Social conservatives all over the land are schvitzing over the fact that California's notoriously liberal Supreme Court has just ruled that gay marriage must be made in legal in one of the nation's largest state.

I suppose that as a social conservative, I should join in the renting of my clothes and the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.  But I can't.  Because while I despise the ruling, I do so for far different reasons.

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There has been a lot of foot stomping in Conservative America about John McCain's endorsement of cap-and-trade as a so-called market-based solution to restricting so-called "greenhouse gas" emissions.  But no one has really asked "Why does he back this method"?

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Of course, the ACLU and the liberal lawyers are leading the way.

Just ask the victims of former Guantanamo detainee Abdullah Salih Al Ajmi.

There Heritage Foundation has a new chart up on the ridiculous stupidity that surrounds farm politics in America today.  It's stupid, because our nation's farm politics have nothing to do with saving family farms, but with providing corporate rent-seekers (like, ahem, David Letterman) with gobs of taxpayer money to subsidize incredibly profitable operations.

If you think "Big Oil" is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.  "Big Ag" is worse.

Did you know that there are more employees in the US Department of Agriculture than there are farms in the United States of America?  How can that possibly make sense?

And the Heritage Foundation chart doesn't even take into count massive tarriffs on items like imported sugar, which act as entirely other subsidy on an incredibly non-competitive industry.  The tarriff on imported sugar is made even worse when you consider that, because of that tarriff, food companies switched to High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) over two decades ago to cut costs.  Yet another distortion on the demand curve for corn that increases the price of food worldwide.

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The People's Republic of China -- that nation that holds a seat on the UN Security Council despite having killed over 40 million captives citizens during the cultural revolution -- needs to step up and do the right thing in Myanmar.  The military junta in Myanmar, every bit as cruel and repressive as Communist China under Mao, is causing a natural catastrophe to become a man-made human catastrophe because of their incredible capacity for evil, and China needs to step up now to stop or pay an extreme penalty.

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Bank of America, one of the largest retail banking operations in the United States of America, loves America, but seems to have a serious dislike for Americans.  Founded by Italian immigrants in San Francisco in the 1800s when "American" banks wouldn't service them, Bank of America was one of those true Horatio Alger stories.  But a recent patent filing by Bank of America has a lot of people scratching their heads.

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I have to be honest:  Barack Obama giving credit to Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos for Hillary Clinton's win in Indiana is incredibly funny.  Whether it is true or not -- and it might very well be -- it is rip-roaringly, rolling-on-the-floor-and-laughing-my-ass-off funny.

Because it is a perfect example of the chickens coming home to roost.

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I have pondered long and hard the campaign strategy of Senator Barack Obama.  I have decided that it has come down to four steps:

1. Open mouth.
2. Insert foot.
3. Complain when your opponents point out that your foot is in your mouth.
4. Repeat.

Case in point:  his Meet the Depressed appearance this past Sunday.

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Pat Buchanan's latest diatribe in Human Events speaks loudly as to why he is rightfully an outcast of the modern conservative movement -- and the Republican Party -- in America.  It's arguably racist in tone and wording.  I am actually ashamed to have read it.

And, as anyone knows, I am definitely not one who sees a clan robe and a Bull Connor attack dog around every corner.

But this piece is scary.

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Mighty George W. Bush keeps striking out on energy.  For someone who was once the owner of a Major League Baseball Team and an oilman and has an MBA, he keeps striking out on the cross between energy, the economy, and fiscal policy.

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