Scientist decries Gore's brainwashing of our children. On Saturday, Mike McConnell said that in 15-20 years we would look back on An Inconvenient Truth, as a cult classic that shows the ignorance in hysteria of our times, the same way we now look at Reefer Madness. That's a perfect analogy. And just like the drug warriors have never apologized for being so wrong and for the damage they have wrought on society with their hysteria, neither Gore and his false prophets of doom or their supporters will apologize for the damage they do with anti-growth policies that attack the poor more than anybody.
the way we lookA vivid reminder that China is still governed by communists. Chinese communists rule out empowering Chinese to govern themselves. These communists are dangerous tyrants, and we better remember that real fast.
There will be no peace for Israel until the Arabs want peace, despite Rice's or any other US efforts.
The site Israel struck in Syria was an unfinished nuclear reactor.
Israeli hostages possibly held in Iran. I can't remember if Hezbollah captured 2 Israelis, triggering the 2006 summer war, or just one, and the other hostage was captured by Hamas before then.
Giant banks set up $80 billion fund to buy out ailing lenders. This is a free market solution to the problem, and it seems like a great idea to me. It sure beats a government bailout.
Article discusses how society ignores dumb laws that are on the books because of political failure, and uses prescription drugs as an example, but this article fails to point out this situation, all caused by political failure, undermines he rule of law and creates huge social problems. This article implies this is a good thing. It's not. The right answer is to end the political failure and simplify our laws, not undermine the rule of law by ignoring them. The crime and institutional criminal justice problems we face every day are a result of this political failure.
Essay shows that Nobel Peace Prize is worse than a joke; it's a fraud.
More rumors about Google's gPhone.
Mark Steyn says culture and ideology trump economics.
Author wonders if China's next leader might be their Gorbachev. Talk about wishful thinking.
Ralph Peters explains that Democrats are attempting to stab our troops in Iraq in the back by passing the resolution declaring the Turks genocide of Armenians, genocide. This is arguably the most underhanded and disgusting betrayals of Americans by a political party since the Democrats founded the KKK.
New York is no longer the financial capital of the world.
George Will explains that social workers exclude conservatives.
Dick Morris looks at Hillary's statements and shows that she plans to raise taxes dramatically.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Free kibbles
US sends top diplomats to Turkey to try and limit the damage done by Congressional resolution condemning Turkey for genocide of the Armenians.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urges Muslim nations to boycott the US sponsored Middle East summit. It must be a worthwhile summit.
Sec. of State Rice encourages Russian human rights activists then claims she doesn't want to interfere in Russian affairs. She can't have it both ways. I think she wanted to tweak Putin because of his aggressive anti-Americanism and his power grabs. Rice worries about Kremlin power. Did she just notice? Apparently she isn't that worried because she hasn't even acknowledged the new Cold War of Terror being waged against us by Russia and China utilizing their proxies North Korea, Iran, Syria and now Venezuela.
Gen. Sanchez is correct that the "surge" in Iraq is a desperate attempt to make up for years of failure. But it seems he's failed to notice its working. If Sanchez had pushed for a counterinsurgency strategy when he was the commander in Iraq, maybe we would have won by now. Surely the lions share of the blame for failures in Iraq falls on Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bremer, but there's plenty left over for Democrats, Sanchez, Casey and the Iraqi government. Sanchez is just trying to shift his share of the blame.
Democrats may provide immunity to telecoms for their assistance in fighting the war on terror. It sounds stupid to have to even report that, but there it is. Many liberals want to punish telecoms for helping fight our enemies. I think all this bluster about the telecoms was just pandering to the loony left. No grown up can honestly think we should punish companies for assisting the war effort at the request of the government. I think this was a fait accompli from the beginning. Many Democrats will vote against it to appease their loony base, but it will pass.
China's export boom is fueled by companies that have fled the US to China because of our punishing income tax. Even China has better tax policy than we do. Adopt the FairTax.
If you wait to vote until shortly before the polls close, you may end up loosing your chance to vote. If everybody tries to vote at the same time, long lines will form. What's so hard to understand about that?
Oil hits new high on supply worries. This just puts more money in Iran's and Russia's coffers while draining our resources. It's a shift in power from the free world to despots. We could ease the supply worries and lower prices by drilling for oil in the US. We could ease the demand by building clean coal and nuclear plants. Opponents of US drilling need to explain why they are more concerned about the convenience of caribou and fish than the human lives lost in the war on terror. Opponents of clean coal and nuclear power need to explain why they are willing to allow people to die in the war on terror instead of building these plants. Opponents of both need to explain why they think it's good to shift power and wealth from the free world to despots.
Dutch consumer group recommends XP over Vista. Anybody buying a new computer should demand XP, or better yet, Linux.
Gmail to increase capacity faster. Good. Not that I use a fraction of my capacity.
Bjorn Lombard exposes Gore's lies.
Rudy Giuliani vows fiscal restraint. I have a question for supposed Reagan Republicans. Did you agree with Reagan that government was too large and too intrusive in 1980? Did you agree that in 1980, government was the problem, and people freed from government were the solution? If you did, then you must support cutting government to pre-1980 levels. That means cutting our federal budget by more than half.
Fiscal restraint is Republican code for statism. For Republicans, fiscal restraint means growing our titanic government at 5% instead of the 6% annual rate Democrats prefer. Republicans love to rail against the size of government, but every election, Republicans at best want to continue growing government, just at a slightly smaller rate than Democrats want, no matter how titanic our government is. Bush did much worse. We need massive cuts in the size and scope of government, not the statism promised by fiscal restraint.
I'll believe in Reagan conservatives when they draw a line in the sand and demand cutting government back to pre-1980 levels.
Europe, like China, is catching and on a trajectory to surpass the US because they have VAT taxes and we have the punish federal income tax. The answer is easy: adopt the FairTax.
Pat Buchanan reports that Bush will sign the Law of the Sea Treaty, transferring our sovereign rights to the UN and providing the UN the ability to tax countries, and push it through the Senate. Time to write my Senators.
Anybody who is surprised that 2 New England liberals are the leading candidates for the Republican nomination has been deluding themselves. This is is who conservatives and Republicans are, and except for the few years of the Reagan revolution, always have been. If conservatives and Republicans really believed in Reagan's libertarian ideals of small government staying out of people's lives, the Reagan years wouldn't have been a revolution. Americans are starving for a Reagan libertarian, but one that is more effective than Reagan was at reducing the size and scope of government. Unfortunately the socialists who have dominated conservatives and Republicans except during Reagan's revolution, gave us religious socialist George Bush, Trent Lott, John McCain, John Boehner, and other men who think ever bigger government is the answer, not the problem.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urges Muslim nations to boycott the US sponsored Middle East summit. It must be a worthwhile summit.
Sec. of State Rice encourages Russian human rights activists then claims she doesn't want to interfere in Russian affairs. She can't have it both ways. I think she wanted to tweak Putin because of his aggressive anti-Americanism and his power grabs. Rice worries about Kremlin power. Did she just notice? Apparently she isn't that worried because she hasn't even acknowledged the new Cold War of Terror being waged against us by Russia and China utilizing their proxies North Korea, Iran, Syria and now Venezuela.
Gen. Sanchez is correct that the "surge" in Iraq is a desperate attempt to make up for years of failure. But it seems he's failed to notice its working. If Sanchez had pushed for a counterinsurgency strategy when he was the commander in Iraq, maybe we would have won by now. Surely the lions share of the blame for failures in Iraq falls on Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bremer, but there's plenty left over for Democrats, Sanchez, Casey and the Iraqi government. Sanchez is just trying to shift his share of the blame.
Democrats may provide immunity to telecoms for their assistance in fighting the war on terror. It sounds stupid to have to even report that, but there it is. Many liberals want to punish telecoms for helping fight our enemies. I think all this bluster about the telecoms was just pandering to the loony left. No grown up can honestly think we should punish companies for assisting the war effort at the request of the government. I think this was a fait accompli from the beginning. Many Democrats will vote against it to appease their loony base, but it will pass.
China's export boom is fueled by companies that have fled the US to China because of our punishing income tax. Even China has better tax policy than we do. Adopt the FairTax.
If you wait to vote until shortly before the polls close, you may end up loosing your chance to vote. If everybody tries to vote at the same time, long lines will form. What's so hard to understand about that?
Oil hits new high on supply worries. This just puts more money in Iran's and Russia's coffers while draining our resources. It's a shift in power from the free world to despots. We could ease the supply worries and lower prices by drilling for oil in the US. We could ease the demand by building clean coal and nuclear plants. Opponents of US drilling need to explain why they are more concerned about the convenience of caribou and fish than the human lives lost in the war on terror. Opponents of clean coal and nuclear power need to explain why they are willing to allow people to die in the war on terror instead of building these plants. Opponents of both need to explain why they think it's good to shift power and wealth from the free world to despots.
Dutch consumer group recommends XP over Vista. Anybody buying a new computer should demand XP, or better yet, Linux.
Gmail to increase capacity faster. Good. Not that I use a fraction of my capacity.
Bjorn Lombard exposes Gore's lies.
Rudy Giuliani vows fiscal restraint. I have a question for supposed Reagan Republicans. Did you agree with Reagan that government was too large and too intrusive in 1980? Did you agree that in 1980, government was the problem, and people freed from government were the solution? If you did, then you must support cutting government to pre-1980 levels. That means cutting our federal budget by more than half.
Fiscal restraint is Republican code for statism. For Republicans, fiscal restraint means growing our titanic government at 5% instead of the 6% annual rate Democrats prefer. Republicans love to rail against the size of government, but every election, Republicans at best want to continue growing government, just at a slightly smaller rate than Democrats want, no matter how titanic our government is. Bush did much worse. We need massive cuts in the size and scope of government, not the statism promised by fiscal restraint.
I'll believe in Reagan conservatives when they draw a line in the sand and demand cutting government back to pre-1980 levels.
Europe, like China, is catching and on a trajectory to surpass the US because they have VAT taxes and we have the punish federal income tax. The answer is easy: adopt the FairTax.
Pat Buchanan reports that Bush will sign the Law of the Sea Treaty, transferring our sovereign rights to the UN and providing the UN the ability to tax countries, and push it through the Senate. Time to write my Senators.
Anybody who is surprised that 2 New England liberals are the leading candidates for the Republican nomination has been deluding themselves. This is is who conservatives and Republicans are, and except for the few years of the Reagan revolution, always have been. If conservatives and Republicans really believed in Reagan's libertarian ideals of small government staying out of people's lives, the Reagan years wouldn't have been a revolution. Americans are starving for a Reagan libertarian, but one that is more effective than Reagan was at reducing the size and scope of government. Unfortunately the socialists who have dominated conservatives and Republicans except during Reagan's revolution, gave us religious socialist George Bush, Trent Lott, John McCain, John Boehner, and other men who think ever bigger government is the answer, not the problem.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Free kibbles
Texas mayors threaten to sue to stop border fence. How does this fence hurt trade? We're not fencing up border crossings. We're our own worst enemy. I don't think we need the fence, we should just hold people who purposely hire illegal immigrants accountable, but this is an example of how our own country is undermining our own country.
We were a lot better off when we didn't care if people liked us. We cared about family, freedom and success, and we were good at all of them. Everybody respected us then. Everybody wanted to be us then. Now we care about how others feel about us. How's that working out for us? Now everybody wants to take advantage of us. To take from us. To attack us.
What does global warming have to do with peace? Al Gore and the IPCC jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize, and Cato comments on Gore's climate lunacy and avoidance of debate. The author is not happy. This is the first time I've seen a Cato scholar show such frustration, but Gore is so dangerous and such a hypocrite, it's about time. Gore is not going to run for President because he knows he can't stand up to honest debate. Reason lampoons the Nobel Peace Prize. Reason warns of Gore's dangerous, socialist policies. Reason archive on Gore. Czech President surprised. He must not be aware that the Nobel Peace Prize has become a joke.
Condi Rice says Iran is lying about its nuclear weapons program. That's a pretty strong statement, befitting a ramp up of rhetoric preparing for a military strike.
Boortz says the House vote to condemn the Turks for genocide against the Armenians is a victory for the Armenian special interest lobby. I think it was a backhanded attempt by the Democrats to hurt our war effort in Iraq, and I wouldn't be surprised to see our troops suffer because of it. It seems to me Congress should have done this back in the 20s, not today.
IRS records show that the rich are relatively richer than any time since the 20s. I'm surprised only half of Senators are millionaires. Cato disputes that the rich are getting rich faster than the poor. Maybe Cato has missed the news about CEO salaries. Of course the rich are getting richer faster. They have the resources to manipulate and capitalize on the outrageous government regulations, subsidies and direct payouts from government. The poor have not. Companies spend tremendous resources dealing with the tax code, lobbying, and navigating government regulations, resources that don't go to workers or investment, and therefore the people at the top are making more money than the people at the bottom.
Who would have guessed that the UN was corrupt?
