Maverick Philosopher

Photo ID: Eric Holder's Assault on Common Sense

I was shocked (shocked!) to hear over breakfast a while back that my friend Peter L. will vote for neither Obama nor Romney. All my posts about how politics is a practical business, how it's always about the lesser of evils,and about ho...

The Voter Photo Identification 'Issue'

Some positions are so absurd as to be beneath refutation. To respond reasonably to the unreasonable lends them a veneer of credibility to which they are not entitled. Mockery, derision, and ridicule are often much more appropriate and e...

Voter Fraud

Liberals oppose photo ID at polling places because it would 'disenfranchise' all the blacks and others among us who somehow live without ID whose votes liberals need. And anyway, voter fraud never happens -- except when it does. Rel...

Yet More Evidence of a Lack of Common Sense Among Democrats

It is hard to believe, but then again, given how preternaturally stupid and politically correct Dems are, maybe it is not so hard to believe: a significant number of these jokers oppose photo ID when it comes to applying for Medicare an...

To Call it an Exaggeration Would be an Understatement

There are statements so extreme that to call them exaggerations would be an understatement. There are plenty of examples to be found in liberal precincts. "The photo ID requirement is voter suppression. It disenfranchises minorities, t...

Is it Ever Legitimate to Question Motives?

Absolutely. Suppose someone 'argues' that a photo ID requirement disenfranchises blacks because blacks don't have photo ID. That is a transparently worthless argument, based as it is on a plainly false premise. Once an argument has bee...

Michael Kearns, Profile in Civil Courage

Erie County Clerk Michael "Mickey" Kearns took his first legal step to fight a new state law that allows immigrants in the country illegally to obtain a New York State driver's license. At the time the illegal aliens receive, il...

On the Putative Right to Health Care

John e-mails and I comment in blue: I found your most recent post on a right to health care very interesting. It seems to me that much of the discussion of rights, not only about putative rights to health care, but about rights in g...

New Year's Eve Varia

Twilight Zone marathon is on Plenty of nonsense is being spewed about inequality. Pitchfork Pat talks sense. Hillary had an unlucky year, and thank God for that. I enjoyed Nebraska. ObamaCare is not Obama's Care. An alternative t...