A patriotic reveller. Somebody said these cute art photos were from Mardi Gras, but I think they are from this fun and artistic festival on Key West. My only question: Is that paint sugared frosting? Yum. Or is it lead-based paint? If our Editor will permit such art, I may decide to use this art for a little while, to attract the well-deserved attention of art-lovers to my random posts.
Barone. Berger and Libby: A tale of two crimes
Chavez "will build heaven on earth." Good deal. Free money and free babes like the photo? Sign me up, Hugo.
World's largest horse, with video
How we are going to get screwed by this subsidized ethanol scam.
Swiss reject nationalized medicine, overwhelmingly. Democracy Project
Separate bedrooms to improve your marriage?
Oprah's school too strict? Sounds like a normal American boarding school. Structure and disciple are necessary for the youth! Including me.
Poll on the DC gun ban. Gun-haters will hate this poll.
An EU speed limit for the Autobahn? The Germans will love that.
Four year-olds in UK being taught same-sex stories. View from the Right. Is there a point at which we can term perversion "perversion"? Or is anything just swell? I do not have the answer. I only like girls over 16, but I like them plenty. Problem is that they do not seem to like me all that much. Nerdy and awkward. If you enjoy that sort of thing, call me.
Bernard Lewis discusses the Crusades, via Asst. Village Idiot. Indeed, the Crusades were the European response to the Moslem invasion that closed Jerusalem.
European Jews heading for the exits. Crittenden
The political economy of alternative energy, and the surge of rent-seeking. Kling at TCS (h/t, Mankiw, who we will add to our blogroll. We need an economics section.) Update: Done.
12 different views on global warming. Live Science. You already know my view: It doesn't matter and I don't care.
Hillary: Walter Reed proves we need more govt-run health care. Scrappleface
An Usama bin Ladin mini-biography, at Horsefeathers. Definitely worth reading.
Who let CAIR into the US Capitol?
Lewis in American Thinker. It begins:
If "one's man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," then all wars are the same, liberation equals conquest, tyranny equals democracy, aggression equals defense, and Churchill equals Hitler.
That seems to be the hidden premise of European, and especially Franco-German cant against the American-British overthrow of Saddam. Because the truth is of course that George W. Bush's decision to overthrow Saddam for fear that he was armed with WMDs, is a lineal descendant of FDR's decision to come to the aid of Britain against Nazi Germany, Harry S. Truman's decision to fight in Korea, and Woodrow Wilson's decision to aid Western countries against Prussian militarism in World War I. The United States involved itself in these conflicts to prevent larger and terrible consequences for itself before being militarily attacked by Germany.
Whole thing here.
Editor's Note: The News Junkie has a thing about girls. Pardon us if you have opened Maggie's in a public work or educational setting in which some lesbian females or limp metrosexuals might be offended. Too darn bad. I am the Editor Dog, but I am not totalitarian. And I do enjoy the lovely female form myself, especially when presented as "art." And even when not presented as art. Big or small, we love 'em all.
