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Giuliani is a scumbag

Posted by John Ostrowski on Saturday, October 27, 2007 6:19:23 PM
But you already knew that. Looking for something new? Here's a report that Rudy essentially admitted to no expertise on the issue of terrorism before 9/11 or after it. If it's all true, it really is depressing, especially in light of past comments he has made criticizing much more intelligent opponents (i.e. Ron Paul).


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Hillary is a neocon

Posted by John Ostrowski on Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:26:48 AM
No one can deny this fact -- conservatives sure do despise Hillary Clinton. But why? Radley Balko convincingly argues that Clinton will be a continuation of Bush. Surprised? Don't be. Newsmax reported a long time ago that Bush was "quietly advising Hillary." The reason given was that Bush wanted to assure that the war could be executed properly even given a Democratic president. Ha! Clinton is a left-neocon, and therefore Bush sees someone who will continue his policies.
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Obama, Gore and eco-idiocy

Posted by John Ostrowski on Monday, October 15, 2007 5:40:11 PM
Yesterday, Obama linked his faith to environmentalism:
Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday that his religious beliefs influence his plans for how to protect the environment.

Speaking before religious leaders and others at what he called an "interfaith forum on climate change," the Illinois senator said God has entrusted humans with the responsibility of caring for the earth, and "we are not acting as good stewards of God's earth when our bottom line puts the size of our profits before the future of our planet."

But poor Obama confounds his variables and separates two that are actually the same. His religious beliefs do not influence his environmentalism, rather his anti-capitalist ideology leads him to believe in a religious environmentalism (as I have written about before).

Also, Dr. William Gray slammed Gore's eco-hysteria:

"We're brainwashing our children," said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. "They're going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."

As you must have heard by now, first-class, perpetual idiot Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize for, um, well, no one actually nows. He's done a lot to raise awareness about a problem that doesn't exist, but it's not clear how riling up gullible yuppies about a non-existent problem and calling for more oppressive state action does anything to further peace.

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The paternalists march on

Posted by John Ostrowski on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:49:38 PM
Belmont, CA has now banned smoking in all multi-unit homes that in which the units touch each other.
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Huckabee the Authoritarian

Posted by John Ostrowski on Friday, October 05, 2007 6:51:06 PM
Listen to this clip of Huckabee telling us all about working safety and smoking. He throws "rights" in there a few times. Governor Statist missed the real issue: it comes down to the rights of employers and employees to freely negotiate contracts. The government has no right to inject itself into this process, in any way whatsoever. Here's Huckabee:


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Carbon dioxide is good!

Posted by John Ostrowski on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 5:03:13 PM
Or so say Arthur B. Robinson, Noah E. Robinson and Willie Soon in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. I'm not quite sure why they have an anti-global warming piece in there (I haven't read the entire thing yet), but it looks promising. Here's a direct link to the highest quality PDF, and a link to the article's page at the Petition Project. The lie is crumbling.
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Defending Columbia

Posted by John Ostrowski on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:38:59 PM
I was quite happy to see a column on Townhall today that attempted to defend Ahmadinejad's speaking privileges here in America. Said McFarland:

So I say, let the guy come. Let him speak before the UN - the bigger the podium the better. Make sure the cameras are on him – all the time and from every angle. And then YouTube him.

Remember last year? The fearless Iranian leader addressed the UN with a rambling, hysterical speech – and later bragged that there was a golden glow around his head when he spoke. He claimed all the world's leaders saw it and they were transfixed, "they didn't blink".

Hmmmm…what do you think will happen this year when he speaks? How can he top the golden glow routine? Will he levitate?

Unforunately, she is one of the only ones here. It seems that quite a few people on the right are not happy with Columbia's decision to allow Ahmadinejad to speak at their University. And by "quite a few," I mean basically everyone. A smaller number than this go beyond simple criticism and actually suggest that Columbia should not have allowed him to speak. Why? Oh, you know, the usual reason -- we're at war. Always and everywhere, when someone wants to curtail personal freedom, the excuse is war. For some reason, the state the conservatives are supposed to mistrust and fear becomes their agent of suppression when violence kicks in.

Can't conservatives see the danger in this? In suggesting that free speech can be curtailed in times of danger? If we grant the state this power, will it ever claim that we are not in a state of danger? And why do conservatives think that they will always hold the reins of power? What happens when an ideological opponent decides that, given that we live in dangerous times, it's necessary and proper to crack down on those feisty, trouble-making right wingers. Surely conservatives are not this short-sighed.

To close, it is Columbia's property and they can do with it what they want. That includes limiting the speech of some and granting it to others. The First Amendment rightly places restrictions only on what the government can do. On private property, it is an entirely different matter.
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Apartment bans tattooed residents

Posted by John Ostrowski on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:52:43 AM
An apartment complex in San Antonio is banning residents who have tattoos. Predictably, people get upset:

"For them to be so judgmental on a person's appearance, and for them to judge someone based on them having a tattoo is just ridiculous, you know," says Melissa.

The Carrillos were also upset that the manager refused to refund their full $70 application fee. But mostly, they feel the policy is discriminatory.

