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Not that this should suprise anyone, but here’s the latest polling data from RealClearPolitics: General Election: McCain vs. Obama RCP Average McCain 45.5 Obama 44.8 McCain +0.7 General Election: McCain vs. Clinton RCP Average McCain 44.2 Clinton 46.3 Clinton +2.1 As I keep saying, if there is a Republican argument for Hillary based on strategy,…

I think what we have here is a telling slip of the tongue. A senior Democrat strategist privy to Obama’s campaign said: “He’s sick of the battle against Clinton. He wants to get stuck into McCain. His people have had to remind him that this thing isn’t over yet and he needs to focus and…

If someone murdered one of your loved ones, would you be more concerned with who did it and why, or the make and model of the weapon used? Would these concerns change if the murderer killed a police officer, or if the murder occurred during a bank robbery? When we think of famous bank robbers…

I alway loved the Morse Code opening to news reports. Reminds me of Walter Winchell. In this video clip I believe we have a new parliamentary rule (not found in Roberts Rules of Order). That would be the Respect Rule. Women take precedence over men. Blacks have precedence over whites. And the universal unwritten rule.…

Regarding the Jeremiah Wright affair….. Groan. Ugh! Really, I am as bored with Wright as I am sick of him, sick of elections, and sick of politics. As “issues” go, that man is one of the most tedious and tawdry I have ever seen. The more he fails to just shut the eff up, the…

H/T Curmudgeons Corner

Here is a progress report from MSNBC’s Cosmic Log about the status of the Bussard Fusion Experiment, WB-7. Currently, the most promising path toward electrostatic fusion runs through Santa Fe, N.M., where a team at EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. is currently trying to validate Bussard’s results. The team’s leader, Richard Nebel, told me this week…

Our next stop was the local Chamber of Commerce, located on the second floor of what looked like a pawnshop. Inside, we found a plump black man who was busy packing boxes. “We’re looking for Mr. Foster,” I said to the man. “I’m Foster,” he said, not looking up. “We were told that you were…

I’m familiar with the so-called “allegations” about McCain calling his wife the “c” word in 1992, and although I hadn’t checked with WorldNetDaily to see if they’re repeated there, I’m not sure they’re even up to that level of “journalism.” But today I saw (on a FireDogLake YouTube video linked by Gateway Pundit) that a…

WARNING TO ALL ASSHOLE PROPAGANDIST TRAITORS: Be careful about proselytizing in coffee houses. You never know when a blogger might be listening! Rand Simberg links a wonderful essay by Gerard van der Leun titled “The Banality of Sedition” — prompted by the latter overhearing the sort of thing I used to overhear in Berkeley before…

GayPatriot’s B. Daniel Blatt has a great PJM piece about gay Republicans — “Washington’s One-Sided Gay War“: We gay conservatives face similar name-calling from our liberal peers, even those in the gay media. Our gay peers, however, don’t limit themselves to calling us fascists. They also call us the equivalent of African-American Klansmen or Jewish…

We’ve all heard of the Safety Nazis, and I’ve complained about an emerging group some people are calling the Gonad Nazis. And I’m fond of complaining that I hate to violate Godwin’s Law — usually just before I violate it. So this time — just for now — I have decided that I will not…

Tom has graciously provided a pdf of his most recent Analog article The World’s Simplest Fusion Reactor Revisited for your edification and enjoyment. Please read the following and then follow the link provided for your own copy. Tom sends his regards to all. Enjoy! Copyright 2007, 2008, by Tom Ligon. This article was first published…

Eric in some private e-mails thinks I have been too soft on Hillary lately. He is probably right. With Hillary rising in the polls again I think it is time to give her a few whacks. She says there is no military solution to what we face in Iraq. How does she explain that the…

Eric has a bit up on how the anti-Evolutionists can beat the arguments for evolution in 5 minutes or less. Here is how to beat their argument in less than 15 seconds. It’s the Internet Age – why waste time? My god is more powerful than yours. He set the Universe in motion billions of…

We have been a little light on classical music lately. So here is a bit. Ruslan-yn-Fryslan, that is: Russia in the Dutch Friesland province. Violonist Galina Rezaeipour from Minsk and the Fries orchestra. Arnaud Oosterbaan conducting.

I just got a long email from Human Events which is marketing (in the manner of a self-improvement program) a how-to course which promises to turn 97 pound intellectual weaklings into Charles Atlases ready to do battle against the Great Satan Charles Darwin, by discrediting and debunking evolution. While I get a lot of annoying…

Part 1 Part 2 The 60s represented a period of unregulated therapy. However, not all of those participating were uninformed. A lot of the misfortune of that era was due to government hysteria. Had the government actually provided true and useful information much of the damage would have been mitigated. “Unless we put medical freedom…

In an earlier post discussing Barack Obama’s political “friendship” with Bill Ayers, I maintained that people are missing a larger point. Wright may have talked the talk, but Ayers walks the walk. This, IMO, makes it necessary for Obama to address the issue head-on, instead of issuing evasive statements about how Ayers is a neighborhood…

In the wake of Albert Hofmann’s death, I thought a few words would be in order. The guy was a chemist who inadvertently stumbled onto LSD during World War II. And people have been stumbling over it ever since. No, I don’t mean stumbling in the sense of being intoxicated, but in the sense of…