http://www.kungfuquip.com Politics and Pop Culture With A Kick Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:57:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Despite being three years old, the "Dear Red States" Craigslist posting from 2005 is suddenly circulating again.  I guess it must be election season that has revived this.  But I figured I'd take a quick shot at a response. Dear Red States... We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/dear-blue-states-a-reply-from-the-red-states/ There is a lot of chatter on the wires today about the 2001 radio interview in which Barack Obama discussed the Supreme Court's role in addressing "political and economic justice" and redistribution of wealth.  Taken together with his "spread the wealth around" comments to Joe the Plumber, a lot of ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/the-case-for-using-the-word-socialist/ (Cross posted at The Next Right) The Washington Times reports on the fuzzy numbers behind Obama's tax "cut".  WashTimes looks at the rather questionable assertion that you can give a tax cut to people who already pay no taxes.  To achieve their goal of "cutting" taxes for 95% of America, it ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/more-good-news-obamas-tax-cut/ (Cross posted at The Next Right) The Politico today covers the decision by the NRCC to pull funding from Congressional races for good, conservative challengers so they can prop up the campaigns of flailing Republicans. Under normal circumstances, I would expect the NRCC to behave this way.  They are, after all, a ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/why-i-wont-support-the-nrcc/ I'm not an economist or a trader, but I play one on the Internet.  As a result, I'd like to give you my predictions for the market and share my long term investment strategy. First, I am currently heavily invested in canned goods, firearms, ammunition, and gold - with extremely fortified ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/investor-newsletter-long-term-financial-strategy/ On the same day that the Obama defenders are rallying to his side and suggesting that years of working alongside a domestic terrorist don't make Obama a bad person, the left is also trying to attach the actions of random crowd members at a rally to McCain-Palin. Now, I'll first repeat ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/guilt-by-association-and-the-lefts-hypocrisy/ I thought I'd pull out an oldie but a goodie from the 2004 campaign.  It's the Daily Show's coverage of the Coral Gables debate and "the expectations game." http://www.kungfuquip.com/heading-into-tuesdays-debate/ Let's be clear about one thing.  The economic disaster we find ourselves in is not entirely the making of Wall Street.  For the Democrats in the audience, it is not entirely the fault of Republicans.  For the Republicans in the audience, this is not entirely the fault of Democrats.  This ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/the-perfect-storm-of-stupid/ One thing I really dig about Twitter is the fascinating links people share.  Today I got into a discussion with Kevin McCann about a snippet from this TED talk on moral foundations and the difference between liberals and conservatives. Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. The speaker's point was ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/on-moral-foundations-and-libertarians/ Anil Dash from SixApart is discussing the ways and reasons people use the web.  He glossed over a point that I think is really the key idea of the web, and social media generally.  While discussing the idea of collaborating with people around the world, he commented that the web ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/the-great-thing-about-the-web-bwe08/