Tag: Absolute Rights

30 Years of Gun Control Denial

Left-liberals often declare themselves to be on the side of fact and
reason. And yet, they show almost no interest whatsoever in the actual
facts when presented with them, especially when those facts contradict
liberal reasoning.

 The Clueless Kluwe

I am, for my sins, a Minnesota Vikings fan. As one, I am more than a
little familiar with the ex-Vikings punter named Chris Kluwe, who in addition to giving up four punt returns for a
touchdown one season, has been an outspoken advocate of perverting the
sacrament of marriage. One year after being cut by the team and replaced
by a rookie punter at one-fourth the cost, Mr. Kluwe has penned an
outraged screed in which he claimed that he had unfairly lost his job
due to the actions of “two cowards and a bigot”.

Finding Climate Change

There are some who doubt that God exists. They obviously haven’t been
paying much attention to the events at the South Pole, where the MV
Akademik Schokalskiy was carrying a group of true believers in the
gospel of Al Gore to document environmental changes there. For we now
know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God not only exists, but has a
rather puckish sense of humor.

Racism in the Obama Regime

So it appears that despite my doubts, the so-called “Knockout Game”
exists after all. It turns out that it is a game of hate crime in which
young white thugs attempt to knock out innocent elderly black men.

Do-It-Yourself Police

It should surprise no one that a county government would prefer to see
people hand them money and permit them to oversee the spending of it
than take matters, and responsibility, into their own hands. The entire
concept of “big government” is a socialistic one that depends entirely
on the idea that centralizing decision-making will inevitably lead to
better societal outcomes. The fact that this is much more often false
than it is true never even slows down those who benefit materially from
the structure from shamelessly attempting to push it on everyone.

No More Backing Down

Have you noticed something has changed recently in the way the
political Right now responds to public criticism and personal attacks?
It used to be that when faced with charges of racism, bigotry, or even
being insufficiently polite to the Left, right wingers who found
themselves in the media cross hairs fell all over themselves
apologizing, denying their previous statements, and rejecting their
previously held beliefs.

Not that this cowardly behavior often saved their jobs or their
reputations, and yet one public figure after another persisted in
responding to criticism by cringing and assuming the fetal position.

Not anymore.

Shots in the Culture War

There could hardly be two men more different in appearance than Phil
Robertson and Ethan Krupp. Phil is a bearded Louisiana backwoodsman, a
self-made millionaire, a former collegiate quarterback talented enough
to keep Terry Bradshaw on the bench, and an outspoken Christian. Ethan
Krupp is a bespectacled Jewish man-boy, an Organizing For Action
political activist who stars as the effete, onesie-wearing, hot
chocolate-sipping douche in the latest Obama ad debacle.

Put Not Your Trust in Men

The late Nelson Mandela possessed a perceived moral authority in the
eyes of the world that few men have ever known. His terrorist past
notwithstanding, his subsequent commitment to peace and reconciliation
as well as his gracious refusal to give in to despair and hatred made
him an icon of hope to many. Even his enemies came to admire him over
time, as he answered the perfectly reasonable doubts they harbored by
his steadfast adherence to that commitment.

The Un-American President

After five years of his occupation of the Oval Office, it is abundantly
clear that wherever Obama’s true sympathies happen to be, they are most
certainly not with America or America’s national symbols.

A Mockery of Mandela

If there is a better cure for the collection of preening gasbags who
call themselves world leaders and assembled themselves in South Africa
in order to be seen pretending to mourn for the late Nelson Mandela, it
is hard to imagine one.

The New American Aristocracy
Perhaps as a result of the Italian and German experiences, dictatorships
have been the great fear of democracies for the last six decades.
Aristocracy sounds like something out of the 18th century; a legally
privileged class of people sounds positively medieval to the modern ear.
And yet, increasingly, that is exactly what we are seeing develop in
21st century America.

 The Scientists Who Cried Wolf
It’s freezing outside. Hundreds of historic low temperatures have been
set in recent weeks around the country. Every single computer model
that predicted the globe would be warmer over the last decade has been
shown to be wrong. And now this.

“Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second
straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice
is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world. On Saturday, the
ice extent reached 19.51 million square kilometers, according to data
posted on the National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site. That number
bested record high levels set earlier this month and in 2012 (of 19.48
million square kilometers). Records date back to October 1978.”

At this rate, instead of mourning the drowning polar bears, we’re
going to find ourselves fleeing for our lives from rampaging packs of
them.

Lies, Damned Lies, and the Left
 If you happen to notice a no-guns sticker at a place of business, be
sure to ask if it is actually the policy of the business or not before
assuming it is there legitimately. Because it is entirely possible that
the business’s owner didn’t put it there.

Racism in a Post-Racial Society
One of the interesting things about living in Europe is the vast gulf
between the way Europeans actually behave and the way most Americans
believe they do. As a general rule, Americans tend to think of Europe as a little more than a continental socialist camp, which either inspires their admiration or their
pity depending upon whether they are liberal or conservative. Liberals,
in particular, seem to regard Europe as some sort of New York City on
steroids where all the things for which they labor so passionately, like
gun control, abortion, racial equality and gay marriage, are embraced
as a matter of course.

These assumptions tend to be vastly amusing to anyone who has actually spent time living among Europeans.

In case you’ve missed my recent posts at Absolute Rights, here is a summary of them. And you won’t want to miss my next one there, which reveals how totally I am in touch with the young people of America today and even features an up-to-date pop cultural reference to the rock star Kate Perry.

Kill Immigration Reform or Kill America

The problem is that immigrants and Americans alike want to live in
the America that was the result of 1950s America, but most immigrants
and many Americans have proven themselves completely incapable of doing
so without destroying it. If passed, Obama’s immigration reform will
transform the entire nation in much the same way that his health care
reform has transformed the health care industry. In other words, it will
prove to be an expensive and poorly-managed blunder that will destroy
what it purports to be saving without benefitting the very people it was
supposed to help.

It is long past time for Americans to grow up and realize that there
is nothing magical about American geography. It will not transform
peasants into productive middle-class businessmen and it will not
convert barbarians into civilized men and women.

The Game of Race Hate

The Civil Rights Movement has failed. Forced integration has failed.
Martin Luther King’s dream has become a nightmare, in which men are
neither judged by the content of their character or the color of their
skin. And where there is no judgment, no civilization is possible.

It’s Still the Economy, Stupid

It might seem strange to the non-economist that it never occurs to the professional economists that household debt, relative to income, might be a root cause of the problem rather than a symptom. After all, it’s hard to buy more consumer goods when most of your income is already going to paying off your mortage, your credit card, your student loan, and your manufacturer-financed car.

But the obvious is the impossible to the mainstream economists, because their Neo-Keynesian economic models consider debt exogenous to the system and therefore ruled out as a potential cause by definition.

The stagflation of the 1970s blew up conventional Keynesian economy theory. It is now looking increasingly likely that the debt disinflation of the 2010s will destroy the Neo-Keynesian theory that resulted from that previous failure.

Economics needs new and better models.