Any time a presidential candidate follows the phrase "loving your country" with the word "must," a shiver runs through me, and not in the Chris Matthews way. Here’s Barack Obama yesterday, as part of his week-long patriogasm in the run-up to Independence Day:loving your country shouldn’t just mean watching fireworks on the Fourth of July. Loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change it.First of all, as reason columnist Greg Beato has amply documented, it’s getting harder and harder for happiness-pursuing Americans to watch their own damned fireworks, thanks to politicians of the nanny-boo Chicago school. Second of all, who died and made this guy the arbiter of what "loving your country must mean"? He’s been musting all week, too:[P]atriotism must, if it is to mean anything, involve the willingness to sacrifice - to give up something we value on behalf of a larger cause. [...]For the rest of u...
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Bush Heralds US Bail-Out PackageSource:
http://www.actualteam.com/?p=4501Post Date: 2008-10-05 03:10:40
12:10pm UK, Saturday October 04, 2008
America’s £397bn financial rescue package is the “beginning, not the end” of its long road back to economic security, the country’s political leaders have said.
President Bush signs the much-opposed bail-out package
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The Long and the Short of the Second AmendmentSource:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3...Post Date: 2008-03-04 14:44:00
If you, like me, were wondering how support for the D.C. gun ban can be reconciled with the belief that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to arms, you might want to check out Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe’s op-ed piece in today’s Wall Street Journal. Tribe, who switched to the individual-right view of the Second Amendment several years ago, nevertheless urges the Supreme Court to uphold the D.C. law when it considers the case later this month. He says...
"Two-Timing John McCain’s Sizzling Secret Sex Life"!Source:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3...Post Date: 2008-03-04 14:20:00
From the Department of I-paid-the-$3.29-so-you-don’t-have-to, I just shelled out precious fiat currency to see what new dirt The Globe has on Sen. McFrontrunner’s sexy-time activities. Answer? Bugger-all.McCain dated strippers and heiresses! Ditched his first wife after she’d been disfigured in a car wreck, and replaced her with a young hottie with a fat bank account! Admitted "the blame was entirely mine"! All these and more you can find ... in McCain’s own boo...
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