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I was sure Obama’s election coupled with his agenda would lead to a failure that would be obvious to the majority of Americans within six months of his inauguration. It has taken less than six weeks. I read an anecdote some where today about a guy who was checking out his purchases at a grocery…

Well, I suppose this was inevitable. (There’s a similar sticker on Ebay with Palin’s name added.) But if you don’t quite fancy the campaignish look, Cafe Press offers plenty of other models to choose from. Like this: Or this: Not to be outdone, Amazon has a slightly slicker version: I’m not much of a fan…

I’m wondering how many readers out there use Twitter, and of those of you who do, whom do you follow? I notice that Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert haven’t tweeted in quite awhile. Karl Rove, our former paymaster, is sure to note exactly when and how often he’ll be appearing on FOX News. I, for…

It looks like Obama fever is starting to wane. At least that is what the anecdotal evidence from Larry Kudlow would indicate. Noteworthy up here on Wall Street, a great many Obama supporters — especially hedge-fund types who voted for “change” — are becoming disillusioned with the performances of Obama and Treasury man Geithner. There…

It is rather obvious that this is not a music video. Despite the fact that images of naked and semi-naked women are involved. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Via an email, I learned about a fascinating incident in which a woman called 911 because a McDonalds restaurant had run out of Chicken McNuggets: ARCH 3–Angered that her local McDonald’s was out of Chicken McNuggets, a Florida woman called 911 three times to report the fast food “emergency.” Latreasa Goodman, 27, last Saturday called…

The hard-hitting Geert Wilder film “Fitna” is a classic example of the kind of opinionated advocacy which Americans take for granted as protected free speech. Agree with Wilder’s point of view or not, the ability to see it is what the First Amendment guarantees. Right? So what’s the big deal about letting people see it?…

I’m not much of a fan of Rush Limbaugh (see yesterday’s post), but when he gets it right he gets it right. And he sure got it right yesterday in his explanation of what’s been baffling so many people: The president is presiding over economic failure. The president is watching it, doing nothing about it.…

Normally I don’t go in for cutesiness, but this is so cute I thought I’d share it. If only there were an Aesop’s fable to go with it… Of course, as anyone who uses Google probably knows, today is Dr. Seuss’s 105th birthday. (Which makes me feel old, as I grew up thinking of him…

Reviewing Rush Limbaugh’s CPAC speech, John Hawkins warns the conservative movement that losing the next election might be more devastating than what has already happened: Conservatives have better solutions than either the left or the moderates in our own party can come up with — ready to go, ready to improve the lives of Americans…

Big protests in our nations capitol. It seems that Congress runs on a coal fired power plant and that the Greenines are going to be out in force today to shut it down. Now this is not a bad thing. Congress should be the first to live by the policies it intends to impose on…

What is free speech? I tend towards a very broad view of what should be protected, but the exact parameters of free speech never cease to intrigue me. Is religious speech so different from political speech that it should be afforded a different type of protection? If so, why? Should religious speech be more protected…

The Obama Administration is working on a treaty to cut mercury pollution. The Obama administration has reversed years of U.S. policy by calling for a treaty to cut mercury pollution, which it described as the world’s gravest chemical problem. Some 6,000 tons of mercury enter the environment each year, about a third generated by power…

I’m glad to see evidence that the scientific method is alive and well, at least in Japan: Japanese scientists have made a dramatic break with the UN and Western-backed hypothesis of climate change in a new report from its Energy Commission. Three of the five researchers disagree with the UN’s IPCC view that recent warming…

While I’m not about to go to any demonstrations (especially when it’s in the teens), I think the Tea Party movement (that Glenn Reynolds covers in a number of posts) provides a much-needed reminder of two things: 1. This country was founded in opposition to tyranny. 2. The United States government is now galloping towards…

I was quite honored to be invited to attend CPAC In Washington as a Pajamas Media blogger, but alas! The timing of my trip prevented me from attending (especially the timing of my return to Michigan, where things had piled up after a three-month absence). It was simply not logistically feasible for me to return…

Purchasing Magazine is taking a look at leading economic indicators. And as you can see by the chart above it looks like the worst is behind us. The upswing has not yet started but the rate of fall appears to be declining. The actual turn around is likely to be about six to nine months…

One of the problems I have with the fundamentalist approach to religion is the tendency to insist on the literal interpretation of written words, often without regard to context. Yet on the other hand (in a paradox that never made much sense to me), fundamentalists will often gratuitously supply context which is otherwise missing from…

I hate to be a bore, and I have no idea whether readers enjoy reading my libertarianish, anti-government kvetchings, which tend to be endlessly expansive simply because the government bureaucracy grows endlessly more intrusive. Anyway, consider yourselves warned. The fact is, I hate government butting into people’s lives, and as long as I have this…

I went out earlier to a Mardi Gras celebration in which I was given the usual Mardi Gras beads. I’m not enough of a partier to wear such things for an entire evening. On the other hand, the beads brought out the party animal in Coco, who as you can see, has partied heavily, but…