2002 people died during arrest from 2003 to 2005. That's more Americans than were killed in Iraq.
Cato shows that taxes on the rich and poor are about the same as they were in 1990. That sucks. We should adopt the FairTax.
Clean coal is a wonderful fuel to lower our dependence on foreign oil and lower oil prices to win the war on terror and to limit Russian power.
Atlanta mayor begs residents for water conservation. This is what happens when government manages resources instead of the free market. If water had been supplied by a private owner, prices would have long ago signaled that growth in Georgia was outstripping water supply.
Chinese to move 4 million people because of environmental threats from Three Gorges Dam.
Why are people outraged that Ann Coulter claims her religion is the best? Doesn't everybody believe their religion is the best, and that everybody else would be better off if they convert? If they don't believe that, why do they believe in their religion? This sounds like a phony controversy to me.
In order to combat high education costs, Democrats propose to inject more money into the system, creating more demand. Needless to say, this will increase prices, not reduce them. They way to lower prices is to increase supply. But the biggest problem with education is the quality. To fix that, we have to make schools accountable to parents and students, not government.
Another noose.
What happens in Vegas is all on video. More surveillance.
Vatican publishes Knights Templar trial records.
Bacteria in the digestive tract may trigger eating urges.
Charles Krauthammer says Hillary's lack of principles and overwhelming ambition might lead her to make good for the wrong reasons as President. He's delusional.
Only 9% of people would turn to sex in their last hour on earth? No wonder our birth rate is falling so rapidly. I would want really kinky sex.
Hillary wants to remove the payroll tax limit to fund social security. The payroll tax limit is currently indexed to the benefit. Raising the payroll tax limit will not change the benefit for people earning over the current limit, so it will remove the index. A better solution is to find a plan to completely faze out social security over time without cutting existing obligations. The plan should include downgrading benefits for younger and younger people until at some young age, those people will never be saddled with social security and adopting the FairTax to support the baby boomers.
Appeasement of Muslims on Halal cafeteria backfires. Tolerance has to work both ways. We need to demand comparable tolerance from Muslims.
Ramsey Yousef claims to have converted to Christianity. Maybe another Muslim in the prison will kill him for it.
We were a lot better off when we didn't care if people liked us. We cared about family, freedom and success, and we were good at all of them. Everybody respected us then. Everybody wanted to be us then. Now we care about how others feel about us. How's that working out for us? Now everybody wants to take advantage of us. To take from us. To attack us.
What does global warming have to do with peace? Al Gore and the IPCC jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize, and Cato comments on Gore's climate lunacy and avoidance of debate. The author is not happy. This is the first time I've seen a Cato scholar show such frustration, but Gore is so dangerous and such a hypocrite, it's about time. Gore is not going to run for President because he knows he can't stand up to honest debate. Reason lampoons the Nobel Peace Prize. Reason warns of Gore's dangerous, socialist policies. Reason archive on Gore. Czech President surprised. He must not be aware that the Nobel Peace Prize has become a joke.
Condi Rice says Iran is lying about its nuclear weapons program. That's a pretty strong statement, befitting a ramp up of rhetoric preparing for a military strike.
Boortz says the House vote to condemn the Turks for genocide against the Armenians is a victory for the Armenian special interest lobby. I think it was a backhanded attempt by the Democrats to hurt our war effort in Iraq, and I wouldn't be surprised to see our troops suffer because of it. It seems to me Congress should have done this back in the 20s, not today.
IRS records show that the rich are relatively richer than any time since the 20s. I'm surprised only half of Senators are millionaires. Cato disputes that the rich are getting rich faster than the poor. Maybe Cato has missed the news about CEO salaries. Of course the rich are getting richer faster. They have the resources to manipulate and capitalize on the outrageous government regulations, subsidies and direct payouts from government. The poor have not. Companies spend tremendous resources dealing with the tax code, lobbying, and navigating government regulations, resources that don't go to workers or investment, and therefore the people at the top are making more money than the people at the bottom.
Who would have guessed that the UN was corrupt?
2002 people died during arrest from 2003 to 2005. That's more Americans than were killed in Iraq.
Cato shows that taxes on the rich and poor are about the same as they were in 1990. That sucks. We should adopt the FairTax.
Clean coal is a wonderful fuel to lower our dependence on foreign oil and lower oil prices to win the war on terror and to limit Russian power.
Atlanta mayor begs residents for water conservation. This is what happens when government manages resources instead of the free market. If water had been supplied by a private owner, prices would have long ago signaled that growth in Georgia was outstripping water supply.
Chinese to move 4 million people because of environmental threats from Three Gorges Dam.
Why are people outraged that Ann Coulter claims her religion is the best? Doesn't everybody believe their religion is the best, and that everybody else would be better off if they convert? If they don't believe that, why do they believe in their religion? This sounds like a phony controversy to me.
In order to combat high education costs, Democrats propose to inject more money into the system, creating more demand. Needless to say, this will increase prices, not reduce them. They way to lower prices is to increase supply. But the biggest problem with education is the quality. To fix that, we have to make schools accountable to parents and students, not government.
Another noose.
What happens in Vegas is all on video. More surveillance.
Vatican publishes Knights Templar trial records.
Bacteria in the digestive tract may trigger eating urges.
Charles Krauthammer says Hillary's lack of principles and overwhelming ambition might lead her to make good for the wrong reasons as President. He's delusional.
Only 9% of people would turn to sex in their last hour on earth? No wonder our birth rate is falling so rapidly. I would want really kinky sex.
Hillary wants to remove the payroll tax limit to fund social security. The payroll tax limit is currently indexed to the benefit. Raising the payroll tax limit will not change the benefit for people earning over the current limit, so it will remove the index. A better solution is to find a plan to completely faze out social security over time without cutting existing obligations. The plan should include downgrading benefits for younger and younger people until at some young age, those people will never be saddled with social security and adopting the FairTax to support the baby boomers.
Appeasement of Muslims on Halal cafeteria backfires. Tolerance has to work both ways. We need to demand comparable tolerance from Muslims.
Ramsey Yousef claims to have converted to Christianity. Maybe another Muslim in the prison will kill him for it.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Free kibbles
House passes war profiteering bill. About time. How will this affect, Cheney, Blackwater, and Congress?
Democrats plan $1 trillion tax hike over 10 years. This is another nail in the coffin of their chances in 2008. Republicans offer an alternative simplified tax plan that is considered too radical. Too radical? The tax plan is still a punishing income tax, which has been abandoned by every major trading partner we have - they have adopted VAT taxes. This plan won't stop the hemorrhaging of jobs overseas. Adopt the FairTax and dump the 2 anti-American parties.
California bans smoking in cars with children. Required bubble suits soon to follow.
Turkey may punish Boeing over genocide vote. We'll be very lucky if that's the worst they do. We have to wonder whether Democrats are using this vote to incide the Turks to attack Iraqi Kurds, starting a broader middle east war to destroy Bush. As little confidence as I have in either party, I don't want to believe this, but I don't know of any other reason for this vote right now.
The war in Iraq is going so well that the Commandant of the Marines has requested to transfer Marines from Iraq to Afghanistan to lead the fight there. We should never have taken our eye off Afghanistan before we had secured the peace there. We should give Gen. Petraeus all the troops he needs to secure the peace in Iraq before moving any back to Afghanistan.
The Bush administration versus Texas capital punishment law.
Because of the rapidly falling dollar, US exports increased. Gold and Platinum near records. Foreclosures double. We've known for years that we couldn't sustain this titanic government spending and that the baby boomer bubble would devastate our economy, and it's starting now.
We should lower the drinking age. It's ridiculous that an 18 year old can sign up for combat, but can't drink a beer. It's ridiculous that 18 year olds move out and go to college, where their slightly older peers are drinking, but they can't drink. It's just dumb.
Radiohead's free music will lead to a much needed reorganization of the music industry.
Michael Barone thinks we're seeing a turning point in British politics. Lovers of freedom and self-determination are gaining power and influence daily, just as they did in France. Europe is waking from its devastating, socialist slumber, and not a bit too soon. Even Sweden is trying, but free market reform is hard won in Sweden.
Muslim scholars reach out to Pope and other Christian leaders.
Reason totally misunderstands Hillary and health insurance. We don't need more people insured. We need more people buying their own health care. The more people who get insured, the more prices go up. The more government subsidizes health care, the more prices go up. we need to stop that spiral.
Google bans anti-MoveOn.org ads over use of trademark. So MoveOn.org could run ads criticizing Gen. Petraeus, politician, talk radio host, or anybody else as long as their name isn't trademarked, but nobody can run an ad criticizing MoveOn.org in response. That's convenient. The trademark policy should not apply to political organizations.
A telescope as big as the earth? That's big.
Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I think Americans recognize socialized medicine is just as devastating to the nation as they thought it was with Hillarycare in 1993. Hillary seems to think so too, because her new program, though designed to fail, isn't complete socialized medicine up front. It's hidden behind terms like choice and flexibility. Hillary learned, and claims she has the scars to show it. I just hope she never shows them in front of me or I'll throw up.
Ralph Peters explains that Pakistan's attempted appeasement of radicals in the mountainous wilderness on the edge of Afghanistan backfired, and now Pakistan is doing what it should have done from the beginning fighting those radicals.
Thomas Sowell explains why the Duke Lacrosse case mattered. It's sad he had to.
Bush to meet the Dalai Lama. Good for him. Bush should invite him, the leader of Taiwan, and the leader of China to dinner. On an aircraft carrier right outside the territorial waters of China.
Democrats plan $1 trillion tax hike over 10 years. This is another nail in the coffin of their chances in 2008. Republicans offer an alternative simplified tax plan that is considered too radical. Too radical? The tax plan is still a punishing income tax, which has been abandoned by every major trading partner we have - they have adopted VAT taxes. This plan won't stop the hemorrhaging of jobs overseas. Adopt the FairTax and dump the 2 anti-American parties.
California bans smoking in cars with children. Required bubble suits soon to follow.
Turkey may punish Boeing over genocide vote. We'll be very lucky if that's the worst they do. We have to wonder whether Democrats are using this vote to incide the Turks to attack Iraqi Kurds, starting a broader middle east war to destroy Bush. As little confidence as I have in either party, I don't want to believe this, but I don't know of any other reason for this vote right now.
The war in Iraq is going so well that the Commandant of the Marines has requested to transfer Marines from Iraq to Afghanistan to lead the fight there. We should never have taken our eye off Afghanistan before we had secured the peace there. We should give Gen. Petraeus all the troops he needs to secure the peace in Iraq before moving any back to Afghanistan.
The Bush administration versus Texas capital punishment law.
Because of the rapidly falling dollar, US exports increased. Gold and Platinum near records. Foreclosures double. We've known for years that we couldn't sustain this titanic government spending and that the baby boomer bubble would devastate our economy, and it's starting now.
We should lower the drinking age. It's ridiculous that an 18 year old can sign up for combat, but can't drink a beer. It's ridiculous that 18 year olds move out and go to college, where their slightly older peers are drinking, but they can't drink. It's just dumb.
Radiohead's free music will lead to a much needed reorganization of the music industry.
Michael Barone thinks we're seeing a turning point in British politics. Lovers of freedom and self-determination are gaining power and influence daily, just as they did in France. Europe is waking from its devastating, socialist slumber, and not a bit too soon. Even Sweden is trying, but free market reform is hard won in Sweden.
Muslim scholars reach out to Pope and other Christian leaders.
Reason totally misunderstands Hillary and health insurance. We don't need more people insured. We need more people buying their own health care. The more people who get insured, the more prices go up. The more government subsidizes health care, the more prices go up. we need to stop that spiral.
Google bans anti-MoveOn.org ads over use of trademark. So MoveOn.org could run ads criticizing Gen. Petraeus, politician, talk radio host, or anybody else as long as their name isn't trademarked, but nobody can run an ad criticizing MoveOn.org in response. That's convenient. The trademark policy should not apply to political organizations.
A telescope as big as the earth? That's big.
Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I think Americans recognize socialized medicine is just as devastating to the nation as they thought it was with Hillarycare in 1993. Hillary seems to think so too, because her new program, though designed to fail, isn't complete socialized medicine up front. It's hidden behind terms like choice and flexibility. Hillary learned, and claims she has the scars to show it. I just hope she never shows them in front of me or I'll throw up.
Ralph Peters explains that Pakistan's attempted appeasement of radicals in the mountainous wilderness on the edge of Afghanistan backfired, and now Pakistan is doing what it should have done from the beginning fighting those radicals.
Thomas Sowell explains why the Duke Lacrosse case mattered. It's sad he had to.
Bush to meet the Dalai Lama. Good for him. Bush should invite him, the leader of Taiwan, and the leader of China to dinner. On an aircraft carrier right outside the territorial waters of China.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Free kibbles
Government leaked bin Laden video leads al Qaeda to shut down web site, shutting off a flow of intelligence.
