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A crawler team wins $900,000. As I recall, braided carbon nanutube cables may be strong enough to make the idea work. A space elevator is a game-changer because it makes putting things in orbit an order of magnitude cheaper. That would mean we could think seriously about manned exploration of the Solar System or a…

Yes, this attack was a case of Muslim extremism: A former classmate has said Hasan was a “vociferous opponent of the war” and “viewed the war against terror” as a “war against Islam.” Dr. Val Finnell, who attended a master’s in public health program in 2007-2008 at Uniformed Services University with Hasan, said he told…

Anyone remember the good old days when the political world was divided into wingnuts and moonbats? Whether it was a more civil world, at least it was a cleaner one. Nowadays, to get their point across, political ideologues increasingly resort to sexualized insults — the raunchier the better! At the highest levels of government, Tea…

Eric and I have been having some fun with human logic over at Classical Values. I started it with Defeating Libertarian Logic and then Eric chimed in with No Man Can? So I have been getting all logical with my anti-abortion friends. Well I don’t like it either. I just don’t think it is a…

I loved M. Simon’s quotation from Emerson. So much so that despite Emerson’s warning against quotes — a quote infamously violated by William Safire — I wanted to quote the rest of the paragraph . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a…

You have met them. Those oh so logical Libertarians where every acceptable thought has to be a verified part of a system. They have to tie themselves in logical knots to come to the proper logical conclusion. Ralph has a few words about that. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by…

Yes indeed. A female police officer, Sgt. Kimberly Munley, put an end to jihadi Nidal Malik Hasan’s murderous rampage at Fort Hood. A female civilian police officer is being hailed as a hero in the aftermath of a gunman’s rampage at Fort Hood — an outbreak of violence that the officer is credited with ending…

Libertarian Republican has some excellent news for Constitutional Republicans. You know, small government, low spending. I’m just going to give short excerpts. Follow the links for details. Republicans sweep Westchester County, New York on Anti-Tax message Voters ousted Democratic supervisors in Yorktown and Lewisboro and elected GOP majorities in both towns, as they did in…

This is in honor of the fallen at Fort Hood and for the wounded who will need our ongoing help. Here is one way to help: Project Valour-IT helps provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries. Items supplied include: #…

From Veeshir (who has left so many helpful comments here that I treat an email from him like a homework assignment), my attention was directed to a perfect — perfectly dreadful that is — example of the contempt some of our highest elected officials have for the Constitution: James O’Connor, Burris’s communications director, later told…

So, the true 10-year cost of Obamacare is… $1.8 trillion. A trillion in new taxes, $800B in new deficit spending (oh, excuse me, I mean “imaginary Medicare cuts that will never happen”). And the next ten years are going to be even worse. It’s like 1938 all over again…

Linking my earlier post about the Fort Hood shooting, M. Simon quoted what I said about the shooter’s imam: Hasan’s imam Faizul Khan is no ordinary imam. He is on the Board of Directors of the ISNA, a radical Wahhabi outfit which “enforces extremist Wahhabi theological writ in America’s mosques. Such people and their murderous…

It seems that a Libertarian can actually win in one of the most liberal areas of the country. New York City. Libertarian Dan Halloran wins City Council Seat in New York City Dan Halloran was elected to the Queens City Council in District 19. He was nominated by the Republican, Conservative, Independent and Libertarian parties.…

Resist Net has this from Walid Shoebat a former jihadist. TO WHAT LEVEL IS US MILITARY, FBI, CIA, DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY INFILTRATED W. MUSLIM JIHADISTS? In the wake of the cowardly Ft. Hoot mass fatal shooting of 11 or more unarmed U.S. soldiers by Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, America has the right to know…

More Ayn Rand videos. The above video is from 1979. Obviously well before our current dust ups in the Middle East. And don’t forget her novels: The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged Cross Posted at Power and Control

That’s what Shepard Smith on Fox News just said about the officer who is described as the primary gunman who killed 12 people and wounded 31 in a mass shooting at Fort Hood Texas. He is described as “a convert to Islam” and a major who was about to deploy to Iraq, and who was…

Via Glenn Reynolds, my attention was drawn to an irresistibly funny comment left here: Dear Barack, Please continue to campaign for Democratic candidates in future elections. The Republicans welcome all your help. Thank you. He was quite effective, wasn’t he? Nothing wrong with giving credit where credit is due.

Smaller government and lower spending. And this time we really mean it. Heh. Cross Posted at Power and Control

It looks like Sarah Palin may not be able to pass the Republican Abortion Litmus Test. This is a report from March of 2009. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) recently appointed Anchorage Superior Court Judge Morgan Christen, who once served on the board of Planned Parenthood, to the state’s Supreme Court, the AP/Anchorage Daily News…

Two posts I read yesterday hammered home the importance of something I hate. TELEVISION. My inability to watch it occasionally places me at a disadvantage in evaluating politicians. The problem is that I’m too impatient to put up with people spouting their opinions. When people talk, I can’t skim through and “scroll down” to get…