Author: Dave

Why semi-automatic rifles are not assault rifles. About 11 minutes. Some shooting involved. H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

A commenter at Giving up on God (sort of) by David Harsanyi said a funny thing. David seems to focus his energies on diminishing religion and being a booster for “medicinal marijauna”, and gay rights and so forth. It is hard for Dave to admit, but those aren’t conservative principles. I guess using God’s own…

I got the video from National Geographic Explorer – Marijuana Nation – a review . Cultivation of Marijuana (hemp) stretches back from George Washington’s farm when Pot was the leading cash crop in the United States, to today, with annual profits surpassing $65 billion. The documentary reveals more than 200 million people around the world…

From time to time when I lived in the Bay Area in the late 60s and early 70s I would visit with the folks at an art/architecture collective called the Ant Farm. This was the heyday of the water bed and the Ant Farmers were big into vinyl. Not for fetish purposes but as a…

Fred is hilarious. Sadly. (about 8 1/2 minutes) You can keep Fred’s videos coming by donating to Fred PAC. Cross Posted at Power and Control

The economy of Zimbabwe is collapsing due to the policies of its President for Life Robert Mugabe. In another sign of the turmoil, the government rejected a ruling by a regional court that demanded Zimbabwe stop seizing land from white farmers. The government instead will speed up efforts to take land remaining in whites farmers’…

I was reading a post by Bob Owens about concealed carry of fire arms for self defense. Bob suggested that the first thing to do was to have a look at the US Marine Corps rules for gunfighting. Here are the first few rules: 1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring…

Well not sand exactly. Silicon nanowires. Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. The new technology, developed through research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, produces 10 times the…

The Drug War in Mexico as chronicled by Newsweek is starting to cross the US border. Late one night in January, an ambulance escorted by five unmarked squad cars pulled up to Thomason Hospital in El Paso, Texas. Out leaped more than a dozen armed federal agents to protect the patient–Fernando Lozano Sandoval, a commander…

I have pretty much shown in a number of posts that government involvement in marriage, in making drugs illegal, and in running schools were the innovations of radicals. Those solutions to the problems they addressed don’t seem to be working well. So why don’t we do the conservative thing and go back to the old…

The Swiss are giving in to the junkies. GENEVA (AP) – Dr. Daniele Zullino keeps glass bottles full of white powder in a safe in a locked room of his office. Patients show up each day to receive their treatment in small doses handed through a small window. Then they gather around a table to…

Mexico is having some success in fighting the drug traffickers that are causing so much trouble for Mexicans and their government. President Felipe Calderon and his government defended their fight against public corruption and drug trafficking Friday, asking for greater powers to go after organized crime. They conceded that most Mexicans feel unsafe and that…

Fifty Percent of the violent crimes committed in the districts occupied by Mexicans, Greeks, Turks, Phillipinos, Spaniards, Latin Americans, and Negroes may be traced to the use of marijuana. – Harry Anslinger head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. And that is just one thing you can learn from watching this video. Part 2 Part…

Sgt. Mom writes about some history she learned in her travels in the English countryside and its implications for the current troubles in Mumbai. Not for the faint of heart or those with delicate sensibilities. But not much that has gone on in India the last few days is. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Well this is a very different kind of pot for archaeologists. What they found was a marijuana stash. OTTAWA – Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly “cultivated for psychoactive…

There has been a lot of back and forth at the places I post (Classical Values and Power and Control) about America becoming an immoral nation. So I have to asks a question of my readers and especially those commenting on my various posts. What can make America the moral nation that so many seem…

Researchers at a Hewlet Packard Laboratory have combined computer logic with at type of controllable variable resistor into a neural network that may in time be dense enough to mimic a human brain. Also at the symposium, Snider unveiled a design that used memristors in their analog mode as synapses in a neural computing architecture.…

Time Magazine chronicles the anti-gay movement in Florida led by Anita Briant. The year is 1977. In the heat of the campaign, emotions have got out of hand. A gay worker was hospitalized after a beating; others have received crank calls. Urges a bumper sticker: KILL A QUEER FOR CHRIST. After receiving many telephone threats,…

Stagflation, Stagflation, my banker doesn’t have near enough information. The printing presses are running over time and yet folks don’t want to spend one thin dime. Stagflation, stagflation, I think it will wind up ruining the nation. Pass the Bill will Ya Hill?