I 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 [...]
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 [...]
Note: Pop culture is supposed to be popular. It has to be easy. It has to be cute.
[...]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 [...]
One additional thing worth pointing out about these emails. They are hardly unexpected. For anyone following this issue, it is clear that the method of operation of the global warming folks is to use the consensus of the scientists as a club to shut up any opposition. But it is [...]
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 [...]
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' [...]
Uh-oh. Not a good day if you're a global warming believer. This Wall Street Journal piece, along with a lot of other stories discuss a hacking of the Climate Research Center at University of East Anglia. Apparently some of the stuff that the hackers released casts a shadow on' [...]
Over at JamulBlog.
It will be interesting to see how many eyes will analyze this data. Over time an impression of what the warmer scientisticalists were up to will emerge.
I recant now from calling this what looks like a major criminal conspiracy. That was overheated. Something like, a spontaneous and [...]
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 [...]
...You'd only have to rely upon ObamaCare to cure you!
This post by John Hinderaker at Power Line is fairly typical of what I've been reading:
Mary Landrieu announced today that she will vote for cloture on the Democrats' government medicine bill tonight. The Democrats now have 60 votes and will' [...]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 [...]
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 [...]
Jones and others are saying the emails are being quoted "out of context." Well, here's the context.
I'm all for not jumping to conclusions, hearing both sides and all of that. So I will just say what this looks like: This looks like crooks cooking the scientific books on what [...]
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 [...]
The New York Times headline reads: "New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package as Worthy Step." One then reads in the article:
While some conservatives remain as skeptical as ever that big increases in government spending give the economy a jolt that is worth the cost, Martin Feldstein, [...]
“I think it’s pretty clear at this point that no bill from our Congress is going to meaningfully “bend the cost curve”. Every time I argue that cost control seems unlikely, I hear that no, the Senate bill is going to make some serious inroads into delivery system reform. Well, [...]
Man, this is really bad.
This isn't just scientific fraud, this is (assuming it's not some sort of elaborate hoax, which it sure does not seem to be) a major criminal conspiracy. These so-called scientists seem to be motivated by getting huge grants, millions of dollars, and presumably [...]
Say what you want about the Bush family, but Jeb Bush did some good work in Florida in education reform and even those Jeb is gone, good things are still happening. I found this St. Petersburg Times story to be very interesting.
Out of the blue, the FCAT has a [...]
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 [...]
Recently, the Obama Administration sought to deny that Fox News was a news organization. Apparently, this was not a new trick. Consider this excerpt from the e mails hacked from a prominent climate researcher:
“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. [...]
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 [...]
No one’s more surprised than we are to find that the New York Times, no less, already has acknowledged the global warming oops of the year:
“Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who [...]
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 [...]
California Republican United States Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Fox & Friends, November 20, 2009
A few days ago, the Washington press corp made a big deal about Carly Fiorina and Sarah Palin. Fiorina was quoted that she had not met the former Governor and Vice Presidential candidate and had not [...]
As folks worldwide are pouring over the data broken free from the clutches of those who would keep it secret, we’ve come across a pretty good summary of the data that reveals how global warming alarmists may have cooked the books to make their case (and protect their research grants) [...]
As we noted today, California’s nannies have ordered us no longer to buy and sell TVs they don’t like, even if we do like them and don’t mind paying to run them. Thanks so much Big Brothers, and you know who you are.
Well, despite the fearful likelihood that [...]
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 [...]
The national-defense syllogism of President Barack H. Obama is pristine in its consistency:
The war against the Iran/al-Qaeda axis is over! It ended on January 20th, 2009, when the One We Have Been Yearning For was finally inaugurated.It was just one more of those failed policies from the previous administration. The [...]
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 [...]
Have we heard this before? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger - the enabler of last January’s historic tax increase - says now he is opposed to tax increases to close the state’s (latest) budget deficit.
Memo to the governor: Where was that conviction a few months ago?
Belichick was right to go for it. I like to think I try not to make the mistake of going passive in risky situations, but on reflection, I can think of as many times when I did this as when I did not.
I like applications of statistics to football. [...]
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 [...]
