Tuesday, December 27. 2005
HH on the multiple political parties in the US right now. Good analysis. Lived on MacDonalds, and LOST weight. Town Hall Repubs may lose some statehouses in 2006. WSJ Bush's 2006 agenda. Yahoo News Dispositions tests at teacher's schools. Is this Stalinist, or what? New Criterion.
Ten Most Unhinged news video clips of the year: Michelle Trying to equate Bush with Nixon. Daily Pundit rebuts. Is racial bias a psychiatric illness? Classical Values A third of Tsunami donations wasted. LGF A war without (named) heroes. GOP Bloggers Freedom advancing in the world. Norm Is the Reformation over? First Things Christian Left labels Fed. budget cruel to the poor. Am Spectator. I thought religion was supposed to stay out of politics. You religious folks are better at caring for the unfortunate than the govt, anyway. Do you want a Theocracy? Assimilation of Moslems: Does it matter if immigrants enjoy strip joints? Steyn For guys: Secrets to a happy marriage. Evangelical Outpost
Monday, December 26. 2005
Future i-Pods: A VC Do sports teams help a region's eonomy? Probably not. The ongoing saga of DC and The Nationals. Reason All About Ice: book review in the NYT Something new in politics: The NYT stoops lower and lower: Dinocrat
Why are the non-radical mulsims silent? They are intimidated. Schwartz at TCS The well-paid limo liberals at the Beeb. Am. Thinker/ Tax-supported Leftist propaganda. Do you know about the New Yorker's Film File? It's online and you can check their movie reviews. The campus war against Christian organizations. Tapsscott at Town Hall Governors giving up Christmas cards. The Hill The warrantless Geiger counter. Are we at war, or not? RWNH
What they are taking in college these days: Am. Future. You won't believe some of these courses. The End of Bolivia? Front Page Who are the leakers? Bird of Paradise. And why no investigations? Intell. Cons. Tories make a left turn. Cap'n Ed Impreachment nonsense: Krauthammer Bad Science: Alcohol and obesity. Guardian. One good thing about The Guardian - a Bad Science feature. Always back up your PhD thesis: a true story. WaPo
Friday, December 23. 2005
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Deeply disturbing. Nuclear monitoring done without warrants. How absolutely awful. How dare this dictatorship of Bush look for our private, personal nuclear weapons? This is a privacy matter. Let's get the ACLU on the case here. Truly deeply disturbing. Amex played games with currencies. That is a no-no and we are supposed to be able to trust Amex. The Vatican finally takes a close look at Islam. View from 1776 Scruton on the EU: Voting doesn't matter if if doesn't fit the leftist agenda. Open Democracy Bin Ladin's neice: A cutie-pie. Those arabs have BIG families, don't they? 20 wives - and each one with a Platinum American Express Card. Jeez. And every kid in private school in the US, the UK, or Switzerland. Oil is good stuff. Too bad we can't find any in New England or Virginia. I could handle one lousy well in the basement of my condo. A fed-up Dem rants about Dem politics: Front Page Americans growing in wealth and standard of living: Cafe Hayek. No kidding. It is obvious everywhere you go. The poorest in the US have cell phones and multiple TVs. The middle class is filthy rich, by world standards, and our bus drivers retire at 55 and spend their winters in Florida. What a country! Al Quaida targeted Bush: Newsmax Spying on bad guys was OK with the NYT in 1982: Ankle Biter. Suddenly, it's not OK with them? Pure partisan BS. The great, booming US economy, and the press: Gainor at RCP Kofi Annan's Mercedes, and the UN debacle: NRO The Google Deal. They bought the names. Long term, I would be short Google. American girls torture Christmas Barbies. Haha. And they should - a wholesome outlet, and good practice for us evil, evil Americans for when we catch the dastardly Moslem terrorists. Put goop in their hair, make them listen to Eminem, and cut their heads off. Good clean fun. Marginal Rev. Reason, Faith, and Kristof (?)- Am. Thinker: Indeed, it is now science that strains our credulity. Relativity and quantum mechanics were preposterous enough but we are now asked to swallow absurdities like black holes, wormholes, and superstrings that would make Baron Munchausen blush. Compared to these, belief in the Virgin Birth is easy.
