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Citing a Rasmussen poll that John McCain is “Trusted More Than Obama on Economy, Iraq, National Security,” Glenn Reynolds made the following observation: As I said before, a lot of Republicans don’t like McCain, but it seems clear that the GOP primary process nominated the one candidate with a decent chance of winning in November.…

While I’ve complained about (and even tried to analyze — ugh!) the Lieberman-Warner “cap and trade” bill, I worried that it might pass, because it was a bipartisan bill that most voters didn’t even know about. So naturally was delighted today to see apparent evidence that the vast majority of voters oppose it: As the…

The Culture War is dead! Long live the Culture War! A few days ago, I scrupulously avoided an Australian Culture War debate over whether the Culture War was “over.” This was despite the fact that Glenn Reynolds had gone out of his way to passively-aggressively link the debate, which made it much harder to get…

Some one in this thread said: “our products aren’t competitive” I said: A real shame exports are growing at a rate of about 2.8% a year. It is a shame manufacturing is booming. It is a shame Germans are moving factories to America. It is a shame the Iraqis are getting a handle on Iraq.…

This cartoon was cribbed from Red State Cartoons. Their Cartoon use policy. If you liked my post No Blood For Oil Or No Drilling For Oil? then you will love (how is that for ad copy?) No Oil where you can get a bumper sticker that looks like this: You can also click on the…

I’m getting a huge amount of blank spam purporting to be sent by “Pfizer” or “Pfizer & Lilly” with headings like “Reminder Notice, “Customer Notification: Re-Order,” “Client Notice,” “Confidential: Re-Order” and the like. The text contains nothing, and I doubt these are deliberately coming from Pfizer. Nor do I think they are “real” “spam” —…

While you might not be able to watch it while keeping a straight face, take a look at this video: Clearly, the dog — named “Happy” — is out of control, and the owner is irresponsible (if not insane). I suspect most people would laugh at the above video (hence the 250,000 YouTube hits). I…

Click on the picture for an explanation. The big deal is in the lower left. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Well my Conservative friends I think it is time we had a talk. About the Reagan Revolution. About the leftward drift of the Party. About Reagan Democrats. That’s right. Reagan brought a lot of Democrats into the party. Remember the years of the Big Tent? You know the years when RINOs were welcomed, reluctantly, into…

While I’m very tired of reading about it, I’m nonetheless having a lot of trouble trying to sort out the bitter and protracted alimony battle between former Governor Jim McGreevey and his wife Dina Matos. Matos has calculated the value of taxpayer-funded perks that are no longer there, and seeks a “cost of replicating her…

Yesterday I wrote a post titled “How do I tell Coco they want to kill her?” I am writing this one lest anyone think I was engaged in hyperbole. While I admitted that I was being emotional, the fact is that people who love their dogs do consider them members of their families, and when…

No, that is not a joke about heteronormativism. Or even homonormativism. I just didn’t know what else to call a post linking B. Daniel Blatt’s “McCain’s Straight Talk Express Stops in Beverly Hills.” And while the subject of gay marriage did come up, that’s not the point; I just got a kick out of the…

1. Senator Obama, when will you finally decide to go back to Iraq, to see the progress first hand? 2. And when will you finally decide to meet one-on-one, unconditionally, with General Petraeus? Sergeant Anderson was one of the 12 veterans denied a meeting with Senator Obama. And like his fellow veterans, Sergeant Anderson would…

Today’s WSJ Science Journal has a piece by Robert Lee Hotz called “Revenge of the Freeloaders — Study Finds Culture Influences Reaction To Reward, Rebuke.” Naturally, I was fascinated, and I was even more fascinated by some of the unexamined premises raised in both the study and the piece. We all bristle at people who…

A very interesting blog by some one who purports to be a Chicago police officer. Second City Cop The comments are especially good. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I don’t know what it is about me and emails I don’t agree with, but earlier today I received an impassioned plea from the “Lighted Candle Society” informing me that my tax dollars are “subsidizing pornography.” Naturally, that got my attention, for the word “subsidize” means “finance, support, promote, sponsor, underwrite, put up the money…

…when pit bulls are criminalized, only criminals will own pit bulls. — Radley Balko In an ominous Pennsylvania development, a group of legislators want to do away with Pennsylvania’s ban on breed specific legislation: State Rep. John Galloway (D., Bucks) will announce legislation today that would allow municipalities to pass ordinances restricting dangerous dogs. ADBA’s…

Thorley Winston at The Volokh Conspiracy has this to say about Obama vs McCain on economic policy: On Health Care – Obama favors creating a new federal entitlement and a new federal bureaucracy to force every private health plan to conform to the “genero[sity]” of the new entitlement. McCain opposes both mandates and entitlements and…

“The only news is that somebody within the administration has confirmed what a lot of us have thought for some time.” That’s Barack Obama’s take on a “tell all” book by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. Having not read the book and being without plans to do so, I’d be shooting in the…

Back in late March Clayton sent me an e-mail saying that he was running for the Idaho State Senate. He and I have had our agreements and disagreements. He has always been respectful of my arguments and discussed them with wit and intelligence. The people of Idaho would be well served by electing him to…