The other night the movie, 300, was on TV, and I watched the last 30 minutes of it.  Towards the end, there was a scene where the spokesman for Xerxes (evil king from Persia) pretty much told Leonidas (good king from Sparta) to bow before Xerxes or be killed.  Like most mindless action movies, [...]

Liberals do a good job of making us believe that they care about the some-odd million people who don’t have insurance.  Some of them probably sincerely care.  Most care enough to have decided that providing healthcare to everyone is a great thing to do with everyone else’s money.  While I can admire Chuckle’s desire for [...]

I don’t care which side of the healthcare debate you are on, everyone has their anecdotal horror story dealing with their health insurance provider.  Anecdotes are great.  They are rooted in reality, so they are arguably based on fact.  However, they persuade primarily through emotion, so those who argue anecdotally don’t have to worry about [...]

A quick glance at how the stock market has performed over the last year tells us a lot about what the market thinks of Barack Obama. Once it became increasingly clear that Barack Obama was going to become the president, the stock market tanked.  Sure, some might blame the financial crisis for this performance; however, [...]

  Where the democrats seem Hell-bent on destroying the health care system as we know it, the oil industry, the coal industry, the middle class, the dollar, the capital markets, house flies, rich people, and probably California, joining the ranks of Al Qaeda is starting to look more and more safe.  Where I normally only [...]

Singing the Song of Angry Men! The following passage is from an email from Stratfor: Successful revolutions have three phases. First, a strategically located single or limited segment of society begins vocally to express resentment, asserting itself in the streets of a major city, usually the capital. This segment is joined by other segments in the [...]

In previous posts, my friend Jake and I were arguing over whether the banks would repay TARP money.  A few weeks ago, the banks wanted to, but the Treasury wouldn’t let them.  It looks like yesterday the government gave the green light for some of the banks to pay back the money.  It also looks [...]

I started writing the Independent Bloghorn a year ago from May 27th.  I figured that in celebration I would link to what I think are the top ten best posts so far.  Also, I will answer Jake’s question of where the “independent” in independent Bloghorn comes from.  I wish I had some sexy story that [...]

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. -Nicolaus Copernicus In the comments area of Lamentation [...]