The hallucinatory classes
A minor story that I found at the Philadelphia Inquirer's web site provides yet another illustration of an increasingly hopeless problem. Police were forced to shoot a "homeless" man whose homelessness was a symptom of his chronic mental illness. From...
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:25:59 PDT
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Happy Fourth of July!
I complain a lot (probably more than I should -- although that seems to be the nature of blogging), so I like it when I find something that seems worthwhile. As a pragmatic libertarian, I enjoyed Roger L. Simon's Fourth...
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:09:53 PDT
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The eve of what?
Sarah Palin has resigned -- on the eve of the Fourth of July, and right in the middle of the reporting of a Republican family feud. I hope M. Simon is not right about this:It looks like Andrew "I had...
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:49:36 PDT
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Sarah Palin Will Be One Term Governor
It looks like Andrew "I had Trig Palin's Baby" Sullivan and the rest of the Palin haters have caused Sarah Palin to decline to run for a second term as Alaska's Governor. From Facebook. Some say things changed for me...
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:37:21 PDT
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Support your local (non-AFA) Tea Party
I like and support the Tea Party Movement. But as I explained in this post, I don't like the idea of anti-sex crusaders in the form of the American Family Association taking it over. So naturally, I was disappointed to...
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:54:48 PDT
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The Latest Bikini Edition
This year's July 4th Bikini edition is up at Power and Control (I keep GMT). Here are a couple of samples to give you an idea or ideas. You can click on the pictures for more information. Ladies. I guarantee...
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:05:06 PDT
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Art critics with better brains? Yes, it is scientifically possible!
From a friend who asked "Who's paying for THIS?", I just learned about a study which trained pigeons to be art critics: Pigeons, it seems, can discriminate between art techniques and can even judge their quality. According to scientists, given...
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:13:29 PDT
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Pot Goes Legit
I remember when the micro-computer trade shows started. A few years after the first ones we had an industry. I think hemp/marijuana will follow a similar track. This video was put out by the same folks who put out...
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:04:26 PDT
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Thank you for ignoring my heresy
A post linked by Glenn Reynolds yesterday (about Barry Goldwater's revenge) reminded me of an excellent observation which bears rerepeating: "I became a conservative by being around liberals, and I became a libertarian by being around conservatives." That was Greg...
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:42:30 PDT
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Your candidate's adultery is worse than mine!
Speaking of adultery (which almost everyone agrees is bad) I'm wondering whose adultery is worse -- Mark Sanford's or Newt Gingrich's. I realize that I'm not the only one asking, but the question was just sort of thrown in my...
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:35:10 PDT
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Whose favorite villains are to blame for the latest horror?
When I wrote about the Mark Sanford sex scandal, I had no idea that it might be considered even remotely related to gay marriage. Well, apparently it is -- at least to some people. Rod Dreher explains:The argument goes like...
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:25:18 PDT
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Hating Sarah Palin is so gay!
As regular readers know, I love Sarah Palin. (So does co-blogger M. Simon). What I don't love, though, is this attempt by Stacy McCain to link hatred of Sarah Palin to homosexuality (which McCain sees as synonymous with Andrew Sullivan's...
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:34:57 PDT
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That Should Work
H/T R. Dave via e-mail who sent me to Gateway Pundit to get the whole picture. Cross Posted at Power and Control...
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:02:59 PDT
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Fareed Zakaria (whose Future of Freedom is a must read) has this to say about the possibility of revolution in Iran: It's possible but unlikely. While the regime's legitimacy has cracked -- a fatal wound in the long run --...
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:15:49 PDT
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If there's one thing worse than a GOP sex scandal, it's a Southern GOP sex scandal!
Does the scandal involving a womanizing southern governor shed any light on the GOP's "Southern Strategy"? While nearly everybody agrees that what Mark Sanford did was wrong, positions as to what the consequences should be are all over the map....
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:17:50 PDT
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