Conservative Donnybrook

At the beginning of the year I wrote this post about the newly inacted smoking ban in my hometown of Chicago. Here it is three months later and the Chinese have only now decided to ban smoking in Bejing. I realize that by far more Chinese smoke, but does anyone else find it interesting that it has been liberal U.S. cities leading the charge to infringe on the individual right to smoke and not the red Chinese? It seems that our liberal baby-boomer comrades have taken a page out of Chariman Mao’s Little Red Book and beat him to the punch.

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I had hoped that one of our other contributors would have taken a moment to write Mr. Heston’s obituary for the site. Mr. Heston has been a favorite actor my father since I can remember and I wanted someone who knew more about him to do justice to his legacy. However, that will not stop me from honoring Mr. Heston as one of the best actors this country has known and a distinguished World War II serviceman. Whenever Ben Hur is on I make a point of stopping what I am doing and enjoying the classic. Perhaps more importantly he had the courage to shift his leftist political agenda and eventually to stand up for what was right when many of his colleagues remained glued to extremist left wing ideologies. During the 1960s Mr. Heston campaigned for John Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson. He even actively campaigned for gun control. His political leanings changed during the 1970s as he became a staunch conservative and one of the most famous advocates for Second Amendment rights this country has seen. One of his most famous lines came in reference to the possibility that the Clinton administration would take away his Second Amendment rights “from my [his] cold, dead hands.” I hope someone who knows more about Mr. Heston will properly honor him in the comments but I know I will be tipping a pint in his honor tonight.

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Absolut vodka is running an ad in Mexico that showcases a “perfect world” in which Mexico fulfills its reconquista dream. The ad shows the Mexican State as it was prior to the war of 1848, i.e. encompassing the western half of the United States.

The ad is an outrageous affront to the United States. An immediate boycott of the Swedish vodka is in order. I personally do not drink Absolut, Stoli is my choice and has been for some time. Vodka ought be made by Russians anyway. What do Swedes know about vodka? Obviously not how to slang it in the United States of America!

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