This type of politics is annoying:
The Conservatives said the government had allowed the problem [dangerous dogs] to get worse, with the number of people convicted for allowing their dogs to cause injury more than doubling in the past decade.
Well yes, but some things should be allowed to get worse before the something must be done [...]

Ever get the impression that your government really wants to scare the hell out of you?

and one spoof, thank goodness!

Let’s hope that the Nutt sack has sown the seeds of a more mature discussion of drugs policy.
The sacking of Prof. Nutt from his position as the chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has caused some debate over the role of scientific advisors in government positions. My position is that it [...]

The Bow Group gets a mention on Mastermind:

Commentary in the UK about US politics is usually not of a very high standard. Usually it consists of people with the intellectual wherewithal of a tortilla, such as Michael Tomasky at the Guardian, copying stories wholesale from the left and centre left of the US media.
I had not previously placed Daniel Finkelstein or [...]

Some brouhaha in the US of A over the editorial by the CEO of Whole Foods that I linked to the other day and will link to again here. Some lefties are calling for a boycott of Whole Foods because their CEO has the temerity to suggest health care reform proposals that differ from those [...]

This is why the Democrat Party in the US is in a hurry to enact transformative legislation:

National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted August 5-8, 2009
By Rasmussen Reports
I’m going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please let me know which political party you trust more to handle that issue. [...]

Iowahawk presents an excellent parody of Barack Obama’s foreign policy stance:
Greetings. As president of United States — or, if you prefer, the Great Satan — I have have been following with keen interest the vigorous post-election debate and vibrant political dialogue which has been taking place in your great and noble Islamic Republic of Iran [...]

A bit of fun to be had identifying these….

Anybody who knows me knows I hate identity politics.
I’m going to tell you why you should hate it too. I’m going to incite racial-identity-politics-hatred (geddit?), and other kinds of identity-politics-hatred as well.
…by promoting R as an identifier you may encourage people to use R as a signal for group formation.
Humans like to divide [...]