California city bans smoking in apartments and condos. Like second hand smoke dangerously drifts through walls. This isn't about smoke or health. It's about power, and these power-hungry freaks that want to impose their will on everybody else must be stopped.
Canada cuts off power to energy hogs assuming they are growing pot. This is nuts. If they suspect this, they should get a search warrant, not cut off power. They probably can't get a warrant on such vague information.
Retired Navy officer disputes claims about nuclear missiles flown over the US, claiming they must have been active and were being flown to a middle east staging area.
Putin says there is no evidence Iran is building a nuclear weapon. I've yet to see the evidence. I have some confidence in the intelligence reports, but they've been famously wrong before. I would hope that Bush would present evidence before any attack.
Hugo Chavez levels sin tax and luxury tax on items to stop his citizens from being like Americans. Of course, our government is doing the exact same thing to us.
Britain says it will remove all troops from Iraq by the end of next year.
Liberal talk radio host ties O'Reilly in audience size. This is good news. It should keep the government out of talk radio.
British judge rules An Inconvenient Truth must have guidance notes if shown to in British schools to prevent political indoctrination. Good for the judge. I still if teacher show it, they should also show The Great Global Warming Swindle too.
Israel to install anti-missile systems on all civilian airplanes.
Federal government considers buying waterfront land in Mississippi for $40 billion to create a hurricane barrier. Why only there? This smells funny.
Why would Congress pass a bill condemning the pre-WWI Armenian massacre now? Committee passes bill. This must be another Democrat stunt to hurt the Bush administration by hurting the country. We need to work with Turkey, not anger Turkey by passing a meaningless resolution about something that happened 90 years ago when Turkey was part of the Ottoman Empire instead of an independent nation. Maybe Congress can piss off Italy by passing a bill condemning Rome for enslaving all of Europe and the Mediterranean for centuries.
Reason talks about smoking bans in homes.
Reason talks with Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Ron Paul suggests that representatives read the Constitution. Apparently he doesn't realize that our representatives don't give a damn about the Constitution.
Instead of getting the government out of education, John McCain wants to expand government education to unemployed workers. That ought to make the unemployed even worse of like government schools do for our students. Where is that power in the Constitution?
Vincente Fox describes a plan he made with President Bush that leads to a North American currency, the Amero. Article. This conspiracy theory has been confirmed.
Insect-like robot spies.
New Horizons spacecraft photographs Jupiter on its way to Pluto. What a fantastic picture.
Boortz lists many of Hillary's socialist plans.
Boortz points out that legislating rebates for everybody will backfire on California.
Dick Morris says Democrats like Hillary because she's a gladiator. I guess it doesn't matter that she's never won a battle. Her health care plan went down in flames. Clinton was impeached.
Democrats are running away from the Iraq war issue. That's because Gen. Petraeus has turned the war in our favor and Democrats have been exposed for the slimy defeatists they are - willing to defeat their own country for some ephemeral political gain. If Democrats had helped win the war in Iraq, instead of trying to defeat us, our troops might be coming home already. As Democrats start their socialist domestic programs, they will further alienate Americans like they did by trying to defeat us in Iraq. As bad as Republicans have been, Democrats are proving worse, and voters will see it.
John Stossel shows how doctors compete, lowering prices and improving service, when patients pay for their own health care. That's how it's supposed to work.
Walter Williams supports Rush Limbaugh against Harry Reid and the left's misrepresentation of his "phony soldiers" comment.
Belgium as a model for the EU.
Thomas Sowell on IQ and intelligence.
Salman Rushdie understands what Ayaan Hirsi Ali is going through.
California city bans smoking in apartments and condos. Like second hand smoke dangerously drifts through walls. This isn't about smoke or health. It's about power, and these power-hungry freaks that want to impose their will on everybody else must be stopped.
Canada cuts off power to energy hogs assuming they are growing pot. This is nuts. If they suspect this, they should get a search warrant, not cut off power. They probably can't get a warrant on such vague information.
Retired Navy officer disputes claims about nuclear missiles flown over the US, claiming they must have been active and were being flown to a middle east staging area.
Putin says there is no evidence Iran is building a nuclear weapon. I've yet to see the evidence. I have some confidence in the intelligence reports, but they've been famously wrong before. I would hope that Bush would present evidence before any attack.
Hugo Chavez levels sin tax and luxury tax on items to stop his citizens from being like Americans. Of course, our government is doing the exact same thing to us.
Britain says it will remove all troops from Iraq by the end of next year.
Liberal talk radio host ties O'Reilly in audience size. This is good news. It should keep the government out of talk radio.
British judge rules An Inconvenient Truth must have guidance notes if shown to in British schools to prevent political indoctrination. Good for the judge. I still if teacher show it, they should also show The Great Global Warming Swindle too.
Israel to install anti-missile systems on all civilian airplanes.
Federal government considers buying waterfront land in Mississippi for $40 billion to create a hurricane barrier. Why only there? This smells funny.
Why would Congress pass a bill condemning the pre-WWI Armenian massacre now? Committee passes bill. This must be another Democrat stunt to hurt the Bush administration by hurting the country. We need to work with Turkey, not anger Turkey by passing a meaningless resolution about something that happened 90 years ago when Turkey was part of the Ottoman Empire instead of an independent nation. Maybe Congress can piss off Italy by passing a bill condemning Rome for enslaving all of Europe and the Mediterranean for centuries.
Reason talks about smoking bans in homes.
Reason talks with Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Ron Paul suggests that representatives read the Constitution. Apparently he doesn't realize that our representatives don't give a damn about the Constitution.
Instead of getting the government out of education, John McCain wants to expand government education to unemployed workers. That ought to make the unemployed even worse of like government schools do for our students. Where is that power in the Constitution?
Vincente Fox describes a plan he made with President Bush that leads to a North American currency, the Amero. Article. This conspiracy theory has been confirmed.
Insect-like robot spies.
New Horizons spacecraft photographs Jupiter on its way to Pluto. What a fantastic picture.
Boortz lists many of Hillary's socialist plans.
Boortz points out that legislating rebates for everybody will backfire on California.
Dick Morris says Democrats like Hillary because she's a gladiator. I guess it doesn't matter that she's never won a battle. Her health care plan went down in flames. Clinton was impeached.
Democrats are running away from the Iraq war issue. That's because Gen. Petraeus has turned the war in our favor and Democrats have been exposed for the slimy defeatists they are - willing to defeat their own country for some ephemeral political gain. If Democrats had helped win the war in Iraq, instead of trying to defeat us, our troops might be coming home already. As Democrats start their socialist domestic programs, they will further alienate Americans like they did by trying to defeat us in Iraq. As bad as Republicans have been, Democrats are proving worse, and voters will see it.
John Stossel shows how doctors compete, lowering prices and improving service, when patients pay for their own health care. That's how it's supposed to work.
Walter Williams supports Rush Limbaugh against Harry Reid and the left's misrepresentation of his "phony soldiers" comment.
Belgium as a model for the EU.
Thomas Sowell on IQ and intelligence.
Salman Rushdie understands what Ayaan Hirsi Ali is going through.
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Free kibbles
Democrats gear up for a constitutional battle with the President over eavesdropping, warrantless wiretaps, on suspected terrorists. From the dawn of civilization, generals have relied on captured intelligence to win wars. Washington intercepted communications between the British and American sympathizers. Fully understanding the need to empower 1 man to lead the country in a war, the founding fathers gave powerful war powers to the commander in chief which includes the power to intercept communications between the enemy and sympathizers that has been part of waging war since the first war. Lincoln used it. Roosevelt used it. Now Democrats want to take that power from the Commander in Chief, and we can't allow them to subvert the separation of powers that way.
The way to avoid abuse is to elect presidents of good character. The remedy if the Commander in Chief abuses that power is impeachment. The founders were smart enough to know that congressional or judicial oversight of eavesdropping orders will get us killed. Democrats aren't near that smart, and they have no respect for the constitution. Bush had better not cave.
Barbara Boxer has proposed an amendment that would block enforcement of our immigration laws and force the 2010 census to count non-Americans. This is help blue states pick up congressional seats during redistricting.
Pakistani troops kill 150 Taleban and al Qaeda fighters.
Private security contractors kill 2 Iraqis. It doesn't say it was Blackwater this time. The hidden lesson of this story is that things are going so well in Iraq, that private contractors are the new story.
Most Americans still think the media is too biased towards the left. The left tries to skew this story as an attack on right wing bias. Funny. The liberal bias is front and center in this article.
Reason discusses a case of expert testimony gone horribly wrong.
Slate wonders about Syrian President Assad.
Gosh, who would ever have thought that the demagogues would be mistaken (or outright lie) about who had free trade and who didn't. (Hopefully all of us know better than to trust demagogues.) Apparently colonial France did and England didn't despite conventional wisdom.
Study shows that people conform their belief of facts to their cultural biases. We see this all the time, but in this case, I think we needed a study to confirm it so we can use it to change the way we debate issues. Political discussion tends to degenerate into belief versus belief because both sides tend to ignore the facts. The million dollar question is how do we change the debate so that all debaters work with facts instead of biases. People can set aside their biases while reviewing facts, but most are just too lazy or slaves to agendas.
Reason comments on Ron Paul's $5 million quarter.
Thompson average in first debate.
Hillary Clinton proposes big-government retirement program with taxpayers paying matching funds on 401k-like programs for everybody. She would raise the death tax on estates worth over $7 million. Talk about vote buying. There aren't many people with estates over $7 million to vote against stealing their money at the barrel of a gun to give to other people. Charles Krauthammer likes this idea. How much more proof do people need that the 2 parties are so similar that it doesn't matter?
I have a far better idea. Adopt the FairTax, dramatically cut the size of government and the tax rate, and let Americans save their own money tax free for their own retirement.
Pat Buchanan correctly exposes 3 pillars of belief that have failed Republicans and Bush, but he is mistaken about free trade. Free trade is not the reason we are hemorrhaging jobs, running record trade deficits, and the dollar is falling: our federal taxes are. Every major US trading partner has adopted a business friendly VAT tax that rebates taxes on exports and taxes imports, our tax structure embeds a 22% price penalty, on average, on every product and service made in America. Therefore, whenever an American product competes with a foreign product, at home or abroad, the US product is penalized by our embedded tax.
The solution is to adopt the FairTax. Our exports will have no embedded taxes. All products sold in America, foreign and domestic, will have a 23% embedded tax, putting American made goods and services on a level playing field with our trading partners. And Americans, who are still the most productive workers in the world, will win. Did I mention that everybody gets to keep 100% of their paychecks too? And there's no tax penalty for saving money?
Phyllis Schlafly exposes a white paper detailing Bush's plans for a North American union being developed by a 3 nation working group called The Security and Prosperity Partnership. Wow.
I don't know what's up with all these nooses suddenly showing up. Hanging a noose on a professor's door is stalking, and the stalker should be prosecuted.
Chimps show more rational behavior than humans. This is evidence for my hypothesis that human brain growth is limited because larger brains lead to behavior unfavorable to survival.
Boortz highlights Hillary's pork projects. Apparently she's quite a porker.
He also discusses Sandy Berger's role as Hillary adviser. I have a theory of why Hillary would do this. Those documents Berger destroyed showing Bill Clinton's weakness fighting terrorism would have damaged Hillary's campaign, so the Clinton's struck a deal with Berger. If he would destroy the documents, the Clintons would bring him back into their political machine. I think this is Hillary's first step toward rehabilitating Berger for a higher office. Bill Salmon suggested Sec. of State, no less. That's going to be a hard sell, since they defended Berger's actions as saying he was absentminded. I don't think America wants an absentminded Sec. of State, let alone a serious criminal busted for stealing and destroying classified documents, obviously for the political gain of the Clintons.
Terrorists endorse Hillary. That's no surprise.
Boortz offers a C.S. Lewis quote regarding the tyranny of do-gooders.
Organization wants Congressmen to reveal their earmarks. Hillary refuses.
GM cars with OnStar can be shut down by the system.
Thomas Sowell appreciates Clarence Thomas.
Rich Lowry calls Iraq the lonely war.
Robert Novak reports that the Blackwater hearings were prompted by a trial lawyer suing Blackwater on behalf of the families of 4 contractors slain in Fallujah.
The way to avoid abuse is to elect presidents of good character. The remedy if the Commander in Chief abuses that power is impeachment. The founders were smart enough to know that congressional or judicial oversight of eavesdropping orders will get us killed. Democrats aren't near that smart, and they have no respect for the constitution. Bush had better not cave.
Barbara Boxer has proposed an amendment that would block enforcement of our immigration laws and force the 2010 census to count non-Americans. This is help blue states pick up congressional seats during redistricting.
Pakistani troops kill 150 Taleban and al Qaeda fighters.
Private security contractors kill 2 Iraqis. It doesn't say it was Blackwater this time. The hidden lesson of this story is that things are going so well in Iraq, that private contractors are the new story.
Most Americans still think the media is too biased towards the left. The left tries to skew this story as an attack on right wing bias. Funny. The liberal bias is front and center in this article.
