Author: Dave

At the University of Chicago students and staff are treated like Royalty and the neighborhood folks are treated like servants. At my son’s graduation there last summer almost all the wait staff were blacks from the neighborhood dressed like servants in the Jim Crow South (I lived there as a youth). It had an offensive…

I report you decide. I was reading some comments about Obama’s non-apology for his totally correct statement about values voters in Pennsylvania. The following comments seem a little off key to me. What do you think? USAF Sr. Airman April 11th, 2008 10:09 pm ET I’m from Pennsylvania. I lost my civilian job due to…

Barry Obama takes a lesson from Obi-wan Kenobi. Too funny for words. So you will just have to click the link and watch the video. H/T Backyard Conservative Cross Posted at Power and Control

I was reading Alan Greenspan on the current economic crisis. A number of economic heavy hitters voiced their opinions and I couldn’t resist adding mine. I’m a layman in these matters so take my comment for what it is worth. It seems to me that what is being argued is what the proper judgment in…

Who is exhausted by Islam? The young in Iraq are exhausted by Islam. BAGHDAD — After almost five years of war, many young people in Iraq, exhausted by constant firsthand exposure to the violence of religious extremism, say they have grown disillusioned with religious leaders and skeptical of the faith that they preach. In two…

Megan McArdle is discussing the failure (or lack thereof) of the media when it comes to the John Yoo memos on the legality of torture for American troops facing irregular combatants. The comments are extensive. With the usual Bush is Hitler slant. I have a little different opinion. When people don’t even know (so many…

Two hundred billion barrels of oil have been discovered in North Dakota. America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America’s Oil reserves…

Lawrence O’Donnell Jr. imagines what it would be like with a deadlocked convention in Denver. Totally hilarious. Or is that Hillaryous? Any way, since this is a gay friendly blog I’m going to give you the opening scene. FROM THE BLACK, we hear noises, confusing sounds. Grunting? Groaning? Sex? A massage? A workout? Weight lifting?…

Carl from Chicago Boyz is discussing the looming collapse of the electrical power grid in Britain and how it relates to what is happening in America. There is a looming electricity crisis that is about to overtake the United States. While our demand for electricity continues to increase due to construction, computers (data centers take…

Jamal at Stop Obama has a white hot piece up critiquing Barack Hussein Obama. I’m just going to give you a taste from in the middle. But read the whole thing. As with all the verbiage coming out of the reptilian stems of Farrakhans and Wrights, too many folks who should be thinking, are listening…

Fortunately the Marines are a Branch of the US Navy (my service) or I would be really worried. Well any way, this is a tribute to all my jarhead friends. Semper Fi. Get some. Update: Some related news from Vodka Pundit From far outside the safety of the Green Zone, Michael Totten reports: I stepped…

The Volokh Conspiracy is discussing whether juries should be informed of the sentences that accompany a crime. Here is what I think: I think introducing some common law standards back into our judicial system through jury nullification is a good thing. Will the results always be good? Well no. But neither is our current system…

Juanita Gonzales, a Clinton supporter, says that you need to get over Your White Guilt. Obama’s ascent rests on White America’s Guilt Ridden identity, a Guilt reaching into all forms of speech and action deemed racist or insulting forming part of a totalitarian race regime mostly enforced against Whites, but to which we are all…

The Assistant Village Idiot has three posts up about sending signals Social By Politicians Among Friends Let me quote a bit from the first piece to give you the flavor. Sophia has the office next to mine. She is a Christian conservative of slightly different flavor – chocolate chip to my vanilla, perhaps. Her window…

Mark Penn is a public relations guy working in the Clinton Campaign. He also does PR work for Colombia. And guess what? The Colombians are not happy. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Colombian government said Saturday it has fired Mark Penn’s public relations firm after the chief campaign strategist for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for…

I especially like the idea that “Freedom is the Inalienable Right of Mankind” – illustrated by our first Republican President and echoing the first line of the Gettysburg address. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all…

I recently posted on the Biofuels Scam. So let us see whose fingerprints are on this scam that is starving children and causing the destruction of the rain forests. Time Magazine has the scoop. …on Nov. 6, at a biodiesel plant in Newton, Iowa, Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled an eye-popping plan that would require all…