Author: Dave

Stephen Strauss takes a look at big science and comes away unimpressed. He talks about two exhibits he saw. One for the $15 billion ITER (pronounced EATER – heh) and another about neolithic technology – mat weaving, pottery making, chipping stone axes. At the recent European Science Open Forum conference in Barcelona, for example, I…

So who is to blame for the mess we are in? Victor Davis Hanson has some thoughts on the subject. no one dares to ask what really drove the wheeler-dealer portfolio managers. Who re-elected these shady politicians of both parties? Who fostered the cash-in culture in which both Wall Street profit mongering and Washington lobbying…

Simon’s Law: It is unwise to attribute to malice alone that which can be attributed to malice and stupidity.

It looks like the community dis organizers need some help. From Mr. Obama. WHAT exactly does a “community organizer” do? Barack Obama’s rise has left many Americans asking themselves that question. Here’s a big part of the answer: Community organizers intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to customers with poor credit. In the name of…

The Boston Globe, normally a reliable liberal paper, says that Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank (D – Corruption) has a lot to do with the mortgage crisis. It opens with a quote from Cong. Frank ‘The private sector got us into this mess. The government has to get us out of it.” That’s Barney Frank’s story,…

ACORN is about vote fraud in Michigan. Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families. Advertisement The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for…

Cross Posted at Power and Control

Gateway Pundit has the details. This is MacRanger of Macsmind. As you know I was hacked by operatives of the Obama Campaign last month. Well, it happened again. Basically they flooded the site with “sql bombs” according to the host that caused the shared server to stop running. Subsequently be had to disable the site.…

Fanfare for the Common Man

The video is about 9 minutes. If you would like more details on how we got into this mortgage meltdown mess may I suggest The Best Congress Fannie Could Buy. H/T No Quarter

H/T The Patriot Room

Instapundit reports: Reader John Marcoux writes: Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) was just on CNBC and said that his mail and calls on the bailout plan are running 50-50: 50% no and 50% hell no. This is what Barney Frank is up against. Even if the Democrats ram through the plan without Republicans signing on, they…

Instapundit has a lot of links on Obama’s efforts to eliminate free speech in America. Obama threatening the licenses of TV stations that run NRA ads Shut up about Barack’s Gun Banning History Obama Attacks – NRA Responds This is politics Vladimir Putin style. Every single Democrat on the ballot needs to be defeated.

Two public officials in Missouri are threatening to bring criminal charges against any one who speaks falsely against Obama. You know it should be illegal to blaspheme against The One. In a police state. St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce and St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch are threatening to bring libel charges…

Eric asks Whose fault will it be if he loses?. I think Obama has already answered that question. Listen to the video (about 35 seconds). The answer is at the end.

A senior guy in the Obama Campaign says Obama is going to show up at the debate Friday no matter what. John McCain says he will only show up if Congress does what it has to do to resolve the Mortgage Securities crisis. No doubt Obama needs the face time on TV to bolster his…

It appears that Bill Clinton has fired up the Democrat base. Not necessarily in a good way. …the straw that really broke the leftwing camel’s back was Clinton’s statement today to Chris Cuomo on ABC’s Good Morning America defending John McCain’s request for a debate delay until after the financial bailout crises is resolved. Here…

H/T Beldar