Month: February 2007

Evidently Fatah is having trouble keeping the troops in line. The Palestinian Authority has fired hundreds of security officers who refused to participate in the recent fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It also looks like we are back at disunity as the order of the day. Meanwhile, PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of…

The Democrats have a strategy for defeat in Iraq. Top House Democrats, working in concert with anti-war groups, have decided against using congressional power to force a quick end to U.S. involvement in Iraq, and instead will pursue a slow-bleed strategy designed to gradually limit the administration’s options. Led by Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Pa.,…

I put off blogging about the Salt Lake massacre until there was more information. We have it now. Ajka Omerovic, who said she was Talovic’s aunt, visited the home Tuesday afternoon. She told the Deseret Morning News that Talovic had been “a good boy.” She said the family are Muslims from Bosnia who had lived…

Six people were killed in a shopping mall in Salt Lake City, but the mass shooting incident doesn’t seem to be getting much attention as national news. Normally, such shopping mall shooting sprees do. As to the motive, according to a local news report, it might be related to the man’s “upbringing”: A family friend,…

Gerard Van der Leun offers some words of wisdom over the John Edwards campaign blogger controversy: Without referencing the Edwards bloggers, I would note that over time people change and at certain moments people online write things they later regret out of passion or ignorance. Over time, people’s situations change as do their needs and…

Man, for two days the snow has been coming down fast around here. First snow, then liquid ice; I parked my car in the front of the driveway and could barely get out this morning. I’m glad I’m not in the flower delivery business. It would drive anyone crazy. Or am I not allowed to…

Amanda Marcotte had the temerity to call me a “sociopath” earlier today. And as of now her website is down with this explanation: Whenever the site is up, we get slammed and it goes down. I have to suspend the site until the fervor dies down. At this point, I think it might be a…

The “reality based” movement has morphed into the Net Roots. Obviously they have decided that reality is too much of a burden and now references to reality are no longer required. All that is required now is belief. No pesky facts can in any way intrude. Breath of the Beast has an interesting look at…

Recent but reliable reports that Al Gore’s speeches may be triggering snowstorms and record low temperatures (a still unfolding natural phenomenon known as “Global Coldening“) have reminded me of an inconvenient truth about Al Gore — the criticisms over the years that he’s stiff and cold. I understand he’s been working at making himself warmer,…

A. Jacksonian left an interesting comment on my piece “Clouds” posted at Classical Values. It is a fascinating look at magnetism, war, global climate, and impending doom from natural causes. I’m posting it here in full. And, thanks A.J. for your always interesting posts and comments. ==== Actually, there have been numerous magnetic field reversals…

Commenter linearthinker reminds me in an e-mail that I have not covered the CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) aspect of the Guilford College fight. Let me rectify the oversight. Here is a bit of what CAIR had to say on 26 Jan. ‘007 “At approximately 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007, an altercation…

In an article I found in the back pages of today’s Inquirer, Jesse Jackson spoke at an AIDS conference in Philadelphia yesterday where he criticized pharmaceutical companies for their emphasis on AIDS treatment instead of a cure: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, speaking at an AIDS conference in Philadelphia, yesterday called for more funding for research…

Giuliani is by far the most formidable, and most dangerous, Republican candidate… So says Glenn Greenwald, who seems not to like Rudy Giuliani very much: As this excellent and comprehensive article documents, Giuliani is an “authoritarian narcissist” — plagued by an unrestrained prosecutor’s mentality — who loves coercive government power (especially when vested in his…

That’s what Newsmax.com says: ….the Secret Service was notified when a blogger posted a rant on one of Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign Web sites calling for Clinton’s death. A “blogger”? I’d like to know how we know that whoever posted this was a blogger? Does he have a blog? Or are we supposed to take…

“Bill and I have beaten them before and we will again.” So says Hillary Clinton. As I said, I think Hillary is more Lurleen Wallace than Margaret Thatcher. Of course, if she wants to polish up her queen act, she could start using the royal “we” — as in not amused. But the more I…

So Cal Lawyer of The Southern California Law Blog is hosting this week’s RINO Sightings Carnival. Topics include the futile nature of Israel’s nuclear arsenal, Yemen (a god-awful place if ever there was one), McCain, Giuliani, Hillary, and even the Daylight Savings bug. Yes, the last post by BloodSpite involves some good advice about the…

I question the timing! Of what? Of Global Warming, for starters. The main reason I’m a skeptic is because I was in college at UC Berkeley in 1972 — back when they still had global cooling. Professor Clemens of the UC Berkeley Department of Paleontology had it all laid out in graphs and charts, and…

You were hoping for an erudite discussion of one of the works of Aristophanes? Not today. Instead we are going to look at how clouds and cosmic rays influence our weather and more importantly, climate. Every one who has looked into the subject knows that climate science is no longer much about science. It is…

Is Giuliani an excessively macho man? And if so, do his GOP supporters have a “girlish infatuation” with him? Glenn Reynolds raises the question, with a link to Ann Althouse’s discussion of how the Chicago Tribune’s Steve Chapman frames this apparently serious issue: “The GOP has morphed from a party that reveres limited government to…

I am by trade a designer of aircraft electrical power systems (among other things including laptops). The amount of electrical power on an aircraft is strictly limited. So what does an aircraft system do (formerly there were engineers aboard all aircraft to handle the job, that task is now fully automated) to keep the power…