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
<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> 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. [...]
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 [...]
In his weekend video/radio address recorded in Seoul, South Korea, President Barack Obama discusses his trip to Asia, casting his primary objective as engaging in new markets with potential to spur job creation here at home.
** MAD MEN: THREE SEASONS ON AND LOOKING FORWARD. …
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 [...]
Los Angeles Times Media Columnist James RaineyVideo via SFist where a commenter says
I’m confused. I missed the part where the UC regents have access to a magic wand they can wave to produce $500 million out of thin air.
The whole freaking state of California is broke. No, wait. “Broke” implies you just have no money. [...]
While I’m up in San Francisco spending Thanksgiving with the most important person in the state, I’ll be organizing a brunch for our readers next Saturday, November 28. Given that reader Leah will also be in the Bay Area and wants to see the Asian Art Museum (one of [...]
America's Roman Catholic bishops aren't completely obsessed by abortion and gay marriage. My former colleague Ann Rodgers, one of the best religion reporters around, reports in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that bishops have been battling over whether to approve a retro English translation of the Mass with more traditional (and, [...]
Good news today from the backstage maneuverings on the Senate Democrats' healthcare reform bill. As The New Republic reported, Democratic leaders have agreed to give more flexibility to millions of Americans who get their health insurance today through their workplace.
First, a little [...]
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Clearly Grayson has this story cold. Equally as clearly, Barney Frank is a liar who never supported a true audit the Fed proposal in the first place.
Sen. Dodd of Connecticut is another slithering weasel who loudly and publicly pretends to champion financial reform but when the votes come, backs [...]
Maybe those climatologists who had predicted ever-increasing temperatures wouldn’t be puzzled by the failure of global temperatures to keep rising had they not relied on doctored data. When someone hacked into “a major global-warming advocacy center in the UK [and had] the data published on line“, we [...]
With his “stimulus” boondoggle going bust and unemployment at its highest rate in a quarter-century, in California at its highest rate since Barbara Boxer was in Kindergarten, the president is at his wits end; he doesn’t know what to do.
So, he’s holding a jobs summit at the White House and [...]
So I was in an elevator full of men who were wearing the team colors of the Cleveland Browns. They grumbled aloud and boldly that there wouldn't ever be any Baltimore Ravens fans anywhere near. I thought better of making a joke.
My reading of Ferguson is on a brief hiatus,' [...]
Source Document
I was forwarded a document for a recent California Federation of Republican Women's Southern Division meeting.
It is apparent that Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman are on completely different tracks.
In the wake of the discovery that Whitman is an elitist NIMBY and' [...]
So says meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. He is also one of Germany’s best-known climatologists. The facts have begun to overtake the fiction (NBC’s shrill Green Week was undeterred, however).
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are [...]
President Barack Obama got a big reaction from the troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea, saying that their work has helped transform millions of lives in the region.
** QUICK HITS. President Barack Obama conferred privately today with generals and other advisors on his new strategy for [...]
Via The Hill, John Conyers hammers Obama’s weak stance in the healthcare battle in a radio interview:
“I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can in the White House,” Conyers said on the liberal Bill Press radio show. “He only won by five votes in the House, and this bill [...]
With the collapse of tourism in Hawaii, relatives on the Big Island tell us they and many others increasingly are growing their own food, as well as fishing and hunting (like for wild pig.) There are few jobs there now since tourism dropped off sharply [...]
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