Month: October 2007

Lubos Motl at The Reference Frame is discussing Al Gore and his movie An Inconvenient Truth. Left-wing people are rarely right in politics. If they were right, they wouldn’t be left. But this audio is a remarkable exception. A self-described mildly left-wing professor criticizes the British conservatives at their CPS Fringe Event and he is…

So said Bill Clinton in 1996. And today, his wife is an echo claiming to be a choice: Senator Hillary Clinton said yesterday that if she is elected president, she intends to roll back President Bush’s expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put his own interpretation on bills passed…

In an update to my post about Alan Keyes’ exclusion from the debates (apparently at the hands of Mitt Romney), I directed a question to the Kryptonite left: What I’d really like to know is why the left is so hell-bent on ignoring the flying Rechimplican sex scandal that I carefully documented yesterday…. I admit,…

Commenter dbjack46 was asking about the pianist in A Little Incidental Music. Here is what I found out from the wiki. Arcadi Volodos (ursprünglich russ. ??????? ?????????? ????????/Arkadi Arkadjewitsch Wolodos, wiss. Transliteration Arkadij Arkad’evi? Volodos’; * 24. Februar 1972 in Sankt Petersburg) ist ein russischer Pianist. Volodos erhielt mit acht Jahren ersten Klavierunterricht und widmete…

Hmm… (Maybe I should have titled this post “Defending the Indefensible.”) As most readers know, I am anything but an Alan Keyes supporter. Not only do I disagree vehemently with the “Declarationist” philosophy that he espouses, I have written a number of posts sharply critical of him, and I think the Keyes wing of the…

From Little Green Footballs: We know that Ron Paul is popular with 9/11 Troofers and Daily Kos, but here’s another hotbed of Paulmania–at Stormfront, home of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, where they’re urging the skinheads to ‘VOTE RON PAUL IN THE ONLINE POLLS!’ – Stormfront White Nationalist Community. (Warning: the link leads to a truly…

When does a check clear? Who has the authority to determine when it is paid? This is not a matter of idle concern to me, because I buy and sell on Ebay, and I’ve taken checks, and when I have, I’ve told people that I’d send out the item as soon as the check “cleared.”…

Via Dr. Helen, I learned that Dr. Phyllis Chesler (author of The New Anti-Semitism — a great book!) now has a Pajamas Media blog. There’s already a lot of great stuff there, but I was drawn to a reference in this post to a truly appalling situation — a left wing feminist who is helping…

Ann Althouse links this WaPo piece about bugs. Not just any bugs, but bug bugs. (Meaning tiny government listening devices disguised to look like dragonflies, which contain tiny cameras and transmitters to spy on and harass demonstrators.) The bugs have so upset activist Mara Verheyden-Hilliard that she’s filed FOIA requests with several agencies: Three people…

An anonymous commenter keeps coming back, and just left a comment no one would otherwise have seen to an older post on consensual sex. Much as I find it annoying to go over old ground when the goal here is writing new posts, what’s even more annoying is debating commenters, as this blog is not…

No, I’m not talking about Democratic hopes for a U.S. defeat in Iraq. I just watched Ian Schwartz’s video of James Dobson explaining why he intends to support a third party candidate even if it means a Hillary Clinton presidency. The YouTube link is here. Or you can click on the image below (from the…

Mitt Romney got asked by a medical marijuana patient, “Will you arrest me?” Mitt gave a brilliant answer. He turned his back on the guy. So much for compassionate conservatism. My answer to the man’s question: “I will not arrest you. We should have learned our lesson from alcohol prohibition. I do not believe in…

Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit, on Tuesday’s Republican debate thread had some thoughts on the new American Imperialism in the comments. Let’s not forget also that America’s western foreign policy was explicitly imperialistic — using our excess farmers, and their desire for cheap, new lands — to push our western border to the Mississippi and beyond.…

Dan Rhiel is discussing the recent dust up about the socialized medicine poster children. I have some thoughts on the subject: What happens when some government junk scientist discovers that eating carrots is bad for you? Carrot rationing. Or suppose they decide pot is good for you? You will be forced to consume your daily…

Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit, was discussing/live blogging Tuesday’s Republican debate and it came out that Stephen (or Vodka as he is fondly known) was once a card carrying Libertarian. So I left a few words: Another ex-card-carrying-Libertarian. Woo hoo. I remember a Lib fundraiser calling me about a month after 9/11 and I made smoke…

While I try to keep track of feminist heroines, I’m afraid I’m not keeping up with the times. Yesterday the feminist heroine was Queen Isabella; today I see that Hillary (who has been considered a “feminist heroine“) is now the Queen of Pork: When it comes to earmarks, an issue that voters responded to more…

I regularly get startling emails, and one I received last night quotes a long argument — titled “Petraeus out of step with US top brass” — by an “analyst” named Gareth Porter who claims that General Petraeus was called a “sycophant” by Admiral William Fallon, chief of Centcom: WASHINGTON – In sharp contrast to the…

Tom Ligon who worked for Dr. Bussard has informed me that Dr. Bussard has died. A sad day for all of us in the IEC Fusion community. A great one has passed. We are all diminished by his loss. Fortunately his work will continue. A whole community has developed to support his work: EMC2 Fusion…