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Commenter Forgotten Man at The Belmont Club had this to say about how to win the battle in Afghanistan: …things like opium growing and Heroin production need to be stopped. Yes. Of course. We have been working on stopping it for 96 years so far and real soon now we will have success. Or we…

From time to time, my attention is drawn to an American political philosophy I consider downright scary, and that is “Declarationism.” What scares me is idea is that the Constitution is not actually the supreme law of the land (even though it plainly states that it is), but that it is actually subordinated to the…

This blog is now seven years old. And lo and behold, the “Culture War” has not only not ended, it’s become virtually impossible to define. Which makes my “work” easier and harder at the same time. That silly thing at the top still says “End the Culture War by Restoring Classical Values.” It was meant…

When I saw Glenn Reynolds’ link to a post titled “Is it His Katrina Yet?,” I assumed that it would be about the disastrous flooding in Nashville. Instead, it was about the oil spill. William A. Jacobson documents a horror story of “bungled permitting, delays in response, and understating the impact” and asks, What will…

I’m wondering about the ethics surrounding hard drives. I don’t mean legal ethics so much as personal ethics. I have bought a variety of computer parts on ebay and in a local building material salvage yard, and I seem to have this uncanny knack for winding up with hard drives just loaded with personal information…

I was reading the comments at this Victor Davis Hanson piece and came across an interesting set of observations on the state of the economy. 14. Foobarista As for the “gray market” in California, I’m convinced that regulators – and politicians – are well aware of its existence and don’t want to touch it. My…

While the “What is being gay?” poll I created in an earlier post did not mention bisexuality specifically, it was hardly my goal to erase the concept from discussion. Especially when I saw Eugene Volokh’s discussion of “bisexual erasure” (in the related context of Elena Kagan — whose sexuality seems undetermined): ….the great majority of…

One of the fringe benefits of having a dog like Coco is never having to worry about terrifying incidents like this: STRONGSVILLE ANIMAL COMPLAINT, DRAKE ROAD: Residents called police because they were trapped in their home by a temperamental squirrel. The squirrel was desperate to get in the house, according to the residents. The squirrel…

Roger L. Simon has a very thoughtful piece about Laura Bush’s support for gay marriage. Yes, that Laura Bush. The former first lady. Barack Obama is now to the right of her on this issue. She proclaimed that support in her characteristic well-mannered, low-keyed fashion on Larry King Live. (Okay, nobody’s perfect.) I even had…

That’s what I wondered when I read about a disgusting children’s event in Berkeley, in an article titled “Middle School Brainwashing: Would MLK Approve of Holocaust Denial and Anti-Semitism?” The event features a notoriously anti-Semitic rapper named Lowkey, and one of the most viciously anti-Israel activists in the world — a man named Norman Finkelstein…

A horrible carjacking in Detroit resulted in the tragic death of an innocent grandmother, but the headline and the focus of the front page story in today’s Detroit Free Press is on a bullet. They really make it stand out too. Geraldine Jackson was happy her granddaughter was back from the South. To welcome her…

Dr. Housing Bubble is looking at the state of the real estate market. It is not good. Not good at all. Let me start with a quote that explains the above chart. The ultimate sign of housing distress is foreclosure. This should be obvious. So for all the talk of a housing recovery I point…

La Raza means The Race. And some people call Tea Partiers racist. The gentleman in the video wants to take back the lands stolen from Mexico. In 1848. The war that started in 1846 was over whether Texas could join the Union ( Mexico was against it) and what the boundary with Mexico would be.…

Zombie has a great PJM post about the fatwa head-butting attack on Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, and I share his indignation, not only over the attack, but over the fact that people in the room cheered. People who believe in killing people for expressing ideas of which they disapprove are enemies of civilization itself. The…

Amidst the hubbub over Elena Kagan’s sexuality (or lack thereof), there’s a question which isn’t being asked by anyone, which I would call the question about the question. What is gay? Think it’s easy to define? I’d be willing to bet that if you polled most people, their answers would vary. Even the readers here…

Anyone remember the rumors about Condoleezza Rice? While I thought they were silly at the time, I can’t stop my thoughts from wandering back to not that long ago: The Enquirer described its article as “the ultimate guessing game among Hollywood fans – trying to figure out which big-name stars are gay”. The report went…

I’m still waiting to see a Conservative stance on the drug war: “We should do the conservative thing and go back to the way things were before Progressives screwed it up with their ideas of prohibiting plants and plant extracts in order to gain moral uplift.” Conservatism these days is not a thought out ideology.…

I can’t make the celebration at the Dal&iacute Museum in St. Petersburg, but Salvador Dal&iacute would be 106 today. In his honor, I thought I’d scan in a couple of images which don’t seem to be on the Internet anywhere. This one is from 1974 and is titled “Transformation.” Unfortunately, the entire image is a…

The recently passed Health Care initiative is already raising medical insurance costs. Letting young adults stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26 will nudge premiums nearly 1 percent higher for employer plans, the government said in an estimate released Monday. The coverage requirement, effective starting later this year, is one of the…

Not that the world was wondering, but I don’t give a damn about Supreme Court pick Elena Kagan’s sexuality. And while I don’t like her liberal, anti-military philosophy, that would typify anyone of her background, many of whom would be worse. So I haven’t felt especially compelled to write about her. Until today, that is.…