Within ten years, Al Gore wants America to “produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources…” He compared his challenge to that of John F. Kennedy’s pledge to go to the moon in ten years, (which made me wonder about the carbon footprint created in the 1960s just to get […]

While I certainly appreciate Reuters writing these two stories, I wonder why they did not get wider play in the Credentialed Media. First, from July 12th Iraq’s combat troops will be almost fully formed by the middle of 2009, according to the senior U.S. Army officer who led the training of Iraqi security forces. On […]

There are lots of things Surrendie loves: some good brie, French bread, a nice Bordeaux, pre-emptive surrender. One of his others is when a port-sider decides to extend their 15 minutes with some sort of craziness, such as with Cindy Sheehan, Wes Clark, and now, Al Gore. Though, Surrendie is conflicted, as he has never […]

So, I arrived in Austin, Texas yesterday for the American Dream Summit. It was a long, strange trip. I’ve never been a big flyer and believe it or not, this was my first post-9/11 plane flight. It encompassed three flights. One, from the Myrtle Beach Airport to Charlotte. The 2nd from Charlotte to Houston and […]

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” — Fake Thomas Jefferson Actually, Thomas Jefferson never said or believed that, which makes perfect sense given that he was a very wise man and that phrase is nonsense. Dissent can indeed be patriotism, but it can just as easily be foolishness, disloyalty, or even treason. Moreover, it’s […]

Finally, something I’ve been hoping to see, and something which helps restore my faith in real science: The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate […]

Mitch McConnell suggests in the WSJ that—notwithstanding it being an election year, and all that—Congress might consider doing its job with respect to the energy crisis: The Gas Price Reduction Act is composed of just a few ideas. But taken together, the proposals will address the problem head on. They include deep-sea exploration more than […]

Yes, I am happy to announce that I will be in the land of 10,000 lakes covering the GOP convention and reporting back to my readers my experiences at such a dynamic event. You can follow along on my journey at MidnightBlue and I will also be cross posting my reports to Flopping Aces and […]

It would be a good start. I’ve been noticing that gas-price duality among the liberati for years now, and of course it’s always made perfect sense to me. That’s why I could hear NPR do a piece about the evils of high gas prices in the morning, and that afternoon report that our gas prices […]

The Kossies have such a flair with titles. This diarist and other DNC/liberal bloggers have their panties in a twist over the selection of the DNC Convention State Blogger Corps. These bloggers will have access to their state delegates, an honor not accorded to the general blogger corps. There were five state blogs that were […]

I found this gem of a Letter To Editor in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Racial Divisiveness A local Barack Obama team leader hysterically warned about an imminent onslaught of racist attacks against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee (Letters, June 25). But the racial divisiveness against Obama has come from within the Democratic establishment itself: the recent […]

When I was a kid, I got hurt a lot. Not as much as my brother did, but I swear to you it seemed that my knees were always scabbed and I always had scrapes and bruises everywhere. My brother was even worse. It’s a miracle we both escaped with no broken bones. I always […]

Mr. Hope-Changeyness himself shows us just how unlike a regular politician he is. See, these aren’t flip-flops. This is just pandering you can believe in! Like, duh! Of course, the name John Kerry is floating around in my head right about now. Obama was just for this stuff before he was against it… before he […]

This sentence says it all: “We’re trying to figure out how close we can get to where we were before.” Who was it that said that? DC Council Chairman Vincent Gray. The intent, of course, is to find a way to subvert the intent of the Supreme Court case in which the right of self-defense […]

If you want to measure how successful the troop surge in Iraq has been you can look to signs of military or political progress or you can just ask a liberal. I blog at Wizbang and over the past year when I have blogged about progress being made in Iraq, whether it be on the […]

For once, the poll on St. Louis mayor Francis Slay’s website provides an interesting observation. By now, you’ve all heard about the Anheuser-Busch takeover. AB (or should I say, Anheuser-InBev) is based in St. Louis, my hometown, and its history within the city is historic. According to the mayor’s poll results, St. Louisians have a […]

Barack Hussein Obama seems to be an empty skin, chosen by the liberal elite because he’s mulatto, has a name that reminds them of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, has the most liberal voting record in the Senate, and seems like the sort of amiable moron who would be easy to control. But what […]

Some of you may have already stumbled upon this, but I was thrilled to find out about this tool today, sponsored by John McCain’s campaign. Here are two of the campaign posters I created: If any of you create posters of your own, please post a link in the comments for everyone to check out. […]

Another dude, and his team, gets the boot from competing in the Tour because he tests positive for EPO. Says the manager: The team manager, Claudio Corti, said: “We’re absolutely stunned by what’s happening and by the behaviour of one of our riders. He seems to have secretly used banned substances, hiding everything from everybody […]

Correction: This is an Afghani soldier. Iraq must be doing better because even the AP indirectly acknowledges it: Spc. Grover Gebhart has spent nine months at a small post on a Sunni-Shiite fault line in western Baghdad. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in Iraq feels he’s missing the real war — in […]

Remember Seattle’s $5-million toilet misadventure? Replacing affordable portable toilets with extravagant self-flushing super-crappers actually resulted in even more bums defecating in the streets. They cost $360 per day just to maintain, and soon had to be closed down after they became clogged with trash, both literally and figuratively, only drug-dealers and prostitutes being able to […]

The Senate approved the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), agreeing to give away $50 billion of American taxpayer money to African countries to help stop the spread of AIDS. Current estimates are that 33 million people worldwide suffer from the disease. That is less than one half of one percent of the total […]

No. Seriously. Welcome to the Reality Based Community Take Your Paws off the Presidency! Does the Bush administration have a secret succession order that bypasses Congress? Suppose the worst happens, and the next terrorist attack hits Washington hard, taking out the president and the vice president. What happens next? New Yorker writer Jane Mayer’s new […]

Early morning thought: will those on the Port side accuse Obama of going to Iraq for a photo op? IHT – Media stars will accompany Obama overseas Senator John McCain’s trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported […]

I am flying in to the Defending The American Dream Summit in Austin, Tx today and will be attending the event tomorrow. That means updates from me may be a bit spotty. However, there’s no need to fear, because I have crew of guest bloggers taking up my slack. While I am gone, the following […]

I am flying in to the Defending The American Dream Summit in Austin, Tx today and will be attending the event tomorrow. That means updates from me may be a bit spotty. However, there’s no need to fear, because I have crew of guest bloggers taking up my slack. While I am gone, the following […]

Dan Collins links to an article about how women resist temptation from single men better than men resist temptation from women: The report concluded that men must form a plan of how to resist a good-looking temptress. I’m going to stop right there. Does this strike you as condescending? It struck me as treating men […]

This story confirms my theory that people don’t get nicer as they age. They are who they are–they just usually get too tired too keep being as big a jerk. Beware the vital, healthy old people. They might look innocent: Two elderly women were sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday for murdering two […]

Here‘s something unlikely to make the cover of Time. From the Science & Public Policy Institute: WASHINGTON (7-15-08) — Mathematical proof that there is no “climate crisis” appears today in a major, peer-reviewed paper in Physics and Society, a learned journal of the 10,000-strong American Physical Society, SPPI reports. Christopher Monckton, who once advised Margaret […]

I’ve previously interviewed Peter Schweizer about his superb book, Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, and I thought he did a great job. So, when I saw that Schweizer had an important new book out, Makers and Takers: Why Conservatives Work Harder, Feel Happier, Have Closer […]