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What might be the biggest unspoken liberal objection to Barack Obama is only being voiced by foreign leftists: In Europe, one senses a quiet shame. The left, which loves to criticize the Unites States for its imperial foreign policy and its discrimination against blacks and Hispanics, is not really saluting Obama. There have been few…

That’s what an angry core of feminist activists is saying about Oprah Winfrey: AMERICA’S favourite television presenter is paying a painful price for her intervention in the US presidential campaign last month. Oprah Winfrey has been dubbed a “traitor” by some of her female fans for supporting Barack Obama instead of Hillary Clinton. Winfrey’s website,…

I’m watching the South Carolina results roll in and I’m sorry that Fred Thompson didn’t win this one. (Right now he’s in third place, which is at least better than he’d done elsewhere.) With 22% of the vote in, it appears that McCain has it — winning by an eight point margin over Huckabee. (36%…

Here’s Boys on Wheels — a disabled Norwegian group singing a song about how glad they are that they’re not gay. This came from a friend who said in the email, Hysterical, but as you see, we are STILL the only ones on whom it will always be open season for ridicule! Exactly how serious…

Back when Power and Control was new (Dec ‘004) I put up a post called Internet Security, where I discussed the problems of controlling critical infrastructure with the Internet, wireless, or worse yet wireless Internet. George Tenent then head of the CIA said we had a problem. Let me quote a bit to give you…

I’m getting tired of what can only be called noose hysteria. I think reactions to images of nooses are leading people to lose all sense of perspective, and allow themselves to be manipulated by what is, after all, only an image. I’ve complained about “imageism” before, and I think that’s precisely what is going on…

John Leo at Minding the Campus discusses affirmative diversity counseling at Yale. Yale’s burgeoning diversity program has another announcement: it wants to “incorporate the role of ethnic counselor into that of freshman counselor, who will become responsible for providing enhanced community support for cultural affairs on campus,” according to the Yale Daily News. What does…

Black Five has an update on the Jay Grodner case that I reported on in A Marine Needs Help. The best stuff is in the comments so I’ll give you those. From Mike the Marine yesterday: [Sgt] McNulty might derive some comfort from the fact that the presiding judge is a former Marine. Circuit Court…

That’s how Charles Krauthammer characterizes Hillary’s LBJ analogy, and the Clintons’ view that only Hillary is qualified to lead black people: In my view, the real problem with Clinton’s statement was the implied historical analogy — that the subordinate position King held in relation to Johnson, a function of the discrimination and disenfranchisement of the…

Has there ever been a time in American political history when both major parties were as fragmented as they are now? Maybe there has been, but I don’t remember ever seeing anything quite like this. True, I have seen unpopular presidents and many scandals come and go. LBJ was much hated by the left because…

Dr. Nebel, who is working on the Bussard Fusion Project has taken some time out of his busy schedule to thank the bloggers supporting the WB-7 Project. Also, I would like to thank M Simon, TallDave and their fellow bloggers for their continued interest in this technology. We appreciate that a great deal, but as…

Newsmax.com sent me this, and I really don’t know what to make of it. The title is “Hillary Plays Flight Attendant” Up next, Obama as a, um…oh, forget it!

I don’t talk about sex as much as I should. For someone who’d probably be lumped in with the “hedonist” group because of my opinions, I’m surprisingly square. To the extent that I appear hedonistic, it’s mostly because I defend hedonists. Occasionally I’ll get into sexual issues, but my approach is usually rather clinical. But…

Via the G. Gordon Liddy Show (hardly part of the Obama network), I learned about an interesting column titled “Why the Clintons Play the Race Card“: They want to nudge–even provoke–Barack Obama into becoming the “black” candidate rather than the healing, unity candidate. They want black supporters to raise their voices on his behalf–preferably the…

Eric says he never reads Science Fiction. Tom Ligon, one of the Premier Science Fiction Authors of our time is a friend of mine. He gave me permission to publish a piece he did a while back. I published it at Power and Control last July. It is one I like a lot as it…

The front page of today’s Inquirer highlights the very unpleasant fact that public schools are cranking out illiterates: Tens of thousands of Pennsylvania high school seniors who failed state math and reading tests got “empty diplomas” last year because they had not learned basic skills, Pennsylvania Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak says. Statewide, 45 percent of…

It is election season again. The time when the Congress Critters are most responsive to citizens. As most of you know by now Dr. Bussard’s latest Fusion Power experiment, WB-7 First Plasma, is so far showing encouraging results. It is time to get Congress and the President thinking about this so that if final results…

Ron is a Communist when it comes to American foreign policy. Withdraw America from everywhere was their marching song. I should know. I was a Communist in my youth. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I hadn’t realized the true extent of Ron Paul’s nuttiness until I read this: The newsletters’ obsession with blacks and gays was of a piece with a conscious political strategy adopted at that same time by Lew Rockwell and Murray Rothbard. After breaking with the Libertarian Party following the 1988 presidential election, Rockwell and Rothbard…

Apparently because gays caused a heterosexual rape murder or something, Fred Phelps and his crowd are now protesting the Marine Corps. From the group’s news release: God Hates the U.S. Marines. The wonderful, spit-and-polish Marine is over eight months pregnant and she says another wonderful Marine raped her, and now on the eve of his…