tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59247872024-03-07T23:22:08.101-05:00The Shallow End of the Gene Pool<p><strong>Kurt</strong><br>A Jersey raised architect now in Norfolk, Virginia<p><strong>Cousin Don</strong><br>An "Ivy-League Enginerd" and former Jersey guy now slumming in Taxachusetts<p><strong>Laurel</strong><br>An Okie stitchery retailer now in Norfolk, Virginia<p><em><strong>Welcome to an ongoing discourse from the Libertarian End of the Gene Pool</strong></em></p></p></p></p>Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.comBlogger1799125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-84406237590957004792022-09-09T22:07:00.002-04:002022-09-09T22:08:05.610-04:00To the Gulf Coast HighwayI've often thought you can judge the qaulity of a song by the artists that choose to record their own version of it. With that in mind, here are links to several Youtube videos of the song "Gulf Coast Highway" by a wide variety of artists:
By the original songwriters, Nanci Griffith and James Hooker
By Bruce Springsteen
By Emmylou Harris and Dave Matthews
By Emmylou Harris and Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-54775775521561739952022-05-25T21:21:00.001-04:002022-05-25T21:44:03.983-04:00Let's Get the Guns!In the aftermath of the tragic shootings in New York and Texas, I see a lot of people on Facebook and Twitter that are very sure that if we ban guns this sort of thing will stop. Taking them at their word I say sure, let’s do it! Ban them all! Here’s a step-by-step guide describing how we go about it.
1. Before we can do anything, we must repeal the Second Amendment. This will require Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-55490432853701623362015-04-13T19:45:00.002-04:002015-04-13T19:45:42.769-04:00Rachel Alexander explains how the left targets Republicans they can't beat on election day:
It has been almost five years since former Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens tragically died in a plane crash, and over six years since he left the Senate in humiliation. The left viciously targeted him when he was 84, abusing the legal system using classic Alinsky tactics until Stevens' name and Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-16460666770399641222015-04-13T19:44:00.002-04:002015-04-13T19:44:50.597-04:00Victor Davis Hanson on the Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy:
The point is that Mrs. Clinton has neither a past record that she is proud to run on nor support for an Obama administration tenure that she will promise to continue. She is not a good speaker and has a disturbing habit of switching accents in amateurish attempts to mimic regional or racial authenticity. She accentuates her Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-35477017103524481812015-04-10T16:41:00.001-04:002015-04-10T16:41:28.659-04:00Ann Coulter on the epidemic of fake rape reports at colleges and universities:
The UVA fake rape is even worse than the Duke lacrosse team fake rape. The accused fraternity hadn't even courted danger by hiring a stripper. They were going about their lives, minding their own business, when, out of the blue, Rolling Stone, the president of their university, and a fiendish coed decided to accuse Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-70203956615683415072015-04-01T19:29:00.000-04:002015-04-01T19:29:21.380-04:00Tim Carney has an excellent article describing the current culture wars:
Religious liberty is the terms of surrender the Right is requesting in the culture war. It is conservative America saying to the cultural and political elites, you have your gay marriage, your no-fault divorce, your obscene music and television, your indoctrinating public schools and your abortion-on-demand. May we please Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-6134033421626814672015-03-19T23:42:00.000-04:002015-03-19T23:42:29.626-04:00The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Commission. The ARMED Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Commission. They're out there, protecting us Virginians from drunk UVA honor students.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe ordered the Virginia State Police to investigate the early Wednesday arrest of Martese Johnson, who needed 10 stitches to close a gash on his head after his altercation with Alcoholic Beverage Control agents Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-22295897432337940362015-03-05T17:24:00.000-05:002015-03-05T17:24:06.139-05:00Ben Shapiro notes how topsy turvy the federal government has become and how we are going to lose our democracy if we don't wake up and defend it:
Welcome to the most transparent administration in American history, where the Federal Communications Commission can regulate the Internet and keep those regulations secret before a vote, where top government officials can deliberately hide their emailsKurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-54214908129675504332015-03-05T17:22:00.002-05:002015-03-05T17:22:43.016-05:00Michael Walsh: "If Washington, D.C., is Hollywood for ugly people and Hollywood is high school with money, then the Democrats are Mean Girls - cliquish, snobby and bitchy."Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-5540968891227036482015-02-10T21:08:00.004-05:002015-02-10T21:08:47.350-05:00Kevin Williamson notes the coercive nature of the left:
The Left's last big idea was Communism. When Lenin turned out to be the god who failed, the Left undertook wide exploration for another grand unifying idea: environmentalism, multiculturalism, economic inequality, atheism, feminism, etc. What it ended up with was an enemies' list.
That and a taste for brute force.
The enthusiasm for Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-67255527667430311522015-02-10T21:08:00.001-05:002015-02-10T21:08:18.173-05:00Victor Davis Hanson describes Obama as a snarky adolescent:
Obama is supposedly friends with basketball legend Michael Jordan. But the latter made a terrible mistake when he chided the golf-obsessive Obama as in fact a "hack" and a "sh***y" golfer. Obama quickly fired back that Jordan "was not well informed." He then went after Jordan himself as the less than successful basketball-team owner: "Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-60332640986565896312015-02-05T19:58:00.002-05:002015-02-05T19:58:03.670-05:00Yesterday I wrote, The more "oppression" the left discovers, the more ridiculous it becomes. As this piece demonstrates, one might also argue that the more "tolerance" the left discovers, the more ridiculous it becomes.
