"3 Reasons Why Tax Dollars Shouldn’t Fund Art"

Nick Gillespie said there at at least three good reasons not to fund art with tax dollars. A fourth might be that since "Art makes a statement", sometimes that statement is "Look how much money I took these rubes for, by giving them crap and calling it art!"

I like the "pennies per person" argument, too. Some years back, at an Oscar presentation, Martin Landau was wearing a pin crafted to look like two postage stamps. "Just the price of two postage stamps" was all he was asking for to fund the arts.

For just the price of two postage stamps, from every one of the 300,000,000 men, women and children in America, I promise I will produce a prestigious piece of art, sometime within my lifetime, possibly depicting my new waterfront property... or your newly acquired bridge?

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"The Forgotten Man"

Moonbattery posted this about a week ago, but I think it's worth a look.

HOPE 1.0

You should go out and buy the October 4th issue of National Review for the cover art alone!


Update: Welcome visitors from the NYT!

Lady Political Figures Busted

Riehl World View compared the picture of Sarah to the infamous bust of Hillary.
I see your Hillary and raise you a Michelle!



Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel

More on the Arizona Mural Controversy: Proof That Arizonians Are Racist

by Chris W. My Thoughts on Freedom

You would have thought that Arizona raised the Confederate flag over the state capitol today.

In the biggest non-story of the day, the left is all aflutter with the news that in Prescott, AZ artists were asked to lighten the faces of children on a mural on the Miller Valley Elementary School. This story is such big news that it is at the top of Memeorandum. Actually it is a slow news day and this is really the best the left can muster to rant about.

Not ones to take the explanation by the school's principal, Jeff Lane that the committee who commissioned the mural wanted the artists to "make [the children] look happier and more excited, fix the scale of the faces and remove some shadowing that made the faces darker than they are." the nutroots on the left are crying racism even though the one of the artists even admitted that the requested changes would "make the mural more accurately depict the photos of the Miller Valley School models."

You see, the progressives are not happy with Arizona's stand on illegal immigration and are enraged that we will not back down to their rhetoric and lies. So what is a radical to do? Rule 5 says ridicule is man's most potent weapon and rule 13 says pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it and if you don't think this is what they are trying to do, read here and here and here and here.

It is much ado about nothing if you ask me.

Via Memeorandum

(Editor's Note) Chris W. is an Arizona resident and a level-headed libertarian concerned with the problem illegal immigration poses in his state. He blogs at My Thoughts on Freedom.

Pic O' the Day

Compliments of The Troglopundit

The raising of the flag at Iwo Jima