Month: October 2009

  • A Libertine Speaks

    Eric Olsen of Technorati interviews Andrew Breitbart at Technorati. And a delightful video it is. Worth fifty minutes if you are interested in the state of the culture, the state of politics and how the two intersect. Andrew Breitbart who broke the ACORN child prostitution scandal talks about his happy time on the left (about…

  • “outside the Democratic norms of our society”

    The United States Chamber of Commerce is being subjected to unprecedented attack by a variety of forces on the left. Its crime? Refusing to go along with the monstrous cap-and-trade scheme which would destroy what’s left of the economy. Here’s the organization’s position on cap-and-trade, as well as carbon emissions: 2. The Chamber’s position on…

  • Herding Junkies

    Peter Moskos of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition takes a look at what the drug war means from a law enforcement perspective. As a police officer, I responded when citizens called 911 to report drug dealing. Those calls didn’t tell me much, though, because I already knew the drug corners. And what could I do? When…

  • Government Finance Reform

    Now compare what he says near the end of this two minute video to what is said 36 minutes in to the video that can be found here. And also carefully note that he doesn’t hold the Legislature of California totally to blame. He says the voters are driving the problem. Also note that Bill…

  • The past is an ever-persistent now, more than ever!

    A Wall Street Journal book review (of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age) makes an important point about the inherent conflict between digital and human memory: We once could improve ourselves by shedding our pasts. Now the past is always with us. The past is more than merely with us. The past…

  • why women are victims and men are suspects

    At 5:30 a.m. in Springfield, Virginia, a woman was cutting through a stranger’s yard, whereupon (for reasons best known to her), she looked into the window of the house and saw the guy who lived there, making a cup of coffee in the nude. She called the cops, who actually came and arrested him. For…

  • The DOD Looks At Energy Security

    The gentlemen and gentlewomen at Talk Polywell have come across a couple of major finds. The first is a discussion of American energy security and its military implications. Energy & National Security: An Exploration of Threats, Solutions, and Alternative Futures [pdf]. Abstract – Findings of multiple Department of Defense (DoD) studies and other sources indicate…

  • Beauty and death

    Earlier I visited Detroit’s Elmwood Cemetery, “the oldest continuously operating, non-denominational cemetery in Michigan,” and took some pictures. While in Detroit, I also visited the historic Michigan Central Station, which has remained in ruins for decades while its “future” is endlessly debated. The owner of the historic building would like to fix it up, while…

  • A Three Percenter Speaks

    I found an interesting comment at The statists’ fear and loathing of the Oath Keepers. In the end, too, we can always lean back on this concept with the control freaks, a concept which Vanderboegh makes brilliantly: the instant that the law fails to protect us from the state, making it null and void–that being…

  • Belief In Global Warming Falls Precipitously

    Now only 36% believe the Earth is being warmed by manmade sources. It’s really not surprising at all, though. AGW rests on some very shaky evidence, which has only recently come to light because the “scientists” involved have been assiduously avoiding requests to share their data (which is crazy when you think about it: “I…

  • “the Constitution explicitly forbids it”

    From an Investors Business Daily editorial: In ways large and small, it’s easy to see we’re building a nanny state that will make Europe’s seem modest by comparison. After all, this doesn’t even include health care “reform” or cap-and-trade. Soon, the federal government will control every aspect of our lives – though the Constitution explicitly…

  • Killing federalism under a must-pass $680-billion false flag!

    Did you think the Matthew Shepard Act is merely about adding sexual orientation to the list of federal hate crimes? If you did (as I did), then you are in for a rude awakening. To back up a bit, over the weekend, I was appalled to discover that the federal government had assumed jurisdiction over…

  • MSM Does The Right Thing

    I never thought I would say that. Ever. But when confronted with a fundamental challenge to the free press in America the press did not cave. Obama caved. Moe Lane has a few words on the dust up. So this administration had what passes for a brainstorm among that group: now that they’ve made it…

  • Palin Endorses Hoffman

    Yesterday I covered the New York 23rd District’s Congressional race in my post: The Revolution Starts Here. The race pits “Republican” Dierdre Scozzafava against Democrat Bill Owens and Conservative Party of New York candidate Douglas L. Hoffman. As you know from my previous report Scozzafava is to the left of many Democrat Congress persons. i.e…

  • The distractingest distraction yet!

    Dick Polman (a liberal Democrat who writes for the Philadelphia Inquirer) thinks President Obama’s war on Fox news is both foolish as well as “tactically stupid” and he explains why: 1. Going after Fox serves only to elevate Fox, making it appear that Fox is on an equal footing with the White House. Every president…

  • The Revolution Starts Here

    The Tea Parties are not Republican friendly according to the Wall Street Journal. The rise of conservative “tea party” activists around the country has created a dilemma for Republicans. They are breathing life into the party’s quest to regain power. But they’re also waging war on some candidates hand-picked by GOP leaders as the most…

  • Activists make it hard not to care

    How my email address gets on these lists I do not know, but last night I received an urgent email which asked me to help do something about a sick Cockatiel for sale at a pet store in New York. A link went to this web site, where I saw a number of comments posted…

  • Mach-Einstein Drive

    I have a new article up at ECN Magazine on experiments testing out the possibilities of a Mach-Einstein Drive. I call it: Maching Einstein. Why is this important? If the experiments work (and even if they don’t) we will learn more about how our universe is constructed. If they do work we can get propulsion…

  • the joy-of-destruction game

    Did you know that 40% of people are nasty, and if they did not fear retaliation, they would destroy the property of others? I didn’t, but an Economics and Business study at the University of Amsterdam seems to confirm it: We introduce the joy-of-destruction game. Two players each receive an endowment and simultaneously decide on…

  • “Palling around” becomes official policy

    “Clearly the White House has no problem being associated with Bill Ayers.“ That is absolutely true, and the proof is here. Ayers delivered a major speech before The Renaissance Group’s 20th Anniversary Celebration in Arlington, Virginia. Speaking at the event (“A Time for Reflection, Celebration and Rebirth”) along with Ayers were Under Secretary of Education…