Month: October 2007

Can identity politics ever destroy identity politics? Glenn Reynolds earlier linked a perfect example of the cannibalistic nature of identity politics: According to Massad, a Palestinian Christian and disciple of the late Columbia professor Edward Said, the case for gay rights in the Middle East is an elaborate scheme hatched by activists in the West.…

There are some people who relentlessly believe that the opinions at sites like WorldNetDaily constitute facts, and RedState’s Bob Frazier seems to be one of them: Is this country going mad? “”Mom and Dad” as well as “husband and wife” have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who…

There are several million embryos frozen in liquid nitrogen. I propose we thaw them all, right now and let their life continue. It is immoral to keep them frozen. They are being imprisoned without due process. It’s unConstitutional. End the prisons for children at once. Thaw the embryos. Prompted by Jaw-Dropping Demagoguery and Can Rudy…

Is how Ed Morrissey describes Alan Keyes’ CLC speech from Saturday night: ….He made an intriguing claim that the preamble of the Constitution forbids abortion in its mandate to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”. In this, Keyes claims to have found the language forbidding abortion that Justice Blackmun insisted he…

The Berkeley Daily Planet has a post up from US Marine Corps Captain Richard Lund in response to the Code Pink demonstration in front of the Marine Corps recruiting office in Bezerkeley, California. First, a little bit about who I am: I am a Marine captain with over eight years of service as a commissioned…

A good one, from 8-27-72! (Grateful Dead, of course.) Explanation (well, sort of, if you really must): In Garcia, Charles Reich questions Garcia about “Dark Star.”: REICH: Well then if we wanted to talk about “Dark Star,” uh, could you say anything about where it comes from? [GARCIA]: You gotta remember that you and I…

Glenn Reynolds’ link to Samizdata’s Quote of the Day reminded me that I had missed the 40th anniversary of the Che Guevara’s death: I belong to a Facebook group called “Che Guevara was a murderer and your T-Shirt is not cool”. It has 10,935 members. It’s not nearly enough. To celebrate the anniversary of his…

Tim Ventura has a 53 minute audio interview of Fusion Pioneer Dr. Robert Bussard at his site American Anti-Gravity. Let me give you a bit of what Tim has to say. In our exclusive interview, Bussard describes the disenchantment with big-science Tokamak research that led him to return to the roots of Farnsworth-style fusion in…

Remember in the good old days of the Cold War, when political analysts in this country used to play Kremlinologist? The Soviet leadership would line up on the reviewing stand of the Lenin Mausoleum (especially on Mayday) to watch men and missiles on parade, and the slightest details were watched avidly. For “signs.” And “clues.”…

My friend linearthinker liked my post on Practicing Chaos so much he decided to add some thoughts of his own. “The difficulty in planning against American doctrine is that Americans neither see fit to follow their doctrine nor even read their manuals.” KGB Document The KGB demonstrated incredible perception. The day-to-day activities recollected from roughly…

Nope. Not Ron Paul. Peter F. Paul. Paul has his own blog (who doesn’t?) documenting his participation in election fraud. Which he calls the biggest election fraud in history. Then there is good ole boy Bill. Who seems to be doing very well with donations to his library. Oil money seems to be involved. Saudi…

Well, it happens. And in today’s competitive victim society, it is sometimes very difficult to determine which victim has superior inferior superior inferior status. A month or so ago after an incident in a store, I was all primed to write about shopping cart etiquette in the context of who gets there first (the one…

A local 14-year-old named Dillon Cossey and his alleged Columbine-style threats have provided two days worth of front page news, and the incident has become a national story. What I am unable to determine is precisely what the threat was. (It seems to have been related second-hand by a friend who said Cossey tried to…

It will raise the value of his speeches by at least 10,000 gallons of jet fuel. Cross Posted at Power and Control

This will take some time (assuming you are up to the task). But spend some serious time at Climate Audit and tell me the Climate “Scientists” are not cooking the books. Start here: YTD Hurricane Activity This is a real Gem: Hugues Goosse and the Unresponsiveness of Juckes Bad models: Climate Insensitivity and AR(1) Models…

I think it’s hard to beat this remark from Ibn Warraq: I don’t want to live in a society where I get stoned for committing adultery. I want to live in a society where I get stoned. And then commit adultery. (Excepted from a comment by “Adil” to Phllis Chesler’s report on what must have…

A gloating environmentalist reacts to Al Gore’s “peace” prize: Al Gore and the IPCC winning the Nobel Peace Prize symbolizes more than just a head-nod towards some eco-fad — it shows that sustainability has finally moved from the outskirts of activism to the most central halls of authority. Concern for the planetary future is now…

I’ve been feeling guilty. Not only did I drag poor Coco into being a “political ring tone laugh analyst,” but by having her evaluate only the Hillary Laugh Ring Tone, I may have inadvertently created an appearance of something less than full objectivity. Regular readers know my biases, which I try to disclose, and I…

I was discussing DDT in my post Global Warming Is Socialist Science and while I was doing research came across this comment at Deltoid. In Argentina, as all other countries in South, Central and North America DDT is strictly prohibited under severe penalties by the law. So you are LYING when claiming “there is no…

No, I don’t mean Al has died of AIDS. Al has won the Nobel peace Prize. Woo Hoo. Another glorious day for Socialist Science and Green Criminals. You may barf when ready. The Reference Frame tells it like it is. British Judge says “Inconvenient Truth” is Politics Not Science. Cross Posted at Power and Control