Author: Simon

As you know I have covered the Sarah Palin Hong Kong speech in a previous post. Neil sent me an e-mail link to this take on her speech. Melvin Goodé , a regional marketing consultant, thought Mrs. Palin chose Hong Kong because, he said, it was “a place where things happen and where freedom can…

Sarah Palin gave a speech in Hong Kong. She blamed the Government for the financial mess we are in. You can call me a common-sense conservative. My approach to the issues facing my country and the world, issues that we’ll discuss today, are rooted in this common-sense conservatism… Common sense conservatism deals with the reality…

The most transparent Congress evah does not want to put the bills it votes on online 3 days before a vote. Especially not the health care bill. Senate Finance Committee Democrats have rejected a GOP amendment that would have required a health overhaul bill to be available online for 72 hours before the committee votes.…

This was made in 1933. Marijuana was made illegal in 1937. Harry Anslinger was the front man for the effort to make marijuana illegal. Harry Anslinger (1892-1975) was the first US drug czar. Anslinger was appointed to the newly created position of Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics on August 12, 1930 and he…

ECN Magazine has an article up on Polywell and other small fusion efforts. You will never guess who the author is. Heh. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Howard Wooldridge, a retired police officer who is against the drug war, had this to say about his experience at the 9/12 March Against Washington (via e-mail). “Resistance continues to crumble: How conservative does one have to be to board a bus & travel all night to go to a march on Washington on September…

I always thought that the thing to do was to bless people in the hope that they would see the light. These “Values Voters” from 2007 don’t seem to see things that way. The New York Times reports on the 2009 Values Voters Summit. The Times does have some good news for us libertarian types.…

Here is what ACORN had to say about Mr. Obama. Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he ever ran for office. Thus, it was natural for many…

The New York Times passes on the rumor that Obama has asked New York Governor David Patterson to withdraw from the New York Governor’s Race. President Obama has sent a request to Gov. David A. Paterson that he withdraw from the New York governor’s race, fearing that Mr. Paterson cannot recover from his dismal political…

Eric at Classical Values was discussing the efforts to maginalize Glenn Beck. In that piece Eric also mentions the Drug Warriors on the right. Reality of course is much more hilarious than anything I could imagine. Instapundit shows that the Democrats are using Glenn (who claims to be a libertarian) to make fun of the…

The group doing the singing is The Weavers. Pete Seeger was a member. Pete was a at one time a communist and as far as I know he is still on the left (he did repudiate Stalin). H/T R. Dave via e-mail Cross Posted at Power and Control

These folks are not native Hebrew speakers. They don’t do the hard “ch” right. Still. I loved it! Klezmer style – Mickey Katz would be proud. (check out “Kiss of Meyer” a Yiddish classic I loved as a kid) Here are some Chinese who do the hard “ch” (Ashkenazi pronunciation) better. Funny. They don’t look…

By now you are familiar with the ACORN Child Prostitution ring scandal. If not watch this video. Or you could watch this video. Among others. Well ACORN is embarrassed and plans to investigate what went wrong and who is to blame. ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees “indefensible,” has suspended advising new…

American Thinker has an interesting article up about the 9/12 protests. Several in the comments noted that it was a movement with no leader. That got me thinking about the Marxist concept of the Vanguard of the Proletariat. Or in more common parlance – Leaders of the Revolution. What we saw on 9/12 turns that…

This has been making the rounds. I thought it might be good to have those who missed it see it. Also watch Part 2. This is so utterly depraved that it beggars belief. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not a fan of prostitution (loveless sex doesn’t interest me), but if adults want to engage…

Mary Katharine Ham and Uncle Jimbo cover the March Against Washington. H/T Ace Of Spades Cross Posted at Power and Control

Ed Driscoll has a few things to say about the fall of the mainstream media. He quotes from John Nolte. Mainstream news outlets have been caught off guard before, but they used to play catch up. Today they play “hide the ball.” For as long as I’ve been politically aware the media’s been biased, but…

In the not too distant future police will be drawing blood from suspect motorists. No consent required. When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he’ll pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the driver’s arms, as…

Buford C. Terrell is discussing how prohibition really works and gives the example of prostitution in America. Prostitution has been prohibited in most of the United States (all except for a small part of Nevada) for over a century, but prostitutes can be found working in virtually every town and city in the country. In…

EMC2 has gotten almost eight million dollars to do further experimentation on the Polywell Fusion concept. Energy Matter Conversion Corp., (EMC2)*, Santa Fe, N.M., is being awarded a $7,855,504 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for research, analysis, development, and testing in support of the Plan Plasma Fusion (Polywell) Project. Efforts under this Recovery Act award will validate the…