Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Politics

  • John Fund on the Late George McGovern

    Whom did you vote for in '72?  I voted for McGovern!  But of course the Dems back then weren't the extremists they are today.  John Fund remembers what was good about the man.

  • Obama Administration Libya Lies

    Documented by VDH.  His mojo's risin' and with it his mendacity.  Yes, they played politics on Libya.

  • Obama’s Mendacity on Full Display in Last Night’s Debate

    Aided and abetted by the liberal moderator, Candy Crowley.  Analysis by Newt Gingrich.  Well, at least he got his mojo back.

  • Obama Lied Last Night About Arizona Senate Bill 1070

    Here is the video clip of Obama lying to Romney and the rest of us in their second debate.  Obama lies when he claims that on the Arizona law (S. B. 1070) law enforcement  officers can stop people whom they merely suspect of being undocumented workers. Obama has told this lie before.  The details are in…

  • National Public Radio and Big Bird Need Your Support!

    This is something I wrote 10 March 2011.  The points still hold and the piece is relevant because of Governor Romney's 'attack' on Big Bird in his first debate with President Obama.  Lefties have a hard time understanding why we mean-spirited conservatives would want to deny such a loveable critter Federal bird seed.  Maybe this will…

  • Obama, the Imaginary Man

    Outstanding analysis by Andrew Klavan. Excerpts: The mystery Obama—the hollow receptacle of out-sized fantasies left and right—is not a creation of his own making, political chameleon though he may well be. It emanates instead from a journalistic community that no longer in any way fulfills its designated function, that no longer even attempts the fair…

  • The Delusional Left and ‘Voter Suppression’

    Here is a TNR piece that proves once again that lberals live on a different planet.  I call it the planet Unsinn and I sometimes speak of the 'planetary' difference between left and right.  The difference is between nonsense and sense.  The author asks why principled conservatives won't denounce 'voter suppression.' 'Voter suppression' is leftist code…

  • POTUS Pounded

    Romney scored big against Obama  last night in the first of their three debates, as most of the pundits, left and right, agree.  When Romney came out with the "trickle-down government" line, I gave him a big 'thumbs up' to the mild amusement of my wife who, bless her heart, insisted that we watch the…

  • Obama: Fiscally Clueless

    Here. You say the Republicans are not much better?  I don't disagree.  But think of it this way.  A jackass and an elephant are heading for a cliff, a fall from which will be fatal.  The jackass, being a jackass, is moving faster towards disaster.  The elephant is moving slower.  You must choose to ride…

  • Obama: Foreign Policy Disaster

    Here.

  • Obama: A Prediction Come True

    On 6 November 2008, I wrote into my journal: The Irony of the Obama Victory.  The presidency was handed to him by the financial crisis.  But his policies will exacerbate it. I was right.  I now predict that if he is re-elected, four more years of his policies will bring us to financial ruin.  Mark my…

  • The Fallacy of Redistribution

    Thomas Sowell: The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty. The communist nations were a classic example, but by no means the only example. In theory, confiscating the wealth of the more successful people ought to make the rest of…

  • Obama the Feckless

    The weak invite attack.  That is a law of nature.  Nations are in the state of nature with respect to each other.  Talk of international law is empty verbiage without an enforcement mechanism.  There is none.  Or at least there is none distinct from every extant state.  The same goes for diplomacy.  There needs be…

  • The Constructive Curmudgeon

    I don't know whether he is an antediluvian and a bibliomaniac, but Douglas Groothuis is a self-professed curmudgeon, albeit of a constructive stripe. I am not persuaded by his case for Biblical inerrancy, but I find his political observations astute, as in this list of reasons not to vote for Obama.  Read the list! By the way,…

  • Too Many Lawyers in Government, Not Enough Doctors

    Negatively, physicians are not lawyers.  Positively, they are scientifically trained without being mere theoreticians: they diagnose, they cut, they sew.  They are the plumbers and the auto mechanics of the mortal coil.  They grapple at close quarters with recalcitrant matter.  They do so fearlessly while lawyers watch, ready to pounce.    They don't just talk, write,…