The Cold in California, in Europe, and in Liberal Hearts (Updated)
Note: This is a replay. It’s been an unusually cold and rainy month of May in northern California. Thousands of miles to the east and north, in Paris, France, a May cold record held for sixteen years...
View ArticleLeft-Liberal Hypocrisy and Bad Taste
Leftists always let their real soul slip through, somehow. I know a young woman who lives in a country other than the US. She is not American. What she has in common with Santa Cruz, California...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of the Bourgeois Bubble Boy
Since Ron Paul’s fantastic, spontaneous, incredible 2008 presidential campaign libertarianism has become a hot topic among the brightest people throughout the world. This is not a coincidence or an act...
View ArticleGuns and Truth
I have stayed away from this blog too long. I wasn’t cruising the South Pacific on my McGregor 26, as you might expect. I was just editing my memoirs; I was trying to be thorough. (It’s called: “I Used...
View ArticleLiberal Authoritarianism: Independence Day, the Sequel
This is Part Two of a report on my American Independence Day (Part one is “An Eventful American Independence Night.” It was posted on July 5th 2012.) The best beach in Santa Cruz was cordoned off for...
View ArticleThe Minimum Wage and Stupid National Public Radio
Two things on my mind this Bastille Day 2012. The first is who is more stupid, French leftists or American liberals? I have life-long knowledge of both tribes. At this point, I think French leftists...
View ArticleMcCloskey Review = Leftist Rhetoric in Tatters
Deirdre McCloskey has an excellent review of a new book focusing on the immorality of capitalism. An excerpt: The poor have benefited the most from capitalism. The sheer, first-act, unanalyzed equality...
View ArticleReview of Claire Conner’s Wrapped in the Flag
I recently posted a review at Amazon of Claire Conner’s Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America’s Radical Right. (The paperback edition changed the subtitle to What I Learned Growing Up in...
View ArticleGogol Bordello and Multiculturalism
Donald Trump is about to be President of the United States. Trump’s victory is the result of a great plethora of political and cultural attitudes. It is not a “white-lash” (both candidates failed to...
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