Archive for January, 2008

Hideous Hate Speech Laws Spreading

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Will Franklin explains the background of the video clip below:
The story of Ezra Levant, the Western Standard, and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is frightening. To sum up what’s going on, basically a guy in Canada has been hauled before a “hate speech” tribunal for publishing some political cartoons with images of Islam’s prophet Mohammed [...]

Hillary, Obama, Romney, McCain - How Should Win and Who Will Win?

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Regarding the Democratic candidates for president, who is going to win? And the answer is: Hillary Clinton. Why? Because the vast majority of Hispanics will not vote for Obama, and because most white older Democrats will not vote for him. Why is this? One can only speculate since you can’t climb into the heads of [...]

McCain on a Roll, and Romney Needs to Convince Us

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

So McCain beats Romney in Florida. And Giuliani is now going to endorse McCain too. So what are some concerns about McCain? Romney nails it pretty well this week:
Romney hammered hard on a climate-change bill that McCain has supported … saying the legislation will result in a tax increase. He also went after McCain for [...]

Consumer-Driven Health Care Needed

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I took my daughter to the ER Sunday morning because she had a lot of pain in her left kidney. After briefly searching on the internet before we left, it seemed pretty clear it was a kidney infection or a kidney stone. Since she is very young to get a kidney stone, I (and my [...]

Race-Based Voting in South Carolina

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Barack Obama ran away with the vote in the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary tonight. This was because 78% of blacks voted for Obama and only 17% for Clinton (and 2% for Edwards). Blacks in South Carolina must really, really agree with Obama on the issues … or, well, they are voting for him [...]

Why We Should Reduce the Levels of Immigration

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Here are a good set of arguments on why we should lower US immigration levels back to traditional levels (h/t Maggie’s Farm). Makes good sense to me. Why is this not an issue we hear more about?

The Right to Offend Must be Stopped!

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Maxime Verhagen, the Dutch Foreign Minister who was in Madrid to attend the Alliance of Civilisations, declares:
“… freedom of expression doesn’t mean the right to offend”
Good Lord, let’s not offend anyone with our free speech! That would be, well, criminal.
Seriously, between those trying to restrain free speech via more hate crime laws and [...]

John McCain Says He’ll Build The Fence …

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

With John McCain doing better in the primaries, I wondered what exactly he thinks about building a fence along the southern border to slow the flow of 15,000 people a week who are sneaking into the US. In case you had missed this last year, here is the answer:
Then he added, unable to help himself, [...]

Right-to-Work Laws Add Manufacturing Jobs

Friday, January 18th, 2008

I posted a few days ago about unions in the US automotive industry:
Michigan has lost 100,000 automotive jobs in recent years, and they are not coming back. There is no point in misleading the people of Michigan into thinking that they are ever coming back. … It is too bad that some Republican candidate could [...]

Romney, McCain, Huckabee, and Thompson

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Since Romney won Michigan tonight, and I criticized him in a post yesterday, I will add some balance here. Regarding limited government, The Club for Growth writes:
As Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney’s record on economic issues was generally good. He demonstrated a willingness to take on his Legislature and deserves credit for the many pro-growth measures [...]

Romney Does Michigan

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney does the big-government hand-out thing, Republican style, to pander for votes in Michigan.
First for a big fairy tale:
On Monday, he vowed that in the first 100 days of a Romney presidency, he would bring together representatives of the auto industry, unions, Congress and the state to come up with a plan [...]