This lecture from March 5, 2007, hosted by the Heritage Foundation featuring Evan Sayet, a writer and pundit explains aspects of modern liberal thought quite intelligently. In the speech he explains how his life long liberalism turned him into being a 9/13 Republican. Why 9/13 instead of 9/11 or 9/12 is what makes his insight [...]
Browsing the blog archives for February, 2010
11 Feb 10
Monopolies are bad. Government ones are worse.
Competition promotes innovation and results in higher quality and lower costs. Government-run schools are a tragic example, by contrast, of why monopolies generate bad results. This video uses the example of school choice to explain why competition is a better approach. The fact that Virginia’s government controls alcohol sales is shockingly true, but not for [...]
10 Feb 10
Oh Cap, Say it Ain’t So
Apparently, good ole Captain America isn’t a fan of the Tea Party movement. In a recent issue, Cap and fellow superhero The Falcon stumble across a protest in Idaho that Cap identifies as an “anti-tax thing.” The Falcon, a black man, then replies that he probably wouldn’t be accepted there. Drawings of the crowd included [...]
9 Feb 10
Fear the Boom and Bust
This has already been around the web for a bit (including over at Parcbench and NRO’s The Corner), but I figured I should go ahead and post it here:
9 Feb 10
Review: In the President’s Secret Service by Ronald Kessler
So, this week, I read In the President’s Secret Service by Ronald Kessler. In it, Kessler relays loads of information that he got through extensive interviews with past and current members of the Secret Service, with which he paints a very vivid portrait of the Presidents since Kennedy through the eyes of those who saw [...]
9 Feb 10
Who Wants to See a FemeNazi Exposed?!
First off, a big howdy do to Richard (the technical genius behind this site, and many others – just follow the links to the right) for his first posts here at intorightfield.com. Now Richard, if you would please stop making me look so bad with your multiple posts in a week. Never mind, it’s cool, [...]
8 Feb 10
How the FemeNazis were exposed with the Tebow ad
For two weeks, feminist groups have been shrieking over the affront to justice and good taste that was set to take place during the Superbowl. The obvious suspects – the cheerleaders, the commercials objectifying women (Godaddy and others) and general misogyny taking place around the sporting event – were all bypassed to instead shed light [...]
6 Feb 10
Revolution Remix: “Too Late to Apologize”
From Soomo Publishing comes this very well produced and slick looking and even – God help me – catchy music video (it’s based on “Apologize” by One Republic, featuring Timbaland 2007) on the most timely and hip of subjects in our current pop-culture: the American Revolution. Give it a chance… it will grow on you… [...]
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