The No Kool-Aid Zone Blog
I don't drink the Kool-Aid. For Anyone.
Have You Heard About CPSIA?
It’s just one more case of the nincompoops whom we’ve elected hurriedly passing a sweeping law in the midst of a trumped-up “crisis” to counter a non-existent threat, with the upshot being a whole host of awful consequences, among them dealing significant blows to small businesses, the destruction of many valuable things, and the ongoing…
The President Gets One Right
From our credit-where-credit’s-due department comes this: Obama Opposes “Fairness Doctrine” Liberals love to suggest that conservatives “question the patriotism” of liberals–Mrs. Bill Clinton made that claim on the campaign trail–but I don’t remember ever hearing that happen. Of course, liberals themselves do question the patriotism of conservatives; Governor Jennifer Granholm and Rep. John Conyers, both…
"Read With Discernment": A Clumsy Attempt by LifeWay
I like LifeWay Christian Stores pretty well; run by our Southern Baptist friends, LifeWay promotes a decent amount of good stuff book-wise; unlike Family Bookstores, where I’d be thrilled to toss maybe 70% of its products in the garbage bin (and I’m being charitable using that figger), I’d probably only toss 40-50% of LifeWay’s stock…
Milton Friedman on Capitalism
Comrade Obama seems determined to lead America down the primrose path to socialism; hopefully, patriots of all persuasions will stand up against this heavy-handed, ‘for our own good’, smiley-faced fascism. But here’s a little clip I ran across on capitalism from one of its ablest defenders, Milton Friedman (with the bonus that he makes Phil…
The Darwin/Racism/Eugenics Connection
You know how books often have a “by-line”? Did you know that Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species had one? Nah, neither did I. Want to know what it was? Ready? Phil Ryken gives us the scoop: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life Now, though I’d never heard that by-line, it doesn’t…