A Townhall.com User Blog http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/ http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/ TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:19:23 GMT Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:19:23 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ But you already knew that. Looking for something new? Here's a report that Rudy essentially admitted to no expertise on the issue of terrorism before 9/11 or after it. If it's all true, it really is depressing,... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/10/27/giuliani_is_a_scumbag.thtml 2892615a-7784-47bb-a8f3-b471165b669f Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:19:23 GMT No one can deny this fact -- conservatives sure do despise Hillary Clinton. But why? Radley Balko convincingly argues that Clinton will be a continuation of Bush. Surprised? Don't be. Newsmax reported a long time ago... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/10/25/hillary_is_a_neocon.thtml 756e514c-7183-4097-aa7b-668108f43420 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:26:48 GMT Yesterday, Obama linked his faith to environmentalism:Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday that his religious beliefs influence his plans for how to protect the environment. Speaking before... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/10/15/obama,_gore_and_eco-idiocy.thtml c3b1aad3-439d-4327-bb3e-25111166c6ce Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:40:11 GMT Belmont, CA has now banned smoking in all multi-unit homes that in which the units touch each other. http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/10/10/the_paternalists_march_on.thtml cfdfd659-7982-4f0b-8474-55f340ebdbff Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:49:38 GMT Listen to this clip of Huckabee telling us all about working safety and smoking. He throws "rights" in there a few times. Governor Statist missed the real issue: it comes down to the rights of employers and employees to... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/10/05/huckabee_the_authoritarian.thtml 76cca242-1245-4db3-8030-a36602cb5b13 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:51:06 GMT Or so say Arthur B. Robinson, Noah E. Robinson and Willie Soon in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. I'm not quite sure why they have an anti-global warming piece in there (I haven't read the entire thing... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/10/03/carbon_dioxide_is_good!.thtml 55ea0859-0282-4963-bc8b-9aaf7332ff0d Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:03:13 GMT I was quite happy to see a column on Townhall today that attempted to defend Ahmadinejad's speaking privileges here in America. Said McFarland:So I say, let the guy come. Let him speak before the UN - the bigger the... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/26/defending_columbia.thtml 1b97a9bc-127f-4122-8884-e7ee39d2c572 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:38:59 GMT An apartment complex in San Antonio is banning residents who have tattoos. Predictably, people get upset:"For them to be so judgmental on a person's appearance, and for them to judge someone based on them having a... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/26/apartment_bans_tattooed_residents.thtml d7e095b0-8c79-4f3f-b23a-3595e0413737 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:52:43 GMT Now that it is being led by neocon allies of the Bush administration, France is bucking its earlier prudence and heating up the rhetoric in preparation for act two of the Trotskyite world tour (slogan: "Democracy is... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/25/france_is_beating_the_war_drums.thtml 0200a9c9-328b-4651-891c-e2b8282a51e4 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:38:52 GMT Yes, I know it's not news that the same hyperventilating idiots warning us of anthropogenic global warming now were the same ones predicting a catastrophic ice age in the 1970's. However, a Washington resident has... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/22/global_warming_alarmist_predicted_catastrophic_ice_age.thtml d4e1001e-d488-4787-8a22-7f814cd16de3 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:20:52 GMT H/t to the LRC blog for this one. Lew Rockwell asks, "Is Ron Paul turning Jon Stewart into an Austro-Libertarian?" It certainly looks like he is: http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/19/jon_stewart_interviews_greenspan.thtml 4480feb8-1ea7-4100-9d75-d345056a2dd2 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:29:35 GMT Anyone who hasn't already, should check out Catholics for Ron Paul. The blog has recently enlisted the help of Tom Woods, so you can expect good things. Here's a sample of his post from yesterday on the Value Voters... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/19/catholics_for_ron_paul.thtml 840403bf-6c05-4914-bb48-b4482894a01e Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:37:52 GMT Sayeth the AFP:Pope Benedict XVI refused to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in August, saying he was on holiday, an Italian newspaper reported Wednesday. Rice "made it known to the Vatican that she... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/19/good_for_the_pope.thtml 22f1b60a-a39b-4540-8c6a-912d412c6147 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:52:46 GMT Here is Ron Paul's closing statement at the Value Voters Debate: http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/19/ron_paul_at_the_value_voters_debate.thtml 7f0e12c7-8397-4fe9-9c55-c489d83d9a4a Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:04:44 GMT Stossel Goes to Washington (Part 1of3)Uploaded by InTheClassroom Stossel Goes to Washington (Part 2of3)Uploaded by InTheClassroomStossel Goes to Washington (Part 3of3)Uploaded by InTheClassroom http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/15/john_stossel_goes_to_washington.thtml 2d90cc7b-ac31-4a61-aa67-4701d2ec5847 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:18:04 GMT This piece at Mises today tells of Somalia and how the country hasn't had a central government since 1991 (despite the actions of the UN and US to change that), and that because of this their country has improved.... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/13/anarchy_works.thtml b1bc6694-e6de-4bac-b6fb-850bc4b20374 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:50:38 GMT Let's engage in a thought experiment.Imagine that you live in a city that is essentially run by a mafia. In fact, beyond that, imagine that you live in relative proximity to other cities, which are also controlled... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/13/mafia_as_a_metaphor.thtml 46fc9165-933c-4ff9-a328-b4a6e359bcc6 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:34:58 GMT More evidence that recent hyperventilation over global warming is yet another example of eco-activists turning a non-event into an excuse for massive government intervention. These people are anti-human collectivists,... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/12/do_not_believe_their_lies.thtml 423aa9c6-afea-4871-b7d0-5f24a1f946a6 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:28:29 GMT Found this today on "Retro RWN" at RightWingNews.com, one the most staunchly pro-neocon, kool-aid drinking, big-government blogs out there (Hawkins himself would certainly disagree, but the proof is in his positions).... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/03/reminder_the_united_states_is_the_best_thing_to_ever_happen_to_this_planet.thtml 3c88166b-76e1-4ace-9dff-8cd0ca75a48a Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:48:27 GMT Michael Asher over at DailyTech has a blog post claiming that a new study on global warming-related articles in scientific journals shows that less than half of the articles are either implicitly or explicitly... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/08/30/do-not-listen-list_eco-fanatics.thtml a1dad079-dee7-4b08-8d1d-d1a48a74e4a2 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:52:18 GMT It has recently become much clearer to me exactly why Michael Vick should not be in trouble. In our current legal system, prosecutors act in the name of a collective -- i.e. The People v. John Doe. Why? In a more... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/08/29/more_on_michael_vick_the_problem_of_the_collective.thtml fa5fedb8-057f-4d6f-94e2-cbaa091359d2 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:58:30 GMT How, exactly, should the law characterize pets? Property or equals. Either we accept that pets are property, subject completely to the control of their owner, or we get into all sorts of difficult problems. For example,... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/08/27/your_property_or_your_equal.thtml 82d9a8ad-f0bb-49d6-abe9-4a0a6a613ca2 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:23:18 GMT I found two interesting stories today that are relatively unrelated, but have in common New York authoritarians.The first, from the Reason blog is this bit on Giuliani that they found in an old New York Times article.... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/08/15/new_york_authoritarianism.thtml 3ed433c3-6943-4bf5-a6e0-fbbc71e3d738 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:07:21 GMT Usually good for a laugh, now they're getting downright scary:Rosenbaum, a highly regarded pediatric ophthalmologist who had been regularly harassed by animal-rights activists for his research work with cats and... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/08/11/crazy_animal_activists.thtml 06e03ab8-09fb-475d-8ac0-2c7e7808caea Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:57:38 GMT After about 20 "Final Notices," my subscription to Newsweek ended. I had subscribed for two years to the "mainstream" weekly news magazine that falls furthest to the left because I though balance was good. Along with... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/08/09/newsweek_voice_of_the_state.thtml bda3093c-eb0b-4684-8994-2a5323894300 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:14:53 GMT Two links to check out:First, my new article about the government's proposed 20,000+% increase in the tax on cigars at LewRockwell.com.Second, if you haven't already seen the Ron Paul blog at Townhall (last I checked at... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/07/28/goverment_suppression_of_cigar_smokers.thtml b8f810eb-88be-439a-bbf1-bdbdd1c28a4a Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:37:45 GMT Conventional wisdom suggests he doesn't. In Ron Paul's recent interview with George Stephanopoulos, he was essentially told by the former partisan-turned-MSM-reporter that he had no chance. At all. George was smug, to... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/07/24/does_ron_paul_have_a_chance.thtml ad04a74e-6e1f-4cc5-a99b-34033f19f5b8 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:26:45 GMT ... in one year. Check it out if you haven't already. http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/05/20/from_neoconservative_to_libertarian_.thtml d0299752-1e3b-4178-bf9e-79ca8c2b4a4e Sun, 20 May 2007 20:39:08 GMT In one night, Ron Paul took on two neocons and made fools of them both. Here's the clip of Paul and Hannity going at it: http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/05/17/ron_paul_vs_sean_hannity.thtml c5c1e9e8-609c-441d-bd8a-2f1158a964e6 Thu, 17 May 2007 05:59:19 GMT I invite everyone to check out my latest article at LewRockwell.com, written mainly in response to John Hawkins' latest column ("Five Things You Can't Say in America") on Townhall. Leave comments here if you like.... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/05/17/conservatives_and_just_war_friends_no_longer.thtml 69646997-abf5-4e4f-ab04-4566c0f072e4 Thu, 17 May 2007 05:38:52 GMT It seems Laurie David and Cambria Gordon have written a book about global warming for kids, as well as a letter to go with it. The letter read like a generic enviro-doomsday script so I'll skip that part. What I found... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/05/14/ignoring_the_plank.thtml c402ba00-e5ec-434b-b069-e7b09270e68b Tue, 15 May 2007 00:33:54 GMT It seems as though the pope is about to get serious with pro-abortion politicians. Reuters reports: The Pope was asked whether he supported Mexican Church leaders threatening to excommunicate leftist parliamentarians... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/05/09/is_the_pope_about_to_lay_the_smackdown_on_dissidents.thtml a155b64f-d84e-45be-a5e7-07d19276ed25 Wed, 09 May 2007 18:22:39 GMT Sick. Evil. The first two words that come to my mind when considering the fact that 90% of couples who learn that their child has Down Syndrome choose to abort. So many lives tossed in the trash bin of society. To the l http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/05/09/progress_and_modern_eugenics.thtml cd50153d-1277-45ff-b327-393bf2d039d5 Wed, 09 May 2007 08:27:48 GMT If god(s) is/are angry, perhaps killing someone as a sacrifice will calm him/her/whatever. This was the thinking in much of the world for quite some time. Remember the Aztecs who, until the Spanish Conquistadors (yes,... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/05/07/blood_to_appease_the_angry_god.thtml 2731f196-9efa-48cf-8640-36ecc9e5d4b8 Mon, 07 May 2007 17:45:59 GMT One of the frequent criticism of natural law proponents by positivists that deny the existence of natural law is that natural lawyers are simply cloaking their own ideology in a mantle of false humility. It seems to me... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/05/07/natural_vs_positive_law_who_is_humble.thtml 378b5233-8e72-4258-9751-9aa8712c7a82 Mon, 07 May 2007 15:51:56 GMT For some reason there seems to be a conscious effort on the part of many of the right to marginalize Ron Paul and his views. I don't know if it's fair to say that the Republican establishment is afraid of Ron Paul at th http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/05/06/ron_paul_nutjob_fringe_candidate.thtml f2d32720-8a1b-4988-8481-dd6c779bad59 Sun, 06 May 2007 22:18:18 GMT Not just a religion, actually, but an insidious religion -- an ideology that has permeated every aspect of our life. In case you missed my original column, you can find it here.Earth Day has come and gone. It fell on a... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/04/23/still_dont_think_environmentalism_is_a_religion.thtml 233d586f-c941-4a1d-98c3-b35d5ce5f48d Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:59:22 GMT Not that I ever really considered supporting a Gingrich primary run in 2008, but now that he has joined Al Gore's camp of environmental crusaders, I definitely wouldn't vote for him in the general election if he somehow... