Author: Simon

Eric Dondero of Libertarian Republican in the comments at Independent Political Report is discussing the 2008 Election. He talks about how Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr was surging in August and then explains why McCain chose Palin. …why did Bob Barr get only 525,000 votes, versus the 2 to 3 million he was well on his…

Dede has endorsed the Democrat the race for Representative of the New York 23rd District. Dede Scozzafava, the Republican and Independence Parties’ candidate for the 23rd Congressional District of New York state who suspended her campaign Saturday, announced moments ago she was throwing her support behind Democrat candidate Bill Owens rather than the Conservative Party’s…

An Orthodox Jewish family shelters a gay Palestinian. Here’s a wild story, courtesy of YNet. T is a gay Palestinian who for the past 10 years has been living in Israel with his partner, an Israeli Jew named Doron. A few days ago, he heard that his father was ill, and he ventured across the…

She has dropped out. Republican state Assemblywoman Dierdre Scozzafava has suspended her campaign for upstate New York’s 23rd Congressional District seat, giving a possible boost to Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman against Democrat Bill Owens, Fox News has confirmed. The move comes on the heels of a new poll that showed Scozzafava had fallen behind…

Julian Murdoch thinks oil supply and demand are out of whack. OPEC has publicly stated that they believe inventories in developed OECD countries to be equal to roughly 61 days of demand–a number OPEC is none too happy about. They’d prefer the world to be constantly on the brink of running out (that is, 55…

Given the Choice between a Communist and a Culture Warrior I’ll take the Communist. Why? Because a Communist might admit that a policy doesn’t work. A Culture Warrior will say: God Says. Making the Culture Warrior immune to reason. For the most part. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Sarah Palin endorsed Doug Hoffman in the New York 23rd District House of Representatives race on October 23rd and now the Republican Party is getting behind him. The House Republican leadership is prepared to welcome Doug Hoffman into its ranks, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) said Thursday, a sign that the GOP…

I got a really interesting comment to my post A Libertine Speaks. Even though I spent many years active in the Church, preaching and having a music ministry, once I got old enough to realize I didn’t have all the answers, I didn’t want any church elders having influence in law. Law should only be…

There is some relatively new sciece out about the origins of oil and natural gas. ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2009) — Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have managed to prove that fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for crude oil and natural gas to be generated. The findings are…

Tom Donohue of the US Chamber of Commerce has a few things to say about the Obama Administration not offering them a seat at the table. “I did an interview a couple of week ago, and somebody said, ‘Well, the White House says that you’ve become Dr. No and you are going to lose your…

Eric Olsen of Technorati interviews Andrew Breitbart at Technorati. And a delightful video it is. Worth fifty minutes if you are interested in the state of the culture, the state of politics and how the two intersect. Andrew Breitbart who broke the ACORN child prostitution scandal talks about his happy time on the left (about…

Peter Moskos of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition takes a look at what the drug war means from a law enforcement perspective. As a police officer, I responded when citizens called 911 to report drug dealing. Those calls didn’t tell me much, though, because I already knew the drug corners. And what could I do? When…

Now compare what he says near the end of this two minute video to what is said 36 minutes in to the video that can be found here. And also carefully note that he doesn’t hold the Legislature of California totally to blame. He says the voters are driving the problem. Also note that Bill…

The gentlemen and gentlewomen at Talk Polywell have come across a couple of major finds. The first is a discussion of American energy security and its military implications. Energy & National Security: An Exploration of Threats, Solutions, and Alternative Futures [pdf]. Abstract – Findings of multiple Department of Defense (DoD) studies and other sources indicate…

I found an interesting comment at The statists’ fear and loathing of the Oath Keepers. In the end, too, we can always lean back on this concept with the control freaks, a concept which Vanderboegh makes brilliantly: the instant that the law fails to protect us from the state, making it null and void–that being…

I never thought I would say that. Ever. But when confronted with a fundamental challenge to the free press in America the press did not cave. Obama caved. Moe Lane has a few words on the dust up. So this administration had what passes for a brainstorm among that group: now that they’ve made it…

Yesterday I covered the New York 23rd District’s Congressional race in my post: The Revolution Starts Here. The race pits “Republican” Dierdre Scozzafava against Democrat Bill Owens and Conservative Party of New York candidate Douglas L. Hoffman. As you know from my previous report Scozzafava is to the left of many Democrat Congress persons. i.e…

The Tea Parties are not Republican friendly according to the Wall Street Journal. The rise of conservative “tea party” activists around the country has created a dilemma for Republicans. They are breathing life into the party’s quest to regain power. But they’re also waging war on some candidates hand-picked by GOP leaders as the most…

I have a new article up at ECN Magazine on experiments testing out the possibilities of a Mach-Einstein Drive. I call it: Maching Einstein. Why is this important? If the experiments work (and even if they don’t) we will learn more about how our universe is constructed. If they do work we can get propulsion…

Since the White House has declared War on Fox News I’m putting a link to Fox News near the top of my sidebar at Power and Control. I suggest all bloggers against Government Censorship do the same. Cross Posted at Power and Control