Month: March 2007

Using children as decoys is not the worst part. They killed the kids. Canada’s National Post reports Children used as decoy in Iraq bombing WASHINGTON — A U.S. general Tuesday said Iraqi insurgents used children in a suicide attack this weekend, raising worries that the insurgency has adopted a new tactic to get through security…

It didn’t come as news to me that animal rights activists have a penchant for killing animals that don’t fit within the scheme of their theories of power. But this story involving demands that a zoo in Germany kill an abandoned polar bear cub is especially irritating: Tiny, fluffy and adorable, Knut the baby polar…

A classic example of identitarian politics is to be found in the calls for “hate crimes” legislation, which Sean Kinsell addresses in an excellent post. The idea behind hate crime theory is that it is morally more egregious to attack an individual because of his perceived status or membership in a group you hate than…

Gerard van der Leun has a brilliant post on the “Imagine” people (who provide a seemingly endless supply of fodder for the antiwar, pacifist movement). A couple of excerpts: Four years in and the people of the Perfect World ramble through the avenues of Washington, stamping their feet and holding their breath, having their tantrums,…

I have been obsessed the last couple of days with the Bussard Fusion Reactor. While reading around I have gotten the most depressing news. What if the Chinese get there first? Or the Russians. There is a lot of technical stuff in the article and Dr. Bussard talks about why raising funds is so hard.…

As many of my readers know, I have become obsessed with the Bussard Fusion Reactor. There is a bit of amateur scientist in me so I’ve been on the look out for general directions for making a fusion reactor in a garage or basement. So far 18 amateurs have replicated this experiment. You could be…

I just came across this over at the Netscape blog. This is amazing news, a high school student name Thiago Olson managed to build a fully-functioned nuclear fusion reactor in just 2 years. There are a number of non believers. However, the first such device of this kind was built in 1959. Since then there…

Via Glenn Reynolds, I see that the designer gene controversy is heating up. Reason’s Ron Bailey writes about the controversy created by the Reverend Albert Mohler’s recent assertion that homosexuality might in the future be preventable by in utero intervention. (Rev. Mohler bases his assertion on this article which recites the standard genetic and prenatal…

The video starts a little way in. This is video from the march on DC yesterday. Made me cry and cheer. Commenters at Captains Quarters say the Eagles outnumbered the defeatists by 5 to 1 or more. Lots of rough 60 year old hombres on our side. Read the comments. Thanks to SoldiersMom for the…

Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer has a big front page story on the city’s upcoming mayoral election, and all candidates seem to agree that the number one issue is crime, that crime is caused by guns, and that the solution is to allow Philadelphia to have local gun control: Philadelphia’s mayoral candidates concur: Reducing crime is priority…

There is a site up to collect donations to make the Bussard Fusion Reactor a reality. If you are interested have a look at EMC2 Fusion. I have no idea how reputable the organization is so you might want to look into that before sending money. They do have some nice pictures of Dr. Bussard’s…

When I waxed enthusiastically about a possible Fred Thompson candidacy in a previous post, a commenter threw a little cold water on my enthusiasm: Thompson voted for McCain-Feingold. That disqualifies him from upholding and defending the Constitution. He’ll get no vote from me. The commenter is not alone. Asked about McCain-Feingold by the WSJ’s John…

Robert A. Levy is the man who beat the Washington DC gun ban. Meet Robert A. Levy, staunch defender of the Second Amendment, a wealthy former entrepreneur who said he has never owned a firearm and probably never will. “I don’t actually want a gun,” Levy said by phone last week from his residence, a…

Instapundit says that we will need coal, oil, and natural gas for some time even if some one invents Mr. Fusion tomorrow. Which is true. However, Mr. Fusion was invented yesterday (several years ago actually). It was invented by Dr Robert Bussard formerly of the AEC fusion office. He did the work under a Naval…

I’m not much of a fan of litigation (or, for that matter, litigators). But reading something like this tends to make my blood boil vicariously: Rahul Chandran said he was trapped aboard a Cathay Pacific Airways jet from midnight until nearly 9:30 a.m. Saturday, when the flight to Vancouver was finally canceled. Throughout the night,…

Can anyone explain to me what gives Andrew Sullivan the to right use the word “faggot” with impunity? I have to say that I find it very annoying that he is using the word to describe Mickey Kaus, and I think it tends to undermine what I thought was his position that the word should…

Dr. Helen’s reflections on how quickly and dramatically members of a New York audience changed their minds after a global warming debate drove home the deep significance of the sharp scolding Al Gore gave the MSM for daring to present both sides. While it’s very easy to condemn Al Gore for what appears to be…

This is one of the most unbelievable videos I have seen to date. Unfortunately, I can’t read, write, or speak Japanese (at least I think it’s a Japanese show), so I have no idea what they are talking about. It pretty much speaks for itself. A chimpanzee and a bulldog do a fairly complex (for…

Regular readers know how I feel about the animal rights movement. However, for the embattled few who still maintain that an anthropogenic cause for Global Warming has not been established, it is my position that they’re the best possible allies, for they put the lie to the people who see the automobile as the primary…

I have been having an ongoing discussion at Jane Galt about climate change. The discussion has been wide ranging, but what I want to focus on is the input data for the climate models and some of the problems with the models themselves. I’m going to reprise my remarks here with block quotes. Block quotes…