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/04/11/so_long,_newt.thtml 2a617ca3-864d-40b1-801c-86bbe3dcefa2 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:42:44 GMT Research in Sweden shows a correlation between ill health and males-female parity: Now researchers have found that parity betwen the sexes may be bad for your health. A study in Sweden, arguably one of the most... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/03/26/feminism_bad_for_you_health.thtml 545bce69-f943-4961-af33-ef5242d81bc4 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:04:02 GMT Here we go.First, the Russians give the proverbial middle finger to the Iranians concerning their uranium enrichment program.Now, Iranians have taken 15 British troops into custody. Apparently, the British troops were p http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/03/23/on_the_verge_of_war.thtml 160d842d-c4bf-49a3-a16c-641eaa7145e3 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:40:31 GMT It seems that sources are claiming that charges against the three Duke Lacrosse players will soon be completely dropped.The American justice system is built upon the idea that one is innocent until proven guilty.... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/03/23/free_at_last.thtml ddb56c71-c49e-4559-9b3f-cafb5ff679ac Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:19:34 GMT I encourage everyone to head over to LewRockwell.com to check out my article. http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/03/21/environmentalism_as_religion.thtml 2e40a93a-0dc5-4b08-a736-5db92d9c1adf Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:06:53 GMT First off, I don't really have an excuse for my month-long hiatus from the blog, but I'm back. There's an great BBC documentary online right now entitled, "The Great Swindle." It's about global warming and why we should http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/03/13/the_lie_that_is_anthropogenic_climate_change.thtml bc84dc50-4a8e-470e-b12e-3c902dd6b91d Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:07:14 GMT Here's another great article by a scientist discussing the craziness of the current global warming theory. This scientist, by the way, was the first Canadian to receive a Ph.D. in climatology. He has never bought the hy http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/02/05/an_insiders_look_at_consensus_hysteria.thtml 402ffca0-98f6-4d38-8219-72ecb9ba0d93 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:43:07 GMT Here is a very interesting article telling of one scientist's beliefs on human-driven climate change -- specifically, how he went from believer to skeptic, and why he changed his mind.Two telling paragraphs from the... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/02/04/dissenters_on_global_warming.thtml ecfa6945-45ff-4d59-a1bb-2bb94f8abb5c Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:56:56 GMT In 1960, Richard Nixon was ending a two-term stint as vice president. He would run for president.In 2000, Al Gore was ending a two-term stint as vice president. He would run for president.Richard Nixon would lose his... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/02/01/disturbing_coincidences.thtml abba9acb-c624-458b-bc0a-d6205cf49904 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:21:09 GMT The smoking ban in restaurants and bars goes into effect at midnight here in Champaign, IL. I've smoked maybe two cigars in bars in Champaign before this past weekend, so it's not that I have some personal stake in the... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/01/30/tyranny_comes_to_champaign,_il.thtml a7589138-f85d-444f-b6fd-1aa09b72f770 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:08:53 GMT And thank the good Lord for that.*Note: Hyperlinks cannot be added now, but they will be later*I sincerely believe that if Obama enters the race (and that is still an "if" at this point), he will not have a chance at... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/01/26/barack_obama_will_not_win.thtml 59d25374-205f-4687-838f-661d2bc36430 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:57:34 GMT This post is categorized as Faith & Family, but it should be under the Utterly Ridiculous category.Tom Cruise is, apparently, the Christ of Scientology.Few problems here:1) Tom Cruise cannot really be compared to... http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/01/23/does_tom_cruise_have_anything_in_common_with_christ.thtml a0c05a35-8c41-4549-a61a-5718d594e8f3 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:07:52 GMT Don't believe me, watch this video:(Warning: Very rough language ahead) http://ultramontane.blogtownhall.com/2007/01/23/guns_deter_crime.thtml 1f400d31-a928-4a11-a7e3-06bdbe428e8e Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:09:52 GMT