Ungovernable? Really? Or Just Incompetence at the Top?
So, yes, there are reasons to be suspicious of government, and yes, our yearning to be “masterless” has created a culture that sends adventurers on the open road and pioneers looking for the next frontier. But it’s also making it increasingly difficult for government to function.
I’m not unsympathetic to the argument that vigilance — protest, activism, anger — is the price of freedom. But with the national government in gridlock, I’m beginning to worry that our “don’t tread on me” birthright has a deeper and darker cost.
Have you considered that Americans have always been like this — you admit it in your column, Mr. Rodriguez.
Maybe the problem is that Americans just don’t want the agenda government is pushing right now, and maybe the leader of this government activism is a guy with no real experience despite two autobiographies, no skills anyone would pay him for in the real world, and who isn’t really half as smart as your side tells itself. Ever consider that, chief?
I mean, you weren’t complaining about this before January 2009, were you?
The Tea Partiers Who Aren’t Doing It Right
Um, the whole Tea Party thing was about people being fed up with government spending, taxes, and bailouts, right?
Some folks over in Rep. Ron Paul’s district don’t seem to get that. People do want officials who say NO. I do, anyway.
Silly Illustrated 2: The Corruption of Peer Review
All that stuff you hear from the global warmongers about how their work is peer-reviewed and the skeptics’ work isn’t?
Oh and the corruption and manipulation of data? It’s not just at East Anglia.
Silly Illustrated: Hate Crimes
“It was clear that white males, driving expensive cars, were being targeted,” a Dallas officer wrote in police documents.
I’ll put down $10 fiat money that whatever charges are filed against suspect Robert Carlos Cerrillo, they won’t include state or federal hate crimes.
Random Thoughts Too Long or Meh for Twitter
- For all its faults, the American judicial system does hold the state accountable in most every area. (Except taxation, which is a topic for another day.) I got a ticket for an expired registration, but the cop accidentally wrote “expired inspection.” I was trying to just pay my fee at the clerk’s window when she pointed this out, noting that the officer can’t change it now and if I can bring in proof my inspection is current — and it is — it would be dismissed.
- I’ve been watching myself on video for a new long-term project I’m working on — yeah, on-camera talent, that’s me — and I notice that as I get older, the more I look like one of those people who come out and really shock the judges on “Britain’s Got Talent” because I can sing well. Only I can’t sing well.
- Also, I’m “straight skinny” but “gay/on-camera fat.” Lovely. No more carbs.
- People who get arrested for shoplifting at Wal*Mart aren’t really setting their sights that high. Also, they look exactly like you expect.
- Every week we get more evidence that the case for man-made climate change is a fraud — manipulated data, destroyed records, outright admissions, assertions from grad students making their way into international reports – you name it. The whole of the movement supporting man-made global climate change every day looks more and more like carnival hucksters and scientific illiterates. And yet True Believers keep on holding on like believers in the Shroud of Turin. If you ever had doubts that modern environmentalism is a religious belief, there you go.
- Black socks make my feet smell funny in a way that white socks don’t. I’m sure someone can make something racist of this observation.
- Even though the British people have become gelded dependents in every other part of life, BBC still puts out some of the most politically incorrect stuff you’d never get on American TV.
They Destroy What They Don’t Understand
I will never understand what goes on in the mind of a gun control freak.
Example: A criminal fires a gun outside the Texas capitol, so therefore the first thing we should do is ban law-abiding people with concealed handgun licenses from carrying inside the capitol building and put up metal detectors.
WTF?
In Print This Month — C’est Moi
My column on the hunt for a new top cop for Dallas is up on the web now.
Also, I get some kind words from Rudy Bush at City Hall.
Health Care and Brown, Take 2
An old chum and lawyer has a different take on what’s what for government-run health care now.
So now for something completely different…
No Means No, Kiddos
So the voters in the banner-wavingest liberal state yesterday elected an unknown to fill the lifelong seat of the godfather of government-run health care.
And this unknown, by the way, made basically one unifying promise — I will be the vote that kills government-run health care.
And the Democrat heir who lost — lost — had the full support of the President who made government-run health care his signature issue.
Polls shows the vast majority of Americans oppose government-run health care.
And yet the takeaway for Democrats is: “We really have to pass government-run health care now.”
Wow. It’s like peering into the mind of a date rapist.
‘Let Me Be Clear’ is the New ‘I Am Not a Crook’
You know who loves to say it.
It’s spreading.
“Let me be clear: I denounce any allegation that I have ever profited personally through my work with Yele Haiti. These baseless attacks are simply not true.”