Month: April 2008

I could almost swear that Glenn Greenwald does not like John Yoo: The fact that John Yoo is a Professor of Law at Berkeley and is treated as a respectable, serious expert by our media institutions, reflects the complete destruction over the last eight years of whatever moral authority the United States possessed. Comporting with…

Two hundred billion barrels of oil have been discovered in North Dakota. America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America’s Oil reserves…

I don’t know what is so damned “suprising” about the fact that an ABC News reporter found four soldiers in Iraq who said they were for Obama, and one or two who said they were for Hillary, but that’s what the headline says — “Surprising Political Endorsements By U.S. Troops” — and the story implies…

I’ve posted repeatedly about two attacks (one fatal) on Philadelphia’s SEPTA commuters in barely over a week. My last post was on Saturday. Little did I know at the time that there had been yet a third attack the night before: In the third attack on or near SEPTA in Center City in 10 days,…

Lawrence O’Donnell Jr. imagines what it would be like with a deadlocked convention in Denver. Totally hilarious. Or is that Hillaryous? Any way, since this is a gay friendly blog I’m going to give you the opening scene. FROM THE BLACK, we hear noises, confusing sounds. Grunting? Groaning? Sex? A massage? A workout? Weight lifting?…

Carl from Chicago Boyz is discussing the looming collapse of the electrical power grid in Britain and how it relates to what is happening in America. There is a looming electricity crisis that is about to overtake the United States. While our demand for electricity continues to increase due to construction, computers (data centers take…

Jamal at Stop Obama has a white hot piece up critiquing Barack Hussein Obama. I’m just going to give you a taste from in the middle. But read the whole thing. As with all the verbiage coming out of the reptilian stems of Farrakhans and Wrights, too many folks who should be thinking, are listening…

A friend just emailed me this picture from a German Mardi Gras float: I checked around, and there does seem to have been such a float, at the “traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in Duesseldorf February 4, 2008.” It’s one thing to joke about our elections, but must those mean Krauts make fun of pit…

This is going to sound a bit crazy, but something I’ve been reading repeatedly in arguments over the lethal injection debate makes no sense to me, and I think it has more to do with the inherently incompetent nature of government than it does with the procedure, which is being described as too cruel to…

Fortunately the Marines are a Branch of the US Navy (my service) or I would be really worried. Well any way, this is a tribute to all my jarhead friends. Semper Fi. Get some. Update: Some related news from Vodka Pundit From far outside the safety of the Green Zone, Michael Totten reports: I stepped…

The Volokh Conspiracy is discussing whether juries should be informed of the sentences that accompany a crime. Here is what I think: I think introducing some common law standards back into our judicial system through jury nullification is a good thing. Will the results always be good? Well no. But neither is our current system…

Rick Moran has a great piece about the great actor who was larger than life on and off the screen, and who defied just about every stereotype about Hollywood — because he was an individual who dared to think for himself: ….He marched with Martin Luther King and was a staunch supporter of civil rights.…

Juanita Gonzales, a Clinton supporter, says that you need to get over Your White Guilt. Obama’s ascent rests on White America’s Guilt Ridden identity, a Guilt reaching into all forms of speech and action deemed racist or insulting forming part of a totalitarian race regime mostly enforced against Whites, but to which we are all…

I’m not an economist, so please forgive me if my standards are not up to those of mature adults with advanced degrees in the subject. I recognize that by their standards, I’m about at the level of the eleven year old boy who Hillary quoted on the Jay Leno Show. (More on that later.) However,…

The Assistant Village Idiot has three posts up about sending signals Social By Politicians Among Friends Let me quote a bit from the first piece to give you the flavor. Sophia has the office next to mine. She is a Christian conservative of slightly different flavor – chocolate chip to my vanilla, perhaps. Her window…

I’ve previously criticized the “lose a gun, go to jail” bill they’ve been promoting in Pennsylvania, because it would criminalize law abiding gun owners while doing nothing about the problem criminals it purports to address. In her column today, Monica Yant Kinney excoriates Philadelphia Representative Dennis O’Brien (also Pennsylvania’s House Speaker) for voting against the…

This is a bit tough to watch — especially for those who are afraid of heights: Unbelievably, the Caminito del Rey is a real path in Spain and many people have died trying to walk it: The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It…

Rush Limbaugh, long on record as preferring to see the Democrats defeat McCain this fall, has not given up in his battle to ensure the defeat of the Republican party which he seems to think is his to destroy. The fly in the ointment, of course, is Barack Obama, whom the Limbaugh right seem to…

Last night I attended a great blog party in Princeton, New Jersey — the Spring BlogFest a/k/a Jersey Blogmeet, which was kindly sponsored by Fausta Wertz and Jim of Parkway Rest Stop, and held at the Triumph Brewing Company. (A great place to imbibe, too, or maybe over-imbibe, which no reputable blogger would ever do…

Mark Penn is a public relations guy working in the Clinton Campaign. He also does PR work for Colombia. And guess what? The Colombians are not happy. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Colombian government said Saturday it has fired Mark Penn’s public relations firm after the chief campaign strategist for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for…