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I’m confused. What better place to start than with an admission like that? Thinking over a comment I left last night, along with earlier related posts, and something really basic began to not compute at a definitional level. There is an argument going around, which is being widely repeated and embellished upon by ever more…

The weather has dealt a blow to food prices and not in a good way. Prices are going up. Food inflation driven by freezing weather in Florida during December and in Mexico during February, is hitting the US supermarkets in the coming day’s. Sysco sent out an alert that announced an “Act of God”, to…

That is correct. A Russian company named ARMZ has bought two uranium mines in Wyoming. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the license transfer of two Wyoming mines to a Russian company, despite concerns over national security raised by local and national government officials including senior House Republicans. From the Telegram: Two uranium mines in…

There appears to be a thriving medical marijuana industry in Michigan and the police are real unhappy about it. Earlier this month, police in Oakland County, Michigan raided a medical marijuana dispensary in the town of Oak Park. The deputies came in with guns drawn and bulletproof vests, with at least one wearing a mask.…

In the last hour or so (see update) I have gotten some evidence to support my position so I thought a cross post was in order. === I see a lot of this phrase (or similar) “only social conservatives can be fiscal conservatives” in comments on various posts around the ‘net. Cynthia Yockey has an…

Not far from where I live, some local University of Michigan students have created a large Sphinx out of snow, and I took a few pictures earlier. A view from the front: A side view: And a view from the rear: Aside from having fun with the show, I suspect the goal of the students…

Does liking rap music dull your intelligence? No. But it may indicate that your intelligence is already dull. Like the Americans, the British teens who scored high marks for intelligence were more likely than their peers to prefer instrumental music, but no more likely to enjoy vocal selections. Now, Beethoven symphonies are far more complex…

I’ll take a gang of outlaw bikers who will fight (guaranteed) over the effetes in Washington. The above is a response to the author and commenters at: A Letter from a Fearfully Concerned Muslim. H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

I get a ton of spam, and it’s a very annoying process to have to scroll through the comments labeled as spam in order to save and then publish the “good” ones. The spams outnumber the goods by a ratio of 20 to 1, and it’s easy to make a mistake. My apologies to all…

Andrew Breitbart threw a party at CPAC for GOProud, and Roger L. Simon was there. He called it as close to a game changer as things get: The party staged by Andrew Breitbart for GOProud — the gay Republican and conservative group — was as close to a game changer as things get and the…

Glenn linked and embedded a hilarious Reason video inspired by a very unwise statement that Hillary Clinton should not have made: Recently, during an interview with Mexico’s Televisa, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that the United States can’t legalize drugs “because there is just too much money in it.” The video is titled “The…

Was my title eye-catching enough? Remember when not long ago journalists were supposed to stop using violent metaphorical language to characterize political occurrences? Well, over at Memeorandum this morning, I saw a link to an delightfully irresistible headline: Rumsfeld knifes Condi I know Rumsfeld is one of those mean and vicious Neo-Cons, but did he…

We have rules. Traditional rules. From Leviticus 10:6 Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled. From Leviticus 11:7-8 And the swine, though he divide the hoof,…

Irrational traditionalism (we have always done it this way) can be a fetish. An excuse for lack of study and thought. We used to laugh at South Sea Islanders for their Taboos when I was a kid. The idea was so popular they named a perfume after it. And yet we have in politics a…

It’s not a good sign when your project deadline is looming and your to-do list is still growing rather than shrinking. In lieu of time-consuming commentary grasping desperately at some sort of insight, here’s some hopefully-interesting links. Note to Krugman: this is what structural unemployment looks like.  I’m ready for my fakon shamburger.  Vouchers buy…

One of the more ridiculous side effects of the debate over gay marriage is the way it has tended to sexualize politics on both sides. To the majority of liberal activists and to an ever-increasing number of social conservative activists, a consensus has emerged that human sexuality should be part of a political litmus test. …

The kind of victory that brings defeat is a Pyrrhic Victory. I’m going to discuss a few things before I show you why that idea is important to the general flow of American politics. This thought train was inspired by a discussion at What If They Gave A Revolution And You Didn’t Show Up? A…

  I got so angry when I saw Glenn’s link to a Reason piece about the FCC’s latest attempt to regulate the Internet that I had to calm down before I could write a post. That’s because the jurisdictional power grab may already be a done deal: Genachowski [close friend, basketball buddy, Harvard Law classmate,…

In a discussion of the GOP Presidential field (with a chart) commenter Ken Mitchell has this to say: OK, this graph is CLEARLY bogus. Huckabee is a religious populist, and isn’t ANY kind of a conservative. He’s a big spending big government guy, and the only difference between Huckabee and Obama is what they plan…

As regular readers know, I am anything but a sports fan. However, in the two years I’ve been in Ann Arbor, I have developed quite a taste for college football, at least when the Wolverines are playing. That taste, however, did not translate into excitement for Sunday’s Superbowl. I tried to watch it, but I…