Reason discusses a case of expert testimony gone horribly wrong.
Slate wonders about Syrian President Assad.
Gosh, who would ever have thought that the demagogues would be mistaken (or outright lie) about who had free trade and who didn't. (Hopefully all of us know better than to trust demagogues.) Apparently colonial France did and England didn't despite conventional wisdom.
Study shows that people conform their belief of facts to their cultural biases. We see this all the time, but in this case, I think we needed a study to confirm it so we can use it to change the way we debate issues. Political discussion tends to degenerate into belief versus belief because both sides tend to ignore the facts. The million dollar question is how do we change the debate so that all debaters work with facts instead of biases. People can set aside their biases while reviewing facts, but most are just too lazy or slaves to agendas.
Reason comments on Ron Paul's $5 million quarter.
Thompson average in first debate.
Hillary Clinton proposes big-government retirement program with taxpayers paying matching funds on 401k-like programs for everybody. She would raise the death tax on estates worth over $7 million. Talk about vote buying. There aren't many people with estates over $7 million to vote against stealing their money at the barrel of a gun to give to other people. Charles Krauthammer likes this idea. How much more proof do people need that the 2 parties are so similar that it doesn't matter?
I have a far better idea. Adopt the FairTax, dramatically cut the size of government and the tax rate, and let Americans save their own money tax free for their own retirement.
Pat Buchanan correctly exposes 3 pillars of belief that have failed Republicans and Bush, but he is mistaken about free trade. Free trade is not the reason we are hemorrhaging jobs, running record trade deficits, and the dollar is falling: our federal taxes are. Every major US trading partner has adopted a business friendly VAT tax that rebates taxes on exports and taxes imports, our tax structure embeds a 22% price penalty, on average, on every product and service made in America. Therefore, whenever an American product competes with a foreign product, at home or abroad, the US product is penalized by our embedded tax.
The solution is to adopt the FairTax. Our exports will have no embedded taxes. All products sold in America, foreign and domestic, will have a 23% embedded tax, putting American made goods and services on a level playing field with our trading partners. And Americans, who are still the most productive workers in the world, will win. Did I mention that everybody gets to keep 100% of their paychecks too? And there's no tax penalty for saving money?
Phyllis Schlafly exposes a white paper detailing Bush's plans for a North American union being developed by a 3 nation working group called The Security and Prosperity Partnership. Wow.
I don't know what's up with all these nooses suddenly showing up. Hanging a noose on a professor's door is stalking, and the stalker should be prosecuted.
Chimps show more rational behavior than humans. This is evidence for my hypothesis that human brain growth is limited because larger brains lead to behavior unfavorable to survival.
Boortz highlights Hillary's pork projects. Apparently she's quite a porker.
He also discusses Sandy Berger's role as Hillary adviser. I have a theory of why Hillary would do this. Those documents Berger destroyed showing Bill Clinton's weakness fighting terrorism would have damaged Hillary's campaign, so the Clinton's struck a deal with Berger. If he would destroy the documents, the Clintons would bring him back into their political machine. I think this is Hillary's first step toward rehabilitating Berger for a higher office. Bill Salmon suggested Sec. of State, no less. That's going to be a hard sell, since they defended Berger's actions as saying he was absentminded. I don't think America wants an absentminded Sec. of State, let alone a serious criminal busted for stealing and destroying classified documents, obviously for the political gain of the Clintons.
Terrorists endorse Hillary. That's no surprise.
Boortz offers a C.S. Lewis quote regarding the tyranny of do-gooders.
Organization wants Congressmen to reveal their earmarks. Hillary refuses.
GM cars with OnStar can be shut down by the system.
Thomas Sowell appreciates Clarence Thomas.
Rich Lowry calls Iraq the lonely war.
Robert Novak reports that the Blackwater hearings were prompted by a trial lawyer suing Blackwater on behalf of the families of 4 contractors slain in Fallujah.
Monday, October 08, 2007
The Health Care Dictator
The Health Care Dictator
by Mark Luedtke
One of many big lies about U.S. health care is that we have a free market system. In fact, 60% of all health care expenditures in the U.S. are paid by taxpayers. That means our system is already 60% socialized, and that's the root of our current problems. Hillary Clinton wants to make it 100%.
Because the federal government had instituted a wage freeze during WWII, in 1942 the government created a tax break, a health insurance subsidy, so companies could reward workers with 3rd party payer health insurance. The result was a sudden increase in demand for health care services with no change in supply, driving up the price. Increased prices hurt the poor, so government pumped more money into health care, further increasing demand, and further driving up prices. We've continued this spiral at an ever increasing rate ever since. Because Americans don't pay for our own health care anymore, we're not very healthy, further driving up demand and prices. Quality of service also suffers because health care providers must satisfy 3rd party payers, not patients.
A nightmare of regulations at all levels of government compounds the problem. Every government dollar and regulation increases government, health insurance company, and health care provider bureaucracies. Decades of regulations have turned insurance companies, hospitals, clinics, and doctors' offices into reflections of expensive, wasteful, government bureaucracies. Doctors spend 14% of their income filing paperwork. Hospitals spend 25%.
Despite the government involvement in our health care system being the root of our current problems, Hillary's plan demands significantly more government involvement.
If elected, Hillary would dictate that every individual in America carry comprehensive health insurance, pretending this is like mandatory car insurance. She doesn't mention that car insurance only covers catastrophes, not maintenance, nor does she mention states' significant non-compliance. Hillary “envisions” a day when she dictates that all Americans will have to show proof of health insurance in order to get a job,but not illegal immigrants although her plan will cover them.
Hillary would dictate that every employer provide health insurance for their employees or pay a punishing tax to the federal government. Our biggest economic problem right now is that our archaic federal tax structure is driving businesses out of America to business friendly countries. Hillary's dictate will exacerbate that problem.
Hillary would dictate an expansion of government supplied health insurance to compete with private health insurance by opening up the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program to everybody, allowing younger people to buy into Medicare, and by expanding SCHIP to cover well-off families who currently buy their own insurance. Medicare is currently going broke even faster than Social Security, and this will accelerate its demise. All these dictates will transfer business from the private sector to the government, further reducing competition in the private sector leading to higher prices and poorer service.
Hillary would dictate that insurance companies could not refuse nor charge higher rates for people with higher risk. Premiums for healthy people would rise dramatically to subsidize the expenses of those unhealthy people, driving up prices.
The health care dictator learned one lesson since her disastrous socialized medicine plan of 1993 – marketing. She claims this program will cost only $110 billion and add no new bureaucracy. Both claims are false. Every dollar spent, and experts say it will be much more expensive, increases costs and the existing bureaucracies of government, insurance companies, and health care providers. Each dictate does the same. Just like all the government money spent on health care since WWII, the new funds will further drive up the cost of both insurance and health care, forcing more Americans to illegally go without health insurance.
Hillary knows her plan will fail because she designed it that way. Then she can force socialized medicine on us. Socialized medicine advocate Timothy Noah recognizes this in Slate, "The best argument in [Hillary's plan's] favor is that it probably won't work and that when it doesn't, the federal government will have an opportunity to take over. This time, though, the path to single-payer health insurance (shhhhhh!) seems a bit smoother." If elected, Hillary's plan is the last, flawed step before complete socialized medicine.
Some Republican plans aren't much better. Mitt Romney and Arnold Schwarzenegger both implemented state plans with similar dictates. Massachusetts residents have ignored the individual coverage mandate in such large numbers that the government was forced to forgo that dictate. Both plans are doomed like Hilllary's. Plans advocating health saving accounts would offset some damage from government subsidies and 3rd party payers, but they are still big government plans based on manipulating the income tax devastating our economy.
A better solution is to adopt the FairTax and deregulate to end 3rd party payer system. The FairTax would replace all federal taxes including the 22% average embedded tax in all American-made products and services with a 23% inclusive sales tax. Every American would keep 100% of his paycheck and save that money with no tax penalty. All corporate taxes and tax subsidies would disappear. This would dramatically reduce the government money and mandates that have broken our health care system. Competition would flourish. Prices would drop. Service would improve. Americans would pay for their own, inexpensive health care and catastrophic insurance and become more healthy. Freedom is the answer to our health care problems, not a dictator.
Free kibbles
Off-duty sheriff's deputy murders 6 in Wisconsin.
Aberdeen, Maryland passes law giving the city power to require all new developments to install security cameras linked directly to the police station. Sounds like Dharma took over Aberdeen.
New study claims there are 20 to 38 million illegal aliens in the US. Wow. Illegal immigration sparks violence and divides Switzerland. Illegal immigration divides all nations, and nobody should allow it. It makes no sense.
FCC refuses to probe telecoms for assisting NSA in warrantless wiretaps. I should hope so. It's just nuts that some people think these companies should be punished for helping our national security.
Canada claims northwest shipping passage created because of melting polar ice, plans to patrol and to build a military base.
Report claims that Britain is on board with air strikes on Iran. We know France is on board too. It looks like Bush has formed the vanguard of an international coalition for strikes.
Israel open to dividing Jerusalem to gain recognition by Arab states. The Temple Mount is a sticking point.
British teen arrested for possessing the Anarchist's Cookbook, a long-popular bomb making book. Nobody should be arrested simply for possessing a book.
Do prominent individuals who speak out against radical Islam have a right to taxpayer funded protection? That certainly have no such right because protection must be provided by somebody else, but on the other hand it may very well be in the best interest of everybody to provide that protection. But that's the argument for all socialism. You have a right to free speech, but you have no right to avoid the consequences. On the other hand, you have the right to life, and government has a duty to provide security to its citizens. But does that mean personal security? There are many instances in which government provides personal security for people who are legitimately threatened, so why not the objects of murderous fatwas?
Reason discusses the politics of medical marijuana. Why not just turn it into a prescription drug? What have we got to lose? That seems a no brainer.
Fred Thompson to face a debate.
Obama will learn why Democrats don't embrace religion: because their base doesn't. Trying to grap the religious vote during the Democrat campaign is suicide for Obama and may explain why he's so far behind Hillary.
Hillary has Sandy Berger as an adviser. I guess she needs tutelage on stealing classified documents, stuffing them in pants and socks, hiding and destroying them, lying about it, then getting off with a slap on the wrist. This ought to boost her negatives. I guess this is her definition of change - change back to the corruption of her first co-presidency.
Middle school students caught having public sex in class. My school never had those kinds of lessons.
Aberdeen, Maryland passes law giving the city power to require all new developments to install security cameras linked directly to the police station. Sounds like Dharma took over Aberdeen.
New study claims there are 20 to 38 million illegal aliens in the US. Wow. Illegal immigration sparks violence and divides Switzerland. Illegal immigration divides all nations, and nobody should allow it. It makes no sense.
FCC refuses to probe telecoms for assisting NSA in warrantless wiretaps. I should hope so. It's just nuts that some people think these companies should be punished for helping our national security.
Canada claims northwest shipping passage created because of melting polar ice, plans to patrol and to build a military base.
Report claims that Britain is on board with air strikes on Iran. We know France is on board too. It looks like Bush has formed the vanguard of an international coalition for strikes.
Israel open to dividing Jerusalem to gain recognition by Arab states. The Temple Mount is a sticking point.
British teen arrested for possessing the Anarchist's Cookbook, a long-popular bomb making book. Nobody should be arrested simply for possessing a book.
Do prominent individuals who speak out against radical Islam have a right to taxpayer funded protection? That certainly have no such right because protection must be provided by somebody else, but on the other hand it may very well be in the best interest of everybody to provide that protection. But that's the argument for all socialism. You have a right to free speech, but you have no right to avoid the consequences. On the other hand, you have the right to life, and government has a duty to provide security to its citizens. But does that mean personal security? There are many instances in which government provides personal security for people who are legitimately threatened, so why not the objects of murderous fatwas?
Reason discusses the politics of medical marijuana. Why not just turn it into a prescription drug? What have we got to lose? That seems a no brainer.
Fred Thompson to face a debate.
Obama will learn why Democrats don't embrace religion: because their base doesn't. Trying to grap the religious vote during the Democrat campaign is suicide for Obama and may explain why he's so far behind Hillary.
Hillary has Sandy Berger as an adviser. I guess she needs tutelage on stealing classified documents, stuffing them in pants and socks, hiding and destroying them, lying about it, then getting off with a slap on the wrist. This ought to boost her negatives. I guess this is her definition of change - change back to the corruption of her first co-presidency.
Middle school students caught having public sex in class. My school never had those kinds of lessons.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Free kibbles
General Petraeus says Iran is fueling the Iraq war and calls them the second biggest problem after al Qaeda.
Pakistani President Musharraf reaches reconciliation deal with self-exiled minister Bhutto. It looks like Musharraf is expanding his base in Pakistan. The US had a lot to do with this.
Palestinians fire new, longer range, Russian made rocket into Israel. I do not understand why the Israelis put up with this. These rockets are unguided and therefore tactically useless. The only reason Russia makes them is to empower the terrorists against the west.
