of China” recently, a few months ago he was bemoaning the fact that “I am not King, there’s Congress” etc. Of course he would prefer to be President of China, and by extension, would probably prefer that something like the Chinese system of government to ours. Prominent Democrats over the years have voiced similar opinions, and I’ve raised these issues before on my show: Democrats would love the capitalist socialism of China to be brought here: Hillary has ogled China as well. With its churning factories and low wages, oppression and suppression, turning America into China is every liberals wet dream – as long as they are part of the ruling elite and the unwashed masses between the left and right coast become the factory workers. Yes, China gives liberals the best of all possible worlds: tons of money for the elites, and no more chatty radio talk show hosts like Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Levin or me stirring up the pot.

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Tweets Prove Internet Kill Switch Attack On Free Speech

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As I write this, a major (8.9) quake has hit Japan, killing many there and causing tsunami warnings all over the Pacific. My deepest condolences for this horrible tragedy, and I hope that those trapped are found swiftly, possibly even with the help of Twitter.

As soon as the quake hit, the first wave of information regarding the quake hit the rest of the world via Twitter. That’s right folks: it wasn’t CNN, MSNBC or Fox News: word of this earthquake and tsunami spread first through individuals on the ground in Japan, experiencing the quake personally.

It was basically crowdsourced news. The first tweets hit twitter just as it happened, and within a half hour, it was a top trending term. There was an emergency somewhere in the world, and the first route to information is the internet.

Now imagine Barack Obama sitting in the Oval Office with a big internet kill switch on his desk. Pressing this button would basically shut down the internet: no one would be able to reach any website or service, Facebook, Google, Twitter would all be dead. Now why would Obama ever have a need to kill all internet communications in the event of an emergency?

I mean, during a crisis, we depend more than ever on the internet and services like Twitter, which also use SMS, to get the news regarding the crisis, and how it might affect us. Trapped victims can also use Twitter to report on thier location - loved ones can use Twitter to tell their friends and families that they are OK.

Unless, of course, the emergency were one of suppressing our inviolable right to speak, as encoded in the Constitution. It makes no sense to “kill” the internet, unless its spreading a message the government does not want you to hear.

Uniting Libertarians, Tea Partiers and Conservatives To Fight For Freedom

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Some tell me that this is an impossible task: that there is no way that we can unite libertarians, Tea Partiers and conservatives. They are just too different. Well, I beg to differ: think of us as three overlapping circles: we do have a few common goals: and that is to reduce taxes, reduce government spending, reduce the size and scope of government, and keep it as much out of meddling in our live as possible. We may differ on personal issues, but on fiscal issues we all feel pretty much the same. Now is the time for us to unite and put our differences to the side. Now is the time for us to work together to fix the fiscal problems this country has, reduce the footprint of government, give the power back to the people. We can do it, but only if we work together: we need to quit this in-fighting among us: don’t you know that every time a conservative insults a Tea Partier, that the liberals laugh at us. Every time you are thinking about slamming one of the other of us, think about the peals of laughter from the liberals, who will gladly use these divisions to destroy us. Now is the time for us to stand strong and together. If we don’t we will lose to the Obama juggernaut again, and this country can’t take another four years of Obama. So for the sake of the greater good of this country, let’s all just get along, at least until we’ve won the Presidency again.

Lowering, Not Increasing, Taxes Increases State Revenues

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One of the things I learned from economics (if not from Econ 101, something pretty close to that) is that one of the worst things that the government can do when its in a financial crunch as we are today, is to raise taxes in order to cover shortfall. You guys know that I have advocated and continue to advocate deep spending cuts: we can’t afford not to. However, even with these cuts, we still have to raise enough revenue for the state to keep services going until we can privatize them. The shortsighted and wrong view would be to raise taxes to cover that shortfall. This won’t work, and will frankly make things worse, as business will hire less, shut down, and people will spend less. The trick is to REDUCE taxes. Once taxes are reduced, then businesses will expand and hire, people will buy more, and overall tax revenues will rise. Unfortunately, this runs contrary to the ideals of this administration, who are happy to start and run class wars which never existed here, so I bet that we won’t see taxes come down anytime soon.

Fear Of An Obama Juggernaut?

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Is there a fear, on the GOP side, of another Obama juggernaut? I’m getting a little concerned about the lack of anyone on the GOP side making a strong declaration to run for President yet. I wonder what the delay is? My gut tells me that despite the fact that Obama has done more to derail America than any other past President, the politics of guilt, race and likability, not to mention the billion dollar campaign, will be a very tough thing to fight. I’m sensing that this is why no one has really stepped up strongly to declare their intentions to run.

We have to remember that in every poll so far, Americans say that they “like” Obama, though God know why, but they don’t like his policies. Well, that’s the message then. While the Obama campaign will start with the hateful, personal attacks (they’ve already started), both overt and covert via the mainstream media, we have to focus on the policies he has enacted which are taking us to the brink of ruin: as well as the burdensome taxation which will have to come down the pipe in order to support these initiatives. As long as we focus on the fiscal, then we should have a strong case.

Another Day, Another Gas Price Increase

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I was at the pump again yesterday morning, noticed that the price of gas had gone up another 10 cents since I fill it up last, just a mere few days ago. Well, I guess its still way below what Obama wants us to pay for gas, so that’s probably why he isn’t doing anything about it, like releasing more areas to be drilled on our own soil. Apparently, we don’t subscribe to the “drill, baby, drill” policy (yes, its true someone in the Obama admin – I think it was the energy secretary – actually said that), so our gas prices have a long way to rise before they get to where Obama feels they might be something he should do something about. This simply further underscores his feeling towards Americans, which range from utter disregard to contempt. Why I think he’s back on the golf course again right now, enjoying his day, while we work hard so that he can have these days, and we have to do without them.

