Author: Dave

Thomas Jefferson: “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” Camille Paglia: “Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.” Camille Paglia: “The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they’re dead…

The Elements. A song by Tom Lehrer. Cross Posted at Power and Control and at The Astute Bloggers

I have been wondering for a long time why the Black Community supports the drug war, which is doing so much damage to that community. My old friend Cliff Thornton provides an answer. Cliff comes at politics from a Green point of view, but he is spot on about this one. Racism, classism, and the…

My search for facts was prompted by this post by my friend Eric at Classical Values. I have found a few. First off let me say that of all the main stream reporters so far Jason Whitlock has actually done his homework. Now we love Mychal Bell, the star of the 2006 Jena (La.) High…

Michael Totten visited Ramadi in Anbar and reports. “It was nothing we did,” said Marine Lieutenant Colonel Drew Crane who was visiting for the day from Fallujah. “The people here just couldn’t take it anymore.” What he said next surprised me even more than what I was seeing. “You know what I like most about…

Gateway Pundit has an explosive bit of news on the Hsu scandal. Ever since Hsu became a major fundraiser, there have been notable similarities between his and Hochberg/Lillian Vernon’s contributions that strain the limits of coincidence. Not only is there significant overlap among several far-flung candidates who wouldn’t typically be of much interest to New…

Over at Climate Audit they are discussing “Miscalculation, poor study design or self-serving data analysis”. Let me relate this to my current field of study – Nuclear Fusion. The big money is going into projects like ITER (the US is spending something like $200 to $400 mil a year on this project). All the scientists…

The New York Sun reports that a prominent Saudi cleric, Salman al-Awdah, once praised by Osama has turned against him. Howerver, that is not the most interesing point of the article. Mr. al-Awdah asks, “Have we reduced Islam to a bullet or a rifle? Has the means become an end?” The editor of an Arabic…

We do rock music a lot around here. Here is a short piece (about 40 seconds) of some Gabrielli. I was not able to track down which of the Gabriellis wrote this (Som Metal – is the name of the ensemble) so if any one has a clue leave a comment. Was it Giovanni Gabrielli…

So I’m reading Stuart Taylor guest blogging over at The Volokh Conspiracy and one commenter notes that a previous guest blogger only lasted for two posts. No disrespect to her but maybe she was unfamiliar with the level of discourse on the blogging medium? Well yeah. So my friend Eric at Classical Values makes a…

The New York Times has a bit up on the Canon (Culture) Wars and how they have affected academia. It centers around a discussion of Alan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. Today it’s generally agreed that the multiculturalists won the canon wars. Reading lists were broadened to include more works by women and…

I was a Navy man before it went co-ed. Dang. H/T Villainous Company.

The melting of Arctic sea ice has caused the North West Passage to open up again. The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean along the northern coast of North America via the waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The various islands of the archipelago are…

From: The Victory Caucus – A Gathering of Eagles. The url on the poster leads you to The People’s Cube. A most amusing site. Cross Posted at The Astute Bloggers

Eric says the mere mention of the following names gets him in trouble with long time readers. Since I’m looking for trouble. Vince Foster           Ron Brown Bring it on.

That’s right. There is Nazi S&M porn in Hebrew. Written by Jews. In lurid comic book style. Read under the table by a generation of pubescent Israelis, often the children of survivors, the Stalags were named for the World War II prisoner-of-war camps in which they were set. The books told perverse tales of captured…

This essay Freedom Fetishists by Kay Hymowitz is making the rounds in libertarian and conservative circles. Ilya Somin of the Volokh Conspiracy has some things to say about Kay Hymowitz, Libertarianism, and Lifestyle Excesses: To reiterate a simple but oft-misunderstood point: that which should be legal is not coextensive with that which is desirable or…

Because I was attacked that day. Zell Miller at the Republican National Convention 2004 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

It seems a new Osama tape has surfaced and bin Laden is really pissed with the Democrats. “People of America: the world is following your news in regards to your invasion of Iraq, for people have recently come to know that, after several years of tragedies of this war, the vast majority of you want…