Month: September 2007

All considerations related to Larry Craig and his guilt aside, I’m fascinated by the idea that the Minneapolis Police Department may have violated the Constitution by arresting him: If the senator had been a better student of the U.S. Constitution, his arrest may never happened at all, and if the U.S. Constitution is followed, as…

Too often, I’m the last guy to become aware of a breaking meme. Here’s a perfect case in point. Some unknown and unsung employee at a UBS AG received this video, unsolicited. Watching its unique pomposity unfold, he realized that while the applicant in question might perhaps not be an ideal prospect, his video was…

“Hey man, would you help a homeless veteran?” Have you ever been asked that question? I have, and sometimes crosses my mind that the guy who’s asking might not be homeless. However, I’m not about to demand that every panhandler claiming to be a veteran show me his discharge papers. Besides, I don’t like to…

I don’t know whether this remarkable piece of Megan McArdle bashing deserves some sort of serious response by some sort of serious thinker, but this post is not the former, nor am I the latter. (For her part, McArdle has cleared up at least one misunderstanding — something about a Watermelon Martini, which I know…

It seems a new Osama tape has surfaced and bin Laden is really pissed with the Democrats. “People of America: the world is following your news in regards to your invasion of Iraq, for people have recently come to know that, after several years of tragedies of this war, the vast majority of you want…

Yes, it is definitely humor day in the news. While I would have thought the latest Osama bin Laden tape would have contained the man’s usual ravings, I was quite surprised to see that he’s weighing in early on the next election — right down to naming his favorite candidate and staking out a no-tax…

Today must be humor day. First the Washington Post tries to bury Norman Hsu in “unknown reasons” and then I read that Andrew Keen called Glenn Reynolds an “idiotic crazy libertarian ex-law professor.” Keen must think Glenn’s academic career was a very short one. Because last year, he didn’t think he was a law professor…

This one is just too good to provide just as a link (post below) so I’m front paging it:

This is an AC-130 gunship – first used in Vietnam – taking out a terrorist base. It gives you a much different view of the war than you get from newspapers or even TV news. If you would like to watch an enlarged version here is the YouTube address: Targeting the Taliban in Afghanistan. I…

I got a real chuckle out of yesterday’s Washington Post writeup — “Ex-Fugitive’s Fundraising Talent Put Him on Democrats’ A-List” which took two principle authors and political researcher to write. While Hsu is now called an “ex-fugitive” because he was caught, the only mention of his failure to report for sentencing in 1992 (and thus,…

Fred Thompson is in the race for President. He has a real life blog up at his site where you can Ask Fred Questions. If there is something you want to ask the Next President Of The United States, now is a very good time. Cross Posted at Power and Control and at The Astute…

Pat Buchanan’s view of the Larry Craig affair surprises me. While I hardly think of Buchanan as a compassionate conservative or a liberal bleeding heart, he has more compassion for Craig than most compassionate conservatives or bleeding heart liberals. Anyway, as regular readers know, I’m drawn to analyzing contradictions like this, because I have this…

Last night I was catching up on old Ma and Pa Kettle movies, by watching this kickass DVD. It just so happens that I had never seen the first episode, the original “Ma and Pa” (aka “The Further Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle”) before! While such cultural enrichment is a good excuse by any…

This is not something you will learn about at Drudge or any of the usual political web sites, but I got an email from a friend pointing out that the Newt Lobby (consisting of an environmental army of one) has stopped a train! Alas, the steam train that you rode in Tilden Park last month…

We hear all the time that global warming causes this and global warming causes that. So what does a scientist have to say on the matter? Michael Schirber, a staff writer at Live Science reports. Since the late 1960s, much of the North Atlantic Ocean has become less salty, in part due to increases in…

There’s a lot of reaction everywhere to the news that Norman Hsu jumped bail, apparently fleeing the country. I’m not surprised by this development at all. On the lam? (Baah!) A lot of people have asked whether it’s a coincidence that the Republican foot-tapping (OK “shoe-tapping” then; it’s the fun thing to do!) scandal erupted…

If this article is any indication, anti-gun activists in the Philadelphia area are getting assistance from the other side of the country, in the form of Oakland’s current Mayor, better known as former Berkeley Congressman Ron Dellums (than which there are few Americans further to the left): “Crime and violence is at an epidemic level…

“(expletive deleted) Of course, I am not dumb and I will never forget when I heard about this (adjective deleted) forced entry and bugging. I thought, what in the hell is this? What is the matter with these people? Are they crazy? I thought they were nuts! A prank! But it wasn’t! It wasn’t very…

Wind is not the answer to all our energy problems. However, when it is blowing it serves as a substitute for natural gas fired electrical plants. Which currently cost more per Kwh in America than wind power electricity. Note that offshore wind is one of the most reliable wind sources. Cross Posted at The Astute…