Monthly Archives: October 2010

The economic theory of Leftist hopelessness vs. conservative optimism

Today Instapundit — here and here — linked both Megan McArdle’s explanation of why we should get rid of income taxes on corporations and Amity Shlaes using the story of Triple-Crown winner Secretariat, whose bio movie was recently released, as a cautionary tale for the tsumani of increased estate tax rates set to begin wiping …

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Georgia megachurch pastor and father of four comes out as a gay man to save gay teens from suicide

I re-arranged my newsfeed in the sidebar over the last couple of days to include headlines from five Leftist gay blogs: AmericablogGAY, Good As You, Joe.My.God, The Bilerico Project and Towleroad. I wanted to include Pam’s House Blend, too, but the feed from her blog is too large and stops all the others from loading. …

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Marie Claire editor asks anorexic blogger who hates television to write about a new TV romantic comedy about a fat couple

What could go wrong? The link goes to a reaction piece by my dear friend, Jenny Lawson, at Ask The Bloggess, who links the post at the fashion magazine Marie Claire by Maura Kelly about the new TV show Mike and Molly. I encourage you to read both. Jenny points out that Ms. Kelly is …

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Althouse’s bravura critique of Obama’s duplicity to gays at his meeting this week with progressive bloggers

Frankly, I was browsing my newsfeed for something easy and funny to post when I came across Instapundit’s post on Obama’s Oct. 27 meeting in the White House with five progressive bloggers in which he links Ann Althouse and JustOneMinute. The five progressive bloggers were Joe Sudbay of Americablog (this post includes a transcript of …

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Bill Whittle reminds the world that fiscal conservatism is founded on the principle that wealth comes from ideas, not rich people, poor people or a black box

The Left’s paradigm for the origin of wealth is that it comes from a black box and there’s only a limited amount of it, so if one person has more it means another person must have less. This is the rationale for the redistribution of wealth in a nutshell. In contrast, fiscal conservatism is founded …

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