A True Quagmire (Thanks to American Future): 
God is a Republican and Santa is a Democrat From PJ O'Rourke via RTLC
Worried Some folks have got to be worried right now. Pline. And Jeff nails it: "With few exceptions, I don’t think many of them actually believe this story. But what such allegations provide for, however hypothetical and farfetched they turn out to be (and NSA oversight is some of the tightest in the country), is an ethos of romanticism, intrigue, and—for those hoping to experience or recapture that heady counterculture ethos—heroism, in precisely the mode of the antiheroes who peopled the political dramas of the early 70s, from 3 Days of the Condor and Parallax View to All the President’s Men and The Candidate."
Working for the enemy is not heroic.
Half of Americans have had "moments of truth" that led to a religious awakening of their souls: CSM Unions equivalent to organized crime. Polipundit. The union problem in NYC: A New Class War in NYPost Zarky moving into Europe. LGF Blogging at 30,000 feet. A VC. (Not our Yankee politics, but a good, personal blog with a venture capitalist, deal-oriented angle.) 6th Circuit gives ACLU a lump of coal in their Christmas Holiday stocking, next to their Christmas Winter Solstice Tree Bush? Pol. Teen The human cost of freedom: a good post by Confed. Yank China's economy set to surpass that of Britain. Samiz. The NSA: The "big" NYT story is unravelling. Am Thinker. Where is the outrage about the NSA leaks? Max Boot (woops- they are Dems - what happens to Senators when they leak top secret intel? Jail, perhaps? I would just love to be running against those guys right now, but my job is better.). It's insanity: Willisms - and I agree. Christmas defended. Yes, Virginia, the Founding Fathers did celebrate Christmas. And how! With parties, booze, and dancing. They were not barbarians. They did love life, they trusted in God, and they wanted freedom from State Power and viewed government as a necessary evil, and not as a free lunch. God Bless those brave, optimistic patriots who risked their lives and their sacred honor, and who continue to inspire us today.
Thursday, December 22. 2005
Powerline's exchange with the NYT re legality. Pelosi's religious litmus test. Bird of Paradise Enviros buying up hunting licenses. Env. Econ. Judge says AZ must spend more to teach English to illegals. Edn. Week
Wednesday, December 21. 2005
Shopping in the Renaissance: Guardian Book Reviews Spying question, cleared up by the Princess. Also discussed in some detail on a blog Mr. Gumshoe referred us to - another group-effort, eclectic blog that looks good: YARGB Yiyun Yu and her immigration problems. WaPo. Why are they going after her, amongst the millions who need deportation?
"The President is not the Enemy", by Ed Koch. For rabid Dems, he is the enemy. Bush is at war with the bad guys, and the Dems are at war with Bush. Feeling powerless makes immature people feel mean and angry, and pushes them towards hysterical extremes. Please tell me, Dem readers of Maggie's, of whom there are plenty - why no focus on the real enemy? Iraq vote pushes Iraq in Islamist direction. Too bad, but it's their country. CSM Brandy contains healthful antioxidants. Science Daily The politics of the cruel and destructive NYC transit strike. NY Sun New Bolivian President Morales praises Castro, plans to "liberate" Bolivia. Paxety. And you can scroll down and read about how Castro banned Christmas.
