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It has come to my attention that Governor Palin needs to improve her economic education. Please use these Amazon links to send her Free to Choose and The Road to Serfdom to: Governor Sarah Palin 550 West 7th Avenue, Suite 1700 Anchorage, AK 99501

The latest entry on the Boston Globe’s always fascinating picture blog, the Big Picture, ranges from portraits of Barack Obama drawn with nanotubes, to individual cancer cells, to pollen and bugs’ eyes. My favorite is the picture of the squid suckers. Does that even look real?

Read this and let me know what you think. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I’m in Tucumcari, New Mexico, and the view from my room is little more than a view of a parking lot. However, this postcard gives a better feel for the place, which is steeped in vintage Route 66 nostalgia. That’s what the strip looks like today. Fun and partying in kitschy little 1950s motels, restaurants,…

You know what I like about Sarah Palin? With respect to social conservatism she leads by example without any need for the heavy hand of government. And with respect to economic conservatism she puts her principles into action. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Did Jesus promote government solutions to moral problems?

Iran is in a world of hurt according to Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli in an article published by The Middle East Media Research Institute on October 30th. At its two-hour emergency meeting in Vienna on October 24, the Organization of Oil Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided to lower crude production by 1.5 million barrels/day (b/d), effective…

I’m not talking elections here. I’m talking about my internet service. My isp lost power at about 8 AM local time and it has just come back at about 11PM local time. I had a post ready to publish and a few more in mind that required some research. Sorry for the interruption. Oh yeah.…

A recent commenter on my last post had this to say: I’m not so worried about the Dems handling science. But please, lets not waste any more GOP money trying to get prayer into school and evolution out. I’ll disagree on the first count, but of course I agree on the second. The Republican party…

Can the Republican Party become the Party of Goldwater/Reagan again?

Damn I wish I had more time. I’m in the middle of Missouri (can’t remember the town, but it’s halfway between St. Louis and Springfield), with huge stretches of road in front of me, and I’m running late. About all I have time to do is show the “view from my room” (does that sound…

Here is a funny bit I found in the comments at No Quarter. == The Heaviest Element Known to Science Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neut rons, giving it an…

Commenter Fritz in a reply to a comment by Edgar at Older Protestant White Guys had this to say about the “leave us alone” crowd in the last election. Edgar, you state that the “leave us alone” crowd are at fault for Obama’s victory. OK. I’m one of the “leave us alone” crowd and, while…

Yes, I’ll be on the road for several days, so my blogging for the next four days will likely be nonexistent, or at best occasional and brief. With any luck, M. Simon will be blogging up a storm. (While I drive through them!) So keep checking in; you never know!

What is twenty-five million all about? It is the number of people who have used marijuana in any given year. Since 1990 a reported 20.5 million people have used marijuana in an average year. From 1990 to 2005 annual usage was at its greatest reported level in 2002 at 25.9 million and its lowest level…

The man at ease? Bush. The man who looks totally afraid? Obama. It looks to me like he is going to have to make a lot of decisions he is not ready for. Not surprising for a man who voted “present” 130 times in the Illinois Senate. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I stumbled across a piece of nostalgia last night in the form of this Veterans Day column by Herb Caen — a guy I used to read daily who deserves the title of blogger, even if he never lived to see that. From The San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 9, 1986. TUESDAY IS another of those…

While I couldn’t find the latest horror story of radical gay anarchists invading a church in Lansing, Michigan in my daily paper, Glenn Reynolds linked it this morning (along with a more detailed account), and observed, This strategy seems quite unwise. I think the actions were evil and despicable. Whether they were unwise depends (unfortunately)…

Yes. The War On Drugs has turned into a shooting war. In fact it has been a shooting war for quite some time in Afghanistan. So how is that working out? Not well. Here is a bit from 2007 explaining what the DEA is doing in Afghanistan. Working first with the D.E.A. and then with…

In a piece titled “Minorities at war on Obamaland’s Western shore,” distinguished Canadian journalist Colby Cosh looks at the Proposition 8 conflict (including the latest nonsensical meme that gays who voted for McCain did so out of racism) and concludes, It’s enough to make you glad you live in a country where such matters are…