Month: March 2011

A couple of news items on the drug war have caught my interest today. One of them from the Market Watch discusses how the current economic situation has made states rethink how they handle Drug Prohibition. A growing number of states are renouncing some of the long prison sentences that have been a hallmark of…

While I hadn’t weighed in on the subject as I perhaps should have, Michelle Malkin’s post about Eric Holder’s now-infamous “my people” remark inspired me to get off my duff: My fellow Americans, who are “your people”? I ask because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase “my people” in congressional…

Last night my bullshit detector was set off by the completely unverifiable nature of a study M. Simon linked.  It was a blog post by an unnamed author at an anonymous blog, quoting from an unlinked “study” by an unnamed person — the sort of thing that strikes me as fiendishly calculated to frustrate people…

Evidence of Islamic terrorism is difficult to find. Especially if your mission is to avoid finding it. And yet when things went the other way (Giffords in Arizona for instance) it took a long time for the White House to chime in. So maybe that is the rule for judging actual White House opinion. If…

H/T Hot Air Cross Posted at Power and Control

Because they can’t control it, and it can (at least sometimes) manage to transcend the bullshit that distracts us while they play their endless war and peace cycles games that keep them in power. As an example of what they hate, here’s a YouTube video titled “Brian Eno & Rachid Taha – Barra Barra.” It…

By now everyone has one or is repeating someone else’s Charlie Sheen story. I have my own. The first mate was telling me yesterday how lucky Charlie was to have two ladies. I told her that those girls were far too young and besides if something like that ever happened to me I’d insist that…

Not being a parent, I am hesitant to judge other people’s parenting skills. But an appalling news story I read earlier just gave me the creeps: A mother is accused of murdering her three-year-old son whose charred body was found in her oven. Terrie A. Robinson, 24, from Mississippi, was arrested yesterday after police found…

I was looking for some information for my post Bussing In Outside Agitators and came across this bit: Deadbeat Union’s $90 Million Debt from 21 May 2010. Interesting. In 2007, the SEIU owed Bank of America nearly $95 Million. By the end of 2008, SEIU owed more than $156 Million in total outstanding liabilities. Only…

It’s an interesting theory, and while I haven’t studied it in detail, Ed Morrissey has, and he is a bit skeptical, especially because not only has the plan’s Phase 3 not happened, but not all of our competitors or even enemies would necessarily benefit from seeing the U.S. economy destroyed: While we have piled up…

Since Eric did a post on the Communists Who Support The Wisconsin Teachers Mafia, I thought I ought to do a cross post with supporting evidence. ==== According to Hill Buzz this little bit of excitement happened on 27 Feb. 2011 in Atlanta. Be sure to note the flier at the end of the video…

In what I think is a superhuman effort in blogging, Ann Althouse has been braving hostile and violent conditions with her husband as they cover the Madison protest mob scene.  She doesn’t think the protesters are going to win: And now we’re into the third week of it. It’s become a quagmire. I believe myself…

Thanks to Instapundit I was perusing the comments at Althouse and came up with this really great one about the Wisconsin Teachers Mafia. Seven Machos said… 3. Your union foolishly raised wages and benefits to a point where it priced itself right out of a monopoly market — really fucking hard to do, but as…

Did you ever wonder why India produces so many engineers? Well there is an answer. It is the culture. But not in a way you would imagine. India is perhaps the only country in the world where parents decide the career of their children a few moments after birth. This has famously been captured in…

A few people have asked me what I think about the current situation with DOMA, and because it’s a little complicated and it requires some issue separating, I thought it merited a post.  While I have reservations about same sex marriage because (as explained here) I don’t like the invasive statism of the family law/divorce…

While I don’t have the time to check out the details behind every article I see in the local newspapers, something I saw the other day aroused my suspicions, and sure enough, it turned out to be a classic illustration of the persistence of a very ugly, self-enforcing narrative mechanism.   The front page of…

Patrick Poole is looking into: Was the financial meltdown of September 2008 an inside job? It is more than possible that insiders gave the system a timely push. But the rot was already more than evident. NINJA loans? Puhleeeze. We dug this hole. Why complain when the guys on the surface start refilling it with…