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Not only do I completely agree with Glenn Reynolds that the Republicans should not get cocky, I think the avoidance of cockiness ought to be Rule Number One in politics. In fact, I don’t even think that winning an election is a license to get cocky. Even less is it a license to be a…

Tom Friedman, champion of central planning: China is doing moon shots. Yes, that’s plural. When I say “moon shots” I mean big, multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing investments. China has at least four going now: one is building a network of ultramodern airports; another is building a web of high-speed trains connecting major cities; a third is…

As a libertarian who opposes the drug war, I voted in favor of the Michigan Marijuana initiative out of simple reflex, not because I thought it would result in legalization (relegalization, really) of that particular substance, but because it was a step in that direction. Interestingly, what I saw as an argument for the Initiative…

Over the last few days I have been piecing together a number of reports on the Iranian nuclear efforts. The reports lead me to some interesting conclusions/speculations. More on the conclusions/speculations later. First let me start with the breakdown of Iran’s enrichment centrifuges from July of this year. Iran has suffered a series of technical…

RTFM H/T Diogenes via e-mail Cross Posted at Power and Control

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Matthew Yglesias, writing about the case of a girl with a tragic medical condition, is typically confused: It’s true that covering Emily will mean slightly higher costs for everyone whose kids don’t get sick. But this is how insurance is supposed to work. No, Matt, that’s not what insurance is for, that’s what socialism is…

The above video is pretty much all you need to understand the gist of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers. The politics is somewhat (an understatement) more convoluted. So what has happened to bring all this into the news? The Washington Post reports. A veteran Justice Department lawyer accused his agency Friday…

Can’t the Democrats do anything right? I mean, consider that the biggest White House scandal yet (dubbed “Panthergate“) has become impossible to ignore, with even Justice Department officials calling the case a “travesty of justice”. And just as Christopher Coates, former voting chief for the department’s Civil Rights Division was “testifying in a long-awaited appearance…

Will there be a reopening of the war between North and South Korea soon? Some people think so. In Moscow’s bleakest assessment of the situation on the Korean peninsula yet, Russian deputy foreign minister Alexei Borodavkin said tensions between the two countries were running at their highest and most dangerous level in a decade. “Tensions…

H/T Hill Buzz. Some gay guys I can really get behind. Heh. Cross Posted at Power and Control

When I was awakened early this morning, I made the mistake of turning on the TV in the hope of being bored into drowsiness so I could go back to sleep. I turned on C-SPAN, thinking that boring speeches would do the trick. Big mistake. Instead of boring speeches, I was greeted by passionate, in-your-face…

A really interesting thing has happened on the way to the election. PJTV’s Tea Party TV today unveiled the results of a special Tea Party poll, which revealed that about one-in-three (32%) African Americans who are likely voters would vote for a candidate supported by the Tea Party movement. “Questions of racism within the Tea…

I’m not sure of the cause but I must say Republicans have much better script writers this year. H/T Hill Buzz Cross Posted at Power and Control

It has come to my attention that there is a contingent in the nation interested in hippie punching [in the comments]. It has become so pervasive that Instapundit has noticed the trend. Well some of us hippies are from the Peace, Love, Watch Out MOFOs contingent of hippiedom. i.e. firm believers in armed non-violence. Unless…

A friend emailed me a link to this post about Republican senators keeping Lisa Murkowski in her position of seniority despite the fact that she was roundly rejected by Alaska Republicans in the primary election. My friend was so infuriated that he sent Joe Miller $100 on the spot (he also says he wished he’d…

Note that Christine O’Donnell and Rand Paul get face time in the video. And this is an official Republican spot? I like it. H/T McCain – you know – the other one Cross Posted at Power and Control

I had never heard a live version of this (well it is a kind of a medly) before. I like it. I must say that I miss Grace. But this girl makes up in enthusiasm what she lacks in Grace’s talent. And the graphics on this one are spectacular:

You know. I would really hate to see it happen but this may be a case where God needs to sort these folks out. I think I have a slogan appropriate for the age. “Give me liberty or I’ll give you death.” Update: 24 Sept. 1010, 0119z Instapundit links to a piece by Austin Bay…