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From: Palestinian leaders seek to keep lid on Israel clashes

Since I will probably have more to say on the subject this is report zero (0). I don’t necessarily agree with all the facts let alone the interpretations expressed in this video. But I think it gives a good general sense of the situation. You can’t tell the players even with a scorecard. Video source…

From Sputnik News. A Russian source. After successful military cooperation talks with Israel, Russia wonders: Why no word from Turkey and the United States? On Wednesday, senior officials with both the Israeli and Russian governments met to discuss the avoidance of accidental collisions in Syrian airspace. The meeting of senior diplomats in Israel follows Israeli…

Why would you want outsiders policing the US? Because they would find it easier to kill Americans and/or violate their rights. None of them would have taken the oath (no matter how meaningless) to uphold and defend the Constitution. Here are some links if you want to look into it further. A New Global Police…

Yeah. Alex Jones. But Matt Drudge. More video and links at Matt Drudge Rare Interview: “I’m A Free Thinker. I’m An American. I’m Very Concerned…”.

Hillary Clinton does in fact hate Iowa, and little wonder. Iowa has a well-earned reputation as an accurate early predictor of national election results: …[I]f history is any guide, early national polls are far less valuable in understanding what is happening in the presidential contest than are reliable surveys of Iowa voters, such as the…

Sorry for yet another facetious title, but I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. Earlier a friend emailed me about an outbreak of college campus hysteria in Philadelphia. The content of that last link has been changed after nothing happened, but originally, all local colleges were warned about a possible attack by a group…

Sorry about the facetious title, because “Why now?” is an excellent question. There is nothing new about guns, or schools, or even school shootings. Yet if this article is correct, since 2010 the numbers of school shootings have in fact skyrocketed. I am at a loss to explain the apparent acceleration of this phenomenon. It…

Tom Perkins was asking if I’m OK and is Talk-Polywell still alive? Other than the world is going to hell in a hand basket and I am unable to raise any money for my projects I’m fine. Talk-Polywell is not so fine. Temporarily Closed for Maintenance Yes, Talk-Polywell is broken. Dreamhost broke it on September…

Sorry, but I’m getting a little sick of the news, and this is a perfect example: According to the link, yes, he singled out Christians for death: A woman who claimed to have a grandmother inside a writing class in Snyder Hall, where a portion the massacre unfolded, described the scene in a tweet. “The shooter…

I watched last night’s much-ballyhooed eclipse and tried to photograph it with a couple of cameras, but it was a major pain in the ass. The biggest problem was the clouds. The moon seemed to keep going in and out of them — which of course the moon can’t. So, between the cloud cover and…

Earlier a friend emailed me a link to a lovely headline about so-called precognitive policing — “Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes“: Mr. Brown, whose criminal record includes drug and assault charges, is at the center of an experiment taking place in dozens of police departments across the country, one…

Some backward minds might find this simple question an interesting question: Why allow women in combat if we won’t allow them to compete alongside men in sport? […] While the U.S. Navy and Air Force are pledged to open all positions to women, and the Army is being coy, the Marines did a major study…

Interesting, and if they detected the Industrial Revolution we might catch the departure ceremonies of their flight here: According to a paper Siemion authored last fall, a five-year campaign by the first phase of the SKA could allow scientists to survey more than 10,000 stars. When completed, the SKA could detect signals as faint as…

Anyone who has been reading this blog over the years knows there are few people I abhor more than Michael Moore. I see him (and his films) as little more than a bloviating pile of putrescent Communist garbage. So imagine my shock and horror when I found myself in agreement with what he said about…

Nick Gillespie highlighted one of the better moments in last night’s debate. Rand Paul did something few Republicans would dare do: he criticized the war on drugs. Paul couched his argument in 10th Amendment terms, saying that states should be allowed to experiment with different approaches to medical and recreational pot legalization, a radical idea…

A comment I made in a discussion about energy and economics. Energy is money. Which makes you winder why long shots like this don’t get funded: An introduction to Proton-Boron Fusion. Yes the odds are 10 to 1 against. But if we hit that 1 it is energy for the next 10,000 years. Not to…

I’ll never forget that awful day fourteen years ago. It’s had great staying power, as the occasion has furnished an endless supply of rationalizations to take away ever more freedom from Americans. (Ironic, because it was an attack on our freedom.) I’m glad to see that some students right here in Ann Arbor have not…

No matter how much they might claim to be offended, Americans have always loved the exotic and unusual. This video — innocuous as it is today — is a perfect example from my childhood: And this heavily copyrighted video is a perfect example from today. http://on.today.com/1Q0M7K6 Whether a given person actually has a penis matters not…