Tuesday, December 20. 2005
Thanks for the wiretaps. WSJ Updike's new book (essays) on the visual arts. CSM Peace prevails in Sadr City. CSM Resurrection of the Wooly Mammoth? Cool. Cenozoic Park? Everything about Ice Ages here. Those primitive Iraqi voters. Squaring the Boston Globe The ugly sources of the Kennedy millions. The Prof
Monday, December 19. 2005
Gladiators - new book reviewed by Gillette Media bias quantified by UCLA researchers. And it's worse than I thought. Friedman's new book - if you haven't read it yet. The World is Flat. How near is legal polygamy? If done right, it could be a good deal for guys. I can see 4 or 5 beautiful young women, all working at lucrative executive jobs and "fulfilling themselves" in the modern way, while I hunt and fish all day, and blog, read, stop by the gym and maybe Starbucks afterwards to read the papers, have my nails done, take naps, have a few beers, do some online trading, and conserve my strength for the arduous evenings of husbandly duty. I might let them rotate cooking me dinner. This could be good. I'm ready, plus it's Biblically OK. Old Testament, anyway: only losers have just one. Monogamy is monotony. Pre-nups for all though, gals, and tuitions for any kiddies are not my problem. We will all be very modern and progressive. Kurtz in Wkly Std.
Does politics have anything to do with why movie-going is declining? Tammy Harold Bloom thinks Bush is stupid. Neo. My opinion: Harold, stick to your knitting. Are the Sunnis working with us now? Could be. Captn Ed Why people don't like Israeli wines - they cook them. Am Thinker The Northeast is moving south. Geologically. Live Science. They'll be Red States in 1/2 million years. Was Buffy stolen from another solar system? CSM. I call it Grand Theft Planet and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. Reform Judaism goes over the edge. Charen (Aren't these the same folks who go nuts when Christians get politically involved?) More on the Ladies in White in Cuba. WSJ Katrina coverage. Instapundit Bill O'Reilly watchers are Yahoos, according to Sam Donaldson. Pol. Teen. No doubt true: I watch him sometimes, and I'm a Yahoo. Able Danger - finally getting looked at. The Religion of Peace: Cleric urges killing of infidels. LGF Is that 80% a real number? Protein
Saturday, December 17. 2005
A Google-AOL relationship? Intel leakers should be prosecuted. Daily Pundit. Dinocrat addresses it well. And Captain Ed covers the silly story here. Writer on trial in Turkey for discussing Armenian massacres. NYT Is there a cure for chronic procrastinators? Most people seem to agree that MADD has become a de-facto prohibitionist movement instead of a reasonable one. TCS Michelle likes the Immigration bill that passed in the House. Looks reasonable to me. A fine review and appreciation of the great, and hipper-than-hip, Dave Brubeck. Orlen at American Spectator. "Hope in Hell": Review of new book on Doctors without Borders. New Horizons. Not sexy enough for the press to cover? RWNH. Why not to get a Christmas puppy. Totally agree. Slate. God on the Internet. A review, by Jonathan Last at First Things.
Friday, December 16. 2005
The new Jib Jab. Krauthammer on Iranian fundamentalism and their preparation for Armageddon and the arrival of the 12th Imam. Warming trend continues. Does it mean anything? WaPo The Tobacco Nazis just won't quit. Now it's smoking at home. WFT? How can we get these busy-body jerks to Quit It and to Leave Others Alone? A 12-Step program? A mutation caused white skin. It's sort of a shame for us whitie-mutants, because it's not really a very attractive or healthy-looking skin color. It's a pasty, putty-colored blotchy skin which reveals every defect and requires tanning salons to look half-decent after age 25 and which, in the mature age group, just slumps, lumps, sags, wrinkles, goes to hell and one's face ends up looking like a bowl of dried-out pudding with a strawberry-looking nose in the middle. Being a mutant is a raw deal, even with my 1/16th redskin blood. School choice in Britain encounters the same Socialist hysteria as it does in the US. Samiz. Pottinger on why he left the WSJ to join the Marines. Nantucket Windmill update, from Morrisey. Fact is, though, windmills are catastrophically destructive to birds, and economically non-viable without subsidies. Let's face it: wind power is just a hippy-dippy feel-good thing. Nuclear is what we need: it's a free lunch, or as close as we can get to that. Tammy points out the biggest loser in yesterday's election: Move On - "The Soros Sponsored Voice of the Moonbat Left."