Oh BTW, looks like Obama is calling a press conference to discuss this. How much do you want to bet that it will be the same story over again: renewable blah blah blah. He has no concern for us, whatsoever.

Libya: Who Will Do Something?

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At last look, the carnage in Libya continues. Muammar Gaddafi continues to rain death upon his own people. He is ready, willing and able to run a protracted civil war, pitting tanks and guns against unarmed civilians. It’s going from a civil war to a massacre. We, the American people, feel for the Libyans. We wish we could do something – we wish we could help overthrow this tyrannical leader and bring peace back to your country. But our leader, no our leader is soft. He is weak. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence of people suffering and dying, he delays decisions. When he does respond, he responds meekly. This man is not the leader we want. This man does not represent us. So Sarkozy is stepping up in Europe, and saying and doing what Barack Obama should have done all along, but is too weak to do. With luck, at least some leaders out there care enough about the Libyan people to do something about it.

Saudi police open fire at protest

Saudi police open fire at protest

Saudi police open fire at protest. The call for freedom and democracy is resonating throughout the world. We need to do what we can to support the people who are under the thumb of these oppressive regimes, and not the regimes themselves, which we have done for far too long. Now is the time for us to come out in support of the people. It's doubtful that Obama will do anything, lest it appear that America is strong, or that he really knows anything about foreign policy, or that he says or does anything to rile up the Saudis, which we have been supporting for so long. I think it would be a nice change if we were to support the people, and not the regime, for a change. Well, at least we know that the American people support protests against tyranny and for freedom, even if our royal POTUS doesn't.

Governor Walker Passes Union Bill

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And its about time, Governor Walker finally passes the union bill which gets rid of collective bargaining. I’d argue its long past due: with teachers being out of school for weeks, union thugs practically destroying Madison, Democrat lawmakers (or should that be law-breakers) even going so far as to flee the state in order to not have to vote on this bill, this conflict has gone on far too long, and Governor Walker has shown way too much compassion for these people. This is an issue which plagues us a bit on this side: while they will go to any lengths to win, we try to be civil And the result what happened in Wisconsin. We have to just understand that these people will not listen to reason, and therefore should treat them like children, and decisions should come quickly. But I digress. We’ve won in Wisconsin, now we need to bring this fight to the rest of the country and eventually de-fang public sector unions everywhere.

Let's Stop Calling Them "Social Issues"

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I’d like to make a modest proposal when it comes to the things that we call “social issues”. Some of the political issues which come under that banner are things like gay marriage, abortion, personal drug use, development and consumption of pornographic and violent media, promotion of a specific political viewpoints etc. I think you know what I’m talking about: its basically the issues that truly keep libertarians, Tea Partiers and conservatives from uniting. We have those who believe in “social freedom” and those who believe in “social conservatism”. For the purposes of this article, I’m not leaning in either direction. However I do have something to say about the naming and involvement in either of those.

Simply put: most of these issues are not really “social”, they do not truly affect the society at large, they are largely '”personal”. For example, if a same sex couple wishes to marry and live together down the street, it does not affect the rest of the neighborhood or society. Thus gay marriage is not a “social issue”, it is a “personal issue”. The same goes for personal drug, pornography, violent media consumption or political beliefs: all of these are “personally” consumed, not socially consumed. If someone the next block over wishes to play a violent video game, or indulge in  a recreational drug, be it marijuana or alcohol, it is that person, not the society, which is affected. Unless there is a socialized health care system where everyone has a financial stake in the health of everyone around us, then I don’t really care how many beers someone has, as long as they don’t jump into a car drunk and do some damage to others. But we already have laws for that.

Health care and abortion can be argued are the most “personal” of the social issues discussed. The decisions regarding either of these issues should be restricted to the immediate family and trusted health care providers. The state, and the rest of society, really have little say in the matter. Just as if you wouldn’t want anyone else other than yourself and your immediate family to make decisions about your health, you shouldn’t expect to make decisions regarding others health.

So here is my modest proposal: instead of calling these “social issues” lets try calling them “personal issues” which is, in reality, closer to what they really and truly are. So think about it: the next time you talk about the “social issue” of gay marriage, think of it as a “personal issue”. If you think of it as a personal issue as opposed to a social issue, then you have to see how meddling in peoples personal issues is not right. In the same way you wouldn’t want people poking their noses into your personal issues, you should not expect to have the ability, either directly or via that state, to poke your nose into theirs.

NPR Needs To Be Defunded And Privatized, Right Now

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Even though its not a huge chunk of budget, I believe that we need to immediately spin out – or privatize (which I guess is the public version of “spin out”)- NPR, PBS, and any other media properties which the state is currently funding. This is not just in response to one of the heads at NPR calling the Tea Party racist (boy, I have to tell you that I’m getting really sick and tired of these liberals throwing around the term racism when the Tea Party movement is purely FISCAL, and fiscal issue affect everyone regardless of skin color) but for two reasons a) we can’t afford to pay for them anymore and b) it’s just not right for the state to force people to fund, via taxpayers money, promotions of viewpoints that they disagree with. How would a gay marriage activist feel if the government started promoting straight marriage? See what I mean? If you ask me, ones political views are personal issues as well, and if people wish to spend money promoting their beliefs, then more power to them Just don’t steal my money and use it to promote ideals I DO NOT believe it.