Race, Abortion, and Dixie
Dixie I ran the numbers. In every Southern state with the exception of South Carolina (there was no data available at StateHealthFacts.org for Florida and […]
The Cost of the Union: Arizona, State Sovereignty, and Immigration
Arizona Here’s an unusually clear eyed article from Andrew McCarthy at National Review on the Arizona decision: “Justice Antonin Scalia, in a characteristically electrifying dissent, […]
Limits To Growth: Mining Asteroids
New York In The Wall Street Journal, there is a new techno-utopian article about mining asteroids as a solution to resource scarcity: “Is the earth […]
Democracy is……….
Egypt “Democracy is…. two wolves and a sheep voting on what they are going to have for lunch.” Last week, “democracy” proved to be Egypt’s newly […]
The Cost of the Union: Federal Judge Blocks Mississippi Abortion Law
Mississippi Earlier this year, the new Republican-controlled Mississippi legislature passed an abortion bill that would have required any doctor performing abortions in Mississippi to be […]
Limits To Growth: Review: Too Much Magic
New York I’ve finished reading James Howard Kunstler’s new book Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation. This book is pretty […]
The Cost of the Union: Southern Governors Vow Defiance To Obamacare
Dixie Perry in Texas, Jindal in Louisiana, Scott in Florida, Haley in South Carolina, McDonnell in Virginia … presumably other states, they must be feeling […]
Heat Wave
BRA It is 113 degrees in Alabama. Open thread for bitching about the weather.
The Dangerous Self-Delusion of Some Conservatives
Kosher Republic The pushback has begun against the happy talk that Roberts is some kind of grand chessmaster who has limited the Commerce Clause and […]
Conservative Southern Values Revived
Dixie H/T Kievsky The latest Alternet diatribe on evil White Southerners thwarting the progress of the Yankee Empire: “It’s been said that the rich are […]
Daily Kos on Secession
Texas This post at Daily Kos is worthy of its own comment thread: “Let ’em secede!”. That’s the latest challenge from some here at the […]
Uncle Tim on Racism and The New Jim Crow
Tennessee Timmuh’s latest … an hour long podcast on mass incarceration as neo-segregation. Note: Can someone please retrieve the comment that proves Timmuh lives in […]
Little Green Fags on Breitbart on Congressional Black Caucus
LGF Charles Johnson is twisting his ponytail over the explicit racism of Breitbart commentators reacting to the Congressional Black Caucus walkout: Every one of them […]
DiLorenzo on Obamacare
Lew Rockwell DiLorenzo is right on this one: “Yesterday’s majority opinion, written by the conniving little totalitarian left winger John Roberts, proves once again what […]
Rush on Obamacare Ruling
District of Corruption Kosher Republic is following the pushback to the spin: “A giant total fraud was perpetrated on this country yesterday. The Supreme Court […]
American Transcendentalism: An Indigenous Culture of Critique
Counter-Currents Kevin MacDonald has an excellent essay on Counter-Currents about the Yankee Question. This is too good to pass up. Note: MacDonald has never been […]
What Hath Transplants Wrought
North Carolina There are few subjects which get Southerners more fired up than the Transplant Question: “About two months ago I mentioned my disappointment that […]
LoS Statement on Obamacare
Dixie According to the League of the South, a lot of conservatives are having “the moment” that I discussed with Palmetto Patriot in the SNN […]
Are Republicans Worthless?
Dixie It may surprise you but my answer is still “no.” No, Republicans are not entirely worthless: the South voted against the election of Obama, […]
Podcast: Obamacare Reaction
SNN Here’s a link to the podcast that I did with SNN on the recent Supreme Court rulings.
The Latest Spin
District of Corruption George Will writes: “By persuading the Court to reject a Commerce Clause rationale for a president’s signature act, the conservative legal insurgency […]
Mitt’s Judges
BRA From Romney’s website: “As president, Mitt will nominate judges in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts …”
South Africa Must Reform “White Dominated Economy”
South Africa The world’s first “rainbow nation” … gears up for a “second transition.” “”The structure of the apartheid-era economy has remained largely intact,” Zuma […]
R.I.P. Navigators
BRA Mike Adams explains the consequences of the Obamacare decision: “Note, carefully, there is NO LIMIT to this “taxing” power. If you bring home a […]
I Hereby Secede
BRA H/T Lew Rockwell I “seceded” from BRA a long time ago. It has no legitimacy. I don’t feel any sense of loyalty to it […]
Auster’s Response
South Carolina Auster writes: “Since the Congress can now command citizens to do anything the Congress wants, since America as a republic under a government […]
Romney Response to Obamacare Ruling
District of Corruption Trust me … Note: For the conservatives who are checking out our response, I will just note that you couldn’t trust John […]
Feeling Deflated? Arizona and Obamacare
Dixie “The one great evil from which all other evils have flowed, is the overthrow of the Constitution of the United States. The Government of […]
Derb on Secession
Dixie Briefly, this needs to be corrected: HAC has been spreading this pernicious myth around the internet for years. “Historian (mainly of science) Doug Fosnow […]
The Cost of the Union: Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare
District of Corruption In a 5-4 decision, Obamacare has been upheld. The individual mandate stands under the tax writing clause of the Constitution. As we […]
Rep. Luis Gutierrez on Arizona’s SB 1070
District of Corruption If you are elected to Congress, you can debate this Puerto Rican – like Obama and Durbin, he is also from Chicago […]
“Up With Chris Hayes”
New York In spite of all our differences, I am confident that everyone who reads and comments on this website can agree on how satisfying […]