I have admired Sarah Palin for a long time.  She's the second most Ron Paulian governor behind Mike Sanford.  She's an ardently pro-life mother who refused to abort a child diagnosed with Down's Syndrome.  She's a homeschooling mom who ecologically breastfeeds and doesn't shy from wearing her baby in a sling, even while performing public duties ( Read more... )

Since I live in the most Republican of Republican states (with the most conservative party platform of them all), my electoral votes are going to John McCain this year no matter who I vote for.

That's one more reason why I'll be voting for Bob Barr.  The Washington Post did a nice piece on him yesterday which frequently made me smile.

The rules of ( Read more... )

Steven Greenhut of the Orange County Register writes:
Those of us who believe in free markets, small government, peace, capitalism, civil liberties and the Constitution will lose, no matter who wins in November.
Amen. All the more reason to vote for Bob Barr.

The latest Zogby poll shows Bob Barr at 6% nationally.  I might be wrong, but I don't ( Read more... )

Amazing.

From the SCOTUS Blog:
In a stunning blow to the Bush Administration in its war-on-terrorism policies, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign nationals held at Guantanamo Bay have a right to pursue habeas challenges to their detention. The Court, dividing 5-4, ruled that Congress had not validly taken away habeas rights.  If Congress ( Read more... )

Joel Salatin grew up on a Venezuelan farm, an American immigrant child whose parents wanted cheap land, good community, and a free market so they could do what they wanted with it.  His parents were not missionaries or government officials.  They were just regular people who chose to settle in Venezuela of all places.

At first I laughed.  ( Read more... )

While the book contained considerably more information than her lecture by the same title, Naomi Wolf's The End of America didn't live up to its promises. I appreciated her research and agree with a surprising number of her sentiments; nevertheless, I found many of her comparisons between the current state of American affairs and those of fascist ( Read more... )

After reading Judge Napolitano's A Nation of Sheep, I remarked (possibly here) that reading the book gave me a small measure of hope.  Napolitano chronicles the erosions of our civil liberties over the last century and a half, and particularly studies direct assaults on our liberties during times of national crisis and/or war.  I found the relative ( Read more... )

"I don't mind paying taxes to the federal government, but I do mind paying 35% of my income.  I mean, if 10% is good enough for God, it ought to be good enough for our government as well."

If it's not an income tax, a sales tax, or a property tax, it's a fee.  Fees of every kind.  Some fees make a modicum of sense; many don't.  For example, does it really behoove the government of a free society to license manicurists or hair stylists or interior designers?  A recent blog post pointed to this old news story about a New Hampshire ( Read more... )

Real ID may die a slow death.  States had until May of this year to comply and implement this federalized national ID system or face losing federal funding, risk stalling out all airport travel to and from their state, and risk citizens being unable to open bank accounts or do any other thing regulated by federal commerce laws.  Several states said ( Read more... )