Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I like the McCain Campaign so far. Jab. Jab. Jab. Obama throws a round house. McCain then lands a solid punch. McCain is peeling off the Obama voters. A half percent every day. That will put Obama 15 points down by 1 Sept. I think with the dynamics of this campaign too much fear in…

Breaking News: House Republican are holding an after session session to try to get House Speaker Democrat Nancy Pelosi to bring the House Back in Session to debate the Republican plan to open the waters of the Outer Continental Shelf of the US for oil exploration and production. Speaker Pelosi has ordered the lights, air…

The boffins are at it again They have just invented a new kind of solar cell that produces hydrogen from salt water. In Situ Formation of an Oxygen-Evolving Catalyst in Neutral Water Containing Phosphate and Co2+ Matthew W. Kanan 1 and Daniel G. Nocera 1* The utilization of solar energy on a large scale requires…

The truth has finally come out. Officially. Greens think more wealth is a bad idea. Environmental campaigners, citing government-commissioned research, have said that the UK’s claimed carbon emissions figures are “a big lie”. The analysis adds carbon burdens associated with offshore manufactures, shipping and aviation to the UK total, and – according to the activists…

Commenter bgates at Just One Minute has run with a suggestion of mine and written an outstanding song parody. I see a White House and I want it painted black No Clintons anymore they both can kiss my sack I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes I have to turn my…

Eric at Classical Values discourses on Obama’s prescription for saving gasoline. I have been so engaged in the move (truly the most harrowing one of my life) that I have barely been able to keep abreast of news developments, much less blog about them. But that did not mean that I missed Barack Obama’s fascinating…

La Shawn Barber has a bit up about the racism of global warming. It is no joke. On Tuesday, liberal Congressman James Clyburn spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to kick off the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, sponsored by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The left-leaning think…

The Obama camp has a new blog up The Low Road Express, which discusses McCain’s “distortions” of Obama’s words. This is the print version of WORM which stands for What Obama Really Meant. Here is one of my favorites from Cincinnati Enquirer. The McCain ad’s claim that Obama says ‘he’ll raise taxes on electricity’ is…

I have been so engaged in the move (truly the most harrowing one of my life) that I have barely been able to keep abreast of news developments, much less blog about them. But that did not mean that I missed Barack Obama’s fascinating assertion about tire inflation. Via Ace, the exact quote: “we could…

Sgt. Mom says the book is part of “…a trilogy, about the German settlements in the Texas Hill Country in the 19th century. Did you know that in Gillespie County became almost solidly German between one decade and the next, and that German was the common language up until the 1920’s?”. Here is an excerpt.…

John Kass in the Chicago Tribune comments on the latest Obama video by MoveOn.org. It is a hoot. Also target rich. Obama hopium was so powerful, that that first rush of it, well, it sent a tingle up my leg. Or down my leg. Then up. So now, when I read newspaper stories about Obama’s…

This is a McCain ad which echoes my latest post on why drilling for oil is a good thing and will have good effects almost immediately: It’s A Zero Sum Game. The idea is to zero out the Saudis and other malefactors besides keeping the money in America. If sending our money to China for…

I just came across an interesting thread on some kind of strange Google blog that talks about the Democrat’s anti-oil position. One commenter says this about oil drilling (edited slightly for typos and clarity) The 10 year timeframe that everyone keeps repeating is not a very realistic one. It takes less than a year to…

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…