Month: October 2008

A certain person named Smerconish who claims to be a Republican has come out for Obama. A giveaway is that this missive was published in the HuffPo among other places. Mr. S lists five concerns where he thinks Mr. Obama has better ideas than John McCain. The five are Terrorism, where he thinks Iraq is…

It’s getting colder! That’s what Lorne Gunter says in a piece headlined “Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof“: In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since…

Alan Boyle brings us up to date on the latest news from the world of fusion. Of course I’m especially interested in what he has to say about Bussard Fusion and their progress to net power. I’ll give you the short version: “We’ve been pretty busy, but it’s the same situation,” Nebel told me today.…

Evidently in Britain there are fewer restrictions on polite conversation that there are in America. So Melanie Phillips says it: You have to pinch yourself – a Marxisant radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded,…

You remember when Obama was way up in the polls? (Wasn’t that like a week ago? – Yes it was [ed.]) Now that he is falling back in the polls Joe Biden knows why it is happening. Racism. It is like a disease. Once other people get infected it is only a matter of (not…

Barack Obama likes to talk about cynicism, and in a very critical way. In the following speech before AIPAC in March, he expresses gratitude for having so many young people in his campaign, and describes “cynicism” as the biggest enemy we’re going to have to fight. Presumably, he thinks young people are less “cynical” than…

I love government coverups, especially when the purpose of the coverup is to keep government bureaucrats from being embarrassed. This time, British government bureaucrats are so embarrassed that they’ve gone on the “diaper defensive“: A government report that found old-fashioned reusable nappies damage the environment more than disposables has been hushed up because ministers are…

According to Frank Rich, there are only three ways McCain can win, and two of them involve race: The election isn’t over, but there remain only three discernible, if highly unlikely, paths to a McCain victory. A theoretically mammoth wave of racism, incessantly anticipated by the press, could materialize in voting booths on Nov. 4.…

“He didn’t ask for Senator Obama to come to his house. He wasn’t recruited or prompted by our campaign. He just asked a question. And Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks.” So said John McCain, and I couldn’t agree more. I’ve lost…

It’s hard work being my muse, but Coco tries. Here she is perusing the newspaper in search of interesting tidbits for me to blog about. But eventually, Coco tires of this, and she can become awfully annoyed at the endless (to her, very boring) tappy-tappy game I seem to be playing with the keyboard. When…

There are few things more irritating in blogging than having to reconstruct a vanished post. Fortunately, it doesn’t happen too often, and usually, it’s a result of carelessness or a software glitch. This time, it was because the cord to the power strip that feeds my computer was coming loose from the wall receptacle, and…

There are a lot of things I have not yet done in the area. I still haven’t been to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, nor have I been to the Detroit Institute of Arts, which is now featuring “Monet to Dali.” There’s a ton of stuff in Ann Arbor I have not explored; for…

The renowned educationalist Bill Ayers will not be speaking at the University of Nebraska. The Omaha World Herald had this to say: Just 11 days after next month’s election, the University of Illinois-Chicago professor, William Ayers, is scheduled to speak at a student research conference held by the UNL College of Education and Human Science.…

In the ongoing campaign to minimize Bill Ayers (discussed previously in this post and others), the latest meme is an attempted moral equivalency comparison between Obama’s friend Bill Ayers the terrorist, and McCain’s friend G. Gordon Liddy the Watergate burglar. While others have made this comparison before, it’s getting attention now because David Letterman brought…

This story about the 7th grade girl being called a “racist” for wearing a Sarah Palin t-shirt is so predictable that initially I thought it hardly merited a blog post: VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) — She’s only 12 years old but Ashleigh Jones is feeling the heat of this election year. That’s…

Cribbed From getliberty.org Cross Posted at Power and Control

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I have been thinking some about what all this voter fraud business means in the larger scheme of things. It means that the left is on the wane in a very serious way. They can’t win without cheating. Cross Posted at Power and Control

As I have been saying, there’s a bigger problem than Bill Ayers’ unrepentant terrorism and his present day radicalism, and that is his mainstream respectability. For. The. Umpteenth. Time. Bill Ayers should not be respectable or mainstream. For some reason, that issue is seen as irrelevant or nonexistent, and the Ayers issue is spun alternately…

Have you ever wondered why big giant corporations and utilities have so many brainless morons working in things like “customer service” and “billing”? I think I’ve figured it out. Since my move from Pennsylvania to Michigan, I have spent untold hours on hold trying to have my utilities and services at the old address disconnected.…