Archive for the ‘poli-mics’ Category

Bush and Tenet

PoliPundit raves about Dubya’s acceptance speech for the Republican nomination in 2000. An interesting line from Cheney’s remarks: You will never see him pointing the finger of blame for failure…you will only see him sharing the credit for success. Ignoring the over-reaching generalisation, that comment is interesting in regard to how Bush has handled a […]

Groupthink

One of my friends (whose heart’s still in San Francisco, and whose politics follow directly from that) recently asked if I actually hang with anyone who shares my conservative (right-wing? free-market? Austrian school?) political views. To some point I do, but aside from a backlink from the Gnu Hunter, pretty much all the folks I […]

New Section

So, like I said, I need a new section for political rants, and this is it; it’s for polemics about politics and economics, hence poli-mics. Well, my mum thinks I’m funny anyway. Let’s start how we’d like to finish, with some good ol’ Latham lovin’.