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I love thinking about the psychiatric underpinnings of the “Wi-Fi allergy” meme that’s been floating around like an Internet virus: A group in Santa Fe says the city is discriminating against them because they say that they’re allergic to the wireless Internet signal. And now they want Wi-Fi banned from public buildings. Arthur Firstenberg says…

Some one should start asking the leftys what they really want. It is my opinion that if America started drilling for oil now as the price starts going through the roof we could bring the Middle East to its knees by bringing a lot of oil on line in the next few years. Where would…

Roger L. Simon is wondering whether his own Lakers fandom (and perhaps fandom generally) is a form of mental illness: Sometimes fandom almost feels like a mental illness. During the playoffs, I can spend more time thinking about my team than my work, family, or anything else. Part of the reason I am writing this…

Who knew? In today’s Wall Street Journal, Donald J. Boudreaux figured it out, simply by applying logic to Hillary Clinton’s contention that she is a victim of sexism: This fact (if it be a fact) reveals a hitherto unknown, ugly truth about the Democratic Party. The alleged bastion of modern liberalism, toleration and diversity is…

Barack Obama can be such a wimp. I mean, he had a perfect opportunity earlier when Hillary made what this unintentional assassination insinuation: “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.” That just cried out for another bumbling unintentional remark. Something cute like this, perhaps. “We all remember Vincent Foster was found…

Maxine Water’s wants to socialize the oil companies if gas prices don’t come down. Yep. Drilling for American oil off America’s coasts and in Alaska is off limits. Socializing the oil companies is not. And yet the American electorate looks to give the Democrats a landslide in November. In the main because Real Republicans™ are…

Who will John McCain pick as his running mate? In the last post, I suggested Lieberman (for the second time, BTW…) but good arguments can be made against him — just as good arguments can be made for or against most of the possible choices. Writing for Pajamas Media, John Hawkins takes a look at…

We all agree that rules are not fair, right? So, when the rules don’t apply because they are not fair, what rules apply? Because of the close race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, this is the hottest question in politics right now, and it is generating fierce debates, like the one between Andrew Sullivan…

It strikes me as common sense that if you need nothing more than a magnifying glass to start a fire, there’s free solar power anywhere. Yet concentrating solar power in such a manner is not what ordinary solar collectors do. Until recently, that is. IBM seems to have figured out how to use the magnifying…

In today’s Inquirer, Rick Santorum characterizes the California Supreme Court’s legalization of same sex marriage as a “wake up call“: The latest distressing news came last week in California. The state Supreme Court there ruled, 4-3, that same-sex couples can marry. In doing so, four judges rejected a statute that passed in a referendum with…

H/T Juanita Gonzales at Stop Obama

What Presidential candidate is most up on fusion and specifically the Bussard Fusion Reactor Program. Interesting question. Which candidate was interested enough to have his staffers look deeper into it in August of 2007? The answer? John McCain. A week ago I attended a lecture given by Sen John McCain given to the Economic Club…

See what Senator Tom Harkin had to say about Vietnam about 5:55 into the video. Then listen to John McCain’s response. And the video that goes with it? Harrowing. Not for those faint of heart. There is no blood. No bodies. But you can imagine and that is the worst. BTW the Democrats revisionism re:…

I’ll be gone most of the day, but I highly recommend reading Kathy Shaidle’s excellent PJM post, “Mark Steyn vs. the ‘Sock Puppets’.” In Canada, where there’s no First Amendment, writers can be hauled before kangaroo courts and so-called “human rights commissions,” (Newspeak for what are censorship boards, and abused by activists who claim to…

While I have nothing but sympathy for blind people, I think the recent decision by the D.C. Court of Appeal that U.S. currency discriminates against the blind sets common sense on its head. Jonathan Adler quotes from the opinion: The current design of paper money springs from the world of the sighted. Upon casual inspection,…

I’m reprinting in its entirety a post from Black Box Voting. Because as Joseph Stalin was once reputed to have said: “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.” == In this article you will find tools to help you analyze the numbers as they come in from…

There is a wonderful (if it can be called that) discussion of nuclear war going on at Talk Polywell. I’m not going to reprise the discussion. However, I’d like to give you some educational resources. First Wretchard’s Three Conjectures. Which discusses what a rogue attack (terrorist) with a nuclear weapon would mean in terms of…

I watched Obama’s Iowa speech earlier. Nothing new. Crowd chanted “Yes we can.” I tried not to fall asleep. Finally, I see that Obama won Oregon, which isn’t any more surprising than the fact that Hillary won Kentucky (although Hillary won by a much higher margin). I’m not sure, but I guess the speech in…

While it wasn’t much of a surprise to see Hillary Clinton win Kentucky, the fact that she won by more than a 2-1 margin (65%-30%, with 91% of the vote in) ought to send a shiver down whatever spine the Democrats have. It’s not a pretty picture for them, because the sharp, deep division means…