Month: November 2009

Glenn Reynolds raises the unsettling question of whether there’s a bad driving gene. I have long suspected there’s some explanation along such lines, but it now appears that there’s some scientific evidence for it: People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it –…

I’m having a long conversation about the future of the Republican Party at The Other McCain. There is a lot of back and forth and if you go to the link you can follow the discussion. What I would like to present here is my conclusion. I was replying to a comment by BD. BD,…

For entertainment purposes only, I thought I’d juxtapose two radically different opinions on the future of the Democratic Party. From WSJ’s Daniel Henninger in “Why Dems Should Start to Sweat“: …what we are seeing with this massive legislation is that the Democrats in Washington have a bigger problem: Their party is looking so yesterday. In…

As a lot of people are sounding off about Frank Rich’s latest silly column, I thought I’d chime in. I don’t know whether he’s trying to outdo himself in terms of pure buffoonery, but this time, Rich is hell-bent on proving that the conservatives who support Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 race are a bunch…

When is a catfish not a catfish? When it’s farmed in other countries and then sold in the United States, that’s when. I’m very much a fish eater, and because I don’t like to contribute to waste if I don’t have to, I often worry about the overfishing issue. For example, I love big ocean…

Angela Merkel was sworn in as Chancellor recently, and I have to say, I like the ho-hum attitude towards her foreign minister: GERMAN CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel flew to Paris last night for talks with French president Nicolas Sarkozy on who to choose as the new EU president, a month after winning the general election and…

Eric Dondero of Libertarian Republican in the comments at Independent Political Report is discussing the 2008 Election. He talks about how Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr was surging in August and then explains why McCain chose Palin. …why did Bob Barr get only 525,000 votes, versus the 2 to 3 million he was well on his…

Dede has endorsed the Democrat the race for Representative of the New York 23rd District. Dede Scozzafava, the Republican and Independence Parties’ candidate for the 23rd Congressional District of New York state who suspended her campaign Saturday, announced moments ago she was throwing her support behind Democrat candidate Bill Owens rather than the Conservative Party’s…

An Orthodox Jewish family shelters a gay Palestinian. Here’s a wild story, courtesy of YNet. T is a gay Palestinian who for the past 10 years has been living in Israel with his partner, an Israeli Jew named Doron. A few days ago, he heard that his father was ill, and he ventured across the…

When I discussed the fatal shootout between a radical Imam and the FBI, my biggest concern was with mainstream Muslim support for a violent, murderous advocate of a Sharia state in the United States. It bothers me that such a person could be considered a “respected Imam” and that he sat on the ruling council…