Why Shakey Pete is not a Randian conservative

I am plotting the demise of Randian conservatism — for real — so I am relieved to learn that dear Shakey Pete rejects it also (boldfacing mine): I would have been more into the Ayn Rand/Atlas Shrugged crowd if it had not been for Eddie Willers. Remember Eddie? He was the main assistant to Dagny …

How polygamists game welfare to support their extra wives and illegitimate children

At the Green Room at Hot Air, Angela Lash’s piece, “The True Cost of Polygamy,” reviews Jon Krakauer’s book on Mormon polygamy Under the Banner of Heaven. Krakauer explains how polygamists have their own version of the Cloward-Piven scheme: “To avoid prosecution [for polygamy], typically men in Colorado City will legally marry only the first …

Oo-oo, child, things are going to get easier

Via my dear friend, Jenny, The Bloggess, a couple of days ago I found the blog of a young lesbian who is in seminary on the ordination track to be a Lutheran minister — thus the name of her blog, Emm in Sem: Gay marriage isn’t revolutionary. It’s just the next step in marriage’s evolution. …

DOJ argues marriage is federal

I came across the following from MetroWeekly linked at Instapundit’s — it includes the link to the PDF of the DOJ’s brief and I encourage you to read the whole thing (boldfacing mine): Today [1/13/11], the Department of Justice filed its defense of the Defense of Marriage Act in the U.S. Court of Appeals for …

I love Sarah Palin — may God bless and protect her always

I love Sarah Palin — love, love, love her. I respect her. I admire her. I am in awe of her ability always to call forth the highest and best in everyone, as she does in this speech, which is all the more inspiring considering the viciousness and insanity of the attacks on her and …

Should gays be accepted in the conservative movement? Or, Ryan Sorba, I challenge you to …

… prove you are not sexually attracted to men by agreeing to the simple test Charlotte used on Trey in “Sex and the City“: a few postage stamps from a roll of stamps stuck together in a circle around your flaccid penis to reveal states of tumescence (because of the perforations between stamps, they will …