This story is a no-brainer. It's the landlord's property and he can do what he wants with it. If that means not renting to those with tattoos, that's his decision. In fact, if that means systematically discriminating on the basis of race, religion, gender, etc., that is also his decision and the government has no place to tell him what to do with his property.
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France is beating the war drums

Posted by John Ostrowski on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:38:52 PM
Now that it is being led by neocon allies of the Bush administration, France is bucking its earlier prudence and heating up the rhetoric in preparation for act two of the Trotskyite world tour (slogan: "Democracy is coming to a country near you!"). Sayeth Sarkozy:
"There will be no peace in the world if the international community falters in the face of nuclear arms proliferation."

Iran was entitled to nuclear power for civilian purposes, he said, "but if we allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, we would incur an unacceptable risk to stability in the region and in the world".

In a broader warning against the dangers of appeasement, the new French leader said: "Weakness and renunciation do not lead to peace. They lead to war."

This statement of his follows one made by the French Foreign Minister. He had warned that if diplomacy could not stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, war would might be necessary. In proving to Bush, Podhoretz, Kristol, O'Reilly, etc. that they are not cowards, the French will prove to the rest of the world that they are incredibly stupid.

The extent to which the Iran war apologia matches that used against Iraq is disturbing. WMD's (or the possibility thereof) and funding of terrorism. When we march in and are proven wrong, the focus will shift back to the grand democratic revolution.

And yet another downside to this whole affair is that neocon tendencies have been inextricably linked in the minds of so many people. Sarkozy and Bush both champion themselves as leaders who appreciate the free market (I will refrain from judging to what extent this rhetoric has been matched by reality). Now, when people think of capitalism they think of state aggression when nothing could be further from the truth.

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Global warming alarmist predicted catastrophic ice age

Posted by John Ostrowski on Saturday, September 22, 2007 2:20:52 PM
Yes, I know it's not news that the same hyperventilating idiots warning us of anthropogenic global warming now were the same ones predicting a catastrophic ice age in the 1970's. However, a Washington resident has alerted the Washington Times that James Hansen -- eco-fear-monger extraordinaire -- helped to predict the ice age using computer models. He also, as the story points out, discounted the worry that fossil fuels might be warming the Earth.

The Post reported that Rasool, writing in Science, argued that in "the next 50 years" fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun's rays that the Earth's average temperature could fall by six degrees.

Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, Rasool claimed, "could be sufficient to trigger an ice age."

Aiding Rasool's research, the Post reported, was a "computer program developed by Dr. James Hansen," who was, according to his resume, a Columbia University research associate at the time.

So what about those greenhouse gases that man pumps into the skies? Weren't they worried about them causing a greenhouse effect that would heat the planet, as Hansen, Al Gore and a host of others so fervently believe today?

"They found no need to worry about the carbon dioxide fuel-burning puts in the atmosphere," the Post said in the story, which was spotted last week by Washington resident John Lockwood, who was doing research at the Library of Congress and alerted the Washington Times to his finding.

Once and for all, can the pseudo-scientists please stop using computer models as the basis for their anti-capitalist rhetoric?


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Jon Stewart interviews Greenspan

Posted by John Ostrowski on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:29:35 PM
H/t to the LRC blog for this one. Lew Rockwell asks, "Is Ron Paul turning Jon Stewart into an Austro-Libertarian?" It certainly looks like he is:


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Catholics for Ron Paul

Posted by John Ostrowski on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:37:52 PM
Anyone who hasn't already, should check out Catholics for Ron Paul. The blog has recently enlisted the help of Tom Woods, so you can expect good things. Here's a sample of his post from yesterday on the Value Voters debate:

According to what "values," exactly, are we to devote all our energies to getting pornography out of hotel rooms, but be utterly unmoved -- and I mean unmoved -- by the completely avoidable deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq? Why is this not a moral issue, and why is the just-war tradition to be dismissed with such sneering contempt? And pardon my bluntness, but what kind of blockhead thinks you have to be a "liberal" to be outraged at this? What kind of religion do these people believe in? (Their definition of a just war seems to be a war waged by the U.S. government.)
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Good for the pope

Posted by John Ostrowski on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:52:46 PM
Sayeth the AFP:

Pope Benedict XVI refused to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in August, saying he was on holiday, an Italian newspaper reported Wednesday.

Rice "made it known to the Vatican that she absolutely had to meet the pope" to boost her diplomatic "credit" ahead of a trip to the Middle East, the Corriere della Sera daily reported without citing its sources.

She was hoping to meet the pontiff at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo at the beginning of August, it said.

"'The pope is on holiday' was the official response," the paper said.

It said the reply "illustrated the divergence of view" between the Vatican and the White House about the "initiatives of the Bush administration in the Middle East."


Time for Catholics to disabuse themselves of the notion that we are in a just war, or that the pope of the Church supports our illicit actions in any way.
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Ron Paul at the Value Voters Debate

Posted by John Ostrowski on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:04:44 AM
Here is Ron Paul's closing statement at the Value Voters Debate:


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John Stossel Goes to Washington

Posted by John Ostrowski on Saturday, September 15, 2007 7:18:04 PM





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