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Here is the book Klavan mentions: Democracy in America and a more modern look at the phenomenon: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change H/T Video suggested by Brendan Wright on Facebook Cross Posted at Power and Control

Not California. Although California is failing. The States I’m going to discuss are Muslim States affected by the world wide financial crisis. Spengler is taking his usual jaundiced look at the world. Financial crises, like epidemics, kill the unhealthy first. The present crisis is painful for most of the world but deadly for many Muslim…

When I saw this video, I was a bit taken aback. It’s easy to forget that (just as there are parents who’d strap a bomb on their baby) there are parents in the world who think it’s cute to watch their baby play with a deadly snake. As the YouTube caption explains, there is a…

Speaking of labyrinths, sometimes the self-canceling nature of blogging prevents me from being able to write. For example, I don’t like ad hominem rhetoric and personal attacks. When I saw one yesterday, I was immediately irritated. But the self canceling “rules” got in my way. This was especially complicated by the fact that it was…

Don’t miss Victor Davis Hanson’s “Lost in the Labyrinth of Race.” Hanson has spotted so many of the perverse twists and turns in the pretzel logic that calls itself “affirmative action” and “identity politics” that for those who love to hate bad logic, this piece is a pure joy to savor. Like this delicious excerpt:…

By now you have probably heard of Energy Secretary Chu’s plan to paint the roofs in America white to fight global warming. He should have had a talk with Alice about the big mistake that was made in Wonderland by painting the roses red. So how about some appropriate mood music? Cross Posted at Power…

As if there wasn’t enough wrong with Justice Sotomayor, now we learn she is against the Second Amendment: Just six months after Heller, however, Sotomayor issued an opinion in Maloney v. Cuomo that the protections of the Second Amendment do not apply to the states, and that if your city or state wants to ban…

Well, I have to blame something, don’t I? There’s some fat woman whose picture I keep seeing every day at Drudge, and I haven’t been interested because it looks like a plug for a TV show or something. This morning, (after having seen her picture for probably the 20th time), I figured I should check…

Will we still have a Constitutional Republic in four years? I have my doubts. A new White House policy on permissible lobbying on economic recovery and stimulus projects has taken a decidedly anti-First Amendment turn. It’s a classic illustration of Big Government trying to control every aspect of a particular activity and in the process…

Islamic Crusades: An Introduction Islamic Crusades 1: The Occupation of Constantinople Islamic Crusades 2: Before Islam… Egypt, Iran, Iraq Islamic Crusades 3: The Co-Option of Jerusalem Islamic Crusades 4: Lessons From the Thai Jihad Islamic Crusades 5: Why did they hate us in 1783? Islamic Crusades 6: India’s Millennial Burden Islamic Crusades 7: India’s Modern…

A question which has been plaguing me lately is whether it is possible to have a legitimate debate over socialism without sounding like a rabid, hysterical, over-the-top, far-right conspiracy theorist. It would be nice to have time for an essay-length discussion, but I don’t. The problem is, for some time I’ve been convinced that socialism…

A poster on the Drug Policy Forum of Texas list suggested the above video in the context of a University of California at San Francisco course on cannabis therapeutics that is accredited by the AMA and the ANA (American Nurses Association). Here is what the www site has to say about the accreditation. The University…

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 I have done a number of posts on the subject of how cosmic rays affect clouds and climate including: Magnetized Weather And The Lost Concensus Global Warming Not So Hot Clouds More Clouds Model Prediction Climate Alchemy – Turning Hot Air Into Gold Clouds In Chambers Feedbacks…

I realize some people have personal stakes in the liberal versus conservative dichotomy, but is there any end to this conservative liberal diagnostic crap? If you want to tell whether someone is conservative or liberal, what are a couple of completely nonpolitical questions that will give a good clue? How’s this: Would you be willing…

For those of you who have noticed the double post of “The Death of Copyright” my apologies. I left the title off the first post and decided to repost it with the title and delete the previous version. A simple matter on blogspot. With the Six Apart software used here it is a total pain…

What the Motion Picture industry has not figured out is that the price of any product will go down to its marginal cost. How do you make a profit in such an environment? Volume. The difficulty of course that the available time for watching movies is limited. So let us look at what my internet…

The fact that racism lurks behind much of the gun control impulse is not a new topic at this blog. Among the things I’ve discussed over the years have been my personal experience with gun control advocates; Clayton Cramer’s groundbreaking work on the subject (and his documentation that racist gun control efforts even included dog…

Watching a recent White House press conference video at Politico, I am more convinced than ever that the White House is having fun and games with the Birth Certificate Truthers. (FWIW, I have tried to take their arguments seriously, but the whole thing seems designed to be immune to serious debate; I think that even…

While I moved to Ann Arbor last August, I haven’t spent much time in Detroit. Although I want to check out the cool ruins, people have told me not to go, as it’s not only a high crime place, but if you call the cops they’ll never come. This isn’t why I haven’t gone there…

Nature News is reporting that the ITER fusion experiment is in big trouble. Very big trouble. It is way over budget, way behind time, and the experimental efforts are being scaled back. ITER — a multi-billion-euro international experiment boldly aiming to prove atomic fusion as a power source — will initially be far less ambitious…