Month: December 2008

It is getting difficult to keep up with all the conspiracy theories floating around the ‘net but, I do my best. The latest is Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. It discusses a kind of information warfare where the warriors get populations to work against themselves. Silent weapon technology has evolved from Operations Research (O.R.), a…

Here’s something for libertarians and privacy lovers to chew on. A guy living in San Francisco’s sleazy Tenderloin District got so fed up with the crime outside his apartment window that he installed a live webcam with a dedicated web site. Now that the entire world can witness crimes in his ‘hood, they’re calling the…

Barry Cooper a former narcotics officer has decided to turn the tables on his old buddies. It is not pretty. Unless of course you consider just deserts pretty. Also note that the girl they are trying to get out of jail, Yolanda Madden, is white. As I keep saying – if enforcement on the white…

Today is Remember Pearl Harbor Day. It marks the entry of the USA into WW II. You can listen to a bit of Roosevelt’s A day that will live in Infamy speech by clicking the link. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Prange is probably the most comprehensive book on…

Never known for respecting the limits of its jurisdictional authority, the Berkeley City Council is considering a resolution demanding the indictment of Boalt Law Professor John Yoo for “war crimes.” And — get this — they’re also considering “ordering” Boalt to offer alternatives to Yoo’s courses: Berkeley’s City Council will delve into national policy again…

Well not exactly all the drug users, only the casual ones. If you are dressed up in a suit or even better an evening dress or a tuxedo I guess you will be let off the hook. Say isn’t that the way it works already? Yes it is. The well off go to rehab the…

“even if he were to produce an original birth certificate proving he were born on U.S. soil, he still wouldn’t be eligible to be president.” So argues Leo C. Donofrio, whose pending case in the United States Supreme Court seeks to have Barack Obama disqualified on the grounds that he is not a natural born…

Live Leak reported on the DVD confiscation raids. Friday, May 9, 2008 Actor and comic Tommy Chong says he is linked to FBI raids Wednesday in Newport and Clermont County’s Union Township. Chong tells Local 12 federal agents were after thousands of DVD copies of a documentary he recently made. Tommy Chong, 30 years ago,…

Inspired by Now that Obama has won, we could be in Iraq for a hundred years at the site of that master of political humor Instapundit. Cross Posted at Power and Control

In what I’m sure will be hailed as an astounding discovery, the City of Oakland is learning that when police stop arresting criminals, crime goes up! Armed robbers terrorized Oakland restaurants and small businesses in three separate crime sprees over the past year. The first wave targeted Asian eateries and struck during the 2007 holiday…

The most advanced auto plant in the world and the UAW is against having it located in America. And the UAW wants a bail out for the auto industry? Not one cent. No loans. No cash. No nothing. They helped ruin the business. They can go down with it. Cross Posted at Power and Control

H/T Radly Balko Cross Posted at Power and Control

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can’t stop what it’s meant to stop. We like it. It’s left a trail of graft and slime, It won’t prohibit worth a dime, It’s filled our land with vice and crime. Nevertheless, we’re for it. Franklin P. Adams, 1931 In honor of Repeal Day we…

Exactly seventy-five years ago today (depending on which calendar you use) that grand social engineering program called Alcohol Prohibition was repealed. There still appears to be a market for that sort of thing but thankfully it is drying up. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I took this presidential fashion challenge that Ann Althouse linked, and I couldn’t tell whose tie was whose. (I did a pretty good job of guessing, though.) It’s probably best not to read too much into this. However, if Barack Obama ever started sporting a Bush-style suspicious bulge, it would be time for his progressive…

Why semi-automatic rifles are not assault rifles. About 11 minutes. Some shooting involved. H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

In a piece about shocking acts of anti-Mormon bigotry on the part of certain gay marriage activists, Jonah Goldberg warns, …the scorched-earth campaign to victory pushed by gay-marriage advocates may well be disastrous, and “liberals” should be ashamed for countenancing it. Such tactics are deplorable, and they may very well redound to the benefit of…

Yesterday I spoke with a Pakistani American who told me that he thought the partitioning (by England) of India into India and Pakistan (and two independent countries) was a mistake. His view was that because there are more Muslims in India than in Pakistan, the notion that Hindus and Muslims belong in two different countries…

A commenter at Giving up on God (sort of) by David Harsanyi said a funny thing. David seems to focus his energies on diminishing religion and being a booster for “medicinal marijauna”, and gay rights and so forth. It is hard for Dave to admit, but those aren’t conservative principles. I guess using God’s own…

I’m busy as hell today, but Davis Harsanyi has a great culture war piece in the Denver Post, titled “Giving up on God (sort of).” The question is “Do we need God in politics?”: Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker recently penned a provocative column titled “Giving up on God,” wherein she suggested that the Republican…