(The University of Vermont) was the first school in the country to allow students to select which pronoun they preferred in its system. The system also allows them to select "Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-74753156973177611552015-02-04T18:32:00.002-05:002015-02-04T18:32:16.602-05:00The more "oppression" the left discovers, the more ridiculous it becomes. Today's latest injustice is against single people. From Katherine Timpf:
The piece defines "singlism" as "the stereotyping, stigmatizing and discrimination against people who are not married" and "marital privilege" as "the unearned advantages that benefit those who are married," an "emotional privilege" where "other Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-47488887874837692352015-01-30T22:47:00.004-05:002015-01-30T22:48:18.466-05:00In his "Impromptus" column Jay Nordlinger observes the absurdity of the Big 10 conference as the home to 14 teams.
Speaking of things that are screwy: The Big Ten conference has 14 members. I was reading an article the other day that said that a certain team was "11th in the Big Ten" in some category or other. That makes you stop and think.
It's really only par for the course these days, Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-12570755156573933852015-01-30T22:47:00.002-05:002015-01-30T22:47:21.871-05:00Kevin Williamson takes down the hypocritical, totalitarian progressive and their lifestyle.
On the matter of consumers' contribution to global warming, Arianna Huffington was celebrated for leading a moralistic crusade against SUVs, which are disproportionately favored by the sort of people who might vape, eat at Applebee's, watch the wrong television shows, and vote the wrong way. In reality, Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-85011878182211635002015-01-30T22:46:00.002-05:002015-01-30T22:46:22.516-05:00Charles Krauthammer notes the return of anti-semitism to Europe.
The hiatus is over. Jew-hatred is back, recapitulating the past with impressive zeal. Italians protesting Gaza handed out leaflets calling for a boycott of Jewish merchants. As in the 1930s. A widely popular French comedian has introduced a variant of the Nazi salute. In Berlin, Gaza brought out a mob chanting, "Jew, Jew, cowardly Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-5833130426797736232015-01-13T20:08:00.001-05:002015-01-13T20:08:15.332-05:00David Greenfield has identified the greatest danger resulting from murderous Muslim terror attacks: fear of a backlash against Muslims. Quelle horreur!
The increase in Muslim terrorism however has made it risky for the media to wait that long. 24 hours after a brutal Muslim terrorist attack, there might be another brutal Muslim terrorist attack which will completely crowd out the stories of Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-59421308372778403892015-01-13T20:07:00.003-05:002015-01-13T20:07:41.886-05:00As Matthew Continetti demonstrates, the left is very selective in its defense of free speech.
Nor do I recall liberals standing up for the critics of global warming and evolutionary theory, of same-sex marriage and trans rights and women in combat, of riots in Ferguson and of Obama's decision to amnesty millions of illegal immigrants. On the contrary: To dissent from the politically correct and Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-66687911852189848292015-01-13T20:07:00.000-05:002015-01-13T20:07:11.581-05:00Dennis Prager notes the preferential treatment of Islam over other religions:
We'll start with an example of pro-Islamic bias that is so ubiquitous that no one seems to notice it. Why do Western media - largely composed of irreligious people, one might add - always deferentially refer to Mohammed as "the Prophet Mohammed" in news articles and opinion pieces?
When Jesus is mentioned, the media Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-43610174073314068542015-01-12T17:26:00.002-05:002015-01-12T17:26:27.075-05:00Daniel Greenfield writes that New York needs to elect a leftist mayor on occasion to remind itself why it shouldn't elect leftist mayors:
Bill de Blasio declared war on Central Park carriage horses, put cell phones back in schools, put criminals back in public housing, housed homeless in neighborhoods across the city, went to war with the few city schools that worked and went to war with the Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-75447868285196496972015-01-09T19:29:00.001-05:002015-01-09T19:29:12.273-05:00Over at Ace of Spades Ace notes that CNN referred to one of the Muslim barbarian hostage takers in France as "African American." Even though he is more likely to be French Algerian.
This is the problem with the politically correct formulation of using the term "African American" to describe any black person. First, it creates the dilemma of how to describe a white person of African descent.
OneKurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-31281947923328944182015-01-09T17:11:00.002-05:002015-01-09T17:11:22.254-05:00As Debra Saunders correctly observes: Say Islam Is Violent and Jihadis Will Kill YouKurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-55809079866577636982015-01-09T17:10:00.000-05:002015-01-09T17:10:43.040-05:00Bruce Thornton asks "When Will We Wake Up?"
The truth is, many Muslims see the whole Western political order as radically different from--and in their view, inferior to--that of Islam. The cultural cargo of human rights, tolerance of confessional diversity, individual autonomy and self-determination, and political freedom is incompatible with the traditional Islamic doctrine that a divinely Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-86951120773416861802014-12-30T20:50:00.001-05:002014-12-30T20:50:17.213-05:00Kevin Williamson pays proper homage to free market capitalism:
The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic, but we are so used to its bounty that we never stop to notice that no king of old ever enjoyed quarters so comfortable as those found in a Holiday Inn Express, that Andrew Carnegie never had a car as good as a Honda Civic, that Akhenaten never enjoyed Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924787.post-29570837007291840032014-12-23T13:46:00.000-05:002014-12-23T13:46:27.538-05:00Charlie Cooke takes down the latest anti-gun absurdity:
One can only imagine that the spot's producers consider their set up to be inordinately clever. "Hey," you can almost hear them say, "we'll make it look as if there's going to be a school shooting, and then he'll hand it over to his teacher and all will be well!" In fact, it is difficult to imagine a more irresponsible storyline. We're Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847569773152792535noreply@blogger.com0