Month: July 2009

Here is one petition I like: Stop Cap and Trade. If you sign, don’t worry about your e-mail. It will not be displayed. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Barry Rubin tells on Facebook Why Obama Doesn’t Understand Putin; Why Putin Doesn’t Like Obama Mr Rubin then says at this link: If one looks deeper into Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s annoyance at U.S. President Barack Obama it reveals a lot more than just the differences between the leadership in Moscow and Washington. Putin…

After years of Bush=Hitler the lefties are all upset about this ad comparing Obama to Ahmadinejad. One other parallel they forgot to mention in the ad is people taking to the streets (Tea Parties). It is true that there is no violent suppression in America but otherwise it adds to the parallels. Hitler got about…

In a comment to an earlier post, “Moneyrunner” (whose own post here seems to assume I’m against Christianity, in favor of out-of-wedlock births, in favor of libertinism, and in favor of anti-conservative “snark”) is upset with what I did not say: Our host… never once says that he would support my right to pray during…

It doesn’t matter who the Rs run. Americans generally favor divided government. And given the the #1 Democrat promised that massive spending would keep unemployment from going above 8% and it is now 9.5% and still rising it may be time for Change and A New Hope. (cue up Star Wars theme music). Since we…

Carbon is going to be the next big thing in computer chips. Carbon–the basis of all organic compounds–seems destined to displace silicon as the material of choice for future semiconductors. According to researchers, various structures based on the element that sits just above silicon on the Periodic Table can surpass silicon’s abilities in thermal performance,…

Questions like this one from Ann Althouse make me feel so out of touch that they hurt my self esteem: I’m watching the Michael Jackson Memorial. Isn’t everybody? Um, no. I didn’t even know it was on TV. While I did take a brief peek at the set earlier it was only to read the…

Linking a poll purporting to show that Americans have grown more conservative, Glenn Reynolds asks a good basic question: Hmm. Can this be true? To that I’m almost tempted to sneer, “Yes it can!” It seems bit counterintuitve that a more conservative America not only elected the most left wing president in United States history,…

At Israpundit Mario Goveia has done a guest post on our Sarah. Mario makes a very good point: The US left wing is justifiably terrified of Palin and have begun to realize why she earned the nickname Sarah Barracuda as a high school athlete. Unlike them, she stands as a real-life example of real feminism,…

I don’t know what I should title this post. Maybe “How I became labeled as a conservative.” But labels are the damnedest things. People start calling you something, and pretty soon the label begins to takes on meaning, and if you’re not careful, the label can influence your thinking one way or another, and you…

Writing about Honduras, and the fact that the US is now taking sides with Castro, Chavez, Morales, and Ortega in showing “revolutionary solidarity” with a would-be dictator, Victor Davis Hanson offers a disturbing but accurate analogy: It would be analogous to an Obama or Bush demanding a third term, illegally acquiring ballots to force a…

Here is a nice little cartoon about a country that is making real progress in curbing “greenhouse gas” production. H/T Duane J. Oldsen at Talk Polywell and Eric at Classical Values who helped format the picture.

Adam Graham takes issue with a number of popular political myths (notably the idea that Sarah Palin is finished), but what really got my attention was an exit poll he linked that I’d never seen before, which confirms my longstanding belief that Hillary Clinton would have been a much tougher candidate for the Republicans to…

As regular readers know, I’ve been talking about the Tea Parties for some time. So today I decided that it was high time I went to one. The nearest Fourth of July Tea party event I could find was this one at the Northville Community Park in Northville, Michigan (about a half hour drive from…

A minor story that I found at the Philadelphia Inquirer’s web site provides yet another illustration of an increasingly hopeless problem. Police were forced to shoot a “homeless” man whose homelessness was a symptom of his chronic mental illness. From a call box in the below-ground concourse of the Municipal Services Building, he kept calling…

I complain a lot (probably more than I should — although that seems to be the nature of blogging), so I like it when I find something that seems worthwhile. As a pragmatic libertarian, I enjoyed Roger L. Simon’s Fourth of July thoughts, especially the conclusion: We should junk the liberal and conservative orthodoxies that…

Sarah Palin has resigned — on the eve of the Fourth of July, and right in the middle of the reporting of a Republican family feud. I hope M. Simon is not right about this: It looks like Andrew “I had Trig Palin’s Baby” Sullivan and the rest of the Palin haters have caused Sarah…

It looks like Andrew “I had Trig Palin’s Baby” Sullivan and the rest of the Palin haters have caused Sarah Palin to decline to run for a second term as Alaska’s Governor. From Facebook. Some say things changed for me on August 29th last year – the day John McCain tapped me to be his…

I like and support the Tea Party Movement. But as I explained in this post, I don’t like the idea of anti-sex crusaders in the form of the American Family Association taking it over. So naturally, I was disappointed to see that the supposedly mainstream conservative Human Events, in its writeup of tomorrow’s Tea Party…

This year’s July 4th Bikini edition is up at Power and Control (I keep GMT). Here are a couple of samples to give you an idea or ideas. You can click on the pictures for more information. Ladies. I guarantee that most men watching this bikini will be seeing stars. Unless they are distracted by…