A conservative blog at the WaPo?

One of Michelle Malkin’s buddies at Regnery Publishing and co-founder of the RedState blog is doing a blog called “Red America”. Does anyone else find it ironic that conservatives are now associated with the color red? I dunno if I’m going to ever really be able to swallow that one whole.

Update: As Michelle predicted, the moonbats are at full froth. Hehehe. Rush Limbaugh is right, the more libs become marginalized, the funnier they get.

Don’t you just love tolerance and the free flow of ideas?

Makes me even more glad that I left Blogger

Betsy Newmark’s blog was blown away by Blogger. I know you get what you pay for but this is ridiculous.

Better than the Taliban…maybe…

A Christian on Trial in Afghanistan.

It would be nice if GWB didn’t have a tin ear on this one.

This is child abuse

Michelle Malkin brings details of a little girl (Autum Ashante) who’s been brainwashed with hatred for white people.

Read Michelle’s post and I dare anyone to tell me this isn’t child abuse. This is the moral equivalent of turning children into soldiers and suicide bombers.

I don’t hate this little girl, I weep for her. Her parents are made of the same vile hatred, ignorance and poision that fills the most racist Klucker. How sad that she lives in a world that knows nothing but anger and hostility. It’s clear that she’s being used as a tool in an attempt to legitimize her parents own hate-filled existence. I wonder if Autum’s parents realize that they are down in the same gutter with the parents of these two little darlings (also victims of child abuse).

I wonder how many other Autum Ashante’s and Gaede sisters are being denied their childhoods because of their parents racism.

Intellectual Property in France: Fin?

According to al-Reuters, there is proposed legislation making its way through the French parliament to decriminalize the circumvention of digital rights management for music downloads. The thinking behind this law say its proponents, is to allow the conversion of music in the iTunes format (called AAC) to other formats, thereby allowing those files to play on devices other than PCs, Macs and iPods.

Passage of this law would be a disaster for France’s consumers.

Granted, I have a couple of problems with DRM as it works today (but I’ll save that for another rant).

What this law in France will do is to force Apple to pull out of the market. Why? Because Apple has contracts with the owners of the songs to protect it from piracy through the use of DRM. Making iTunes available in France would be placing the content it licenses in a market that will be a safe haven for pirates. And once you start with iTunes, you’ve opened Pandora’s box. What’s next? Pirating DVDs? Digital movies? Copyright and patent infringement? This would actually make France the new global hotspot for piracy, taking that title from China (which is actually cracking down on piracy, btw). If this law passes, intellectual property owners would be smart to pull out of France as quickly as possible because the entire idea of intellectual property would go down the drain (where France’s courage went long ago).

What the socialists pushing this bill continue to fail to understand is that there has to be an incentive for people to innovate and create over and above the personal satisfaction of those things. Like it or not, money is a great driver for innovation. That’s why we have things like iTunes and iPods and DVDs and the lightbulb in the first place. Who’d want to sell into a market where they don’t get paid for their sweat? The result is that France’s consumers will have FEWER choices.

Another thing that these socialists fail to understand is that people have a choice. Unlike governments, there is competition in the marketplace for digital music players and digital music. You don’t have to buy an iPod and get locked into iTunes. I personally own a Creative Jukebox Zen Xtra with a 60GB capacity. Why? Because it gives me a choice of formats — WAV, MP3, WMA and RAX — which means that I can go to pretty much any digital music service except iTunes for my music. Does it have the cachet or glitz factor of an iPod? Nope, in fact it’s downright homely compared to an iPod, particularly the Nano. But I valued substance, high capacity and price over style. I HAD A CHOICE.

So do the people of France.

Unhinged Planned Parenthood and ACLU (What’s New?)

So I was out fetching dinner for my family this evening and listening to our local NPR station. Before you roll your eyes about listening to NPR, yes I sometimes listen to see what “the other side” is thinking. Besides, radio is so barren in my local area that I’m sometimes forced to turn on NPR. Sad, innit?

Anyway, there was a story about Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan’s collaboration with (bankrolling really) Ave Maria University in Naples, FL and a number of housing developers to build a town based on Catholic values. The big brouhaha is that Monaghan and the developers of the town have requested that drug stores that set up shop in the town of Ave Maria don’t sell contraceptives. Of course, the nanny-statists at Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are raising holy Hell (pun intended) about this. They claim that a town cannot deny people access to abortion mills and contraception.

I’m personally a very secular person and haven’t ever been a member of a church but I don’t see what the big deal is. If people don’t want to live in a town where they can’t get birth control or an abortion, THEY SHOULDN’T MOVE THERE!!!! DUH! Again, the developers have made this a request, not a condition for receiving building permits, business licenses, etc. It would be illegal to do otherwise. And for those who want to move to Ave Maria in spite of this, they can go to the next town over and get what they want.

And really, I don’t think the town is going to have in-home inspections to check for the presence of condoms nor are they going to subpoena medical records to see if people have had Depo-Provera shots or Norplant or an IUD implanted. First, it would be a waste of taxpayer money and second, it would be a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution prohibiting unlawful searches. One would think the ACLU, which proclaims itself to be the self-appointed defenders of the Constitution would know this. But no, they’ve decided to set up an office in Naples to “montior the situation”.
Just like some people choose to live in Washington, DC, Chicago, Morton Grove, IL and New York City where guns are banned (or are virtually so), people also choose to live in Kennesaw, GA where, with a couple of notable exceptions, gun ownership is mandatory for heads of households.

For those critics of the goals of the Ave Maria developers, freedom of choice means not only having access to contraception but also chosing to live someplace where there isn’t.

Thugs hate free speech

Anti-Castro Sign at Ballgame Causes Stir

I just love that the PR police lectured a Cuban offical/thug about free speech. And I love how Cuba’s official propaganda rag called an act of free speech “cowardly”. If anyone knows about cowardice, it’s Commies.

All together now: awwwwwwwwww

War criminal and blodthirsty butcher Slobodan Milosevic (or “Slobo” as Rush Limbaugh calls him) died today in the Netherlands. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

Now if we can only get Saddam Hussein to follow suit. That would be a nice start.

Barry Casselman Gets It

Barry Casselman writes this superb article at Real Clear Politics about the President’s tin ear with respect to his base and the American people.

The left has always said that the President has a “tin ear” but that’s only because they want him to do it their way. He should have a tin ear for their lunacy. A President with a tin ear for his base and that segment of the American people who are willing to listen is not only political suicide, it has a ripple effect on your political party’s fortunes.

Would someone in the White House please give the President a hearing aid?

This is disgusting

But I don’t think Wal-Mart suing this dumbass for trademark infringement will stand up in court. It probably falls under the legal heading of “satire”.

Question: why do libs automatically invoke Third Reich imagery when vilifying their enemies? I guess debating the issues taxes their pea-sized brains too much.

Morons.