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The Washington Examiner looks at the EPA’s so-called “Endangerment Ruling” and concludes that “Obama has launched a thermonuclear warhead aimed directly at the very heart of congressional authority“: The EPA Endangerment Ruling assigns to the agency authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions not included under that law’s purview. Indeed, when the original…

As M. Simon’s post on magick reminded me of the practical impediments to willing something to happen (or not), my thoughts drifted back to that marvelous demonstration of magical impotence in 1967, during which the Pentagon failed to levitate as the demonstrators hoped. And as my thoughts further, um, drifted to the recent snow, I…

Unfortunately, I have no friends beyond the visible universe with which to test the quantum “many-worlds” interpretation of relativity’s claims of possible time travel… but I’m still pretty sure decoherence is irreversible. So even if you could use a distant (~200B LY) intermediary to, say, pass yourself tomorrow’s lottery numbers via quantum entanglement and the…

I. “DEFINITION.” MAGICK is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. (Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore take “magical weapons”, pen, ink, and paper; I write “incantations” — these sentences — in the “magical language” i.e. that which…

According to a GOP senate aide, the Senate health care bill is dangerously close to passing. Reid suggested Monday that the Senate endgame may be near. “We’re there,” he reportedly said. A Senate GOP aide said, “At the beginning of this debate the Democrats were 3 to 4 votes shy of passing this bill. They…

Yep. Not only have we had the leak of the CRU Data. We now have in addition a big leak from the Copenhagen Climate Summit. It seems as if Clancy or some one like him has decided to sing. Maybe a lot of Clancys. The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing…

Buffalo Springfield Cross Posted at Power and Control

This post by Steven den Beste helps explain why it is that some people — those driven by teleological thinking — tend to be far more intolerant of disagreement than others. Teleologists inherently don’t believe in unintended side effects when it comes to implementing their idealistic policies. Obviously it should be possible to provide free…

I was and remain a big fan of Fareed Zakaria’s The Future of Freedom. Oh, Fareed, why hast thou forsaken facts? He seemed to be implying that the struggles in Iraq and Afghanistan were not the crucial path to America’s long-term security. He explained that challenges at home — economic growth, technological innovation, education reform…

Maybe I don’t pay as much attention to these things as I should, but until I clicked on Glenn Reynolds link, I hadn’t really heard of “Spanx” (which sounds vaguely sexual as well as vaguely violent, in a sexual sort of way) — and thus never considered whether the product might mean the end of…

The fate of the Senate healthcare bill may well depend on today’s vote on an anti-abortion amendment: A pep talk by President Obama wasn’t enough to give Senate Democrats the votes they needed to pass a massive health care overhaul, but a Monday vote on abortion funding could determine whether the legislation survives. Senate Majority…

Those who worry about the Tenth Amendment should sink their teeth into this long and disturbing look at the birth of the animal disease regulation industry. Many Americans became convinced that only the federal government could enforce the collective action needed for success. Preventing the spread of contagious diseases required creating an authority with the…

Today is the 68th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — a horrible event which should always be remembered, and which always has been annually commemorated by whatever president has occupied the Oval Office. I haven’t read news reports or other blog entries about whether the current occupant plans to do anything or…

The latest left wing meme is that Sarah Palin is a Birther. (She is not, but based on some sympathetic statements she made in a radio interview, numerous leftists have declared that she is — including those who subscribe to a crackpot theory of their own known as “Trig Birtherism.”) From “Is Sarah Palin a…

What a coincidence. A lot of people have been writing about something I vowed never to write about, as M. Simon Dave just did. Sean Kinsell “wasn’t going to post about it” but he finally did, saying that, Today, you can’t read any blog anywhere, it seems, without running into a discussion of [it]. I…

Not that anyone knows, I just thought I should ask. UPDATE: I mean, wow.

…The theory is flawed. After one month – admittedly not an “infinite” amount of time – the monkeys had partially destroyed the machine, used it as a lavatory, and mostly typed the letter “s”. NOTE: On a related subject, my own blogging may be light due to similar issues.

Via Glenn Reynolds, I learned that a woman named Joy Behar thinks that whether Tiger Woods is or is not a hypocrite depends not on whether he failed to uphold the values in which he believes, but whether or not he is “right wing.” “The “View’s” Behar: If Tiger Was A Right-Winger He Would Be…

Edward Lawson (who regular readers may recall is a dear old friend) was arrested not long ago in Newark, New Jersey for basically nothing. (A lot of manufactured, trumped up charges.) He discusses what happened here: EDWARD LAWSON from Picture America on Vimeo. For no reason that I can determine other than his appearance and…

Maybe I’m too traditional, but men’s plunging necklines (exhibited in order to display what the fashionists call “heavage”) is something I can do without. Man cleavage — plunging necklines slit open to reveal chest hair, pectoral muscles, maybe more — is back. Until recently, male d&eacutecolletage was an androgynous fashion affectation limited mainly to sporadic…