A Fun Poll at Hot Air:

Poll: Best conservative movies in the past 25 years

Posted by Ed Morrisey. He's got quite a list up there, and there are plenty of old favorites like Red Dawn, Gladiator, Die Hard, etc. There's also a few newer movies like 300, Team America: World Police, Serenity and The Dark Knight.

I'd like to make a special case, however, for Thank You For Smoking. The movie follows protagonist Nick Naylor (played by Aaron Eckhart,) as he works as a PR man for Big Tobacco. In the face of Birkenstock-clad Senators, Cancer Boy, and anti-tobacco Terrorists he makes the case for the freedom to make decisions for yourself, even if those decisions are bad ones.

The unfortunate fact is that conservatives and libertarians are losing this battle. Across the United States, cities are enacting laws that forbid smoking in restaurants and bars. At the behest of health nuts who are convinced that releasing secondhand smoke in to the atmosphere is the equivalent of terrorists releasing sarin gas in a subway, business owners are being told that they cannot decide what to allow on their own premises. Citizens are being told that they cannot decide to smoke, to eat trans-fats or foie gras, to decide what they want to put in their own bodies.

Thank You For Smoking is for the freedom to make bad decisions what Team America: World Police was for American foreign policy. Please, dear readers (both of you,) consider casting a ballot at Hot Air for this amazingly good movie.

XYY Libertarian Distilled

My old blog, XYY Libertarian was good fun. However, its name was confusing, and I had such a history of long-form posts there that I felt I needed to start a new one to really shift the tone. I'll still do an occasional long-form post to keep both my fans happy, but most posts from now on will be shorter, and focused on the group that really drives me nuts: Health Nazis.

However, I offer these for your consumption:

Free Trade Cures Poverty: Unless You're a Democrat
Unions and their Democrat allies are a major cause of Thrid World poverty.

The Political Spectrum: Line or Circle?
Democrats = Nazis, hold the Jew hatred.

Islamofascism and Isolationism
Why pacifists (and Libertarians) are fools.

The Libertarian's Chance
Stop running pacifists, and the Libertarians might become contenders.

What will Voting for a Thrid Party Accomplish?
Take a look at Minnesota, and tell me I was wrong.

Two Questions to Ask Yourself Before Voting:
Purity is nice, but is it everything?

Who Votes for the Democrats and what Impact Does It Have on Republican Strategy?
Why moving to the middle will fail every time.

Who amongst us has never wanted to fling poo at his enemies?
How demcrats incentivize acting like monkeys.

Why libertarian?
Quite possibly the best thing I have ever published.

Hope you enjoy a few of them! I left out my posts urging people to vote for Hillary if McCain won, because they became irrelevant the moment Obama was nominated. At that point, it became McCain vs. Bill Ayers, and even I don't hate McCain that much.

The blog is coming!

Yes, it's almost here. The older content from XYY Libertarian is being moved here, and will be posted in bulk later today, after I get home. If you are new to the blog, here's the idea:

I am a national security Libertarian. Internationally, I believe we need guns and bodies and a willingness to use them to keep our enemies from getting any silly ideas. Domestically, I believe that the government has no business telling me what to do unless I am hurting someone else without their implied or explicit consent. When I see bans on smoking in bars or a ban on trans-fats, I feel the urge to burn Washington D.C. and most other legislative centers to the ground, and start over. I don't, because I am a law-abiding citizen. I will, however, shout to the world about how our freedom to live our lives as we see fit is being stolen from us by granola-munching, Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging, SUV-torching, Chomsky-lecture-attending, elitist health-nuts.

Remember: Hitler was a vegetarian.