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Here is a nice little cartoon about a country that is making real progress in curbing “greenhouse gas” production. H/T Duane J. Oldsen at Talk Polywell and Eric at Classical Values who helped format the picture.

Adam Graham takes issue with a number of popular political myths (notably the idea that Sarah Palin is finished), but what really got my attention was an exit poll he linked that I’d never seen before, which confirms my longstanding belief that Hillary Clinton would have been a much tougher candidate for the Republicans to…

As regular readers know, I’ve been talking about the Tea Parties for some time. So today I decided that it was high time I went to one. The nearest Fourth of July Tea party event I could find was this one at the Northville Community Park in Northville, Michigan (about a half hour drive from…

A minor story that I found at the Philadelphia Inquirer’s web site provides yet another illustration of an increasingly hopeless problem. Police were forced to shoot a “homeless” man whose homelessness was a symptom of his chronic mental illness. From a call box in the below-ground concourse of the Municipal Services Building, he kept calling…

I complain a lot (probably more than I should — although that seems to be the nature of blogging), so I like it when I find something that seems worthwhile. As a pragmatic libertarian, I enjoyed Roger L. Simon’s Fourth of July thoughts, especially the conclusion: We should junk the liberal and conservative orthodoxies that…

Sarah Palin has resigned — on the eve of the Fourth of July, and right in the middle of the reporting of a Republican family feud. I hope M. Simon is not right about this: It looks like Andrew “I had Trig Palin’s Baby” Sullivan and the rest of the Palin haters have caused Sarah…

It looks like Andrew “I had Trig Palin’s Baby” Sullivan and the rest of the Palin haters have caused Sarah Palin to decline to run for a second term as Alaska’s Governor. From Facebook. Some say things changed for me on August 29th last year – the day John McCain tapped me to be his…

I like and support the Tea Party Movement. But as I explained in this post, I don’t like the idea of anti-sex crusaders in the form of the American Family Association taking it over. So naturally, I was disappointed to see that the supposedly mainstream conservative Human Events, in its writeup of tomorrow’s Tea Party…

This year’s July 4th Bikini edition is up at Power and Control (I keep GMT). Here are a couple of samples to give you an idea or ideas. You can click on the pictures for more information. Ladies. I guarantee that most men watching this bikini will be seeing stars. Unless they are distracted by…

From a friend who asked “Who’s paying for THIS?”, I just learned about a study which trained pigeons to be art critics: Pigeons, it seems, can discriminate between art techniques and can even judge their quality. According to scientists, given the incentive of food, racing pigeons can be trained to study the colour, pattern and…

I remember when the micro-computer trade shows started. A few years after the first ones we had an industry. I think hemp/marijuana will follow a similar track. This video was put out by the same folks who put out the It Gave Me Hope video. If you want to grow your own hope this book…

A post linked by Glenn Reynolds yesterday (about Barry Goldwater’s revenge) reminded me of an excellent observation which bears rerepeating: “I became a conservative by being around liberals, and I became a libertarian by being around conservatives.” That was Greg Gutfeld, in a hilarious ReasonTV interview. My experience was somewhat different. I became a libertarian…

Speaking of adultery (which almost everyone agrees is bad) I’m wondering whose adultery is worse — Mark Sanford’s or Newt Gingrich’s. I realize that I’m not the only one asking, but the question was just sort of thrown in my face earlier as I read yet another strong online moral condemnation of the eminently condemnable…

When I wrote about the Mark Sanford sex scandal, I had no idea that it might be considered even remotely related to gay marriage. Well, apparently it is — at least to some people. Rod Dreher explains: The argument goes like this: 1. Mark Sanford is a social conservative who advocated against same-sex marriage rights.…

As regular readers know, I love Sarah Palin. (So does co-blogger M. Simon). What I don’t love, though, is this attempt by Stacy McCain to link hatred of Sarah Palin to homosexuality (which McCain sees as synonymous with Andrew Sullivan’s view of motherhood and vaginas). Because the man is an influential conservative as well as…

H/T R. Dave via e-mail who sent me to Gateway Pundit to get the whole picture. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Fareed Zakaria (whose Future of Freedom is a must read) has this to say about the possibility of revolution in Iran: It’s possible but unlikely. While the regime’s legitimacy has cracked — a fatal wound in the long run — for now it will probably be able to use its guns and money to consolidate…

Does the scandal involving a womanizing southern governor shed any light on the GOP’s “Southern Strategy”? While nearly everybody agrees that what Mark Sanford did was wrong, positions as to what the consequences should be are all over the map. Victor Davis Hanson described himself as baffled: I am somewhat baffled by the reaction to…

A lot of people complain about moral relativism, and over the years I’ve noticed that the term is often invoked inconsistently. Little wonder, for even defining the term is an immensely complicated undertaking. A frequently used definition of moral relativism is along these lines: …the position that moral or ethical propositions do not reflect objective…

Honduras. There. I just mentioned it. Wouldn’t want some scold of a blog analyst to come along and ask why it is that only conservatives care about Honduras and where are the libertarians. But which side am I on? Why, the libertarian side, of course! I can’t help notice that Hugo Chavez is threatening to…