A two meter long protrusion on the back of trucks cuts fuel consumption by up to 7.5%
WhiteHouse.gov now runs on Drupal. At a recent Drupal meet-up, White House representatives said they plan to “openly participate in and help foster open source projects.”
[...]Sure, she’s news. But too many liberals and lefties foam at the mouth at the mere mention of her name. I’m sure she appreciates the free publicity.
Here’s a tip, don’t try to understand her. It’ll just make your head hurt. She sometimes doesn’t make much sense and appears immune [...]
Biggovernment.com creator Andrew BreitbartI have stopped being surprised at the depth to which conspiracy theorists have stooped to blame the rocking of their worlds by the phenomenon of white supremacy. Now that I realize that their primary and permanent audience are peasants, I rather expect it.
Since, according to these fanatics, the GOP [...]
Their projects include algae biodiesel, biobutanol from wheat straw in Britain, and partnering with Verenium in Louisiana using enzymes to breakdown grasses into alcohol.
[...]I've picked up three histories by Niall Ferguson having decided that I'd rather not try to hack the regional ban on his audiobooks over here in the states. I'm starting with War of the World, which I've been meaning to get since Beevor's Stalingrad months ago. Also, as you can [...]
The President of Venezuela has just praised Robert Mugabe, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and, wait for it, Idi Amin – even if he was a cannibal.
Oh, and Carlos the Jackal too. Can’t forget him. Selfless fighters against imperialism, all of them.
Lordy, what a lunatic blowhard Chavez has turned [...]
It is perhaps fitting that my youngest nephew celebrates his first birthday today (three days before the actual event) on the 113th anniversary of the birth of his great-great Aunt Ruth and the 190th anniversary of the birth of the greatest English novelist who ever lived, Mary Anne Evans Cross [...]
Among the sixty Senators voting to begin debate on Harry Reid’s 2,074-page health care bill were thirteen from states which voted for John McCain last fall, five of them from states which haven’t voted for a Democrat for President in forty-five years. Alaska’s Mark Begich (who wouldn’t be in [...]
Creating a worldwide Secession Network promoting the Right to Secede – Community-Based Secession – Libertarian/Decentralist Political Processes – Nonviolent Secession and Institutions
Via Global Guerillas
I am not happy that I am writing this because in a perfect world Anthony Adams would be facing a recall right now. Anthony Adams is extremely arrogant and pompous. I'm told the joke about him in the Capitol is that nobody needs to tell Anthony Adams what is going' [...]
The wave-powered generator is a hinged flap connected to the sea-bed, with each wave moving the flap to drive a hydraulic piston.
[...]Having used creative bribery (with our tax dollars), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apparently has all sixty Democrats on board for a cloture vote to begin debate on his 2,074-page health care bill. While this vote will bring the legislation one step closer to passage, we still have a [...]
As Sarah Palin once again finds herself in the national limelight, largely due to the publicity surrounding the release this week of her bestselling book Going Rogue: an American Life, many of us have been reviewing the events of last fall’s campaign as well as contrasting her record to [...]
Where criminals are still free and desperately arguing for a continued coverup of their crimes:
I’m not amused that the Wall Street Journal solicited an op-ed attacking the decision to try KSM in civilian court from one of the people–John Yoo–with the biggest conflict on such a decision. It’s [...]
This morning, I read the first 100 pages (about one-quarter) of Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue: An American Life. And despite the “narrative” that this book is whiny, with the former Alaska Governor portraying herself as a victim trying to settle scores, there is no trace of that in [...]
President-elect John F. Kennedy declares victory at the Hyannis Armory on November 9, 1960. He was assassinated 46 years ago in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
** OBAMA TODAY – SUNDAY. President Barack Obama is in Washington today.
He has no scheduled public events.
Neither does Vice President Joe Biden.
Obama won a [...]
If, in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 election, you had asked me to put together a broad-based panel on reviving the right, I would surely have chosen to include David Frum. Yeah, I know he had been strongly critical of John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running [...]
Lynne F. Stewart with husband, Ralph Poynter on left, before surrendering on Thursday. (John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times)
She’s 70, and began serving a [...]
"Advice for Greenies in a Complicated World"
Dear JJ:
They say the recyclables you put in the blue bin should be clean, but honestly, just how clean does that pizza box or Aveda shampoo bottle really have to be?
Amanda
Silver Lake, Los Angeles
Dear Amanda:
Now that's a' [...]
What makes L.A. great? Ideas like this one -- walking from downtown L.A. to the ocean, just for the hell of it. You can do all of it or some of it or just meet [...]
We had a nice few days with DJ Mitchell and his wife at their ranch in southern Utah earlier this week. They’re in the process of building on to their cheese facility so they can start making it in 100 lb. lots. That’s me of the left [...]
Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center
Director admits hacked files genuine
The files were taken from the East Anglia Climate Research Center, a leading research center of climate change. The leaked emails appear to show deliberate attempts by researchers to falsify data to make global [...]
Here's the link to The Student Life copy. Below find my op-ed.
It's not every day that I get to beat up on a nun, but here goes. Truthfully, I’m about as agnostic as you get on spiritual matters, but I do believe that everyone retains a right [...]
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh recently announced that they have engineered a strain of bacteria that glows green in the presence of explosives, making mine detection a snap.
The inexpensive bacteria are sprayed over an area and shortly begin to glow green in the presence of explosives.
Long before the 2008 presidential campaign, I found CBS News Anchor Tracy Flick Katie Couric annoying. Like Reese Witherspoon’s character in the 1999 flick Election, Couric comes across as smug and self-righteous. It seems she believes that her prominence means she knows better than the rest of [...]
When a reader sent me an e-mail on how Sarah Palin’s ex-son-in-law-to-be was not made welcome at a swank Hollywood Party this weekend, I begin to feel sorry for the teenager:
Levi Johnston flew first class to LA for the party and calls himself “Ricky Hollywood,” but he was barely [...]
