My thoughts, succinctly, on California Proposition 8

Civil marriage isn’t a right — not for anyone; it’s a privilege. If the sovereign determines that it is in its best interest to permit any or all sorts of marriage, or to proscribe any or all, it has that right. Whether or not I like it, our nation is, ostensibly, one wherein power lies, [...]

President Obama: America’s New Faustian Bargain

On 4 November, and in the preceding weeks, in an election that was more a referendum on George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama than a contest between Obama and John McCain, Americans, awarding the boy-wonder freshman senator from Illinois at least a four-year-long stay at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, invested in their first (half-)African-American [...]

Black Panthers Intimidate Voters in Philadelphia

Republican observer had to call the police: Really, a nightstick? “We’re tired of white supremacy.” Seriously? And so the bullying begins. At least it’s not ACORN.

Alex Cockburn says not to vote for Obama

The Southern Avenger has it here.
In substantive terms Obama’s run has been the negation of almost every decent progressive principle, a negation achieved with scarcely a bleat of protest from the progressives seeking to hold him to account.
So no, this is not an exciting or liberating moment in America’s politics such as was possible after [...]

“McCain is exactly the wrong kind of Republican to have as President during a Democratic ascendancy. “

I still stand by my argument that, even if Obama is, maybe, the lesser of two evils in a vacuum, we’re not in a vacuum, and the context of Democratic dominance of both chambers makes McCain the distressingly lesser evil. Mr Larison suggests otherwise. He makes a good point, no doubt about it.
What of [...]

“Endorsing” McCain; I didn’t vote for him, but here’s why you should

I had intended to write — to think — for myself on this matter, but I’m going to let Kara Hopkins do the work for me. I voted, if you must know, absentee; for president, I wrote in “Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez, (IND)”. Here’s why. 
I direct, then,  with little passion, this indirect endorsement not to those [...]

The Washington Post Hates Liberty

In today’s issue, the editorial board offers its endorsements for four Congressional seats from Maryland. They offered all four to Democrats. The language and reasoning employed by the board suggests just what a joke American “liberalism” has become, neither particularly liberal nor “progressive”, but statist in the worst ways. Call me terrified.
Following are excerpts [...]

John Schwenkler on why we need to have more than two candidates debating

John, in the comment box of his post-debate post:
[I]t seems to me that the major party candidates would be able to get away with a lot less of their B.S. if they had to share space with candidates who were offering something different. Obama would never have pressed McCain about, e.g., how his supposed “constructionism” [...]

Both Obama and McCain are wrong — dead-wrong — on health care

It ain’t the damn gummint’s business.
That is all.
(I capitulate. These morons deserve no reasoned praise or criticism.)
Seriously, web-logging will, or at least should, resume a bit more heavily come Friday. Life wears me so. I’ve plenty of ideas, just little time and excess energy. *Passes out at keyboard*

The Northern Agrarian endorses Ralph Nader

But beyond a policy based argument, Nader speaks to the heart of conservatism. Maybe not mainstream conservatism, but a conservatism separated from mass-consumerism and talk-radio, Fox News demagoguery. A candidate that is an enemy of corporate America and a friend of the environment is not a pinko-commie, but a conservative.

“The resources of nature, like those [...]