Thursday, December 15. 2005
Prices plunge; production jumps. How bad is that? Many hedge funds to blow off the SEC: Marketwatch WalMart, Ford, ATT, other major corps supporting anti-Alito activity. Why? Human Events Nobody wants to pay for health insurance. Why not require it, like car ins. or homeowners? TCS "Burn the Jews": Hizbollah Academic Symposium. Jihad Watch Why we must get rid of Bush immediately, from The World Can't Wait org. At American Future. Good grief. At first I thought it was satire.
Photo from Drudge: 
Big Vote in Iraq today. What a beautiful thing to see. What an irony that politics is so dirty and nasty, while voting is such a fine expression of human dignity. Their turnout will be better than ours. Michelle has updated details - she has the time. This is what "Victory" looks like: it must warm the hearts of all of the nations who participated in bringing freedom to a very sad place. 94% of Americans believe there is a God. Ex-Donk. So sorry, Marxists, Leftists, and the ACLU - the more you confront people and make them think, the more they find their beliefs in their hearts and souls. Chicago to ban retired police officers from carrying handguns. WTF? Aren't those the good guys (and gals) we want carrying guns? Alphecca Fooled ya! After all those years of eating bland, disgusting fiber, turns out it doesn't matter for cancer. It probably was all a plot of evil Big Fiber. Why did the NYT go with the forged ballots story? Conf. Yank. And Michelle asks "Which side is the NYT on?" Is secret US diplomacy bringing Sunnis on board in Iraq? Hope so - and it is clear today that something has changed. Debka Canada has second-largest oil deposits in the world. Make Alberta the 51st state? The Prof. A really neat idea: occupy Alberta. Send in the Marines. It's all about oil, right? DNA says North America originally settled by only 70 Asians? Gee whiz, and they talk about inbreeding in Appalachia! No wonder we Indians didn't have wheels and guns and philosophy and Botticelli and like, you know, stuff. US stealing doctors from around the world. NYT Is China eating our lunch? The trade deficit. We need to get smarter.
Wednesday, December 14. 2005
Boot compares Boot Camp to torture. Col. Kline on Iraq. John at Pline. Bush speaking on the war today. Put him out there - he's no slick great communicator, but he's got heart and he's got the responsibility. Academia in wartime. NYSun - H/T, Pline.
Will Dunkin Donuts go upscale? Let's hope not. We like them just the way they are: predictably downscale with coffee that tastes very good, with enough sugar and milk. Story in Slate. St. Francis created the first creche in Grecio, according to Curt Jester, to keep lawyers busy in the future. Never realized that he was the Patron Saint of ACLU attorneys. Is the paperless office finally happening? CSM A cool gift to our readers: How to actually reach a human being at a number of major companies. The IVR Cheat Sheet by Paul English. Georgetown and Harvard accept 20 million dollar bribes from Saudi. "For understanding." I think we already understand enough. NYT . For me, the real question is "Do the moslems understand us yet?"
Tuesday, December 13. 2005
"Everybody knows" that Iraq is a disaster. I call that wishful thinking on the part of those who cannot abide a Republican success. Not only do the insurgents spike up the volume before elections in Iraq - so do the Lefty commentators at home. Elections in Iraq belie all of the propaganda. Aaronovitch at TimesOnline asks "A disaster, compared to what?" Here. US Federal Deficit: It's ugly. We should have had a temporary War Tax. The SOHO spacecraft: Didn't know it existed. Extremely cool. ScienceTimes
Monday, December 12. 2005
Why Bush's "guest worker" immigration plan won't work - because it doesn't address the size of the invasion. It's up to us voters to decide who moves here, and when, and why. Period. It's our country. Antle at Intell. Cons. A Christmas request from Marine Corps Moms - link at Confed. Yank. Laffey Vs. Chafee: Another reason to check out Rhode Island's Anchor Rising NY Appellate court rejects judicial activism regarding gay marriage - and gives the trial court a lecture, followed by a spanking. No Oil We are in the "low-level insurgency phase" in Iraq, says Maj. Gen Huck. Thought so. Bill Roggio in Iraq.
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