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Posted at 5:49pm on Apr. 24, 2008 San Francisco (lack of) Property Rights Driving Renters Crazy? Nope.

By tadams1138

I just finished reading through an article at SFGate.com (not something I would recommend to anyone) which reports that a couple of landlords, Kip and Nicole Macy, have apparently gone off the deep end “terrorizing” their tenants.

the couple allegedly told workers in September 2006 to cut the beams that supported [a tenant’s] floor. They also shut off [the tenant’s] electricity, cut his phone line and had workers saw a hole in his living room floor from below

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Posted at 12:26pm on Feb. 18, 2008 Why I get snippy with people who ask "Would you put mothers in prison?"

By tadams1138

I understand that some people like to actually discuss issues thoroughly, and for that I apologize if I ever come off angry at you. But on more than one occasion in my life and at least once on RedState, I've become (unnecessarily) angry with someone who asked a simple question: "If you could outlaw abortion, what kind of punishment would you give mothers who got abortions?" or something similar.

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Posted at 3:12pm on Feb. 16, 2008 Why I’ll be voting McCain in ‘08

By tadams1138

I’ll easily admit I am upset that John McCain, who has so flagrantly dismissed conservatives in the last 8 years, is going to be our inevitable candidate. So while everyone else may have already “come together” and “unified” 9 months in advance of the general election, I’m still arguing with myself about why I shouldn’t just sit it out or even vote for the other guy to prove a point.

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Posted at 11:17pm on Feb. 9, 2008 On Huckabee Derangement Syndrome

By tadams1138

First off, I don’t support the guy. Why? Because he preaches populism, I don’t like populism or any kind of class warfare, I want to be rich some day, and when I am I don’t want to be punished for it, and I already voted for Mitt in Florida.

And now for the derangement I’ve seen among some of the comments on RedState.

The “he doesn’t have a chance of winning” comments. Can someone prove mathematically how he is incapable of having more delegates than John McCain? There are enough delegates available out there that when summed with Huckabee’s current delegate count they outnumber McCain’s delegate count. How is it impossible? Sure he may have an unrealistic expectation at taking enough, but how does that equal impossible and not just improbable? No I'm not "putting my hopes up" (I barely care which of the two remaining wins), I just want to either understand the math or return meaning to the word impossible.

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Posted at 2:53am on Jan. 21, 2008 Florida Marriage Amendment is having trouble

By tadams1138

For those of us who vote in Florida, the Florida Marriage Amendment is in trouble of not making the November ballot. Florida4Marriage.org has all the information on the status of the Amendment and how you can help.

Due to an "audit" ordered by the Division, the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment fell short by some 30,000 petitions. The state constitutional amendment seeks to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman and would prohibit polygamy, group marriage, and same sex marriages in Florida.

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Posted at 1:31am on Jan. 13, 2008 Why some social conservatives don’t trust Giuliani

By tadams1138

I don’t write this now because of any breaking news or any pressing need to convince voters. As far as I can tell most socons are not planning on voting for Giuliani as I write this. I write this because I found an article on The American Spectator by Matt Bowman called Staring Decisis in the Face, and it explains better than I could what has been worrying me about a Giuliani presidency. Matt Bowman writes:

judicially conservative lawyers need not favor overturning Roe. This is true because of another phrase, "stare decisis"…

… A judicial conservative can disagree with Roe's judicial activism but still refuse to overturn it, believing that doing so may cause greater harm.

…

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Posted at 3:23am on Jan. 11, 2008 SC Debate video dump

By tadams1138

I missed the debate tonight because I had to work hard so that your mother and I could provide you with nice things. Actually... I just forgot we had one tonight. So anyway, I just thought I'd share for anyone else who might have missed it some of the highlights I found via youtube. I apologize if this post is redundant but I didn't notice anyone else posting videos (maybe I'm blind).

The following are courtesy of pundital

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Posted at 10:52pm on Jan. 6, 2008 Jan 6th Debate poll

By tadams1138

I happen to think that this night's debate was won of the worst. I thought it focussed too much on the process of the campaigns like "You ran this ad. Who would like to respond?" and not enough on issues. If I wanted to hear ad responses all night, I could have looked for the response ads each campaign makes.

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Posted at 2:07am on Dec. 30, 2007 In Defense of Vigilantism

By tadams1138

While I am actually not in favor of vigilante action, I’ve noticed an unnerving trend of illogical condemnation of vigilantism that equates it to the original crime the vigilante seeks to punish. While this may be true in some particular instances, I think some people miss the point of what is actually wrong with vigilante justice.

