Todd's Mischief Blog

Snippets from other conversations On obstructionist politics: The false assumption made when asking simply whether obstructionist politics really work is that any given tactic will have the same effect regardless who is using it and regardless of the conditions in which it is used. This isn't true in warfare. This isn't true in sports. Why should it be true in politics? It's not hard to see that obstructionist tactics are working for the Republican party right now . It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to question a tactic's efficacy while it is working. The real question should be why it is working and what might cause that to stop? On the purpose of laws: The law should provide certainty where it otherwise does not exist. When new uncertainties arise, new laws may be created to deal with said uncertainties. However, when the creation of law becomes itself the source of uncertainty, then there is a real problem. We have that problem now. More on obstruction...

Snippets from other conversations: Andrew Breitbart (1969 - 2012) Andrew Breitbart's passing is only really a loss to his detractors. The left lost a whipping-boy while the right gained an icon. The liberal wants to live like there is no tomorrow, but instead lives as though there was no yesterday. Conservatism--as opposed to progressivism--does not resist change, it only asks that it be paced and reasoned and, ultimately, developmental rather than merely different. The counter argument runs that certain issues are too pressing for that. Yet here we sit, atop 5000 years of recorded human history, unjust all of it, and still we remain to sort it all out. Patience is not only a virtue for a man, but for mankind as well. Here is the deception of the left: it doesn't teach that the false is true, or even that impossible is possible. Rather, it teaches that the improbable is likely. People have the growing up thing all backwards: we don't built the adult on top of the child, w...

Snippets from other conversations: There is a reason why the analogy is "slippery slope" and not "sheer cliff," because reaching the bottom is not inevitable on the slope. But if you only focus on the bottom, you are liable to not catch sight of the footholds you pass on the way down. If there is one thing I wish I could make more people realize, it is that Republican ≠ Conservative. I also wish I could get more people to realize that Conservative ≠ Right-Wing. Conservatism is the real centrism. "Moderate" just means taking liberal Republican ideas and throwing them in a blender with liberal Democrat ideas. Comparisons between Paul and Obama cannot be made too strongly. Both have run on a blank-slate platform claiming their pasts don't matter. The Ron Paul R ЭΛΘΓ UTION posters put me off before I knew anything about the man simply because they reminded me of Obama's HOPE and CHANGE posters. Those gut instincts seem to have borne out. Isn'...

Snippets from other conversations: I want leaders who are not afraid to speak and live their faith and whose principles are grounded in reliance upon God. I do not want leaders who use their station to impose morality on others. If God will not force Himself upon anyone, how shall any man suppose to do it for Him? Consensus is nothing but a shared bias. The office of the presidency has become too big. If a successful businessman who has turned the fortunes of not one but two industry-leading corporations, has served on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank, has served as CEO of one of the largest lobbying firms in DC, has sat on the boards of some of the world's largest firms, was instrumental in the defeat of the Clinton health care plan, has hosted a syndicated political radio talk-show and has literally been a rocket scientist doesn't have enough experience to be president, who does? No one without an interest in this world ever had a standing in it. I...