Social Politics
Agreeing With PETA: Sheer Torture
Should I start worrying about myself? After all, for the second time in just 4 months I am actually agreeing with an issue PETA has raised! (See my post on Ringling Bros. Circus Abuse for the first such occasion.) Now, PETA has come out very strongly against a video on YouTube showing what is apparently... »
Zionist Cows: The Latest Threat To Lebanon
No, I am not kidding. Lebanon’s Daily Star is reporting on the latest threat to Lebanon from Israel: “Zionist cows” that venture across the blue line and apparently drink Lebanese water. This threat is so serious that a fence is being built to keep the “Zionist cows” out of Lebanon. (Should we start protesting... »
God, Guns, Guts, and American Pickup Trucks
If I needed a pickup truck, I think I would actually go all the way out to Missouri just to give this principled, intelligent guy, Mark Muller, and his company, Max Motors, my business (as well as to shake his hand and give him some respect for not letting CNN step all over him): »
Conscientious-Objecting Nurse Coerced Into Aiding Abortion
In a sickening sign of the times, Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, a nurse at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, was coerced into aiding an abortion, despite her stated religious objection to it. This flies in the face of the federal “conscience clause” that protects medical workers in exactly such cases by requiring institutions receiving federal funding... »
Ringling Bros. Circus Abuses Animals
I’m ordinarily that last person to promote anything that PETA does, but for once, I’m on their side of an argument. The undercover video of Ringling Bros. Circus animals being abused for no reason goes entirely beyond the pale and shows behavior that is disgusting and reprehensible. Quite frankly, it makes me want to... »
Best Ad Against Nationalized Health Care
This ad showcasing Canada’s pathetic state of health care has got to be the most powerful and effective ad yet in denouncing nationalized health care and showing the ugly truth about it to the bamboozled public (who, incidentally, are starting to pull the wool off from their eyes, as the polls are showing a... »
Why Stop At Gay Marriage?
David Boies today in the Wall Street Journal writes about his decision to sue to overturn California’s Proposition 8. In his piece he rebuts several outdated arguments that almost no one is making anymore (“there is no longer any credible contention that depriving gays and lesbians of basic rights will cause them to change their... »
Liberals Can’t Decide: “Babies” or “Fetuses”
John McCormack, the deputy online editor at The Weekly Standard, had a great tweet yesterday, referencing the liberal TNR blog’s dig at Nixon which was entitled “Nixon: Abort Interracial Babies”. The blog quotes Nixon musing about the availability of abortion being necessary for seemingly unintended babies of interracial sex, slamming him for “aborting interracial babies”. McCormack’s... »
Unique Libertarian Approach to Gay Marriage
A friend of mine recently pointed me to what turned out to be by far one of the best essays on the subject of gay marriage that I’ve ever read—including many highly persuasive “slippery slope perspective” ones. This essay should definitely give food for thought to both proponents and opponents of gay marriage and I... »

