Month: January 2008

I don’t talk about sex as much as I should. For someone who’d probably be lumped in with the “hedonist” group because of my opinions, I’m surprisingly square. To the extent that I appear hedonistic, it’s mostly because I defend hedonists. Occasionally I’ll get into sexual issues, but my approach is usually rather clinical. But…

Via the G. Gordon Liddy Show (hardly part of the Obama network), I learned about an interesting column titled “Why the Clintons Play the Race Card“: They want to nudge–even provoke–Barack Obama into becoming the “black” candidate rather than the healing, unity candidate. They want black supporters to raise their voices on his behalf–preferably the…

Eric says he never reads Science Fiction. Tom Ligon, one of the Premier Science Fiction Authors of our time is a friend of mine. He gave me permission to publish a piece he did a while back. I published it at Power and Control last July. It is one I like a lot as it…

The front page of today’s Inquirer highlights the very unpleasant fact that public schools are cranking out illiterates: Tens of thousands of Pennsylvania high school seniors who failed state math and reading tests got “empty diplomas” last year because they had not learned basic skills, Pennsylvania Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak says. Statewide, 45 percent of…

It is election season again. The time when the Congress Critters are most responsive to citizens. As most of you know by now Dr. Bussard’s latest Fusion Power experiment, WB-7 First Plasma, is so far showing encouraging results. It is time to get Congress and the President thinking about this so that if final results…

Ron is a Communist when it comes to American foreign policy. Withdraw America from everywhere was their marching song. I should know. I was a Communist in my youth. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I hadn’t realized the true extent of Ron Paul’s nuttiness until I read this: The newsletters’ obsession with blacks and gays was of a piece with a conscious political strategy adopted at that same time by Lew Rockwell and Murray Rothbard. After breaking with the Libertarian Party following the 1988 presidential election, Rockwell and Rothbard…

Apparently because gays caused a heterosexual rape murder or something, Fred Phelps and his crowd are now protesting the Marine Corps. From the group’s news release: God Hates the U.S. Marines. The wonderful, spit-and-polish Marine is over eight months pregnant and she says another wonderful Marine raped her, and now on the eve of his…

Here is a bit I posted on Nov 6th 2004 at Power and Control titled Why I Am Against Machine Voting. The AP link no longer works. The sentiment is worth repeating: In Ohio AP reports that Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes. This is why I think paper ballots are essential. They leave…

Gun control is to prevent self defense. Drug control is to prevent self medication. All the rest is obfuscation. Cross Posted at Power and Control

How did Hillary Clinton’s simple observation (that “another part of the civil rights revolution was Lyndon B. Johnson’s masterful stewardship of the relevant legislation through Congress”) manage to hit a political Third Rail? John McWhorter has an interesting take on Hillary Clinton’s supposed “attack” on Martin Luther King — it’s hypersensitivity bordering on paranoia: To…

In the discussion here Eric has a clip from one of the worst movies ever made. Well I took that as a challenge and present you with what is most likely the worst movie ever made. Any movie that describes a flying saucer as being shaped like a cigar has got to have some serious…

Jeff Soyer is discussing the Democrat’s position on gun control. And of course the Dems want to reduce gun deaths by gun control but it is politically impossible. If they wanted to reduce gun deaths why not eliminate Drug Prohibition? The elephant in the closet. It worked for alcohol prohibition. I note it is never…

Rick Moran argues that the GOP race is a mess, and it’s certainly tough to disagree with that. It is entirely possible that there will be five primaries with five different winners, and a “small but not impossible chance” that they could enter their convention without a nominee. A Thompson win in South Carolina would…

I watched the Democratic debate last night and I wasn’t at the computer, so there was no live blogging. IMO, there was no clear winner. But by mutual consensus, it was agreed that race was not an issue. Whether sex is an issue I do not know. Hillary clearly wants to be a minority of…

American Digest has a post up about Hillary’s Diebold effect. It seems that in areas where the Diebold machines are used Hillary’s vote totals are up about 5% over other areas even when confounding factors like race, gender, and economics are taken into account. The math whizzes on the problem calculate the odds that it…

H/T Karridine

Pat Buchanan thinks things are bad. Basically, the economy is ruined, and we are hopelessly in debt, on the verge of economic collapse, and there is no hope: With the dollar sinking, oil surging to $100 a barrel, the Dow having its worst January in memory, foreclosures mounting, credit card debt going rotten, and consumers…

In today’s New York Times, Dean Barnett gives an honest assessment of the Mitt Romney has has known, worked for, and admired for years. After laying this out, he turns to why so many people (including me) don’t like Romney: The Mitt Romney I got to know was warm and likable. He had an electric…

Now that MRSA (methicillin resistant staphococcus aureus) is reported to be spreading among gay men (the Inquirer had this, and Glenn Reynolds linked the Times version) I’m sure that one demagogue or another will claim it’s time to round up the homos, and quarantine them. Why? Because they are more likely to have it, that’s…