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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Conversion of an Alarmist

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Over the last decade or two a lot of environmentalists have tried to cajole and browbeat the rest of us into accepting that the earth is war...

Humility

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I mentioned about a month ago that a friend of mine named Stephen Martin had recently written a wonderful book titled The Messy Quest for M...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Why Invoke Executive Privilege? (Pt. II)

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Yesterday we raised the question why the president would invoke executive privilege to prevent documents associated with Operation Fast and ...

Defection

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You may have heard of the defection of a Syrian air force pilot on Thursday morning who flew his jet to Jordan and requested asylum. Debkafi...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Why Invoke Executive Privilege?

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President Obama's decision to invoke executive privilege (EP) to prevent documents related to the Fast and Furious operation from being ...

Is Time Slowing Down?

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The assumption among scientists has been that, except for situations in which special or general relativity applies, time always flows at a ...

Yet Another Evolution

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The dictionary defines "chutzpah" as unmitigated effrontery or impudence. It defines "hypocrite" as a person who falsely...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Music of the Spheres

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There's a cool video at New Scientist for all you math types. Musician Michael Blake has composed a piece of music based on the Golden...

Dreadful Public Policy

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The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its decision on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in the next few days, but economist Robert J....
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Why It's Hard to Trust Liberal Media

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I don't like to accuse the media of being dishonest, but at least at MSNBC it's getting ever more difficult to avoid that conclusion...

Why Mr. Holder Must Go

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Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to meet today with the House Oversight Committee to try to bamboozle them enough to avert a vote o...

Dawkins Shows His Sensitive Side

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At Richard Dawkins' website there's a story about how a video on evolution shown to a middle school class caused a young girl to beg...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Rapid Evolution

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In announcing Friday that he was going to do what in 2011 he said he lacked the legal authority to do, i.e. grant de facto amnesty to over...

Same Old Song

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The Republican National Committee has produced a funny video (well, I think it's funny) which juxtaposes President Obama's recent sp...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Fathers' Day Contemplation

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Since tomorrow is Fathers' Day here in America let's talk about a couple of fathers. First is the father in Shiner, Texas who beat a...

Contempt

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Polls indicate that only about 50 percent of likely voters have either “very closely” or “somewhat closely” followed the Fast and Furious sc...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Crony Capitalism

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The Wall Street Journal has a story that recounts how Big Pharma and the Obama administration climbed in bed together to get Obamacare pass...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

The Case for Staying Out of Syria

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Foreign policy expert Daniel Pipes of the Hoover Institute argues compellingly that the United States should avoid overt involvement in Syr...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Recolonizing the Bottom Billion

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Some years ago while reading Paul Collier's book on third world poverty titled The Bottom Billion I was surprised to see his suggestion...

Repeating Rwanda

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New York Times writer Nicholas Kristoff is an Obama supporter who's finding it increasingly difficult to suppress his disillusionment wi...