You can make a good case that vigilantism leads to disorder. Vigilante justice can frequently result in very bad outcomes like when a “vigilante mob beats wrong man to death in N.C.” Because mobs are not governed by reason and frequently over-react to what little information or disinformation they have, we should obviously deter people from acting this way.

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Posted at 4:53pm on Dec. 26, 2007 My complaint about Pres. George W Bush

By tadams1138

The last thing I wanted to do this Tuesday night was spend several hours writing, editing, and typing this letter. However, I needed to do it because it's indeed the best way to give you some background information about Pres. George W Bush. In the rest of this letter, I will use history and science (in the Hegelian sense) to prove that out of all of the conscienceless hellions I've ever known, Pres. Bush is clearly the most impulsive.

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Posted at 12:40am on Dec. 24, 2007 Rush Limbaugh: The epitome of self-control

By tadams1138

This may be old to some of you, but I had only run across it last night and was flabbergasted at what I saw. In an amazing 10 minute or so clip, Rush Limbaugh puts up with the vilest hate-mongers trying to shut him up on his own show. I found this clip listed at some leftist's web site (which I will not link to since the guy doesn't deserve any net traffic) when I was browsing for anything Rush. The leftist refers to this it as "A Bully Gets Bullied: Why Rush Limbaugh Never Became the Next Oprah", and he completely misses the point as he revels in Rush getting yelled at and his show being disrupted. What I took from this was the amazing amount of self-control Rush displayed and how unbelievably vile the pro-abortionist protesters in his crowd were. The clip supposedly comes from "Pat Sajak’s short-lived talk show" and "is from one of my Media Shower tapes (hence the phone number and other graphics that are occasionally superimposed over the video)" according to the leftist whose site I lifted this from. Watch and learn how the right is willing to have a debate on the issues and is far more tolerant than the left who thrive on slogans, lies and hate.

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Posted at 4:31am on Dec. 20, 2007 Choosing between Huck and Rudy

By tadams1138

I know there is still plenty that can change between now and January 29th, but assuming that the numbers don't change dramatically, what is a Flordia conservative like myself to do? The candidate who most closely resembles my views is Duncan Hunter but he's not even polling high enough for RealClearPolitics to list him. After my inexpert analysis of the current Florida polling trends, I determine that I can either vote on principle for a candidate who has little to no chance of winning as I write this, or I can vote for Rudy, or I can vote against Rudy by picking the next most popular candidate, Huckabee. That leaves me with little choice but to choose between the top two to determine who most closely resembles my beliefs. So after much mulling over their websites and ontheissues.org, I came up with this chart (uh oh, do I sound like Ross Perot?) based on how I categorize their differences.

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Posted at 8:45pm on Dec. 18, 2007 13th Amendment and Thompson

By tadams1138

This is a followup to a previous article I wrote called HLA is Federalism as an argument against using Federalism as a reason to not impliment a Human Life Amendment to protect the unborn.

So many arguments have been made in the comments following that article about what Federalism is and is not. Since so many have sided with a "decentralization" style justification for not implimenting HLA, I am curious how you read the 13th and 14th Amendments? How about the 15th Amendment which prevents the states from deciding who can and cannot vote based on race, etc? The 19th which demanded that states gives women the right to vote? The 26th demanded that states recognize the votes of 18 year olds? Or even the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth for that matter which as I read them are not limited to the Federal government but instead deny the States the authority to decide those matters for themselves?

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Posted at 12:57am on Dec. 18, 2007 HLA is Federalism

By tadams1138

Fred Thompson got it wrong when he said he would oppose a human life amendment on the grounds that it violated the principles of Federalism.

The 14th Amendment did not violate the principles of federalism when it said no state could "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws". That kind of statement demands that if it is illegal to murder one kind of person in the state, then it is illegal to murder any kind of person. Now admittedly the full text of the amendment says that "All persons born or naturalized in the [US] ..., are citizens" which would technically mean that the amendment would not apply to the unborn. But to argue that point would be off topic as I am talking of the principles of Federalism and not current law.

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Posted at 8:52am on Dec. 17, 2007 Hunter Healthcare

By tadams1138

With all the talk on the Dem side of how they want to take over the healthcare industry, we don't hear too much on the Republican side. In fact the only thing I recall on the Republican side is Romney-care, and I can't say I'm fond of it. Just recently I read a piece on my favorite long shot, Duncan Hunter, proposing what I think is the best thing for healthcare on the right that I've heard so far.

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