Saudis set up official fatwa website to combat fatwa chaos.
Giuliani drops to 4th in Iowa behind Huckabee. Thompson rises to 2nd with very little effort.
Iowa voters including women see right through Hillary. I think most women see right through her. It's a primary driver of her overwhelming negative ratings.
George Will discusses possible insurrections from the far left and far right.
Bjorn Lomborg bemoans the phony global warming alarmism and the terrible, socialist policies it has spawned. He shows there are much cheaper ways to deal with climate change by growing wealth and adapting instead of stunting growth and leaving us more vulnerable.
Jonah Goldberg shows how liberals are using the new web group Media Matters to combat talk radio.
Dick Morris appreciates Rudy Giuliani's attacks on Hillary Clinton, and he says that Rudy is the only Republican who can beat her. But in the same essay, he claims Republicans are the victims of their own success. He must be doing some of the drugs the Republicans have so successfully removed from our streets. What success have Republicans had? We have a bigger government than ever, huge deficits, titanic, punishing income tax, more drug users than ever, more Americans in jail for drug use than ever, better funded enemies than ever, we lost Russia just like we lost China and the 2 are allied run us into the ground, and they're succeeding by using terrorist proxies to drain our resources. I could go on and on.
Granted, we haven't had a second 9/11, and that's no trivial issue. But on every other front, Republicans have failed us almost as badly, and sometimes worse, than even Democrats.
Republican pollster thinks Republicans can pick up seats in the House. I agree. They were punished in 2006, but Democrats have performed so poorly, and Hillary is so energizing for Republicans, that Republicans are likely to regain seats. Of course, I think they'll hold the presidency as well.
Now that the war in Iraq is turning in our favor, the New York Times has recognized that liberals are jumping back on the Iraq bandwagon. What a surprise.
Ralph Peters spares no criticism for security contractors like Blackwater who hire well-trained malcontents away from the military who needs them to fight.
Christopher Hitchens writes about an American who was inspired to become a soldier after reading a Hitchens essay and who was subsequently killed in combat in Iraq.
Good generals must understand politics, and General Petraeus does.
Pat Buchanan explains why Democrats can't capitalize on Republican failures.
Charles Krauthammer discusses the impact of Sputnik. He notes that it took 12 years from Sputnik to the moon landing. Now NASA says it will take over 13 to get back. And NASA blames Americans because it will take them longer after 50 years of technological advancement than it did the first time. NASA is just another bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.
Pakistani President Musharraf reaches reconciliation deal with self-exiled minister Bhutto. It looks like Musharraf is expanding his base in Pakistan. The US had a lot to do with this.
Palestinians fire new, longer range, Russian made rocket into Israel. I do not understand why the Israelis put up with this. These rockets are unguided and therefore tactically useless. The only reason Russia makes them is to empower the terrorists against the west.
Saudis set up official fatwa website to combat fatwa chaos.
Giuliani drops to 4th in Iowa behind Huckabee. Thompson rises to 2nd with very little effort.
Iowa voters including women see right through Hillary. I think most women see right through her. It's a primary driver of her overwhelming negative ratings.
George Will discusses possible insurrections from the far left and far right.
Bjorn Lomborg bemoans the phony global warming alarmism and the terrible, socialist policies it has spawned. He shows there are much cheaper ways to deal with climate change by growing wealth and adapting instead of stunting growth and leaving us more vulnerable.
Jonah Goldberg shows how liberals are using the new web group Media Matters to combat talk radio.
Dick Morris appreciates Rudy Giuliani's attacks on Hillary Clinton, and he says that Rudy is the only Republican who can beat her. But in the same essay, he claims Republicans are the victims of their own success. He must be doing some of the drugs the Republicans have so successfully removed from our streets. What success have Republicans had? We have a bigger government than ever, huge deficits, titanic, punishing income tax, more drug users than ever, more Americans in jail for drug use than ever, better funded enemies than ever, we lost Russia just like we lost China and the 2 are allied run us into the ground, and they're succeeding by using terrorist proxies to drain our resources. I could go on and on.
Granted, we haven't had a second 9/11, and that's no trivial issue. But on every other front, Republicans have failed us almost as badly, and sometimes worse, than even Democrats.
Republican pollster thinks Republicans can pick up seats in the House. I agree. They were punished in 2006, but Democrats have performed so poorly, and Hillary is so energizing for Republicans, that Republicans are likely to regain seats. Of course, I think they'll hold the presidency as well.
Now that the war in Iraq is turning in our favor, the New York Times has recognized that liberals are jumping back on the Iraq bandwagon. What a surprise.
Ralph Peters spares no criticism for security contractors like Blackwater who hire well-trained malcontents away from the military who needs them to fight.
Christopher Hitchens writes about an American who was inspired to become a soldier after reading a Hitchens essay and who was subsequently killed in combat in Iraq.
Good generals must understand politics, and General Petraeus does.
Pat Buchanan explains why Democrats can't capitalize on Republican failures.
Charles Krauthammer discusses the impact of Sputnik. He notes that it took 12 years from Sputnik to the moon landing. Now NASA says it will take over 13 to get back. And NASA blames Americans because it will take them longer after 50 years of technological advancement than it did the first time. NASA is just another bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Free kibbles
Pakistani President and head general Musharraf wins election in a landslide. The court has to rule on the validity since he's still the head general. I remember he made arraignments to give up that post. I wonder if it has just been delayed.
Muqtada al Sadr and another Shia warlord reach a peace deal. We're still paying for our failure to capture or kill al Sadr back in 2004.
Micky Kaus describes how well the new anti-illegal immigrant SSN check system works by pointing out the only case of false positive, that was quickly remedied. I'm surprised it's that accurate. Wow.
Immigration sweep targets LA gangs. Why isn't this happening every year?
Tax evaders arrested at the point of the federal government's gun. That's because all taxes are collected at the point of a gun.
Consumers are slow to switch to compact florescent bulbs. Who defines slow? They'll switch soon enough. The government should stay out of it.
Southern California activists looking to use more government regulation to hurt truck drivers in an effort to clean up pollution and create unions. Just say no.
Novak provides details about his discussions with Artimage, Wilson, and Fitzgerald in the Plame non-affair.
Dennis Kucinich says that all American children should learn Spanish. I guess that's in preparation for surrendering the country to Mexico.
Hillary steps in the illegal immigration debate by taking a firm stance on offering amnesty to illegal aliens and uniting their families. Maybe she missed the voter revolt that killed the Bush/Democrat/McCain/Rove/Senate bill to do just that. There's no way this woman will get elected.
20% of Democrats think the world would be better off if we lost the war in Iraq. Wow. Talk about hating your own country.
Peggy Noonan explains the Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton trance, and hopes to see it ended. She'll get her wish. Hillary is the Democrats' anointed nominee, but she can't win the general election so the trance will be broken. We'll get a new, big-government Republican statist, slightly less bad than Hillary and mouthing platitudes about change, to carry on the destruction of our country by expanding government and sucking more of our freedom from us.
Jonah Goldberg says Hillary Clinton hasn't learned much at all about health care. I disagree. She's learned marketing. Her plan is designed to fail, then evolve into total socialized medicine, but she hides that behind the words "choice" and "flexible" to gather support.
Boortz advocates saving achievers before non-achievers. This ought to get him trouble.
Muqtada al Sadr and another Shia warlord reach a peace deal. We're still paying for our failure to capture or kill al Sadr back in 2004.
Micky Kaus describes how well the new anti-illegal immigrant SSN check system works by pointing out the only case of false positive, that was quickly remedied. I'm surprised it's that accurate. Wow.
Immigration sweep targets LA gangs. Why isn't this happening every year?
Tax evaders arrested at the point of the federal government's gun. That's because all taxes are collected at the point of a gun.
Consumers are slow to switch to compact florescent bulbs. Who defines slow? They'll switch soon enough. The government should stay out of it.
Southern California activists looking to use more government regulation to hurt truck drivers in an effort to clean up pollution and create unions. Just say no.
Novak provides details about his discussions with Artimage, Wilson, and Fitzgerald in the Plame non-affair.
Dennis Kucinich says that all American children should learn Spanish. I guess that's in preparation for surrendering the country to Mexico.
Hillary steps in the illegal immigration debate by taking a firm stance on offering amnesty to illegal aliens and uniting their families. Maybe she missed the voter revolt that killed the Bush/Democrat/McCain/Rove/Senate bill to do just that. There's no way this woman will get elected.
20% of Democrats think the world would be better off if we lost the war in Iraq. Wow. Talk about hating your own country.
Peggy Noonan explains the Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton trance, and hopes to see it ended. She'll get her wish. Hillary is the Democrats' anointed nominee, but she can't win the general election so the trance will be broken. We'll get a new, big-government Republican statist, slightly less bad than Hillary and mouthing platitudes about change, to carry on the destruction of our country by expanding government and sucking more of our freedom from us.
Jonah Goldberg says Hillary Clinton hasn't learned much at all about health care. I disagree. She's learned marketing. Her plan is designed to fail, then evolve into total socialized medicine, but she hides that behind the words "choice" and "flexible" to gather support.
Boortz advocates saving achievers before non-achievers. This ought to get him trouble.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Free kibbles
Snipers felt pressured to kill more of the enemy. I should hope so. Liberals don't like it. I think liberals already believe we should never kill the enemy, we should just talk to him until we're all dead. I think baiting is against the Geneva Convention, but since the terrorists aren't following the treaty nor are signatories, I don't know if our troops are restricted from baiting them.
Troops brought home after 729 days, 1 day short of earning college funding benefits. I find it hard to believe that's a coincidence. If somebody did that in a misguided attempt to save money, that person should be fired and those troops should get the college benefit.
6 months ago, the Iranian government couldn't get more than a dozen people to protest outside the British embassy after kidnapping those British servicemen and woman. But after Columbia promoted Ahmadinejad in the eyes of the Iranians by first giving him a platform, then attacking him with no substance, making him look like hero facing the lion in his own den, 10s of thousands protest with Ahmadinejad against Israel. Nice job, Columbia. Way to generate a bunch of domestic support for the Mullahs just when their government was on the verge of crumbling from the inside.
Ethanol stocks are falling despite stupid government subsidies. We should discover effective alternative fuels instead of subsidizing ineffective ethanol.
Are the Olympics a trap for the communist Chinese government? I doubt it. They'll crush dissent before it can organize for the cameras, and even if pro-democracy reformers organize and are crushed for all the world to see, we'll forget it when we buy our next cheap Chinese T-shirt or DVD player.
Company develops high-tech meth scanner. I think they'll find that everybody has meth on their clothes, just like the high tech cocaine scanner found everybody had coke on their dollar bills. Imagine a cop walking down the street shooting this at people to see if they had trace amounts of meth on them, then using that as a probable cause for a search. This is extremely dangerous.
Falsely accused Duke lacrosse players sue Nifong and the city of Durham. Good for them. Government has a responsibility to ensure its officials operate ethically.
Al Gore continues to duck interviews because he knows he's lying through his teeth and he doesn't want his stunningly lucrative con exposed.
Chinese made Boy Scout Medals recalled because of high lead content. Is nothing sacred? Not even Boy Scout Medals? Obviously the Boy Scouts should get the most cost-effective medals they can for the good of their organization, but this just seems so wrong even without the high lead content. With the high lead content, it stirs up visions of the mean Chinese trying to poison our Boy Scouts. Fortunately, I'm not a liberal, so I don't let that kind of emotion interfere with my views on policy, but it seems pretty obvious that the hidden costs of products from China are not being considered when we decide where to buy from. If we have to test every product for safety, and we damn well better, then Chinese made goods aren't as cheap as they seem.
Just because some idiots didn't cook their hamburgers thoroughly enough, forcing a titanic recall, the nation's second largest supplier of meat has to declare bankruptcy. We've all learned that e coli is in beef, especially hamburger. You have to cook your hamburger medium at least to insure it gets killed. Sure, companies have safety procedures to limit the e coli, but it can be in any hamburger you buy, so citizens should cook their hamburgers enough. It seems Topps had a problem in controlling e coli, but if everybody had cooked their hamburgers thoroughly enough, nobody would have gotten sick, and Topps would still be in business.
Reason explains intangible wealth, measured by the World Bank of all organizations.
Reason interviews activist Oklahoma is persecuting for petitioning to limit government spending.
Democrats are organizing to fight talk radio. They've also organized to fight Republicans. It seems they've figured out that foaming at the mouth all the time isn't in their favor. They made a slick political move by trying to absurdly expand SCHIP just so they could win an excellent sound bite that will be effective until the next election.
While his wife, Hillary Clinton, is advocating the biggest move toward socialism in the history of the United States, Bill Clinton praises French President Sarkozy, supposedly for his "can-do" attitude. This is informative since Sarkozy beat France's socialist clone of Hillary, Chloe Sevigny, and advocates dramatic free market reform in France. Even Bill doesn't support Hillary's socialistic positions. I guess it's not surprising. Only a tiny minority of Americans support socialism.
