If it wasn’t before 11am, this would make for a great drinking game:
Freedom
Liberty
Founders
Independence
Ryan’s speech just ended. His last word was “freedom.”
Archive for February, 2009
CPAC, some number
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
CPAC, V
Posted in Politics, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged Ayn Rand, CPAC on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
He (still Paul Ryan) actually just mentioned Ayn Rand. He thinks Democrats deliberately drove down the economy so they could blame Republicans and make a case for government intervention… “just like something out of an Ayn Rand novel.”
CPAC, IV
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently, Ron Paul (or Howard Roark) won the internal Republican debate. Individual liberty, “enduring principles of our founding,” pursuit of self-interest or some such thing. Now, Ryan is railing against “paper money.” At least the ubiquitous Reagan name-drops have seemingly been replaced by shout-outs to “the Founders.”
CPAC, III
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was inevitable. The session has been open for 15 minutes and we’ve already have our first Democrats = Marx comparison, courtesy Paul Ryan. Now I think he’s saying the Dems are turning us all into wards of the state or something.
CPAC, Part II
Posted in Politics, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged air quotes, CPAC, government spending, Paul Ryan on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The streaming quality of this video is pretty bad, so I’m missing a lot of the lines. Paul Ryan is speaking now, and – surprise – he’s talking about the evils of government spending. The only interesting thing so far is how many conservatives seem to be big fans of the air quote. It’s weird.
This will either be torture or hours of voyeuristic fun
Posted in Politics, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged CPAC, Jump On It! on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I kind of have the day off work today (which is to say, I have to do stuff as it comes up, but I don’t have to go into the office). Should be a nice day out, with temperatures expected to hit mid-50s by this afternoon, and while that’s not top-down weather for my car, [...]
One reason to move to Lansing, MI
Posted in Politics, Populism, tagged Fox News, Lansing MI, Virg Bernerro on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think I have a thing for Virg Bernero…
Frank Capra’s America
Posted in Culture/Trends, Media, Patriotism, Politics, Top, tagged Depression, FDR, Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Jon Stewart, Kevin Williamson, Michael Kazin, New Deal, patriotism, Scream, Stephen Colbert on February 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the mid-90s, a mini-comeback of slasher films was ignited when Kevin Williamson wrote the screenplay for Scream. Rather than taking credit for reviving the genre, Williamson always insisted that he had actually driven the final nail in the coffin by exposing all of its tricks. See, we were the Blockbuster Generation, too [...]
Sometimes, liberals REALLY suck
Posted in Elitism, Politics, Populism, tagged Buy American, Huey Long, Huffington Post, Liberals, populism on February 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So, a little while ago, I posted the bit about the formation of the new Populist Caucus in the House. Thought it was pretty cool, so I started reading a bit more on it. Then, I made the mistake of reading the story’s comments section on Huffington Post. A sampling?
