Month: November 2007

Last Wednesday, an oil-filled container ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, spilling 58,000 gallons of “heavy-duty bunker fuel oil” into the San Francisco Bay. It could have been much worse, and I guess everyone’s lucky the ship didn’t take out one of the bridge towers. What intrigues me, though, is the way an intricate…

M. Simon’s post yesterday (about the anti-war crowd’s lack of faith in the American people — along with a plea for passage of the Veterans bill) was very appropriate on the eve of today, because today is Veteran’s Day. Here’s the official poster for this year: (The official gallery at the Department of Veterans Affairs…

I’m watching “Battle of Algiers” right now. Great, award-winning documentary-style war drama from 1967, which sympathetically portrays the uprising against the French in the late 1950s. Plenty of bombings, and plenty of stuff which will make plenty of light bulbs suddenly light up the minds of intellectual dimwits who are otherwise clueless about history. Really,…

I liked it better in the original German. Which you can actually find to the left or on YouTube. An amazing bit of work. This was prompted by one of the most recently honest Democrats in America. As long as we have Democrats like him there will be no orphan victories in America. No surprise…

While I wish I could have attended Blog World Expo, there’s just no way that I could have done that this week. So I’ve had to content myself reading about it at InstaPundit and at Pajamas Media. Some great Pajamas Media posts here, here, here, and here. And Glenn has more posts up than I…

I think Hillary is going to do well in Iowa. According to The Hill she is this year’s all time pork champion. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) has won tens of millions of dollars more in federal earmarks this year than her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, even though two of them have significantly…

Via Dr. Helen, I learned a couple of interesting things about this blog and myself. First, Dr. Helen links this site which rates any blog by level of reading difficulty. While her blog is written at the Genius level, Classical Values is written at the High School level. I don’t mind that at all, as…

Via an email, I was sent a link to a post by Matt Sanchez about the latest Republican gay sex (at least I guess it involves sex) scandal. I agree with some of what Sanchez says, and some of it I disagree with. The piece is titled “Hypocrisy or Decency? The Left’s Dirty Little Secret”…

Oregon Guy has a nice look at the panic in the financial markets these days. His take is: look at the value of the kissers. Sally vs Nancy. I like Sally. An almost not work safe picture of Sally can be found at the above link. Well any way I like Sally. Oh yeah. Where…

NeoSullivanistic Greenwaldians beware! According to Dave Price, the “increasingly effective” meme (which got Glenn Reynolds in so much trouble with Andrew Sullivan) is back with a vengeance: Major-General Joseph Fil, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, said al Qaeda in Iraq no longer had a foothold in any part of the city of 7 million…

I hate it when patently crazy ideas become respectable. But they do — especially when they’re promulgated as morality. (Even scientific morality!) Anyway, I found this John Feeney guy (linked in a Mark Steyn column that Glenn Reynolds had linked earlier), and I just couldn’t leave him alone. Nor should I. Guys like him just…

While I don’t have any need to hide who I am (and thus I don’t need the type of software I’m about to describe), I thought that as a public service I should correct some misinformation that’s been floating around — not only in some of these comments but in comments left to an earlier…

1527. Huh? Actually, 1527 is one of the most interesting (if underated) years in history. Rome was viciously sacked by a resentful brigand army nominally loyal to Charles V. Nicolo Machiavelli died dispirited in the same year. 1527 is considered to mark the end of the Roman Renaissance. And in what’s little more than a…

It would seem that every blog that does images has this photo. Being the conformist I am I think that Classical Values should have it too! If for no other reason than to shame those who haven’t supported the Democracy in Iraq project. Michael Yon says in his original post that accompanied the picture: The…

Kentucky politics normally don’t interest me, but from what I’ve seen of the governor’s race there, Ernie Fletcher is what I’d call a “Hillary Clinton Republican” — shrill, anti-gay, Ten Commandment wielding, and easily-stereotyped. Just what Hillary wants to run against. While they might be popular with the WorldNetDaily crowd (which likes to call itself…

It is mentioned quite frequently that burning up excess Plutonium is the best way to restrict its availability. A few days ago I was discussing the use of a Bussard reactor as a proliferation device. I looked at why it need not be a net power producer to be a useful high flux neutron source.…

Thanks to the combined efforts of Glenn Reynolds and Dave Price, I think I have finally figured out why shoe-bomb-wearing terrorists caught trying to board planes weren’t arrested. (Instead, the authorities played catch-and-release.) I don’t why it took me so long to realize this, but obviously, the explanation must be that they were investigative journalists,…

I almost did, except the Democrats who are running in the local election were kind enough to remind me what’s at stake: This slick, professionally produced, last-minute smear was all over a county commissioner’s race. The target, Jim Matthews, is a Republican. Anyway, he’s hiding out with Bush in what looks like the dumpster behind…

Pajamas Media’s Wretchard has a very interesting bit on how the British were defeated in Iraq. You know, the very same British who had over 300 years of experience with colonialism and whose wisdom on the matter was obviously absolute. Although considerable coverage has been given to the possible failure of the British strategy in…

Dick Polman has an interesting piece in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer which argues that Fred Thompson’s federalism is offensive to religious conservatives: Here’s Fred: “I think people ought to be free at state and local levels to make decisions that even Fred Thompson disagrees with. That’s what freedom is all about. And I think the diversity…