Scientists extract rock from 2.5 miles deep in San Andreas fault.
Scientist is prepared to create first artificial life form. I've been wrong on every big, new technological trend in my life, and I have tons of monetary losses to prove it, so I'm probably wrong when I say, "So what?" People are going to be supplanted by computers with more computing capacity than our brains in 20 years or so. I guess if this scientist could develop a bug that kills most of us before then, it would affect history, but otherwise, he's going the wrong direction. Why do I care about about man-made viruses or new cells? The future lies in integrating people with machines, or having machines treat us as ants, algae, or worse. I prefer to integrate.
Don't get me wrong. This work could help people who might otherwise die from genetic diseases in that time, including me for all I know. But in the long run, machines will write the histories, not people as we know them. Better to be part of the machine than part of the natural history museum like dinosaurs.
I don't even want to contemplate how wimpy and twisted this sounds: US conciliatory over missile defense program. That's right. We're apologizing for protecting Europe from nuclear missiles.
Far right Republicans beholden to abortion rights rule out 3rd party run. This shows the caustic effects of Roe-v-Wade on the nation. A huge number of voters on both sides live and die by the litmus test of abortion, and that issue swamps national elections. We should overturn Roe-v-Wade, return abortion as an issue the states where it belongs, so the nation can become receptive to the other issues that face us.
No other issue in America, not even the Iraq war, is so divisive.
Nobody should have to set aside their principles - that's how government got away from us to begin with. Removing abortion from the national stage would be a great first step towards taking back control of our government for the people.
Robert Novak reports that House minority leader Boehner supports his leaders despite corruption. Boehner is one of the architects of the Bush/Rove/Congress' doubling of the size of government. He's part of the problem, and as long as he's in charge of Republicans, they have no credibility, and for good reason.
Larry Kudlow describes Bernanke's flip-flop, raising the money supply to offset the housing crash and bank foreclosures. This is another example of a managed economy failing before it succeeds. Money supply should be managed by the free market, not some socialistic organization like the Fed.
Troops brought home after 729 days, 1 day short of earning college funding benefits. I find it hard to believe that's a coincidence. If somebody did that in a misguided attempt to save money, that person should be fired and those troops should get the college benefit.
6 months ago, the Iranian government couldn't get more than a dozen people to protest outside the British embassy after kidnapping those British servicemen and woman. But after Columbia promoted Ahmadinejad in the eyes of the Iranians by first giving him a platform, then attacking him with no substance, making him look like hero facing the lion in his own den, 10s of thousands protest with Ahmadinejad against Israel. Nice job, Columbia. Way to generate a bunch of domestic support for the Mullahs just when their government was on the verge of crumbling from the inside.
Ethanol stocks are falling despite stupid government subsidies. We should discover effective alternative fuels instead of subsidizing ineffective ethanol.
Are the Olympics a trap for the communist Chinese government? I doubt it. They'll crush dissent before it can organize for the cameras, and even if pro-democracy reformers organize and are crushed for all the world to see, we'll forget it when we buy our next cheap Chinese T-shirt or DVD player.
Company develops high-tech meth scanner. I think they'll find that everybody has meth on their clothes, just like the high tech cocaine scanner found everybody had coke on their dollar bills. Imagine a cop walking down the street shooting this at people to see if they had trace amounts of meth on them, then using that as a probable cause for a search. This is extremely dangerous.
Falsely accused Duke lacrosse players sue Nifong and the city of Durham. Good for them. Government has a responsibility to ensure its officials operate ethically.
Al Gore continues to duck interviews because he knows he's lying through his teeth and he doesn't want his stunningly lucrative con exposed.
Chinese made Boy Scout Medals recalled because of high lead content. Is nothing sacred? Not even Boy Scout Medals? Obviously the Boy Scouts should get the most cost-effective medals they can for the good of their organization, but this just seems so wrong even without the high lead content. With the high lead content, it stirs up visions of the mean Chinese trying to poison our Boy Scouts. Fortunately, I'm not a liberal, so I don't let that kind of emotion interfere with my views on policy, but it seems pretty obvious that the hidden costs of products from China are not being considered when we decide where to buy from. If we have to test every product for safety, and we damn well better, then Chinese made goods aren't as cheap as they seem.
Just because some idiots didn't cook their hamburgers thoroughly enough, forcing a titanic recall, the nation's second largest supplier of meat has to declare bankruptcy. We've all learned that e coli is in beef, especially hamburger. You have to cook your hamburger medium at least to insure it gets killed. Sure, companies have safety procedures to limit the e coli, but it can be in any hamburger you buy, so citizens should cook their hamburgers enough. It seems Topps had a problem in controlling e coli, but if everybody had cooked their hamburgers thoroughly enough, nobody would have gotten sick, and Topps would still be in business.
Reason explains intangible wealth, measured by the World Bank of all organizations.
Reason interviews activist Oklahoma is persecuting for petitioning to limit government spending.
Democrats are organizing to fight talk radio. They've also organized to fight Republicans. It seems they've figured out that foaming at the mouth all the time isn't in their favor. They made a slick political move by trying to absurdly expand SCHIP just so they could win an excellent sound bite that will be effective until the next election.
While his wife, Hillary Clinton, is advocating the biggest move toward socialism in the history of the United States, Bill Clinton praises French President Sarkozy, supposedly for his "can-do" attitude. This is informative since Sarkozy beat France's socialist clone of Hillary, Chloe Sevigny, and advocates dramatic free market reform in France. Even Bill doesn't support Hillary's socialistic positions. I guess it's not surprising. Only a tiny minority of Americans support socialism.
Scientists extract rock from 2.5 miles deep in San Andreas fault.
Scientist is prepared to create first artificial life form. I've been wrong on every big, new technological trend in my life, and I have tons of monetary losses to prove it, so I'm probably wrong when I say, "So what?" People are going to be supplanted by computers with more computing capacity than our brains in 20 years or so. I guess if this scientist could develop a bug that kills most of us before then, it would affect history, but otherwise, he's going the wrong direction. Why do I care about about man-made viruses or new cells? The future lies in integrating people with machines, or having machines treat us as ants, algae, or worse. I prefer to integrate.
Don't get me wrong. This work could help people who might otherwise die from genetic diseases in that time, including me for all I know. But in the long run, machines will write the histories, not people as we know them. Better to be part of the machine than part of the natural history museum like dinosaurs.
I don't even want to contemplate how wimpy and twisted this sounds: US conciliatory over missile defense program. That's right. We're apologizing for protecting Europe from nuclear missiles.
Far right Republicans beholden to abortion rights rule out 3rd party run. This shows the caustic effects of Roe-v-Wade on the nation. A huge number of voters on both sides live and die by the litmus test of abortion, and that issue swamps national elections. We should overturn Roe-v-Wade, return abortion as an issue the states where it belongs, so the nation can become receptive to the other issues that face us.
No other issue in America, not even the Iraq war, is so divisive.
Nobody should have to set aside their principles - that's how government got away from us to begin with. Removing abortion from the national stage would be a great first step towards taking back control of our government for the people.
Robert Novak reports that House minority leader Boehner supports his leaders despite corruption. Boehner is one of the architects of the Bush/Rove/Congress' doubling of the size of government. He's part of the problem, and as long as he's in charge of Republicans, they have no credibility, and for good reason.
Larry Kudlow describes Bernanke's flip-flop, raising the money supply to offset the housing crash and bank foreclosures. This is another example of a managed economy failing before it succeeds. Money supply should be managed by the free market, not some socialistic organization like the Fed.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Free kibbles
Ban alert: California cities to vote on banning smoking in apartments and condos. These supposed do-gooders have no respect for freedom, private property or people. They're just doing this to exert their self-proclaimed moral superiority. It's all about power and force hiding behind a thin mask of altruism.
Illegal aliens are leaving Arizona, self-deporting, in advance of a new law that would require employers to check records of employees. Employers found in violation of the law will lose their business permits, first temporarily, then permanently for a repeat offense. Like I've said repeatedly, the solution to the illegal immigrant problem is to have employers check their employees citizenship. I've said illegal aliens will self-deport in this case. We don't need a fence. We just need to remove the economic incentive (jobs) for them to come here. This is exactly what we're seeing in Arizona. Businesses will adapt and thrive on legal labor. This isn't hard.
Cities and states issuing ID cards to illegal immigrants. This should make it easier to find them and deport them, even though that's not the intention. 1,300 southern California illegal aliens deported.
Iraq buys $100 million in weapons from China, citing US bureaucracy as an obstacle. No doubt.
Yet another study shows that solar output is the main driver of climate change. Any honest supporter of anthropomorphic climate change would have given an embarrassed apology by now, and we've seen a few. But the prophets of the church of man-made global warming aren't honest; they're hard-core socialists who just want money and power for themselves at the expense of the rest of us.
Indonesia to plant 79 million trees in one day. This is excellent. It's good to see somebody finally taking my suggestion to plant more trees seriously. I wonder how much oxygen a mature tree puts out. Probably enough for one human.
Parents force school to change direction and keep Halloween and Christmas holidays. They'll also add Ramadan. I have no problem with that. Nice job, parents.
Microsoft launches free health records site. Just wait until it gets hacked. People will go nuts.
Author mistakenly blames the free market for failing to deliver certain products. What stopped a native American from making shoes tailored to native Americans? Most likely a lack of demand, contrary to what the author thinks. Or lack of capital investment because of over-regulation. If we had a much freer market and a real demand, this demand would have been addressed long ago.
Reason says sending poor kids to middle class schools doesn't make them score better. That's because the responsibility for education lies with the student and his family, not the school. You can't teach somebody who doesn't want to learn.
Christopher Hitchens inspires a man to join the military.
Do we need a news article to tell us the House is as partisan as ever? These 2 parties have to work overtime to convince Americans there's a difference. Sure, Democrats would drive us to bankruptcy a few years sooner and have defeated by our enemies a few years sooner, but Republicans are taking us that same place too.
Fred Thompson thought the Senate was a waste of time. Fred Thompson on federalism. You just don't see this kind of well thought out and presented arguments from politicians anymore. Except for Newt. This is one of the reasons I still predict Fred to win it all, though I wish he would articulate more detailed plans. This guy agrees.
Austin Bay is impressed with Rudy Giuliani's foreign policy goals. He claims no other candidate has shown such mastery of the problems we have. But all Giuliani has done is identify what normal Americans and critics have been pointing out for decades. Our government doesn't work. The bureaucracies are like medieval fiefdoms, they don't respond to our elected officials and therefore they are unaccountable to the people. The idea that Giuliani can impose some kind of new culture on these monstrosities is ludicrous. He might as well try to impose a new culture on a T-Rex. We need to gut them. Only after we dramatically shrink them can we change their culture by rebuilding them from the ground up. Giuliani is not bold enough to do this. They will continue along their merry way oblivious to whichever statist candidate we elect.
Hillary Clinton has 33 point lead. She was anointed long ago.
Asteroid renamed after George Takei.
John Stossel explains the benefits gained when individuals take responsibility for their own health care and he points to Whole Foods as an example of workers doing so.
Victor Davis Hanson explains, without really explaining the consequences, of our titanic government spending.
George Will discussed the politics of SCHIP, but while attempting to illustrate the differences of the 2 parties, he only succeeds in pointing out both parties support federal payments for health care. The only difference is how much money. We need to stop the handouts altogether. In the mean time, social security and Medicare are crashing and burning while the 2 parties fiddle.
Rick Lowry on Clarence Thomas.
Illegal aliens are leaving Arizona, self-deporting, in advance of a new law that would require employers to check records of employees. Employers found in violation of the law will lose their business permits, first temporarily, then permanently for a repeat offense. Like I've said repeatedly, the solution to the illegal immigrant problem is to have employers check their employees citizenship. I've said illegal aliens will self-deport in this case. We don't need a fence. We just need to remove the economic incentive (jobs) for them to come here. This is exactly what we're seeing in Arizona. Businesses will adapt and thrive on legal labor. This isn't hard.
Cities and states issuing ID cards to illegal immigrants. This should make it easier to find them and deport them, even though that's not the intention. 1,300 southern California illegal aliens deported.
Iraq buys $100 million in weapons from China, citing US bureaucracy as an obstacle. No doubt.
Yet another study shows that solar output is the main driver of climate change. Any honest supporter of anthropomorphic climate change would have given an embarrassed apology by now, and we've seen a few. But the prophets of the church of man-made global warming aren't honest; they're hard-core socialists who just want money and power for themselves at the expense of the rest of us.
Indonesia to plant 79 million trees in one day. This is excellent. It's good to see somebody finally taking my suggestion to plant more trees seriously. I wonder how much oxygen a mature tree puts out. Probably enough for one human.
Parents force school to change direction and keep Halloween and Christmas holidays. They'll also add Ramadan. I have no problem with that. Nice job, parents.
