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I’m pretty sure Glenn suggested the 50% surtax on people leaving gov’t for the private sector at least partly in jest, but the more I think about the idea the more it seems to deserve serious consideration. There is a huge problem in Washington with regulatory capture; it affects everything from Fannie and Freddie to…

As it happens, right now I am over 2400 miles away from home. Not much to say, but here’s a picture I took alongside the road: And here I am with “California Dog”:   And that’s all the time I have for laptop bloging.

Instapundit has a bit up by a nuclear “expert” who says that Going Nuclear Is Safe and Right: Michigan Professor. If you follow the link to the original article, you will find video and text. In the video the “expert” says that shutting down the nuclear industry in Germany, Italy and Switzerland is a very…

Sometimes as a parent, you have to take a step back and wonder “Did I cause this?  What caused this?  And… if the world finds out… will they surround the house and throw stones through the windows?” One of these moments was when I found out my older son was doing a comic called Ninja…

Iowahawk tweeted the POTUS during the town hall, but responses were not forthcoming. Sample queries: Let’s say instead of winning the future, we end up in a tie. Do we then go to sudden death overtime? Would you get tougher with Iran if you knew they were working with Scott Walker? My own questions of…

“ETEC” is one of those wonderful sounding acronyms they use to describe a well-funded Atlanta Public School reform program. Atlanta Public Schools and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $10 million investment in the next phase of the district’s 10-year-old school reform program – the Effective Teacher in Every Classroom (ETEC) Initiative. The…

Via Glenn Reynolds, I saw Michael Barone’s analysis of a Sixth Circuit decision overturning Michigan’s Civil Rights Initiative: It’s racially discriminatory to prohibit racial discrimination. That’s the bottom line of a decision issued Friday, just before the Fourth of July weekend, by the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. The case was…

The bounty on dopers has reached such incredible heights that the Drug Warriors are now killing old men for operating funds. The invaders who murdered Hampton, Virginia resident William Cooper swiped about $900 in cash. They seized his gun collection. They took the Lexus from his driveway. By some oversight they neglected to extract the…

I don’t know how many of you know I’ve been nominated/a finalist for half a dozen awards or so over my career.  My very first book was a finalist for the Mythopoeic, and Soul of Fire AND A Death In Gascony were finalists for a Colorado Book Award. This is why I didn’t get too excited…

As I often wonder why I hate politics so much, I was intrigued by Thomas Sowell’s recent observations: It is hard to understand politics if you are hung up on reality. Politicians leave reality to others. What matters in politics is what you can get the voters to believe, whether it bears any resemblance to…

   The United States of America is the most revolutionary land based on the most revolutionary idea in the history of mankind. A year before I married my husband, my best friend from childhood married a Frenchman. She became a French citizen the year before I became an American citizen, and for her that meant…

Here’s a thought from Glenn Reynolds, writing in the Washington Examiner:  If there’s one issue you care about a lot, get involved there. Gun rights activism crosses party lines, but has had a major influence in expanding liberty — over the past decade, the growth of Second Amendment rights has been one of the major…

Has discussing crime or crime statistics become a new taboo? For some time, real estate agents have been forbidden to disclose crime statistics in a neighborhood of interest to a potential buyer: According to the guidelines of the Fair Housing Act and preventing blockbusting, real estate agents are not supposed to discuss the crime statistics…

It isn’t every day I get photographed with a tyrant, but it happened today. Here I am at the Toledo Art Museum with Domitian. I’d almost rather have a Republican looking over my shoulder.

I brought up the question of abortion and as usual the usual pointless discussion ensued. A couple of my conservative friends chimed in and all they could talk about is philosophy and morality. I, being a more practical sort due to my engineering training, would prefer to talk policing. Or if you will: what can…

I think it is unconscionably cruel of Mediaite to make Rick Sanchez publicly humiliate himself with a column this way. I mean, come on guys. Have mercy. He was fired from CNN, and he’s probably really sorry about the paralyzed kid he ran over and the whole “Jews control the media” thing. Let the poor…

I am delighted to report that my proposal for sex withholding to force Ann Arbor to repair its roads (as is being done in Barbacoas, Colombia) was linked by P.D. Lesko’s A2Politico, Ann Arbor’s leading political blog. Better yet, an important classical reference was added. Withholding sex to induce behavioral compliance is a very old…

Coco has a new friend. A baby bulldog named Woodson is staying next door for at least a few days. Coco is quite taken with the wrinkly little chap and wishes he’d move in permanently. (He leaps into my lap and showers me with slobbery bulldog kisses, and has repeatedly tried to follow me home.)…

For liner notes you can visit the YouTube page. The lead, Paul Kantner was 70 on March 17, 2011. This was recorded March 20, 2011. Also available in 1080p.

Here’s an annoyance which has happened one time too many. The problem of disappearing cash register receipts! I have been in the middle of a long project for which I need to save receipts (both for tax purposes and in case things need to be returned), and when I was going through receipts yesterday, I…