Compulsory Education is Overrated – Yet Obama Wants to Make the Compulsion Complete

A look at the Whitehouse education web page indicates Obama plans to continue the leftist obsession with precisely equal educational outcomes, and create cradle-to-grave educational entitlements and increased pre-school conditioning.

Delusion Overtakes Reality: Delving into those Dangerous (Healthcare) Visions

Bob Stapler wakes up and finds himself needing serious medical attention in Obama-world. 

Why is it So Hard Communicating With Liberals

Can't they speak plain English?

New Deal Redux: Resurrecting the Myth of "The Great Man"

The modern-liberal confidence in FDR, the New Deal, and Keynesian economics is such an article of faith that fully four generations of Americans are still lured by its empty assurances and blind to its frauds.

What is the Energy Independence of Ethanol? – Or, is that Even the Right Question?

The debate over ethanol is far from over and has been clouded, in some cases deliberately, to favor a pro-ethanol policy.

Parsing the Debate: A Brief Analysis of the Analysis

Debating the analysis.

Absurdistan Weekend Update #11: Fatuously Fixing our Faulty Planet (or Weathering the Wobblies in Wonderland)

More Bob Stapler.

Absurdistan Weekend Update #10: Liberals Likely Looking to Lose

More Bob Stapler.

Absurdistan Weekend Update #9: From Big-Foot to Flat-footed

More from Bob Stapler.

Moscow Update

It is natural to think all that was oppressive in Russia under the Soviet Union was an expression only of communism, and that its modes of thinking would be swept away without it.  But, what if that is only partly true and a good deal of what we perceive as behaviors ascribable to an ideology [...]

Absurdistan Weekend Update #8: Liberals Heroically Waging the War of Whine

The world according to Bob Stapler.

Absurdistan Weekend Update #7: Great Leaping Liberal Lunacies!

A woman clones her dog, the feds ask illegal immigrants to deport themselves, fish and global warming, Obama accepts contributions from Palestinians, bin Laden's driver is sentenced to prison, a contractor is sent to prison for keeping his streambed clear per law, climate-change bill is tabled, an increase in the minimum wage is considered in [...]

Absurdistan Weekend Update #6: Liberal Lunacy Everywhere We Look

More Bob Stapler.

Absurdistan Weekend Update #5: Liberals Leaving the Reason Reservation for the ObamaNation

More from Bob Stapler.

Absurdistan Weekend Update #4: Plausible Evidence the Left has left the Reason Reservation

More from Bob Stapler.

Absurdistan Weekend Update #3: Profuse Proof the Left has left the Reason Reservation

More from Bob Stapler.

Absurdistan Weekend Update #2: More Proof the Left has left the Reason Reservation

More news from Bob Stapler.

Absurdistan Weekend Update #4: Plausible Evidence the Left has left the Reason Reservation

More from Bob Stapler.

Absurdistan Weekend Update #1

Proof Positive the Left has left the Reason Reservation.

A Show of Hands: One Man's Take on Climate-Change Consensus

The idea that there is a scientific "consensus" regarding anthropogenic global-warming has its roots in the controversial article written in 2004 by Naomi Oreskes purporting to have established consensus among peer-reviewed climatologists and, second, from statements of the U.N. climate-study steering committee (IPCC) charged with investigating the case for AGW and determining likely impacts.

What Does a Fundamentalist Look Like?

Searching for the great-white, anti-intellectual, bible-thumping, gun-toting, inbred, violent, genocidal, racist-male, tobacco-chewing, hate-spewing, illiterate-elitist, homophobic, absolutist, anti-progress, anti-Darwin, anti-education, woman-subjugating, narrow-minded, dangerous, ignorant, intolerant, totalitarian right-wing extremist, brain-dead, brainwashed, mind-controlling, conspiracy-masterminding, cult-joining, omniscient, hallelujah-born-again, Christian-fundamentalist.

Another Industry Takes a Dive: Retreat in the Face of a Warm Reception

By accepting the catastrophic model of global climate change, the insurance industry is buffered against all liability, can deny coverage and charge pretty much whatever it wants.

Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders

Jim Gilchrest and Jerome Corsi's Minutemen is a well-documented picture of an invasion-in-progress and sober critique of those such as George W. Bush who ignore or support it at the expense of our national sovereignty and way of life.

Reagan's Children – Taking Back the City on the Hill

In his new book, Hans Zeiger describes from the perspective of a Christian conservative the currently maturing generation and where they are leading us.

The United States Merchant Marine: Unremembered Heroes of WWII

When I was but a lad, my greatest hero was my dad. A tribute to an amazing Merchant Marine.







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