Microsoft launches free health records site. Just wait until it gets hacked. People will go nuts.
Author mistakenly blames the free market for failing to deliver certain products. What stopped a native American from making shoes tailored to native Americans? Most likely a lack of demand, contrary to what the author thinks. Or lack of capital investment because of over-regulation. If we had a much freer market and a real demand, this demand would have been addressed long ago.
Reason says sending poor kids to middle class schools doesn't make them score better. That's because the responsibility for education lies with the student and his family, not the school. You can't teach somebody who doesn't want to learn.
Christopher Hitchens inspires a man to join the military.
Do we need a news article to tell us the House is as partisan as ever? These 2 parties have to work overtime to convince Americans there's a difference. Sure, Democrats would drive us to bankruptcy a few years sooner and have defeated by our enemies a few years sooner, but Republicans are taking us that same place too.
Fred Thompson thought the Senate was a waste of time. Fred Thompson on federalism. You just don't see this kind of well thought out and presented arguments from politicians anymore. Except for Newt. This is one of the reasons I still predict Fred to win it all, though I wish he would articulate more detailed plans. This guy agrees.
Austin Bay is impressed with Rudy Giuliani's foreign policy goals. He claims no other candidate has shown such mastery of the problems we have. But all Giuliani has done is identify what normal Americans and critics have been pointing out for decades. Our government doesn't work. The bureaucracies are like medieval fiefdoms, they don't respond to our elected officials and therefore they are unaccountable to the people. The idea that Giuliani can impose some kind of new culture on these monstrosities is ludicrous. He might as well try to impose a new culture on a T-Rex. We need to gut them. Only after we dramatically shrink them can we change their culture by rebuilding them from the ground up. Giuliani is not bold enough to do this. They will continue along their merry way oblivious to whichever statist candidate we elect.
Hillary Clinton has 33 point lead. She was anointed long ago.
Asteroid renamed after George Takei.
John Stossel explains the benefits gained when individuals take responsibility for their own health care and he points to Whole Foods as an example of workers doing so.
Victor Davis Hanson explains, without really explaining the consequences, of our titanic government spending.
George Will discussed the politics of SCHIP, but while attempting to illustrate the differences of the 2 parties, he only succeeds in pointing out both parties support federal payments for health care. The only difference is how much money. We need to stop the handouts altogether. In the mean time, social security and Medicare are crashing and burning while the 2 parties fiddle.
Rick Lowry on Clarence Thomas.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Praise for Ron Paul
In response to some nobody at Townhall.com, I emailed this:
Please. Did you have to wait for months to cherry pick such a bad email? Pat yourself on the back some more. You took a shot at Ron Paul, and nobody has been so bold. Except every other scared, Republican statist. How many stupid emails do you think statists like Giuliani and McCain get a day? I can just imagine all the email the Hillary Clinton of the Republicans gets. (Romney, if you didn't get it.) You're probably just jealous.
The US needs fantastic government reform, the kind of reform the founding fathers implemented centuries ago, but the Republicans have proven they're part of the problem, not the solution. It's sad that the leading Republicans advocate at most, minor tweaks to our government. For all Ron Paul's foibles and even his mistaken view on pulling out of Iraq, he's a far better candidate for America than anybody else the 2 parties have.
Don't break your arm.
Please. Did you have to wait for months to cherry pick such a bad email? Pat yourself on the back some more. You took a shot at Ron Paul, and nobody has been so bold. Except every other scared, Republican statist. How many stupid emails do you think statists like Giuliani and McCain get a day? I can just imagine all the email the Hillary Clinton of the Republicans gets. (Romney, if you didn't get it.) You're probably just jealous.
The US needs fantastic government reform, the kind of reform the founding fathers implemented centuries ago, but the Republicans have proven they're part of the problem, not the solution. It's sad that the leading Republicans advocate at most, minor tweaks to our government. For all Ron Paul's foibles and even his mistaken view on pulling out of Iraq, he's a far better candidate for America than anybody else the 2 parties have.
Don't break your arm.
Free kibbles
House to investigate whether telecoms violated customer privacy by complying with Bush's warrantless wiretaps. This is nuts. The president is exercising his constitutional power and responsibility to wage war, and the Congress wants to punish American companies for aiding the war effort. How stupid and self-destructive are we?
The same people who misusing customer privacy don't want the telecoms to help save lives in the war on terror will probably love having telecoms tap their phone calls to so they can tailor ads to the conversation. Bad priorities. As soon as we allow telecoms to tap our conversations for any purpose, we've surrendered any claim to privacy over those conversations.
US missile defense system is up and running. So much for all the nay sayers who said it couldn't be done and we shouldn't even try. Of course it could be done. It was just another technological problem to be solved. I guess they were satisfied with mutually assured destruction. I prefer to live.
Another casualty of the war on Americans, purposely misnamed the war on drugs.
Because of the weak dollar, foreign companies are buying US companies at a record pace. This means that money used to stay in the US is now flowing to other countries. Company with ties to China, Saddam Hussein, and the Taliban to merge with 3Com, getting access to leading edge computer networking equipment. This is nuts. Adopt the FairTax to keep American companies in America, to keep jobs in America, and to keep our critical technology in America.
Bush vetoes bill that would allow the government to take money from taxpayers by force to provide health insurance for children of families who are plenty well off to buy insurance themselves. This is only Bush's forth veto. I wonder if somebody had to show him how to do that. Democrats are going to make hay out of this sound bite issue by claiming Bush denied insurance to poor children, but that's a sad misrepresentation of the actual bill they passed.
North Korea agrees to do the same thing it already agreed to do six months ago, but didn't actually do - shut down it's nuclear reactor. North Korea never lives up to its agreements, and this will be no different. I wonder what we gave them for their repeated non-compliance. In the mean time they're transferring their materials and technology to Syria and Iran while playing us for fools.
Illegal immigrants are counted in the census, so they could trigger congressional seat changes in 2010.
British schools, required to show An Inconvenient Truth, will also be required to give a warning about political bias. This is an improvement. I don't think the government should force schools to show this film, but if I was a science or civics or government or social studies teacher, I would show An Inconvenient Truth one day and The Great Global Warming Swindle the next, and have the students write an essay on the politics and the science.
Report claims Burma junta killing monks at night in large numbers.
Author claims Boris Yeltsin never created the institutions of democracy in Russia. And Clinton did nothing. Then Bush did nothing. We're paying a price now, and it will only get worse over the next decade.
I feel sorry for the weathermen this year. How many times have they shown us storms that might turn into tropical depressions. These poor weathermen are starved for actual hurricanes. They predicted 4 large hurricanes, and we only got 2, and they both hit largely unpopulated areas of Mexico. They're trying to hard to scare people with these storms that might become tropical depressions. It's funny and sad all at once.
Reason on the quest for the perfect execution method.
Reason on patent reform.
Blackwater defends fire first policy. Duh. If you don't fire first, you get killed. These hearings are nothing more than political gamesmanship. On the other hand, I don't understand all this hand-wringing about what laws apply to Blackwater. They're in Iraq, so Iraqi law applies. If Iraq gives them diplomatic immunity, that's still Iraqi law. What's the confusion?
I find myself agreeing with James Carville again. That's twice. I feel kind of sick. He said that Democrats' prospects are so good only because of the complete implosion of the Republican party. If Republicans figure that out, they'll win again 2008. And while Bush and Boehner have started paying lip service to limited government, neither as figured out that both have zero credibility. For Republicans to win, they have to oust their leadership of the last 8 years, and they show no signs of doing that.
In a related story, Ron Paul matches John McCain by raising over $5 million this quarter. Ron Paul is the only Republican who stands for significant reform instead of minor tweaks on the status quo.
IBM patents a checking a checkbox. Haven't people been doing this since we first developed writing?
New spacecraft leak detection mechanism. Soap bubbles didn't work?
Boortz claims that single women vote overwhelmingly Democrat to fulfill their need for security. Why do they think that driving the country into bankruptcy and appeasing our enemies instead of killing them brings them security?
Federal law should not mandate lower loans to military personnel any more than it should mandate anything else in the free market. Plenty of businesses respect military personnel and provide lower rates and flexibility. That's the free market at work. If military workers can't fulfill short term loans, the military should change their pay structure so they can.
Britain's NHS socialized medicine program ranks 17th out of 29 European nations, ahead of only the most poor countries in Europe. It's no surprise to any reasoned and informed person that countries that have free market systems rank at the top in Europe in health care service. It's time for the socialists to give up their religion and do what's best for Americans - support free markets. No economic system is superior.
Let's see if Senators can cut $5.2 billion in farm subsidies. I doubt this panel is serious, but just playing politics.
Jonah Goldberg explains that we are nation of immigrants who became Americans. You can't leave out that last part.
Brownsville, Texas has denied the federal government access to city property to build a border fence. This is one of those very few instances when the federal government is acting under its Constitutional authority. They should roll over Brownsville and protect out citizenship from the southern invasion.
Obese Americans outnumber obese Europeans 2 to 1. Duh. Free market reform in our health care system will naturally encourage Americans to be healthier. It's a win for everybody but the bureaucracies of government, health insurance companies, and health care providers. It's time to end the government perversion of our health care system.
Ann Coulter blasts the left for phony war heroism claims.
Thomas Sowell on intelligence.
Hillary Clinton takes credit for starting Media Matters. Apparently it's funded by Soros too. How can this group claim to be non-partisan?
The same people who misusing customer privacy don't want the telecoms to help save lives in the war on terror will probably love having telecoms tap their phone calls to so they can tailor ads to the conversation. Bad priorities. As soon as we allow telecoms to tap our conversations for any purpose, we've surrendered any claim to privacy over those conversations.
US missile defense system is up and running. So much for all the nay sayers who said it couldn't be done and we shouldn't even try. Of course it could be done. It was just another technological problem to be solved. I guess they were satisfied with mutually assured destruction. I prefer to live.
Another casualty of the war on Americans, purposely misnamed the war on drugs.
Because of the weak dollar, foreign companies are buying US companies at a record pace. This means that money used to stay in the US is now flowing to other countries. Company with ties to China, Saddam Hussein, and the Taliban to merge with 3Com, getting access to leading edge computer networking equipment. This is nuts. Adopt the FairTax to keep American companies in America, to keep jobs in America, and to keep our critical technology in America.
Bush vetoes bill that would allow the government to take money from taxpayers by force to provide health insurance for children of families who are plenty well off to buy insurance themselves. This is only Bush's forth veto. I wonder if somebody had to show him how to do that. Democrats are going to make hay out of this sound bite issue by claiming Bush denied insurance to poor children, but that's a sad misrepresentation of the actual bill they passed.
North Korea agrees to do the same thing it already agreed to do six months ago, but didn't actually do - shut down it's nuclear reactor. North Korea never lives up to its agreements, and this will be no different. I wonder what we gave them for their repeated non-compliance. In the mean time they're transferring their materials and technology to Syria and Iran while playing us for fools.
Illegal immigrants are counted in the census, so they could trigger congressional seat changes in 2010.
British schools, required to show An Inconvenient Truth, will also be required to give a warning about political bias. This is an improvement. I don't think the government should force schools to show this film, but if I was a science or civics or government or social studies teacher, I would show An Inconvenient Truth one day and The Great Global Warming Swindle the next, and have the students write an essay on the politics and the science.
Report claims Burma junta killing monks at night in large numbers.
Author claims Boris Yeltsin never created the institutions of democracy in Russia. And Clinton did nothing. Then Bush did nothing. We're paying a price now, and it will only get worse over the next decade.
I feel sorry for the weathermen this year. How many times have they shown us storms that might turn into tropical depressions. These poor weathermen are starved for actual hurricanes. They predicted 4 large hurricanes, and we only got 2, and they both hit largely unpopulated areas of Mexico. They're trying to hard to scare people with these storms that might become tropical depressions. It's funny and sad all at once.
Reason on the quest for the perfect execution method.
Reason on patent reform.
Blackwater defends fire first policy. Duh. If you don't fire first, you get killed. These hearings are nothing more than political gamesmanship. On the other hand, I don't understand all this hand-wringing about what laws apply to Blackwater. They're in Iraq, so Iraqi law applies. If Iraq gives them diplomatic immunity, that's still Iraqi law. What's the confusion?
I find myself agreeing with James Carville again. That's twice. I feel kind of sick. He said that Democrats' prospects are so good only because of the complete implosion of the Republican party. If Republicans figure that out, they'll win again 2008. And while Bush and Boehner have started paying lip service to limited government, neither as figured out that both have zero credibility. For Republicans to win, they have to oust their leadership of the last 8 years, and they show no signs of doing that.
In a related story, Ron Paul matches John McCain by raising over $5 million this quarter. Ron Paul is the only Republican who stands for significant reform instead of minor tweaks on the status quo.
IBM patents a checking a checkbox. Haven't people been doing this since we first developed writing?
New spacecraft leak detection mechanism. Soap bubbles didn't work?
