Totally clueless. The consensus that will emerge from the conference will be that the government should spend more money, to be obtained by raising taxes, for "infrastructure" and for government employee job categories (teachers/schools, etc.). Not a word will be said about:
lowering the cost of doing business by reducing [...]California has been shaped by the liberal and left Democratic Party; Texas restrains its government in line with more conservative views. California loses and Texas wins. Alas, California is the model that Democrats would like to impose on the nation as a whole. See this succinct analysis of the differences between the states.
[...]The sports commentariat is discussing the likely truth of the rumor, apparently first reported in the National Inquirer, that Tiger Woods has had (is having?) an affair with another woman than his wife. His marriage and his family are also reportedly "in trouble". None of this should surprise any normal adult human [...]
On Thanksgiving day, I flew to New England for a remembrance for a relative who died unexpectedly and to celebrate the 94th birthday of a much loved aunt. To pass the time on the airplane, I grabbed from my library two classic books to read: George Orwell's Animal Farm and Aldous [...]
On Sunday, my work computer was infiltrated and taken over by the awesomely menacing AdvancedVirusRemover. I was at a java script script source, clicked to download the text file of a script, and the virus, apparently trojan.fakeAV, rapidly entered my pc and replicated. As soon as I saw the first [...]
Obama worked as chief of staff for Illinois state senator, Alice Palmer, who was, overwhelming indications are clear, a communist front agent in the waning days of the Evil Empire. More evidence that Obama was New Left true and through. He soaked it all in, like a sponge. This is the [...]
Our Country Deserves Better PAC is distributing two videos supporting Sarah Palin's continued voice of "common sense" conservatism. Both convey the same message, but this one presents several images that strike me the more effective.
America's democratic politics stumbles and staggers through a Hegelian dialectic of political choice. Action, reaction, synthesis ... [...]
The boast of the Obama administration, that Obama's push, subsidy, and mandates for green (non-nuclear) energy generation will generate a whole new sector of high-paying jobs for Americans, is proving false. It's mainly creating jobs abroad. Now American energy investors, engineers, and companies are turning to China for its support. Rebecca [...]
The Left is certainly this devious. Andrew McCarthy makes the case, in the National Review Online, that Obama's real motive in assigning KSM to a civilian trial in New York City is to give KSM's defense lawyers the opportunity to bring major players of President Bush's war on terror onto the stand, [...]
China is heavily invested in developing and purchasing Iranian oil and natural gas. In 2005, one-third of Iran's oil and gas exports were to China and Japan. (See also this 2006 report, prepared for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which discusses China's decision to obtain energy security by [...]
Nasan gave a fifty-point slide show, "The Koranic World View As It Relates To Muslims in the U.S. Military," (online at the Washington Post) in which he explains the necessity for Jihad, the duties of a Muslim, the concept of defensive Jihad, and also gives citations from the Koran to support his views. None [...]
When I was first married in the 1960s, I drank wine with meals regularly. I developed a palate and some sense of how wines complemented food. Later, when I was divorced, a disastrous date with a beautiful woman, who was wonderful in bed and entranced me, when I prepared dinner for her and served [...]
Every other day, I interrupt my morning run to work out at a children's play area in the park. You need to build your upper body, add muscle mass, my doctor said. So I do pull-ups and chin-ups on the monkey bars. Usually, the park is empty, but today, the park [...]
The appeal of vampire stories is not because they represent in disguise the relations between gays and women, or between appearance and reality, or sexual attraction and the risk of disease, or other such themes. The basic story line of vampires is old men desiring and often obtaining young [...]
Against my instinctive caution, I accompanied my wife to George Clooney's movie, "Men Who Stare at Goats". The movie was so stupid, that I walked out after an hour and fifteen minutes or so, leaving her in the 600 seat theater with about eight other patrons who unluckily paid money [...]
We've had weeks of it. Being confronted every day by black male violence, some from gangs, some not, with horrific consequences. Women killed. Men beaten, stabbed, killed. Children killed, sometimes deliberately, sometimes as by-standers. The statistics of black male violence are as mind-numbing as the graphic accounts of their crimes. Blacks murder [...]
ObamaCare is ostensibly directed at health care and would ensure that all middle-class families have medical care through insurance by requiring and underwriting that insurance (the poor and the elderly already have governmentally funded medical care). But a little thought would show that federal subsidy of medical insurance for the [...]
Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire is a politician with directness and integrity. In an interview on a local public radio station the other day, he said, that some form of ObamaCare will be passed in the Senate. Simply, the Democrats have a supermajority and the President really wants this. He said he and [...]
"Tragedy" is an inaccurate word, as Atlas Shrugs and Donald Sensing point out. It was an act of war and it was an atrocity. It was not a tragedy for its victims; it was a field of courage and heroism for them and their rescuerers. It was not a [...]
4.2 mile route.
1 quartet, 7 triplets, two doubles, one single: 30 intervals.
56 minutes.
For the triplets and quartet, I slowed my running to a job. I found I had more stamina and my breath was better. I had to jog an additional 200 feet to incorporate the last double.
[...]Atlas Shrugs posted this video. Watch it. When you string years of Obama's public references, praise, slips of the tongue, and allusions to Islam, he reveals a deeper affinity with Islam than one would expect if he did not feel his identity to be Muslim. Contrast this public affiliation with Islam to [...]
Bloggers roundup:
Ann Althouse: Tweet Message
Atlas Shrugs: An American Woman
Jawa Report: Hero
American Digest: Hero of Fort Hood
Gateway Pundit: Police Officer Hailed
Hot Air: The Woman Who Stopped
[...]Unemployment at 10% of the job-seeking labor force. When the actual percentage of under-employed and discouraged workers is added to technically defined "unemployed", the "unemployment" rate is probably close to 20% (see The New York Times, David Leonhardt, "Broader Measure of US Unemployment Stands at 17.5%", November 6, 2009 [H/T [...]
Major Hasan reportedly handed out copies of the Koran in the months preceding the massacre. He was also known for opposing US intervention in Iraq and for urging Muslims to fight against the US. During the shooting, he apparently was shouting in Arabic. Want to guess what he shouted?
Meanwhile, [...]
I'm listening to Fox News as I work on a website. I read about the killings earlier, but did not know of their scope. 12 killed; 31 wounded. Genuinely horrible. One killer, apparently an officer and the main shooter, killed by local police. Two other possible participants in custody. Sources say all three [...]
The rise in the productivity rate in October is not yet a statistical measure of economic growth (and 1). In a fully employed, growing economy, the rise in productivity would indicate technological innovation and promise added economic value to products. It would enable companies to pass along to their workers in the [...]
"[Independent voters] are spooked and on the run, a political stampede that veered left in November 2008 and now right a mere year later. They will keep running--crushing incumbents, candidates and political models of the left and right--through November 2010 and onto 2012 until they find a person or party [...]
