UPDATED: More proof the gay community runs on fiscal conservatism

Dear Stacy gloats about the supposed Leftist hypocrisy of Out magazine firing all its staffers and hiring back a select few to work as freelancers willing to work without health insurance, benefits and steady paychecks. Ha! This is really just more proof that the gay community is a model of applied fiscal conservatism. After all, …

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 …

Apparently multi-tasking is not my forte

I apologize for being away for so long. I am working on a couple of projects that require my full attention AND that I take better care of myself. If I were to try to keep things lively by reviewing other people’s work and linking it here, I would almost certainly find something I would …

UPDATED: Social conservatives battle fiscal conservatives for the soul of the Tea Party

Newsweek interviews dear Andrew Ian Dodge on the battle between social conservatives and fiscal conservatives to set the message of the Tea Party and control its message, money and power. The Republicans who just swept into state and federal offices ran on fiscal conservatism and the economy. I am shocked that social conservatives now are …

Are fiscal conservatives crazy, or liars — or both?

I swear I thought I linked the following video when I first saw it a week or so ago, but Instapundit linked it yesterday and I didn’t — until now: The point of the video is that regulations — including residential zoning laws — now place such a high threshold on going into business as …

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 …

The Republicans' new YouCut Web site crowdsources the work of restoring fiscal sanity to the federal budget

One of the most wonderful points economist Friedrich Hayek made in his book explaining how liberal/socialist policies are The Road to Serfdom is that under capitalism the market crowdsources how to solve economic challenges by allowing millions of people use their intelligence and ambition to solve the problems in front of them with great specifity. In …

Question for my gentle readers: What do you know about social conservatives who are fiscal liberals?

I frequently read about people who describe themselves as fiscal conservatives and social liberals. When I was a liberal, I did not know the real definition of either term, “fiscal conservative” and “social liberal.” I thought the combination meant, “I am prosperous but don’t like paying my fair share of taxes, however I do like …

UPDATED: Dale Peterson for Alabama Agricultural Commissioner — and best campaign ad of 2010!

I picked this up from Allahpundit at Hot Air and don’t have any political insight to add, except that I LOVE THIS GUY!!! Oh, and for the city slickers: Peterson has the rifle because a lot of farming consists of shooting varmints that are eating your crops. Also, on the general subject of farming and …