-
Authors
-
-
-
-
-
Recent Comments
Western Resistance
Author Archives: Mike Elliot
French Parents are Superior to American Parents, cont’d: American Dad
After I posted that French parenting skills might be surperior to those displayed by present day American parents I got some mildly provocative commentary. This wasn’t that surprising though since readers here range from center-right to fairly ardent conservatives, so any … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, American Society, Current Events, Western Culture, Western Society
Tagged American Dad, Entitled Kids, France, Parent, United States, Yanks
3 Comments
Obama, Jesus, and Tax Increases.
Erick Erickson over at Red State, feels that the President invoking Jesus to defend the need for a tax increase on the wealthy was in his own words, a “perversion.” Personally, I really don’t care because at this point in … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Current Events, History, Humor, Opinion, Philosophy, Religion
Tagged Erick Erickson, Jesus, Obama, taxes, Zacchaeus
8 Comments
French Parents are Superior to American Parents? Maybe.
When my lovely wife was a smidge younger, she was fortunate enough to have been part of a college student exchange program which took her to the wild and wooly world of France. While there not only did she develop … Continue reading
Posted in American Society, Current Events, Opinion, Western Culture, Western Society
Tagged Child, family, France, Parent, United States
12 Comments
Today in Irony: Sierra Club takes bribe from Natural Gas industry.
From the Daily Caller. A Time magazine blogger reported Thursday that the Sierra Club, America’s oldest and most august environmental organization, accepted millions of dollars in donations from one of the nation’s biggest natural gas-drilling companies for a program lambasting … Continue reading
Caption of the Day: ‘The Forgotten Man’
It seems that Jon McNaughton, an artist living in Provo, Utah, has created a controversial painting depicting Barack Obama standing on a copy of the Constitution while a man, presumably representing America’s citizens, sits on a park bench hanging his head in despair. … Continue reading
January Jobs Report: The real numbers.
The first thing I would like to cover is the EXTREMELY great news that the non-farm payrolls added 243,000 additional jobs to the economy last month! However, if you read my commentary on the December’s jobs report you might have found … Continue reading
‘Nano Quadrotor’ Drones
This is so cool! Cheeky little bastards, aren’t they? (H/T HuffPo) Related articles Oh Great: A Killer Swarm of Synchronized Quadrotor Drones [Video] (gizmodo.com) Nano quadrotors: Watch a swarm of tiny robots fly in formation (video) – Washington Post (blog) (washingtonpost.com) … Continue reading
Posted in American Society, Casual, Current Events
Tagged Nano Quadrotor, Robot, robotics, University of Pennsylvania
2 Comments
What is Conservatism?
Since we are groin deep in the GOP primary season–17 or 18 debates deep–it isn’t surprising that many people are rallying around their favorite candidate. You have the Romney crowd, the anti-Romney crowd, and the folks leftover who hover from … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, American Society, Conservatism, Current Events, Philosophy
Tagged conservatism, GOP, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Republican, Rick Santorum, Romney, Ron Paul
4 Comments
If I were Romney I would…
Quite dealing in meaningless platitudes and take honest stock of the political realities that I was facing. Then I would break with conventional political wisdom and do something utterly unconventional. I would approach the Gingrich camp with an offer. You get out … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, American Society, Current Events, Opinion
Tagged election 2012, Fabian Society, Florida, Glenn Beck, GOP, GOP primaries, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Romney
3 Comments
Gingrich: The Newt that wouldn’t die.
Nationally, Newt Gingrich is probably one of the most hated politicians around. His negatives are, as they say, in the tank. Washington insiders detest him because of his bombastic leadership style as Speaker, crazed pseudo-conservative pundits can’t stand his futurist progressive … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, American Society, Current Events
Tagged GOP, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party, South Carolina primary
5 Comments
A hsitorical perspective of negative campaigning.
Every single solitary campaign season there is a plethora of mealy-mouthed pundits decrying how awful the negative side of campaigning has become and we need to return to the long forgotten era of civility. Now, if you listened to these … Continue reading
Captions of the day: Dade’s Massacre Reenactment
Our very entertaining and often insightful commenter Rick, offered up some photos of a reenactment of Dade’s Massacre, which took place south of the present day city of Bushnell, Fla.. A Historical Primer: Dade’s Massacre On December 23rd, 1835, Major … Continue reading
Featured Read: Sean Trende’s, ‘The Lost Majority’
I’ll tell yah, have you ever felt like a kid who just ate their weight in cereal just so you could get the fifty boxtops to mail them off for the junk the cereal company was pushing? Then came the … Continue reading
