Month: September 2010

  • Plant Breakdown

    Over the last few days I have been piecing together a number of reports on the Iranian nuclear efforts. The reports lead me to some interesting conclusions/speculations. More on the conclusions/speculations later. First let me start with the breakdown of Iran’s enrichment centrifuges from July of this year. Iran has suffered a series of technical…

  • RTFM

    RTFM H/T Diogenes via e-mail Cross Posted at Power and Control

  • A Good Job If You Can Get It

    The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

  • Ensuring Failure

    Matthew Yglesias, writing about the case of a girl with a tragic medical condition, is typically confused: It’s true that covering Emily will mean slightly higher costs for everyone whose kids don’t get sick. But this is how insurance is supposed to work. No, Matt, that’s not what insurance is for, that’s what socialism is…

  • Justice Is Racist

    The above video is pretty much all you need to understand the gist of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers. The politics is somewhat (an understatement) more convoluted. So what has happened to bring all this into the news? The Washington Post reports. A veteran Justice Department lawyer accused his agency Friday…

  • Humorless Democrats can’t run a distraction right!

    Can’t the Democrats do anything right? I mean, consider that the biggest White House scandal yet (dubbed “Panthergate“) has become impossible to ignore, with even Justice Department officials calling the case a “travesty of justice”. And just as Christopher Coates, former voting chief for the department’s Civil Rights Division was “testifying in a long-awaited appearance…

  • Wars And Rumors Of War

    Will there be a reopening of the war between North and South Korea soon? Some people think so. In Moscow’s bleakest assessment of the situation on the Korean peninsula yet, Russian deputy foreign minister Alexei Borodavkin said tensions between the two countries were running at their highest and most dangerous level in a decade. “Tensions…

  • Had Enough?

    H/T Hill Buzz. Some gay guys I can really get behind. Heh. Cross Posted at Power and Control

  • Anti-drinking activists drunk with power

    When I was awakened early this morning, I made the mistake of turning on the TV in the hope of being bored into drowsiness so I could go back to sleep. I turned on C-SPAN, thinking that boring speeches would do the trick. Big mistake. Instead of boring speeches, I was greeted by passionate, in-your-face…

  • Defectors

    A really interesting thing has happened on the way to the election. PJTV’s Tea Party TV today unveiled the results of a special Tea Party poll, which revealed that about one-in-three (32%) African Americans who are likely voters would vote for a candidate supported by the Tea Party movement. “Questions of racism within the Tea…

  • A Woman Of A Certain Age With An Ageless Message

    I’m not sure of the cause but I must say Republicans have much better script writers this year. H/T Hill Buzz Cross Posted at Power and Control

  • Hippies Punch Back

    It has come to my attention that there is a contingent in the nation interested in hippie punching [in the comments]. It has become so pervasive that Instapundit has noticed the trend. Well some of us hippies are from the Peace, Love, Watch Out MOFOs contingent of hippiedom. i.e. firm believers in armed non-violence. Unless…

  • What is wrong with them? (A good question.)

    A friend emailed me a link to this post about Republican senators keeping Lisa Murkowski in her position of seniority despite the fact that she was roundly rejected by Alaska Republicans in the primary election. My friend was so infuriated that he sent Joe Miller $100 on the spot (he also says he wished he’d…

  • Nice Campaign Commercial

    Note that Christine O’Donnell and Rand Paul get face time in the video. And this is an official Republican spot? I like it. H/T McCain – you know – the other one Cross Posted at Power and Control

  • Grace

    I had never heard a live version of this (well it is a kind of a medly) before. I like it. I must say that I miss Grace. But this girl makes up in enthusiasm what she lacks in Grace’s talent. And the graphics on this one are spectacular:

  • Something To Look Forward To

    You know. I would really hate to see it happen but this may be a case where God needs to sort these folks out. I think I have a slogan appropriate for the age. “Give me liberty or I’ll give you death.” Update: 24 Sept. 1010, 0119z Instapundit links to a piece by Austin Bay…

  • The Enriching Rich Get Richer

    Megan McArdle has a good post on “Why Are the Rich So Rich?” though I think she’s missing an important angle: larger markets. If the market for a product is one million people, and I build something everyone wants with a profit margin of a dollar, I can make a million dollars. If my market…

  • Towards a more culturally expansive Constitution

    The discussion in the comments to my post about a Saudi citizen convicted of rape in Colorado raised some interesting questions about presidential power, in particular, presidential pardon power. As the topic of my post involved my frustration understanding Saudi morality (or “morality” depending on your POV), it struck me that the issue of presidential…

  • ZZzzzz…

    It’s been a long day, so I’m glad I found the proper subject for a “short” post. Anyway, I was so distracted by this picture of Rand Paul that I could only think of Ann Althouse. Above the picture, it says that “chances are good he will soon be the most radical member of the…

  • Obama’s Mother-In-Law Practices Santeria

    Well there are reports. But does it matter? Not a bit. Unless this is some kind of counter spin to the Christine O’Donnell/Witchcraft craziness. And Santeria? I belonged to one of those groups once. Not exactly traditional Santeria though. It was designed to attract American Wiccans and fans of Aleister Crowley. In Chicago. On Halsted…