Timothy Birdnow

Ivy League Sexual Apocalypse

Joe Biden, the Captain Peachfuzz of the current Jay Ward Administration, has repeated the claim that one in five college girls will be raped before they finish their academic careers. Peachfuzz, er, Biden was taking his cue from the feminists, who were themselves taking their shrieking points from a lone study that makes this rather dubious assertion. (Hat tip: Christopher Pasley)

Saul Alinsky Tactics and the BLM War

The internet has been buzzing for the last few days with hysterical hypocrisy from the Left over some remarks made by Clive Bundy, the Nevada Rancher who recently staved off a paramilitary assault by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Bundy made a comment that perhaps black people were better off slaves (as opposed to the neo-slavery of benevolent government.) He was roundly thrashed for his remarks.

Dirty EPA Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

The Environmental Protection Agency is full of dirty tricks. Under the Obama Administration (and the tutelage of first Sheila Jackson and now "tailgunner" Gina McCarthy (Are you now or have you ever been a member of Koch Industries?) the EPA has spiraled out of control, conducting human experimentation reminiscent of Joseph Mangle, Declaring Milk to be an oil thus forcing dairy farmers to purchase expensive "toxic spill" equipment, declaring silver particles a "pesticide", has unilaterally reduced the amount of particulate matter allowed in the air in defiance of its' own research results, Reduced sulphur levels for no good reason.

The Customer is Always Right - Except where Healthcare is Concerned

The Invisible Hand, Adam Smith called it. A free market, one truly free, presupposes no judgment upon the collective actions of the participants, since that market will necessarily discipline those who overstep their moral boundaries. Smith understood that the Market is actually an expression of Natural Law, and as such comes from God, and is not merely a construct of Man. The construct of Man is the regulated, guided, command market. Socialism is the final expression of an artificial economic construct.

The Police and Progressive Law

Yesterday a local radio personality here in St. Louis (Dave Glover) asked the question "why do so many people in our audience hate the police?" It's a fair question; there are many good and noble police officers and they are enforcing our laws. But many people are quite unhappy with the police, and there are good reasons for that.

Article V Convention; Be Careful What You Wish For

There is an old adage "be careful what you wish for, you might get it." This is illustrative of human intellectual limitations, of our inability to see the consequences of our actions. Often what we wish turns out to be more curse than blessing and we are sorry for having ever sought it out. This is especially true in politics, and rarely do our best-laid plans work out as we envision.

The Devil and Al Gore

"Now I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds"--J. Robert Oppenheimer Al Gore - the man who was a hair's breath away from being President of the United States - is calling for world population control.

The threat of open civil war looms large over the Republican Party,

The threat of open civil war looms large over the Republican Party, and the underlying causes seem to puzzle both politicians and pundits in the GOP Establishment (it's absolutely baffling to the Liberals in the media and Democrats, but that is no surprise.)

Cone Heads

Recent events in the Garden State have illustrated a serious medical condition affecting the journalism community, one we have witnessed among journalists before. A conniption is a rare psychological disorder, one apparently generated by actions performed by a certain class of people.

West Antarctic Ice Melt; Water or Fire?

Poor Global Warming just can't catch a break. Planetary temperatures aren't cooperating, nor is the rate of sea level rise, and now even West Antarctica seems to be gouging James Hansen in the eye.

Judge Not - Lest Ye Be Boys

Yet another example of the war on Boyhood. Apparently the headmaster at a charter school threatened to expel an 8-year-old boy for drawing Halloween costumes - of a ninja, a star wars character, and a soldier. These drawings showed the characters carrying some sort of arms.

Ayatollah Obama; Twin Heresies

"He said, 'Fight them so that there is no more rebellion, and religion, all of it, is for Allah only. Allah must have no rivals.'" --Ishaq:324 When Constantinople fell in 1453 the conquering Turks systematically expunged all evidence of Christian influence there. Perhaps the most egregious thing they did was to convert the world famous Haiga Sophia, basilica of the Patriarch of Constantinople, to a mosque, plastering over the magnificent mosaics that adorned the walls of that famous house of Christian worship. This act of vandalism was hardly unique in the history if Islam; Islam tolerates no competitors in the lands they take by force.

Boys in the Middle East Hood

In a very insightful article at Asia Times Online Dr. Reuven Brenner makes the case against a "two state solution" in Palestine, arguing that there really aren't just the two groups involved (Jews and Palestinians) but that there are actually four separate groups that can be categorized as Palestinians, and that there is no real "state" in the whole region. The Middle East has splintered into disparate groups of military organizations, each with their own leadership and agenda. Brenner's point is that a traditional solution involving partition cannot work, as we have no one group here to hand over the reins of power. Brenner is essentially arguing that, like Africa immediately after de-colonization, the Middle East has essentially become tribal.

America’s Soviet Boomerang Generation

Fewer young adults are moving out of their parents' homes, according to CNN Money.

Obama’s Limits to Growth

In 1972 the Club of Rome put out a blueprint for international action called "Limits to Growth , a study based on computer models simulating unrestrained economic and population growth verses finite planetary resources. Working from a static vision of wealth Limits predicted doom as the world's population continued to rise and the planet's resources continued to dwindle. Limits was a landmark document, spawning the "sustainability" movement worldwide.

Devouring Paula Deen

The big "people" story of the news cycle is the firing of Paula "hiS wife could eat no lean" Deen, former doyen of the Food Network. Deen was fired ostensibly for making racial slurs in the past. I think the Paula Deen, the queen of non-lean, was really sacked because of racial profiling and her steadfast refusal to promote the modern Progressive diet.

Socialist Networking

Last year Facebook opened to public trading with disastrous results.

The Systemic Failure of Bullying

In a recent article at American Thinker, Elise Cooper argued for new programs and more school involvement to reduce bullying. As she rightly points out bullying is on the rise in modern America, and the temptation to turn to psychologists, schools and government is strong - even for conservatives. I fear the notion that bullying can be stopped through governmental programs is misguided. Laws and programs cannot and will not work because they address the wrong issues, or try to treat symptoms of a deeper malady.

The Farming Bubble

For some time I have been arguing that real estate prices are rising not because of a recovery in the market but because of inflationary pressures by the Federal Reserve to artificially boost them - a bubble. The Administration cannot afford to have a depressed real estate market because it was the real estate market that tanked the economy in the first place and a failure of that market to recover would illustrate quite plainly the failure of the Obama Administration policies. More than that, the RE crisis has allowed government to make real, fundamental changes in the way America operates, has allowed the federal government to intrude in what has traditionally been a local industry.

DHS Rolls in the Tanks

Another brick in the black iron prison. The Department of Homeland Security has purchased almost 2,700 light-armored tanks.