Author: Dave

The Chicago Sun Times has an editorial about the surge in violence in Chicago with the advent of Spring weather. A lot of hand wringing. What to do? What to do? We can’t stop trying. The problem is guns. No, it’s not about guns. The problem is bad parents. No, we can’t make bad parents…

This is a look back and a look forward. I was one of those “revolutionaries” back in the 60s. It all seems so stupid and puerile now. It must be by definition a youth thing, because despite the obvious failures kids 40 years later are still falling for it. I have no romantic illusions to…

Doug Kmiec writing at Slate says he is an Obama supporter. He also gives evidence that he is a Republican. He actually has reasons or rationalizations or a rich fantasy life. Come to your own conclusions. Today I endorse Barack Obama for president of the United States. I believe him to be a person of…

Obama says I can take that punk Indiana. He ain’t nothin. NEW ALBANY, Ind. – In a state he has called a potential “tiebreaker,” Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday predicted victory in the Indiana primary, despite an electorate that closely mirrors states where he has recently suffered sizable losses. The day after Sen. Hillary Clinton…

Jeff Gold of Stop Obama uses this picture to tell a story about what some folks are planning for the Democrat Convention in Denver and The Republican Convention in St. Paul. I think it is part of Rove’s secret plan to energize the Republican base despite the fact that there is a lot of bad…

John McCain says that the North Carolina GOP should pull the “offensive advertisement”. Wonderful John. Are you so stupid about the Internet that you fail to realize that such a call will only draw more attention to it? Heh. H/T Instapundit

Jeff Gold of Stop Obama is discussing the plans of Recreate ’68 to disrupt the Democrat convention in Denver in order to make sure Obama gets the nomination. A Brown Shirt operation. …Obama supporters – lovers of popular democracy – are already threatening to tear down the Democratic Convention in Denver. They call themselves “Recreate…

Anxiety Insights reports that the inability to identify odors may be an indication of severe PTSD. A world first study of Vietnam veterans’ sense of smell has revealed that an inability to identify smells indicates extreme symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Austin Health conducting smell tests…

The site is up now. You can read a report of the hack at StopObama.Org. My guess? The Democrats at StopObama must be causing the Obama folks a lot of pain.

Spengler at The Asia Times is taking a look at the world food crisis and sees it as a monetary phenomenon. He has charts and graphs. I think he is right. The global food crisis is a monetary phenomenon, an unintended consequence of America’s attempt to inflate its way out of a market failure. There…

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Notice anything missing in this video? No American flags. And Obama seems to have forgotten to wear the flag pin given to him by the disabled veteran. In any case I don’t think we should pledging to the flag. We should be pledging to the Constitution, like people who become naturalized, like people who join…

I got to shake Truman’s hand when I was on a train to St. Louis and he was headed to Independence. I was going to a Synagogue Youth Organization convention and some one said Truman was in the club car shaking hands. No one else was interested but I went back and shook his hand.…

Richard Warman claims he has a bad reputation because of a possibly erroneous story published by The National Post newspaper of Canada. REGINA — Linking one blog to another and allowing comments on her blog postings has landed one prominent Saskatchewan blogger in a legal quandary. Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals is one of…

Some music to go with the pictures may be worth even more. Continued 2 Continued 3 Continued 4

I think a little history lesson is in order. Perhaps a musical history would be of more interest. There are almost 2,000 references to the song on Youtube.

In Amsterdam there lived a maid, Mark well what I do say! In Amsterdam there lived a maid, An’ she wuz mistress of her trade, We’ll go no more a-ro-o-vin’ with you fair maid. A-rovin’, a-rovin’, Since rovin’s bin my ru-i-in, We’ll go no more a-rovin’, With you fair maid. One night I crept from…

A lot of people have been asking me publicly and privately, if the Bussard Fusion Technology is successful, can it be bottled up by special interests? I think the we have an answer from Dr. Richard Nebel who is now running the experiments in New Mexico. Your concern is something that EMC2 has thought about.…

It is not as bad as I thought. …based on technology advances and strong new policy, it is now time for the U.S. to look beyond 2012 and to take the next step. We’ve shown that we can slow emissions growth. Today, I’m announcing a new national goal: to stop the growth of U.S. greenhouse…

Commenter Rhodium Heart has made a really good point in a comment to Eric’s piece How far off base can the “base” get? I think it is very on point and also is a good answer to my piece Who Will Stand With Us? I’m going to quote it in full because it is a…