Boortz claims that single women vote overwhelmingly Democrat to fulfill their need for security. Why do they think that driving the country into bankruptcy and appeasing our enemies instead of killing them brings them security?
Federal law should not mandate lower loans to military personnel any more than it should mandate anything else in the free market. Plenty of businesses respect military personnel and provide lower rates and flexibility. That's the free market at work. If military workers can't fulfill short term loans, the military should change their pay structure so they can.
Britain's NHS socialized medicine program ranks 17th out of 29 European nations, ahead of only the most poor countries in Europe. It's no surprise to any reasoned and informed person that countries that have free market systems rank at the top in Europe in health care service. It's time for the socialists to give up their religion and do what's best for Americans - support free markets. No economic system is superior.
Let's see if Senators can cut $5.2 billion in farm subsidies. I doubt this panel is serious, but just playing politics.
Jonah Goldberg explains that we are nation of immigrants who became Americans. You can't leave out that last part.
Brownsville, Texas has denied the federal government access to city property to build a border fence. This is one of those very few instances when the federal government is acting under its Constitutional authority. They should roll over Brownsville and protect out citizenship from the southern invasion.
Obese Americans outnumber obese Europeans 2 to 1. Duh. Free market reform in our health care system will naturally encourage Americans to be healthier. It's a win for everybody but the bureaucracies of government, health insurance companies, and health care providers. It's time to end the government perversion of our health care system.
Ann Coulter blasts the left for phony war heroism claims.
Thomas Sowell on intelligence.
Hillary Clinton takes credit for starting Media Matters. Apparently it's funded by Soros too. How can this group claim to be non-partisan?
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Free kibbles
Lone judge blocks US from going after illegal aliens. This is nuts. Boortz reports on the cost of illegal immigrants to Americans. Over $1 billion per year in LA alone. Wow.
How Putin plans to rule Russia forever.
Quebec introduces a carbon tax. This will hurt businesses and residents in Quebec. I hope we see the negative effects quickly, before we punish ourselves with something similar. The taxes are pretty small though, so I'm afraid their effect won't be seen for a while. They also won't help reduce CO2 emissions. Arctic heat wave stuns observers. This sounds like typical alarmism about a very local effect. These people are well funded to promote alarmism.
US claims success in the misnamed war on drugs. Reducing supply just drives up prices. It doesn't reduce demand. Those higher prices will lead to greater supply. It's just simple economics. The article doesn't mention all the money, blood and freedom we waste on this war against Americans.
Israel confirms strike on Syria.
UK cuts 1,000 more troops from Basra.
Korean summit in North Korea. Kim Jong-Il cannot be trusted.
Democrats propose raising taxes ostensibly to pay for the Iraq war. They know damn good and well this will stall the economy and reduce revenue. That's what they really want.
School replaces Halloween and Christmas with fall festival and winter festival. This is bull. I hope the parents rebel, oust the stupid officials who made this decision, and reverse it.
Ford sales drop 21%. Wow. Adopt the FairTax.
Why our closest allies don't like us. In fact, more recent polls show this rebounding. The Europeans are finally waking up to the threat of Islamic terrorists and moving our way.
Reason on genetic testing for suicide.
Bloomberg calls critics of surveillance cameras ridiculous. For a guy like Bloomberg, its government's job to take away our privacy.
Obama proposes eliminating nuclear weapons. This just shows that he's out of touch with reality. It couldn't be enforced. Imagine a world where only Kim Jong-Il and Iran's Mullahs had nuclear weapons. That world would be glowing.
The Hillary Clinton juggernaut raises $27 million in the third quarter.
Democrats double Republican fundraising. That's because Republicans still haven't learned the lesson from 2006 and continue to act like Democrats. Only Ron Paul wants to shrink government.
Dick Morris explains Hillary's bizarre laugh as a studied defense mechanism. It seems staged to me.
Pat Buchanan calls for public hearings on Iran before Bush orders a strike unilaterally. We need grown-ups in Washington. These 2 self-promoting, anti-American parties are unwilling to be adults and the put the good of the country about their personal and party's good.
Walter Williams shows how socialists use global warming to increase their power even though there's no evidence CO2 affects climate change.
How Putin plans to rule Russia forever.
Quebec introduces a carbon tax. This will hurt businesses and residents in Quebec. I hope we see the negative effects quickly, before we punish ourselves with something similar. The taxes are pretty small though, so I'm afraid their effect won't be seen for a while. They also won't help reduce CO2 emissions. Arctic heat wave stuns observers. This sounds like typical alarmism about a very local effect. These people are well funded to promote alarmism.
US claims success in the misnamed war on drugs. Reducing supply just drives up prices. It doesn't reduce demand. Those higher prices will lead to greater supply. It's just simple economics. The article doesn't mention all the money, blood and freedom we waste on this war against Americans.
Israel confirms strike on Syria.
UK cuts 1,000 more troops from Basra.
Korean summit in North Korea. Kim Jong-Il cannot be trusted.
Democrats propose raising taxes ostensibly to pay for the Iraq war. They know damn good and well this will stall the economy and reduce revenue. That's what they really want.
School replaces Halloween and Christmas with fall festival and winter festival. This is bull. I hope the parents rebel, oust the stupid officials who made this decision, and reverse it.
Ford sales drop 21%. Wow. Adopt the FairTax.
Why our closest allies don't like us. In fact, more recent polls show this rebounding. The Europeans are finally waking up to the threat of Islamic terrorists and moving our way.
Reason on genetic testing for suicide.
Bloomberg calls critics of surveillance cameras ridiculous. For a guy like Bloomberg, its government's job to take away our privacy.
Obama proposes eliminating nuclear weapons. This just shows that he's out of touch with reality. It couldn't be enforced. Imagine a world where only Kim Jong-Il and Iran's Mullahs had nuclear weapons. That world would be glowing.
The Hillary Clinton juggernaut raises $27 million in the third quarter.
Democrats double Republican fundraising. That's because Republicans still haven't learned the lesson from 2006 and continue to act like Democrats. Only Ron Paul wants to shrink government.
Dick Morris explains Hillary's bizarre laugh as a studied defense mechanism. It seems staged to me.
Pat Buchanan calls for public hearings on Iran before Bush orders a strike unilaterally. We need grown-ups in Washington. These 2 self-promoting, anti-American parties are unwilling to be adults and the put the good of the country about their personal and party's good.
Walter Williams shows how socialists use global warming to increase their power even though there's no evidence CO2 affects climate change.
Monday, October 01, 2007
Free kibbles
Putin plans to become Russia's prime minister and run the country from that office. Sneaky dictator.
Iraqi civilian death rate plunges along with US and Iraqi forces casualties in Iraq because of the success of Gen. Petraeus' counterinsurgency strategy. Military deaths lowest in 14 months. This is bad news for Democrats and the defeat America left.
Report claims Burma has killed 1,000s of protesting monks.
EU considers shutting down terrorist websites. I don't know if this would be effective or not. I do know that once implemented, legitimate websites will get shut down too.
Mugabe's socialism has destroyed Zimbabwe, and it is now running out of bread. Mass starvation will follow soon. This was a thriving country a couple decades ago.
Just to show how dumb he is, Michael Moore claims health care profits are immoral. I guess doctors, nurses, technicians, etc. should all work for free. What an idiot. Profit is how you draw the best and brightest to a field of endeavor. We want the best health care, so health care providers better earn an excellent profit. Maybe Michael Moore would prefer they all starved to death.
Reason scoffs at hate crimes laws that make some people more equal than others.
School bans hugging. Couldn't they have just told students to get out of the way?
New book explores the surprising similarities between Roosevelt, Hitler, and Mussolini.
Clarence Thomas interview.
Newt nixes presidential run because McCain-Feingold would force him to resign as head of American Solutions. That law is an abomination and both McCain and Feingold should be impeached for such an egregious violation of the constitution. But Congress voted for it instead. Let's hope both are voted out of office, but I won't hold my breath.
The religious right is considering running a third party candidate if Rudy Giuliani is the Republican nominee.
Fred Thompson raised $8 million from 70,000 donors, making him a serious candidate. He has to get over the vague generalities and platitudes quick.
Talk about literally buying votes. Hillary wants to steal even more money from taxpayers at the point of the government's gun so she can give $5,000 to every baby born in America. On the plus side, it would reduce abortions and raise our birth rates. Can you imagine the welfare crisis this would create?
Reason has some questions for the candidates.
How stupid were the GOP front runners to skip this debate on black issues?
Human languages going extinct at an accelerating rate.
Archbishop closes convent because of fighting nuns.
This is the third time Bruce Bartlett has misrepresented the FairTax. It can't be an accident. I'm sure by now he's been fully informed.
Boortz explains that the cigarette tax, real as it is, to fund SCHIP is a con because Democrats know it won't be able to fund it for long. More taxes will be required later.
Fairfax county taxes subsidizing housing for high income families.
Taxpayers pay for tuition for millionaire's son.
Government seizes $59,000 from illegal immigrant who was headed home. We shouldn't punish illegals for going home.
Mark Steyn blasts self-absorbed westerners more interested in they twisted version of academic freedom and risk-free dissent than the crimes of Iran under Ahmadinejad.
Liberal think tank in Britain recognizes that many immigrants from developing countries are a drain on Britain's economy. Duh.
The Japanese government orders the editing of textbooks to remove the information that Japanese soldiers forced the mass suicide of Okinawan civilians during the U.S. invasion of the island, sparking mass protests. At least some Japanese citizens don't want to white-wash the Japanese atrocities of WWII.
Pigeons are pooping on Bengals fans. Just like the Bengals themselves.
Victor Davis Hanson shows we are winning the war on terror ugly. What we aren't doing is changing the radical Islamic schools in the Middle East, all over the world, or even in the US. That's nuts.
Iraqi civilian death rate plunges along with US and Iraqi forces casualties in Iraq because of the success of Gen. Petraeus' counterinsurgency strategy. Military deaths lowest in 14 months. This is bad news for Democrats and the defeat America left.
Report claims Burma has killed 1,000s of protesting monks.
EU considers shutting down terrorist websites. I don't know if this would be effective or not. I do know that once implemented, legitimate websites will get shut down too.
Mugabe's socialism has destroyed Zimbabwe, and it is now running out of bread. Mass starvation will follow soon. This was a thriving country a couple decades ago.
Just to show how dumb he is, Michael Moore claims health care profits are immoral. I guess doctors, nurses, technicians, etc. should all work for free. What an idiot. Profit is how you draw the best and brightest to a field of endeavor. We want the best health care, so health care providers better earn an excellent profit. Maybe Michael Moore would prefer they all starved to death.
Reason scoffs at hate crimes laws that make some people more equal than others.
School bans hugging. Couldn't they have just told students to get out of the way?
New book explores the surprising similarities between Roosevelt, Hitler, and Mussolini.
Clarence Thomas interview.
Newt nixes presidential run because McCain-Feingold would force him to resign as head of American Solutions. That law is an abomination and both McCain and Feingold should be impeached for such an egregious violation of the constitution. But Congress voted for it instead. Let's hope both are voted out of office, but I won't hold my breath.
The religious right is considering running a third party candidate if Rudy Giuliani is the Republican nominee.
Fred Thompson raised $8 million from 70,000 donors, making him a serious candidate. He has to get over the vague generalities and platitudes quick.
Talk about literally buying votes. Hillary wants to steal even more money from taxpayers at the point of the government's gun so she can give $5,000 to every baby born in America. On the plus side, it would reduce abortions and raise our birth rates. Can you imagine the welfare crisis this would create?
Reason has some questions for the candidates.
How stupid were the GOP front runners to skip this debate on black issues?
Human languages going extinct at an accelerating rate.
Archbishop closes convent because of fighting nuns.
This is the third time Bruce Bartlett has misrepresented the FairTax. It can't be an accident. I'm sure by now he's been fully informed.
Boortz explains that the cigarette tax, real as it is, to fund SCHIP is a con because Democrats know it won't be able to fund it for long. More taxes will be required later.
Fairfax county taxes subsidizing housing for high income families.
Taxpayers pay for tuition for millionaire's son.
Government seizes $59,000 from illegal immigrant who was headed home. We shouldn't punish illegals for going home.
Mark Steyn blasts self-absorbed westerners more interested in they twisted version of academic freedom and risk-free dissent than the crimes of Iran under Ahmadinejad.
Liberal think tank in Britain recognizes that many immigrants from developing countries are a drain on Britain's economy. Duh.
The Japanese government orders the editing of textbooks to remove the information that Japanese soldiers forced the mass suicide of Okinawan civilians during the U.S. invasion of the island, sparking mass protests. At least some Japanese citizens don't want to white-wash the Japanese atrocities of WWII.
Pigeons are pooping on Bengals fans. Just like the Bengals themselves.
Victor Davis Hanson shows we are winning the war on terror ugly. What we aren't doing is changing the radical Islamic schools in the Middle East, all over the world, or even in the US. That's nuts.
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