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I’m reading the comment section at Reason Magazine and as per usual losing in Iraq is at the top of their agenda. They have much good to say about the Democrats who want to end the Iraq War with an American defeat. So I’m proposing a new motto to replace “Politics ends at the water’s…

In the comments at Confederate Yankee I came across this bit: Just like a liberal who accuses conservative of being “mindless zombies” isn’t actually advocating cranial removal and mass reanimation of Republican corpses. I believe the reanimation of corpses for political purposes is a Chicago specialty. They have a Democratic machine designed especially for the…

Green is not selling the way it used to. This is old news and it is the Onion. But it marks the start of a trend. STATEN ISLAND, NY-An estimated 450,000 unsold copies of Time‘s special April 22 Earth Day issue were trucked Monday from the magazine’s New Jersey distribution center to the Fresh Kills…

Wretchard of the Belmont Club links to some war stories. One of the commenters also gives a link. If you like to read about courage under fire may I suggest that you read them all. This is why we are still in Iraq and the insurgents (for the most part) are not. Sen. Obama –…

Still moving, and things are crazier than even I could have imagined. While I would have paid professional movers, the only company I fould find in the area with high recommendations was booked up for the entire period, so I decided to go with YouPack.com. For less than a third of what a regular moving…

But it is wise to check it against reality from time to time. You know: by their fruits you will know them and all that. H/T Lubos Motl’s Reference Frame post about Cargo Cult Science.

Adam Nagourney at The New York Times asks with reference to the Obama campaign, “Where’s the Bounce?” It may be in his step but it is not showing up in the polls. WASHINGTON — It is a question that has hovered over Senator Barack Obama even as he has passed milestone after milestone in his…

A blog claiming to represent Bioethics International suggests that having a baby is equivalent to buying and running a patio heater. A pair of doctors have said that British parents should have fewer children, because kids cause carbon emissions and climate change. The two medics suggest that choosing to have a third child is the…

Peter Huber in Forbes takes a look at the reality of carbon hysteria. A number of influential people in Russia, China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam say the planet is now entering a 30-year cooling period, the second half of a normal cycle driven by cyclical changes in the sun’s output and currents in the Pacific…

They say that war is hell, and while I think that’s true, moving comes a pretty close second. That’s why I haven’t been blogging these past few days, and only now have the briefest amount of time for a teensy post.

This is a response to a post and the subsequent comments about AL Gore’s plan for powering America with alternative energy in ten years. First: Al Gore is an idiot. Second: He is a promoter. He stands to get very rich if he can persuade Congress to implement his schemes. Third: Solar scientists are predicting…

An old cowboy responded to an Englishman who asked, “Is your master about?” “That sombitch ain’t been born yet”, the cowboy replied. From the comments at American Thinker. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Samizdata has a bit up on flying in old aircraft. War birds and commercial jobs. Here is a bit I added to the discussion: Way back in the dark ages (early 60s) I got to fly in a DC-3 that was carrying passengers. It was an experience. Conversation in the cabin was hopeless in flight.…

The New Republic has a pretty good article up explaining European misconceptions of America. The article especially looks at Obama’s recent German rallies and how those rallies feed European misconceptions. Europe’s favorite dream: a post-Bush America cut down to size and chastened, a meeker and more modest America, a more “European” (that is, a more…

My Daughter turned seventeen yesterday (25 July). This is in honor of her. Interestingly my father’s birthday was the same date. When she was born on that day it made him very happy.

Eric in a post on the Obama birth certificate controversy asks a question of the utmost importance in this campaign. Aren’t Americans entitled to know the Truth? I believe it is the one entitlement program the Obama Democrats are totally against. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Well isn’t this special. Obama says a visit to wounded troops would be inappropriate. BERLIN (AP) – Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate…

The Inquirer has done it again. Their front page article about Obama’s Ich bin ein Obamanburg Gater! speech is not available at the Inquirer web site, which has this AP writetup. On today’s front page, though, is an earlier (apparently last night’s) version of this New York Times writeup, and all I wanted to do…