Month: March 2007

I just heard Libby was found guilty. The problem is that it was during a commercial break on the radio, and I wasn’t listening carefully. Now I’m hearing it again: Count one — perjury — guilty, Count two -obstruction — guilty Count three — not guilty. I guess I heard right! I think this is…

Only as a cyber experiment in free expression, of course…. They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but I think I can, if the cover looks like this: More here on the Kloran, which I think most people would agree is a book of hate. So we can all agree that it’s…

My repeated objections to Ann Coulter’s use of the word “faggot” seem to have raised questions about whether I have (or am) falling prey to the PC language police. While I don’t think objecting to insulting language is PC behavior (I have always objected to insulting language and the word police, as long as I’ve…

There’s been altogether too much denial and screwing around on this blog, and I think it’s high time I took things more seriously. I therefore intend to deal head-on with what Al Gore calls the “most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced.” It’s about time, isn’t it? My denial ends…

Yes, this week’s RINO sightings Carnival is being held at DANEgerus weblog. The theme is Shakespearean… “Hamlet faced a world gone mad.” And so do some of the RINOs, especially Rachel, who relates the worst, most God-awful horror story of insane bureaucracy run amok I’ve read in a long time. I’m amazed she didn’t go…

If you listen to this video, it sounds as if Hillary Clinton is going out of her way to affect “talking black” (or at least what she imagines the stereotype of “talking black” sounds like). Why would she do this? Simply to read the lyrics of a song? I think it might be an attempt…

While writing a previous post on global warming (in which I tried to avoid unfair comparisons), I was surprised to discover the existence of something called a “homo offset.” Of course, I was contrasting Al Gore’s ability to buy carbon offsets to atone for his conspicuous consumption with the unavailability of any similar offset for…

I’m still nursing a grudge as a result of the notorious McCain-Feingold bill, pretty much for the reasons Don Surber outlined and Glenn Reynolds linked here, and I haven’t been at all impressed with the McCain candidacy. But the something happened over the weekend which moved McCain up maybe half a notch in my estimation.…

Economics for every day people. Translation from economics to english by Yoram Bauman PhD. H/T A Second Hand Conjecture Cross Posted at The Astute Bloggers

Another report of an attack on a Philadelphia school teacher initially made me want to write this post as an update my earlier post on two other attacks. But that post — “School of hard knocks” — has now moved so far down on that even though it’s still on the blog’s front page, I…

If, as Al Gore says, Global Warming is “the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced,” (a ludicrous contention IMO), then why aren’t Al Gore and his minions letting ordinary Americans know what they have in store for them? As I’ve tried to point out in a couple of posts,…

While I can only speculate about the reasons, this morning I learned that Barry Campbell of Enrevanche is no longer a RINO. And he has a short but sweet farewell post: I am a RINO (Republican In Name Only) no longer… because, in fact, I am no longer a Republican. I’ve changed my party registration…

That would be the duty on imported ethanol. Or if you prefer the Aurthur Daniels Midland duty. This video is Not Work Safe in places. In other places it might be a requirement. Viewer discretion advised. For more video of a somewhat drier nature visit Set America Free. Actually since they are promoting alcohol they…

As some of you may know I’m a big fan of Economist Hernando DeSoto. I covered some of his thinking in Property. Which is all about the historical origins of property. Of course the origin of the desire for property is biological. What property rights do is minimize the fighting about property. Making the owner…

London Calling. The Times Online has an article by the author of “Sideshow”, William Shawcross, about how Iraq could turn out like Vietnam. (bolding by your ed.) At the end of 1975 I went to the Thai-Cambodian border to talk to refugees. Their horrific stories of people with glasses being killed as “intellectuals” and of…

There’s an interesting debate over whether Ann Coulter called John Edwards a “faggot,” and Howard Dean is calling on Republicans to denounce her for making the following statement: I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if…

Butchering quotations or taking things out of context quotes is unfair, but when the the butchered text is then ridiculed further, the unfairness tends to be compounded. So it was with great interest that I followed Glenn Reynolds’ “ridicule and ellipsis” link to Eugene Volokh’s take on a WaPo book review which butchered the author’s…

In a disturbing pattern with obvious historical parallels (no doubt familiar to experts on the subject of the rise of fascism), eliminationist rhetoric which began in the fringes of the blogosphere is now being laundered and mainstreamed by supposedly legitimate media satraps. Echoing deleted comments from the Huffington Post, TV host Bill Maher endorsed the…

I was doing my daily read of LGF and came across an interesting item on the Burka Band. An all girl band from Afghanistan. The music is kind of a bland techno, but the words of social commentary are in english and the visuals are interesting. So I went looking in the comments of LGF…

The details involving two savage beatings of Philadelphia teachers by their “students” (a word I use advisedly), make me question whether the words “education” and “school” mean what they’re supposed to mean. I’ve previously written about the most recent incident in which a teacher’s neck was broken by a student whose iPod had been confiscated…