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Speaking of Ron Paul, this video is a beautiful primer to libertarianism and comes from the Candidates@Google series.  Google executive Elliot Schrage sits down with Ron Paul to chat about libertarianism and how its principles would be implemented in the event of a Paul White House.  (It gets really good ...

I’m getting more and more excited about libertarian candidate for the Republican nomination for President Ron Paul. I’ve always liked Paul. He’s a steadfast devotee to the principles of liberty, and yet running as a Republican, not a candidate of the Libertarian Party. All the signs are good: he’s bringing ...

A drunken asshole punched out my wing mirror today. Here’s how it happened. I was driving along a 5-lane city street and saw a guy in the middle of the road ahead of me, slowly making his way through the traffic to the other side. He was American Indian, maybe ...

Nice to see that someone agrees with me about polygamy, saying almost exactly the same as what I did on the Warren Jeffs case at the time of his arrest several months ago. Forcing someone into sex or marriage is wrong, whether it’s a plural marriage or a single marriage. ...

William Crawley posts about a fascinating piece of research which has garnered it an Ig Nobel award: “This year’s Ig Nobel Peace Prize goes to the US Air Force Wright Laboratory ‘for instigating research and development on a chemical weapon that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among enemy troops’. I ...

So here it is! The new blog with its new format, new interests, new features and the addition of audio. I’m still ironing out many issues, but I’m an impatient bastard so couldn’t wait to begin blogging. The idea of waiting until everything is perfect before using the new site ...

I love it. The folks at Columbia University invite Iran President Mahmood Ahmadinejad to their campus and then show him up for the “petty and cruel dictator” he is. Big kudos must go to university president Lee Bollinger for calling him precisely that to his face, and for the rest ...

September 11th, 2001 • New York City, USA

I’ve listened to the police interview conducted with (now ex-) Senator Larry Craig shortly after he was arrested in an airport bathroom in Minneapolis some months ago, and I don’t think he did anything illegal. And even if he did, he sure didn’t do anything that should be illegal. Here’s ...

A conversation on another blog got me thinking about my various arguments against the BBC Licence Fee. One of them I recreated in a flow chart, below. Click the category BBC to browse my previous articles on this topic, or click the flow chart for a larger version.

Let’s call it summer recess: the inability of Arizona bloggers to concentrate on matters of importance to political philosophy when it’s so damned hot in the desert. In the meantime, I came across this quote from Rose Wilder Lane: “The pattern is as old as human life. The new rulers ...

Only in the mind of an ideologically impeded, politically delusional moron could America’s missile defense system be construed as as a threat of conflict on par with the cold war. Will the last sane, rational person to leave George Monbiot babbling please switch off the light? (Save energy.) John Wright ...

After spilling tears on the carpet laughing about this and managing to pick myself up off the floor, I couldn’t help but mention the Republican Party of New Hampshire’s new fundraiser. Wait for it….. A MACHINE GUN SHOOT! According to Reuters, “The Manchester Republican Committee is inviting party members and ...

Making politics sexy might just be the only way to get people to the polls. Released only today by the folks over at barelypolitical.com, I predict this will be the hit of the summer: credit ratings

Man, I love this paper. Each and every day I sneak a peek, the columnists at The Guardian amuse and entertain me immensely with the insights they provide into how the British Left see the world. This post is a sequel to one I did a long time ago with ...

I always liked Michelle Malkin, and often found myself impressed with the right-wing blogger’s ability to articulate many of the political values I share. But yesterday she showed herself to be less than capable of rational discussion with her rude attack on Doug Markwith, a nude photographer and e-business owner ...

“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.” – P.J. O’Rourke (1993) (O’Rourke makes good copy, but doesn’t necessarily reflect the reality of the situation, which, according to the World Health Organization, ranks the US as #37 in the world ...

It’s interesting when a regular stringer known for a particular political persuasion or field of interest writes something which illustrates how they frame the dynamics of the debate with which they are engaged, or how they see themselves in the context of that debate. George Monbiot, once a mainstay of ...

We’ll soon be treated to another fine example of Michael Moore’s filmmaking when Sicko is released to theaters across America at the end of next month. The movie is about how horrible American healthcare is, and how great universal healthcare (taxpayer funded, free at point-of-use) would be in comparison. When ...

Upon being asked about a scene in the film Love Actually wherein Hugh Grant, playing the UK Prime Minister, calls the United States a ‘bully’ and suggests it is “no longer a friend” of the United Kingdom, Blair responds: “When that bit of the film is played, often the audiences ...