Month: November 2009

I’m getting more than a little tired over the fact that some people on the left — aided, naturally, by some people on the right (with the help of agents provocateurs and trolls) — seem hell-bent on fomenting an American Civil War. I think people need to remember how much civil wars suck. Take it…

Despite the fact that I hate repeating myself, I have complained about government health care and unconstitutional laws till I’m blue in the face. All to no avail, it often seems. Those government bastards will do what they want, no matter what I think or say. Still, no matter how tired I get of complaining,…

That there is a double standard between the “right” and the “left” where it comes to sexuality is not news. In general, people perceived as being on the left are allowed sexual freedom — including the right to be gay, to be promiscuous, to engage in sex for money, and to pose in pornography —…

The Boyz and Girlz at HillBuzz are on a mission. Please offer your thoughts here, because our mission going forward includes but is not limited to: (1) Dismantling and destroying ACORN, the SEIU, and all of their affiliates (2) Taking down the Al Sharpton/Henry Gates/Jesse Jackson/Eric Holder Race Industry (3) Reforming the nominating contests to…

The above video is to introduce you to Joss Stone who is creating quite a furor in the UK by saying the same thing this book says: Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? Joss says marijuana is safer than alcohol. Singer Joss Stone has been condemned for glamourising drugs after…

Via Glenn Reynolds, James Taranto makes a very important point I think is being missed in the debate over the trial of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in New York: one man’s technicality is another’s violation of due process; and the corollary of treating KSM like ordinary criminals is treating ordinary criminals like KSM. This column approves…

A Palin detractor in the comments at Althouse has this to say: But I don’t know how a book can be the number one best seller before a single reader has his hands on one. To which I responded: The left will NEVER understand business. They will always be failures in America. Which is why…

A forensic scientist I am not. However, the following comment to M. Simon’s post about the suicide of Michael Scott intrigued me: Was Scott left-handed? In my personal experience, I have found that a good way to tell which hand a person favors is simply to watch the person write something. If that isn’t possible,…

In a refreshing reminder of how pleasantly “out-of-it” some people are, when I told a South Park fan about a recent episode which spoofs Glenn Beck, an immediate question arose. “Who is Glenn Beck?” I don’t watch him (on the few occasions I tried, the commercials thwarted me), but I tried to stick to the…

The head of the Chicago Board Of Education, Michael Scott, is dead. Sources told the Chicago Sun-Times that Scott had a gunshot wound to his left temple and police discovered a .380-caliber gun underneath his body, which was found 30 feet from his blue Cadillac. Terrible. But there are suspicious circumstances. Scott reportedly disappeared from…

Hill Buzz has an interesting rumor about personal information that could be used against Mark Kirk in his run for Obama’s old Senate seat. Since Burris is not seeking election, we hope Republicans win Dr. Utopia’s old seat, because that would sure be a wonderful victory for Michael Steele and the RNC’s Senate team. And…

I have found an incipient Health Care Nazi. “Well, for one, I know nobody wants to pay taxes for anybody else to go to the doctor — I don’t,” said Kate Kuhn, 20, of Acworth, Ga. “I don’t want to pay for somebody to use my money that I could be using for myself.” You…

I have to say that I admire M. Simon’s patience in writing this post, which was occasioned by a link I sent him discussing the following question: Are you a Christian first and an American second? Or an American first and a Christian second? While Jesus’s “render unto Caesar” remark comes to mind, if I…

Senior Adviser To The President David Axelrod says he wants to bring abortion back into the health care bill. Well it is already in the bill. The Stupack Amendment forbidding the government from funding abortions. The amendment, authored by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., went beyond preventing the proposed government-run plan from covering abortion to restrict…

Ann Althouse is taking flak from her commenters for writing a post about football, even though all she did was point out that her team (the Wisconsin Badgers) beat Michigan’s Wolverines – which happens to be “my” team — 45-24. That game was a major rout – and in a comment I thanked her for…

I was talking with a green lefty with the typical punish business mentality and was commiserating with him about his recent job loss. Sorry about your job loss. Maybe you will get on the lower taxes and less regulation bandwagon to give American companies a better environment to compete. And dude – be careful about…

In what I think is a blatant restriction of private property rights (as well as grotesque government micromanagement of people’s lives), the City of San Francisco is considering requiring landlords to accept pets: Right now, it’s up to property owners to decide if they’ll allow pets. But a city commission is looking at forcing landlords…

In yet another example of how government censorship tends to creep from country to country, a German law firm is demanding that Wikipedia remove all references to a man convicted in the brutal 1990 murder of filmmaker Walter Sedlmayr: At issue is an apparent conflict between the U.S. First Amendment — which protects truthful speech…

Rocket science is easy. Rocket engineering is… not. H/T taniwha at Talk Polywell who coined the phrase. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Thomas Barnett gave this talk in 2005 when Iraq was falling apart. If you listen closely he discusses the mistake President Present is about to make in Afghanistan. The video is quite funny and full of salty language. It is also about a half hour and worth every minute. The bottom line: we need a…