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MSNBC Reports first plasma on the WB-7 Reactor. Bussard’s mantle has been picked up by a small team led by Richard Nebel, who has taken a leave from Los Alamos National Laboratory to head up Bussard’s EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. Backed by a Navy contract, Nebel’s five-person team is trying to pick up the technology…

I just got a call from the Campaign to Restore Morals and Values 1-877-266-6277. They were asking me if I knew about all the sex offenders living in the neighborhood. Then some one came on the line and asked me what my first name was and as soon as I began to give it they…

Via, Justin (who directed me to Tim Blair’s link), I found a wonderful new accessory. I’m told that Coco wants one. UPDATE: In light of Sean Kinsell’s post, I’m thinking the above might be the perfect weapon for “the vanguard of the Army of Fatal Cuteness poised to attack.”

Hillary is considered to be a woman who has ’em. She’s rough, she’s tough, she’ll stand up to the right wing attack machine, and she stopped the “unstoppable” Obama right in his tracks. Right? Was it all balls? Or might it have been something else? ….Clinton’s voice quavered at one point when asked how she…

Now that the dust has settled a little, it seems pretty clear what had been pretty clear before the outburst of Obamamania — the Clintons are consummate professionals who can handle whatever is thrown their way. The Republicans would do well to remember that. Will Hillary be easier to beat than Obama? M. Simon thinks…

Now that tonight’s live blogging is over, how about a little Dead blogging? Not quite the Dead, but Dead light — Jerry Garcia, making a comeback of sorts. Not just because Garcia has been completely dead these twelve years, but considering that the last time I linked this video it disappeared, I’m delighted to have…

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Hillary is ahead 38% to 36%. McCain leads Romney 37% to 28%. Fox projects that McCain is the winner. MORE: Good for McCain, I’d say; he’s the only Republican who can beat either Hillary or Obama. MORE: Regarding Edwards, while he has no chance of winning, he’s poised to be the kingmaker. (I imagine he…

Here is a round up of the skeletons in Obama’s closet. I will be adding links as I find them. Check back at Power and Control. Obama goes to Church. Obama timeline Obama does Kenya Islamic coup attempt in Keyna Jihad in Kenya Obama Backs Taliban Supporter Obama exploits grievances

A fuming Bill Clinton delivered an angry lecture (“rant” would be a better word for it) to a group of Dartmouth students, and in a hectoring tone, he warned them about fairy tales and the big bad media. “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.” Mr. Clinton’s…

World’s smallest home made cathode ray tube If you liked that I have an even better one. An absolutely fascinating video that revives the mostly lost art of vacuum tube construction. It has a nice sound track. The titles are in French, but it doesn’t matter. About 17 minutes of absolutely no politics. HT hanelyp…

Today is the big day for New Hampshire. As usual there are shenanigans. Could Romney be behind some of them? Upper Left Coast has some dirt on Romney. The New Hampshire attorney general is going after a Portland polling firm to determine who launched the anti-Mitt Romney push polling that asked Granite state voters if…

M. Simon has an interesting post which raises a good question — whether Barack Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ (and its minister, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright) is racist. The place certainly seems to be dedicated to a nutty left wing liberationist theology, and there are a variety of troubling connections (among other things, between…

I’m not enough of a political junkie to know all the details about Frank Luntz and his background. However he certainly seems to like Mitt Romney. A lot. So much so that in a post yesterday I questioned Fox’s claim that he’s a professional and objective pollster: I thought Fox was shamelessly plugging Romney (the…

If I shed tears, most people don’t care, nor would I expect them to care. (I have wasted a lot of time crying over losses, and I can assure everyone that crying has never brought anyone or anything back to life.) Of course, I’m not crying in New Hampshire. When Ed Muskie cried in New…

In contrast to some of the people running for president, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have experience, background and specific ideas about how to best conduct the war on terror. Both were interviewed by Pajamas Media’s Claudia Rosett and Roger L. Simon — Rudy Giuliani here, and John McCain here. Excellent interviews, not full of…

Matt Drudge sometimes pushes sensationalized stories, and I can think of few stories more likely to cause a sensation among political junkies than this: TALK OF HILLARY EXIT ENGULFS CAMPAIGNS Mon Jan 07 2008 09:46:28 ET Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator…

Quite lamely (in my view), Glenn Greenwald charges Glenn Reynolds with racism based on the latter’s link to Jonah Goldberg in this post. Whether Greenwald read the rest of the post or the links I do not know. But I think Glenn (Reynolds) made it abundantly clear that he was not talking about race. While…

I guess two debates two nights in a row is the sort of thing we have to get used to over the next few months. I watched the Republican debate on Fox, and now I’m watching the Democrats on CNN. I thought Fox was shamelessly plugging Romney (the Luntz stuff with the charts was especially…