Reason thinks the threat the Taliban poses to Pakistan's nukes is overblown.
Mathmaticians discover pattern in prime numbers. How could that have taken so long?
Sri Lanken shelling kills at least 378. Or maybe they were killed by the Tamil Tigers. Either way, that's what happens when civilians support terrorists then the terrorists turn around and use them for human shields or propaganda. There's an easy solution to this - don't support terrorists. When they come to your neighborhood, turn them over to the authorities or fight them yourselves. If you allow them to live with you, you are providing support for them, and you're likely to die along with them or at their hands.
Cato highlights the 1804 Federal subsidies.
Obama's claim that government run health care will make us more prosperous is a lie. Countries with government run health care are universally poorer.
Reason suggests that Russian President Medvedev may be taking the small steps he can to liberalize (in the classic sense) Russia despite Putin.
CIA documents reveal that Nancy Pelosi was briefed on harsh interrogation techniques in 2002.
Pelosi, a California Democrat, waded into that debate when she told reporters in April that in 2002 she had been briefed on the authorized techniques but was not told that waterboarding had been already been used on a prisoner.That's a distinction without a difference. She approved the use of the harsh techniques then, just like 90 percent of Americans would have, and only later changed her tune out of political expediency. The CIA memos show that both parties in Congress were fully informed about the harsh interrogation techniques being used on some detainees, and that this johnny-come-lately denunciation of the techniques is a charade by a bunch of Democrat political hacks.
Contrary to the after-the-fact howls by many lawmakers, the Bush administration did not go rogue. Congress was a full partner. Congress, judging the interrogation tactics to be necessary and effective, signed off.Well said.
Jonah Goldberg has a lot of the words right, but is still absolutely wrong. Yes, Republicans, far too much like Democrats, must differentiate themselves to regain power, but not in the way Goldberg proposes. He's proposing using more government power to force more conservative feel-good issues down the throats of the people. It doesn't matter if the majority of people agree with those issues or not, that's dead wrong. Government always twists any power you give it back against the people to our detriment. Government is our problem, not the solution to our problems. We need to severely limit the power of government, not to expand it in either the conservative or liberal directions. Gay marriage is the blatantly obvious example of why. The definition of marriage should belong to the people in the marketplace of ideas, but by surrendering that definition to government, we created a firestorm out of a nothing. And having Olympia Snowe lecture anybody on fighting governmenting spending should get her laughed out of office.
Republicans need to differentiate themselves fiscally by proposing to cut the size and scope of government in half, reform entitlements, abolish the income tax and payroll tax, break the government monopoly on schools, end government destruction of our health care system and free Americans to invest in, develop and use whatever form of energy they choose.
Mark Steyn is amazingly better when he's lambasting liberals than when he's trying to support conservatives. It's like night and day.
Article compares Obama and Democrats to gangsters for stealing Chrysler's assets from its creditors and giving them to the UAW. This is the Chicago-style politics of corruption and thuggery I warned about before the election. Liberals love that in government.
I wonder if all those people who supported the bipartisan Patriot Act will still support it after the Feds bust in their house and take their children.
Waterboarding is not only not torture, it's now what the cool kids do to show how cool they are. A Playboy journalist bets the people waterboarding him he can last 15 seconds. SPOILER: He loses, but he sits up, calms his heart down, rationally discusses what happened to him and has a couple of chuckles in the process. It's fear and panic. Nothing else. No reasonable person can consider this torture. It's more like getting a piercing but without the pain and way less suffering than getting a tattoo. It's so innocuous that people are laughing and joking about getting waterboarded now. If you're a journalist and haven't been waterboarded, you're not cool. Do you think any of these guys would allow themselves to be worked over with pliers, a knife, a car battery, a blow torch or even fists by an expert martial artist for for 15 seconds? Hell no, because that would be torture.
Capitalism in the hug market.
Will the android phone lead to Linux becoming a target for hackers?
Health care companies suggest ways to cut health care costs. This article makes it sound like Obama is somehow driving this, but it seems more like self-defense to me. These health care companies have watch Obama destroy Wall Street, banks and the automakers and they see the writing on the wall if he comes after them. Better to lose a little bit of money on a plan of their own than have Obama destroy that industry too. I know how to reduce health care costs - stop subsidizing health care. When Americans pay for their own health care, they'll chose to pay for an ounce of prevention instead of allowing a third party to pay for a pound of cure.
Court rules police can mount GPS on cars to track people without warrants. As much as I don't like this, what's to stop them? It isn't a search. Police can tail anybody they want without a warrant. Using a GPS is just applying technology to do the same thing. Clearly this is a problem requiring restrictions on government since police could theoretically put a GPS on every car in the country and track everybody.
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