Sipsey Street Irregulars: Claire Wolfe makes me laugh.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Claire Wolfe makes me laugh.

She refers to "Sipsey snark."

My reply, awaiting moderation:

“Sipsey snark” Moi? Oh, well, now that you mention it . . .

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Still don't know where to send links.

You're gonna love this one.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/30/mexican_roulette; August 31, 2011 at 9:08 AM
Anonymous said...: This is the Star-Advertiser's editorial position on Hawaii's 10-cartridge magazine limit that they share with the gun-loving paradises of California, Massachusetts and New York.

"The 9 mm semi-automatic Glock pistol used by Loughner with two 30-round magazines was purchased in a Tucson gun shop and was the same setup used by Cho Seung-Hui in the 2007 shooting rampage that killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. Hawaii, with one of the nation's toughest gun laws, should maintain its capacity limit of ammunition clips [sic] to 10 rounds."

http://www.staradvertiser.com/editorials/20110111_Beware_dangerous_public_rhetoric.html

Isn't that argument refreshingly free of gratuitous snark?

Evidently, Claire Wolf's Randian cosmopolitanism predisposes her toward the temperate, good-natured social outlook of news sources that are hostile to the Second Amendment. ;^)

MALTHUS; August 31, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Mickey Collins said...: I must admit, the article she linked was remarkably free of pro administration bias.

Nice that the Honolulu Star-Adviser ran that instead of writing their own biased screed as I would have expected.; August 31, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Anonymous said...: O.K. I am going to retract my snarky comment concerning Claire Wolfe. After rereading her remark, it seems as though she is only trying to be even-handed.

I guess I am a little touchy these days, having seen numerous attacks on Mike by pseudo-libertarian critics.

MALTHUS; August 31, 2011 at 11:41 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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