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Reading that Senator Schumer called an airline flight attendant a “bitch” simply because she asked him to turn off his cell phone as federal rules require, a couple of things came to mind. First, we have one of the quintessential champions of massive federal power — a guy whose daily existence consists of figuring out…

It was getting tired. And confusing. Yeah, I get that way myself, but back in June, acting with the very best of intentions, I added the green color at the top of this blog in order to express solidarity with the Iranian protesters. It was intended to be temporary, and while I of course still…

Dead bodies suck. No, really. I feel incredibly sorry for the owners of this land: Some people have skeletons in their closet. Others have ’em buried beneath their house. That’s the life lesson a group of construction workers learned in Fairmount on Saturday, when they unearthed seven old graves. Police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore said…

In Nevada, brothel owners are contemplating adding male prostitutes to their stables: The owner of a brothel more than two hours’ drive from Las Vegas said she hopes to hire Nevada’s first legal male prostitutes within a month, now that state health officials have approved a method to test men for infectious diseases. The world…

On CNN, there’s been a serious discussion of implementing a worldwide one-child policy, and Jack Cafferty is obviously sympathetic. CNN’s Jack Cafferty all but endorsed a global version of China’s oppressive one-child policy on Friday’s Situation Room. He repeated the argument of Canadian journalist Diane Francis, that population control is the only way to fight…

Probably in the hope of driving a stake through the heart of AGW skeptics in Copenhagen, a self-described Al Gore trainee named Kevin Grandia has created the term “Copendenier.” He must really like it, for he has even authored a Wiki page announcing the term to the world. I’m always fascinated by new words, but…

The Associated Press puts one of their top reporters on the ClimateGate scandal. LONDON – E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don’t support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press. Ah. Yes. It…

It’s a complicated read, but “The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero” by Willis Eschenbach (which Jerry Pournelle calls a must-read) explains in detail why Climategate is about a lot more than the scientific bitch fight that the AGW advocates and their media allies are allies would have people believe. You should read it all, as…

Note what a warm welcome Wm. Shatner gets when he comes on. Then note how much warmer the welcome for Sarah is. More reactions at Hill Buzz. And if you want to read Sarah’s book to make sure Shatner got his lines right may I suggest: Going Rogue: An American Life Cross Posted at Power…

Conserve momentum comrades? I don’t think so. The time has come to liberate it from those who have captured it in the name of greed and personal profit. Cross Posted at Power and Control

This video discussion (with Senator Orrin Hatch, Eugene Volokh, and Randy Barnett) of the constitutionality of the Health Care Mandate is over an hour long, but really worth watching. I was especially impressed by what Senator Hatch says about the importance of the Constitution as a restraint on government. Renewed my faith to see a…

MMcA notes some health care polling: Are you opposed because it gets government too involved in health care or because it would not involve government enough? Too much government involvement: 90% Not enough government involvement: 6% Not sure: 4% I am so damned proud of my country right now. PROGRAM NOTE: My blogging may continue…

Regardless of what her politics are, I liked what Carly Fiorina said here about Climategate. This week, diplomats from around the world are gathering in Copenhagen for the global climate change summit–an event that has been marked by controversy in the wake of the “climate-gate” scandal that has recently and rightly gained significant international media…

Over the years, many readers have caught me committing one or another of my innumerable errors — whether in spelling, grammar, getting names and dates wrong, or various combinations thereof. While I usually appreciate being corrected, what sometimes annoys me is when someone becomes indignant over an error having little or nothing to do with…

President Obama’s Oslo acceptance speech has drawn surprising praise from conservatives (including Sarah Palin), and I have to say that I too liked what he said about the use of force being “not only necessary but morally justified.” It’s already being called the “Obama Doctrine” – a notion that foreign policy is a struggle of…

President Barack Obama has told the Republicans to “stop trying to frighten the American people.” Surely he jests. There are a lot of things that might be said about the Republicans, but right now they are no position to frighten the American people. They couldn’t frighten their way out of a paper bag. This is…

Why on earth anyone would want to see such a thing, I don’t know. But it’s some sort of tradition in certain parts of the blogosphere, so this morning I took a picture which is not only The View From My Window, it also doubles as My View of Global Warming. Yes, it was 13…

Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on with Barack Obama? I mean, when he was in Saudi Arabia and Japan, he bowed obsequiously before the monarchs, yet in Norway — which honored him with an undeserved Nobel Prize — he has snubbed the the king, and nearly everyone else over there. Naturally,…

In a case which I think epitomizes what is wrong with today’s tort system, the daughter of a woman killed in an accident caused by a driver talking on a cell phone has sued Samsung (the phone manufacturer) and the wireless provider. She hopes to prove that the companies should have foreseen the dangers and…

WARNING: Some of these videos might not be safe for work. (Depends on how anthropomorphic your boss is.) Did you know that YouTube was alleged to have censored robot sex? I didn’t, and I find myself a bit perturbed, not only because the video in question is pretty amusing, but as far as I am…