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Over the years, I’ve had fun ridiculing nonsensical phrases that get bandied about by the left, such as “POVERTY IS VIOLENCE.” But it never occurred to me that anyone would attempt to link skepticism to violence until I saw this editorial by Rush Limbaugh: The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama…

I can’t believe it’s been over a year since I wrote a post about the refusal of the LA Times to release a much-sought video tape which showed Barack Obama at a dinner honoring the notorious former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi. At the time I speculated that it was probably because Ayers was there —…

Arizona has become a Birther State. Not full fledged so far. Only the Arizona House has passed the bill. Even by the measure of Arizona’s long history of conservatism, the past week has been extraordinary. In the past six days, the legislature has passed the nation’s strictest anti-illegal immigration bill, a law permitting concealed weapons,…

Via Ann Althouse, a writer who takes himself far too seriously lays viciously into her, then indicts bloggers in general: We who labor at turning dead trees into public knowledge feel some obligation to make the sacrifice of the atmosphere-cleansing, oxygen-producing creatures worthwhile. It’s possible that the theoretical infinity of cyberspace encourages throwing whatever is…

I know I shouldn’t watch TV, but in the wee hours of the morning the other night, I woke up, went downstairs and turned on the damned thing in the hope of inducing drowsiness. As I flipped through the channels, my attention was drawn to one of those sensationalistic animal attack programs, this one being…

Politics is a real drag, and I hate it. But last night I dragged myself to a Tea Party meeting and fund raiser. I wasn’t in the greatest mood, and I have a long history of being immensely turned off by political meetings of any sort. Still, this weird sense of duty made me go…

Along with countless people, my email account with Verizon has been down for two days now. I have spent a lot of time on the phone in India talking with people who have absolutely no ability to do anything except tell me that I am talking to the wrong people. My problem is that I…

I love buffoonery, and former ACORN boss Bertha “bowel movement” Lewis wins the prize for the most bombastic hyperbolic buffoonery imaginable: Any of these groups that says, “I’m young, I’m Democratic, and I’m a socialist,” is okay with me. You know that’s no light thing to do — to actually say, I’m a socialist. You’ve…

I’m not sure exactly what to do with this one, but I’ve had it staring me in the face, and I hate the feeling that if I don’t write about it I might be censoring myself. Or worse, censoring the censoring of the latest love that dare not speak its name — in the name…

And now for something I know will out-thrill all my thrilling blog posts; a update about my ongoing adventure in Jack Dempsey cichlid husbandry. (Or maybe that should be parentage? I’d hate to pollute the institution of marriage any further than it’s already been polluted!) Anyway, while I haven’t yet made a video of the…

Were I to use the word “conservative” to describe myself, I would be more comfortable to modify it with another descriptor, and while “libertarian conservative” immediately comes to mind, this report renews my enthusiasm for the term (and the book) “South Park conservative.” A radical Islamic website is warning the creators of “South Park” that…

Purchasing Magazine is ceasing publication. Reed Elsevier, parent company of Purchasing, announced today that it is closing Purchasing and the magazine’s website, purchasing.com, as well as most of its other U.S. publications, effective immediately. The closing is part of a broad divestiture that itself is part of a restructuring of the London-based Reed Elsevier. The…

I keep reading about the cross-dressing threat to our nation’s children, and I find myself wondering about the meaning of the term. I don’t think it’s inherently sexist language in the purely logical sense, but as applied, “cross dressing” almost exclusively means men dressing as women. Similarly, the word “transvestite” is almost never applied to…

Back in 1995, Bill Clinton blamed conservative radio talk show hosts for the horrific act of terrorism committed by Timothy McVeigh. I will never forget how he singled out G. Gordon Liddy by name, and his argument back then was not much different than it is now. These people created a climate that led to…

Glenn Reynolds linked a very thoughtful post by Sean Kinsell, and the thoughtless comments Sean is getting do not endear me to the people making them. Anyway, I’m too tired to get into the details, but in a minor aside to a post, Sean attempted to explain why local Japanese might be uncomfortable about a…

While I normally don’t like to write posts about something that is already under discussion in a previous post, I think I should make an exception in light of more recent comments to my post about a sloppily-reported story alleging that “STRAIGHT PRIDE” stickers and T-shirts were being sold by an “Official Tea Party Sponsor.”…

It looks like drug prohibition has given us a gift. The battle for Ciudad Juarez began about two years ago when the Sinaloa drug cartel, led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and based along Mexico’s Pacific coast, began trying to wrest control of the crucial drug smuggling corridor into the United States from the Juarez…

Well, the event that I anticipated in a previous post has occurred. My Jack Dempseys have had babies. Hundreds of them! (What this means is that inside their excavated Colosseum, they laid eggs and hatched them out, and the fry have just started to venture outside.) I was talking on the phone earlier when I…

M. Simon’s post about the Obama Zombies book linked my earlier post on the general subject of zombiedom, and Simon offers a personal observation: …a lot of us tried to warn you but you were so caught up in hope and change that your eyes glazed over whenever we tried talking reason. Yeah, that is…

Mass produced graphene Transistors just got a little closer with this laboratory advance in graphene film fabrication. “Before we can fully utilize the superior electronic properties of graphene in devices, we must first develop a method of forming uniform single-layer graphene films on nonconducting substrates on a large scale,” says Yuegang Zhang, a materials scientist…