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Do you recall my recent Report From Omaha? I reported on the Tea Party Express Bus Tour’s stop in Omaha. On April 6th they will be coming to Davenport, Iowa and Rockford, Illinois and Madison, Wisconsin. Here are the details for Rockford. Rockford, IL Date/Time: Tuesday, April 6th at 2:30 pm Rally Location: Davis Park…

Happy Easter, everyone! I’ve been offline for more than a day, and haven’t had time to blog, but yesterday I saw my old friend Dean Esmay. Among other things, he was installing, tweaking, and playing with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, and burned an extra CD for me. Dean is pretty excited about Ubuntu,…

You can get the Physicist’s explanation at: Bussard’s IEC Fusion Technology (Polywell Fusion) Explained Found at Maggie’s Farm H/T Jccarlton at Talk Polywell Cross Posted at Power and Control

Click on image for a larger view. The green areas in the above map show where drilling is allowed. The Red areas show where drilling is not allowed. Compare Bush’s map to obama’s map. It pretty much explains why the oil markets didn’t even blip on the announcement by obama about his opening of some…

I thought I should weigh in on the “Teabonics” project that I learned about from Ann Althouse. It is apparently believed that if enough spelling errors on the protesters’ signs are discovered (or created via photoshopping), that the Tea Party movement will be laughed out of existence. Or else maybe the goal is to shame…

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness A review from the above link: Contrary to the rosy picture of race embodied in Barack Obama’s political success and Oprah Winfrey’s financial success, legal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that [w]e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned…

I grew up in Omaha and my mom still lives there. So this report from Omaha about a Tea Party there inspired me to write. The big traffic problems in Southwest Omaha Thursday night could be blamed on one thing: a political rally. Some people had to park more than a mile away from the…

Megan McArdle’s experience at a Post Office highlights the inefficiencies of a government monopoly. I’m always surprised people can ignore the most obvious economic lessons of the 20th Century: statism slows productivity growth, and in the end productivity growth is more important than anything else (GDP is just population x productivity). You’re about ten times…

Senator Chris Dodd has a plan to make investing in new ventures more difficult. …Dodd’s bill would require startups raising funding to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and then wait 120 days for the SEC to review their filing. A second provision raises the wealth requirements for an “accredited investor” who can invest…

Regarding a plan to shift thousands of U.S. troops from Okinawa to Guam, Congressman Hank Johnson said this: My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize. Huh? Is he effing kidding? I’ve been having enough trouble lately trying to figure out what’s humor and…

Yesterday I saw an anonymous piece which appeared in the National Review Online. Titled “Getting Serious About Pornography,” the author claims that: — her husband left her because of porn — pornography is an addictive drug — hearings should be held, and the federal government should get involved. This is not a new topic here,…

We have an image of Victorians as prudish about sex. And the continuous decrying of our sex gone wild culture. But the truth may be different. For those into sex control the past was always more moral and today’s youth are going to hell one night at a time. But maybe human nature is not…

Either someone pays me by midnight tonight or the dreadful logo at the top of this blog is coming down. I mean it! Hackers, consider yourselves warned!

Earlier tonight I decided to check out a new restaurant that has just opened on the main boulevard here in Ann Arbor. As it is only a half a dozen or so blocks away, I decided to walk. A few blocks up the street, some young people were blasting the neighborhood with rap music at…

Remember when “death panels” were considered a right-wing crackpot conspiracy theory? Well, via Adam Bitely, I learned that it turns out that not only were the death panels there all along, but they’re a good thing! A cost saver, don’t you know. So explains Paul Krugman (who as a left-wing economist ought to know about…

A well-known blogger I greatly respect but won’t name (you will understand why; he fears reprisals) told me about an amazing man named Dr. Peter Beter. Dr. Beter was a successful Washington lawyer and former Kennedy administration diplomatic liaison, until finally he decided to blow the whistle on what was really going on, and he…

What the hell is going on with this blog? Have we been hijacked? MORE: Over at Power and Control, M. Simon expresses bitter disappointment, and is threatening to quit! I can hardly blame him. I think it is high time that we get some answers around here! AND MORE: What I want to know is…

Allahpundit asks a question which has been intriguing me: If it’s constitutional to impose an insurance mandate, i.e. “you must purchase a product from this industry,” why would it be unconstitutional to refine that to “you must purchase our product from this industry”? In fact, assuming that the feds gave you a choice between not…

Speaking of the flag which leftie blogs are attempting to use in a lame attempt to connect the Tea Party movement to the Hutaree lunatics, M. Simon reminded me that the United States Navy is flying it. The First Navy Jack, which was directly related to the Gadsden flag, has also been in use by…

As regular readers know, this blog takes flags seriously. So seriously, in fact, that I came up with a composite design of two flags that strike me as being at war with each other. More recently, a reader helped improve the image: Better to be inclusive than divisive, right? This morning I was alerted to…