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In his discussion of how British crime statistics have hit an all time high (while the right to self defense has been virtually abolished), Andrew Ian Dodge highlights a nightmarish leftist scenario I’d never heard about before: bringing criminal attackers into hospitals to visit their victims. That way, they can say they’re sorry so everyone…

While noodling around the ‘net I came across a statistical study of the history of sunspots and the Earth’s climate. (if the English is less than perfect it is because the person writing is a native of Finland) When the planetary effects have been searched as a cause for sunspots, a gravitational effect is mostly…

Glenn Beck explains the American oligarchy/government organization chart. Is your blood boiling yet? The Greeks have seen all this before. Something like 3,000 years ago. The one thing we have in our favor is that oligarchies are rarely popular when self-government is at least a theoretical option. Time to take to the streets. See you…

Commenter ThomasD at Classical Values had this to say about the Advance Care Planning post. I work in long term care, and have worked in hospice care (much of which is currently covered under Medicare.) I also absolutely loathe Obamacare and it’s backdoor attempt to create a single payer government controlled system of health care…

The Obama Administration says that their health care plans are a work in progress. Administration officials defended President Barack Obama’s broad health care proposals on Sunday and urged a skeptical public not to judge the Democrats’ overhaul until Congress writes a final version. Facing independent budget predictions that contradict the White House’s rhetoric, officials sought…

During the Bush years, this blog was highly critical of a top White House science advisor — the Council on Bioethics Chairman Leon Kass. Not only was he against people living longer lives, but he had kooky views on a number of subjects which Justin dug out of books he had written in the 1970s.…

I just read an interesting section of the proposed health care bill that refers to Advance Care Planning Consultation. Now what the h e double toothpicks is that? Go to page 425 and read a ways and you come to: 4 ”(E) An explanation by the practitioner of the 5 continuum of end-of-life services and…

The Russian Fleet is in dire straits. In ten years it may no longer (for practical purposes) exist. The NVO report does not pull any punches: “The Russian Navy is on the verge of irreversible collapse. Within ten years there will be in the entire navy less than 50 vessels still capable of operations, which…

I just read about the oldest man in the world dying at 113. The secret of his longevity? He “attributed his grand age to ‘cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women’.” I don’t smoke, and while I love whiskey, these days I mostly drink red wine for its reputed health benefits. As to “wild, wild women,”…

Sean Kinsell has a cute post (titled “SLOW: stimulus area ahead”) about something he considers a relatively minor annoyance, the spending of millions of dollars in highway funds for “economic recovery” signs: The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is spending $60,000 of its stimulus money on $2,000 road signs to highlight projects funded by the massive…

Pat Buchanan is largely right in his latest piece, “Socialist America Sinking.” Especially this: Taxes drove the American Revolution, for we were a taxaphobic, liberty-loving people. That government is best that governs least is an Americanism. When “Silent Cal” Coolidge went home in 1929, the U.S. government was spending 3 percent of gross domestic product.…

I don’t usually blog about vehicular accidents, but there’s something I found strangely disconcerting about the details of a fiery tanker crash which happened on a major Detroit area overpass on Wednesday. The driver of the car — an unapologetic 27 year old who got his driver’s license (from the Secretary of State) in May…

When I watched this video — titled “Naked Man Bangs on Memphis Women’s Windows While Masturbating” — it occurred to me that it was a pretty good illustration of why this commenter was right when he said: There are biological differences that no fashionable philosophy can change. The reaction of the women (called “victims,” which…

Cross Posted at Power and Control

I posted this video at Power and Control With this comment: Obama in Russia. Evidently the guy don’t get no respect. H/T Backyard Conservative Raving Dave in a comment to that post gave me a link to this video from Obama’s Saudi Arabian tour: I guess he can’t get any respect even from his “friends”.…

I liked IowaHawk’s “Guest Commentary by Judge Sonia Sotamayor” (“Menudo of Justice”) so much that I did something I rarely do with blog posts. I sent a link to a non-blogger friend who isn’t a blog reader. He loved it so much that he emailed back called it “brilliant” and he laughed out loud. Now,…

I was in a hippie house on Webster Avenue, just off of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California, watching avidly on a B&W TV. I never imagined that we would stop manned missions to the moon and beyond for such a long time. Here is a book about it: The First Men on the Moon: The…

Other Senate Doctors shows: The Doctor Show – Thursday, July 9, 2009 The Doctor Show – Tuesday, July 14, 2009 The Doctor Show – Thursday, July 16, 2009 You can get questions to the Senate Doctors by the following methods: e-mail Facebook YouTube Twitter Read the Democrat health insurance plan [pdf]. All 1,000 plus pages.…

Speaking of “entitlements,” just what is an entitlement? A right? Not at all. The “right” to collect social security derives from a law passed by Congress in 1935 and signed by the president. Same is true of Medicare (which simply amended the Social Security Act). Like any law, these laws can be repealed or changed…

A discussion of the talk (and other speeches given at the conference) can be found here. A really good book that also deals with the human rights problems of the drug war is: Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State I have read it. You should read it. If you can’t…