Author: Dave

A self replicating Rapid Prototyping machine has just been developed. A universal constructor is a machine that can replicate itself and – in addition – make other industrial products. Such a machine would have a number of interesting characteristics, such as being subject to Darwinian evolution, increasing in number exponentially, and being extremely low-cost. A…

I just came across a most interesting bit of information. Despite a whole host of folks, including Andrew Sullivan, coming out with the idea that if Iraq is not yet won, a win is likely, a book has recently come out which says all is lost. Defeat is at hand, and well deserved. One must…

I haven’t linked to Andew Sullivan in ages. Since after he lost his cahones about the War in Iraq. Well I’m linking today. And to what? This article on the changed situation in Iraq, suggested by Jennifer Rubin of Commentary. Via Instapundit. I’m sure this is white hot because in some respects it represents Andrew’s…

Some one in this thread said: “our products aren’t competitive” I said: A real shame exports are growing at a rate of about 2.8% a year. It is a shame manufacturing is booming. It is a shame Germans are moving factories to America. It is a shame the Iraqis are getting a handle on Iraq.…

This cartoon was cribbed from Red State Cartoons. Their Cartoon use policy. If you liked my post No Blood For Oil Or No Drilling For Oil? then you will love (how is that for ad copy?) No Oil where you can get a bumper sticker that looks like this: You can also click on the…

Click on the picture for an explanation. The big deal is in the lower left. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Well my Conservative friends I think it is time we had a talk. About the Reagan Revolution. About the leftward drift of the Party. About Reagan Democrats. That’s right. Reagan brought a lot of Democrats into the party. Remember the years of the Big Tent? You know the years when RINOs were welcomed, reluctantly, into…

1. Senator Obama, when will you finally decide to go back to Iraq, to see the progress first hand? 2. And when will you finally decide to meet one-on-one, unconditionally, with General Petraeus? Sergeant Anderson was one of the 12 veterans denied a meeting with Senator Obama. And like his fellow veterans, Sergeant Anderson would…

A very interesting blog by some one who purports to be a Chicago police officer. Second City Cop The comments are especially good. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Thorley Winston at The Volokh Conspiracy has this to say about Obama vs McCain on economic policy: On Health Care – Obama favors creating a new federal entitlement and a new federal bureaucracy to force every private health plan to conform to the “genero[sity]” of the new entitlement. McCain opposes both mandates and entitlements and…

Back in late March Clayton sent me an e-mail saying that he was running for the Idaho State Senate. He and I have had our agreements and disagreements. He has always been respectful of my arguments and discussed them with wit and intelligence. The people of Idaho would be well served by electing him to…

I just got an interesting report on a technical conference that is to be held by moving electrons not people. CISSE 2008 provides a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of the-art research on computers, information and systems sciences and engineering. CISSE 2008 is the fourth conference of the CISSE series of e-conferences.…

How to get more taxes out of high earners: May I suggest lowering the rate on top earners to a rate below that of other civilized countries and attracting them to the USA? I call my plan: Steal The Rich. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Conservatives are pining for a candidate they can vote for. What they really need is an electorate that will vote for their candidates. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Commenter Mike at my post Republicans Need A Hawaiian On The Ticket said: It seems everyone wants to essentially surrender and put a RINO (or in Jonah Goldberg’s case, an actual Democrat) on the ticket with McCain. Wouldn’t it be better to have a VP who actually brings people to the ticket, instead of pushing…

May I suggest Linda Lingle a two term Republican Governor of Hawaii. She won her last election in a Democrat state by 62.5% to 35.4%. She is Jewish, which might help peel NY-31, NJ-15, and FL-27 from the Democrat column. That is 73 Electoral College votes. I think the help in those states would be…

This is an interesting version. Just a little different from the album version. The illustrations are by Giovanni Rabuffetti of Italy. Harvey Brooks (the bass player on the album version) talks about the album session from his point of view. Part two of his remembrances are here.

Jefferson to Adams in a July 11, 1786, letter: “I acknolege I very early thought it would be best to effect a peace thro’ the medium of war.” Jefferson was speaking about the jihadis of his day. A sobering thought for this Memorial Day.

In the primaries the Republican base did what has fractured the Democrat base. They voted for a candidate “who looks like me” (socialist Huckabee) instead of voting for the Reagan Republican (Thompson). With the conservative vote split we wind up with McCain. The liberal wing of the party has to be satisfied (we need their…

Some one should start asking the leftys what they really want. It is my opinion that if America started drilling for oil now as the price starts going through the roof we could bring the Middle East to its knees by bringing a lot of oil on line in the next few years. Where would…