Shot in the Dark

Category: The S Word

  • Let Me Spell This Out

    Big Left has been chanting about “reforming” the Senate again. Rep Phillips summed up a chanting point we’ve heard from the likes of Tina Smith and Nancy Pelosi: Let me spell this out for the benefit of Democrats: the US is not – or is not supposed to be – a government with all significant…

  • It’s Not Us. It’s You.

    This nation has two choices, if we’re to remain a nation (or, potentially, a viable society). One of them – by far the most radical and traumatic – is secession; from individual states, and maybe from the US itself. (And no – that wasn’t “settled in 1865” any more than it was settled in 1776.…

  • Open Letter To Governor Scott Walker

    To:  Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconson and current #1 on my short list for President in 2016 From:  Mitch Berg, Irate Peasant Re:  The Evil In Your State Governor Walker, As you are aware – since it’s been used against you – your state has a cranny in its law that allows prosecutors (inevitably “progressives”)…

  • The S Word – Redux

    Why keep political divisions, just for the sake of tradition? Here’s a video about the proposed “State of Jefferson” – the move by rural Northern California to secede from the rest of the state: This, and the secession movement in Colorado – and the fallout either or both could bring – could be the best…

  • The S Word, Part V: Realigned

     In the previous installment of this series, we discussed the idea that the word “no”, in hands of a free consumer, is the most powerful idea in the world With a simple “no”, free people have brought monopolies that defied government’s gnarliest efforts to their knees.  With a series of simple “nos”, free people with…

  • The S Word, Part IV: Creative Destuction

    Throughout this series, I’ve referred to Kevin Williamson’s year-old classic, The End Is Near And It’s Going To Be Awesome. In it, Williamson – perhaps the best political-philosophy writer doing business today – notes that politics is the worst possible means to allocate resources among a population, in large part because politics, alone among life’s institutions,…

  • The S Word, Part III: Baggage Full Of Red Herrings

    So as we discussed in the first two installments, there are plenty of reasons Americans aren’t enamoured with each other these days.  There really are two Americas – one that believes that the road to all good things leads through government, and one that pays at least lip service to the idea that we’ve a…

  • The S Word, Part II: Our Fathers’ House

    Years ago, a bunch of people I’ll call The Original Bloggers wrote: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of…

  • The S Word, Part I: We’re Just Not That Into Each Other Anymore

    It’s said that America is the most polarized it’s been in history. It’s not true, of course; the stretch from the 1890s into the Depression features some very stark social battle lines.  The 1828 election was kinda contentious.  And you might recall we fought a Civil War once upon a time.  Ken Burns even did…