There is intellectual groundwork for Obama's affirmation of realism and the existence of evil. It is the religious-theological writings of Reinhold Niebuhr. Check up on them. My recollection is that Obama claimed to have read Niebuhr (sorry, no source). Niebuhr was intellectual godfather to the cold war philosophy of Kennedy, and [...]
My wife proffered that she would support higher taxes to fund something like a New Deal WPA to put a lot of people to work. I was about to offer an alternative when our breakfast conversation was interrupted and we didn't later return to the topic. I would have said, I know [...]
Hot, cooked, oatmeal cereal for breakfast. Cook rolled oats in whole milk. Add some brown sugar. Add some butter. Add a tiny pinch of salt. Simmer for four minutes. Turn off heat. Cover. Let porridge sit 'til oats fully plump. Pour into bowl. Consume. Hmmm ... tastes oatmeal cookie paste. Tastes just like [...]
This long post, quoting from a discussion by Willis Eschenbach, shows how the CRU falsified data (late 19th century through 20th century) from Australian temperature measuring stations to show a trend rise in temperature, rather than the trend decline in temperature recorded in the raw data. The revelations at CRU speak not only to unprofessional [...]
We saw Sandra Bullock's new movie, "Blind Side", last night. Her best film in years. An excellent script, moving story that engages the audience. And her best acting in years. Before the feature, a National Guard recruiting mini-movie was shown, "At The Moment". The 2 minute movie is as intense [...]
Federal required ethanol is a boon for American corn growers, but a bust for American agriculture. Why? Ethanol is chiefly responsible for keeping the cost of American farm land high. It is a falsely productive use of farm land, because demand is mandated and production is subsidized. It keeps the prices [...]
The outrageous scandal of Britain's Climate Research Unit continues. Will earns his pay as a columnist, nailing ... BAM, BAM, BAM ... the arrogance of the climate change scientists, who "seem to suppose themselves a small clerisy entrusted with the most urgent truth ever discovered. On it, and hence on them, the planet's fate [...]
The ten-year estimate of ObamaCare costs come in under one trillion dollars, because the legislation envisions taxing Americans for several years to support ObamaCare before ObamaCare services begin. That is, ObamaCare would accumulate hundreds of billions of dollars as a fund before being drawn upon to pay the costs of [...]
Few commentators have talked about Obama's rhetorical powers in the past half year or so. Rather, many observers are annoyed by his rhetorical mannerisms. Left media mention no more thrills going up their legs. A black woman complained typically of his Father's Day Speech, that Obama's conversation with the black community [...]
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 [...]
