Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
Here is an article that I am almost entirely in agreement with:
Thomas Sowell on Judges on National Review Online It is understandable that liberal Democratic presidents, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt, loaded the Supreme Court with liberal, Democratic justices.
What is far harder to understand is how a whole succession of conservative Republican presidents — Nixon, Ford, [...]
I have long argued that the idea of catastrophic human-induced global warming is being promoted and supported in large part by anti-Western, anti-capitalist elements in the international community, and here at home. It’s an example of science hijacked by rank politics. Basically, global warming is the issue that will be used to extort [...]
I am a fairly frequent commenter on one of the larger blogs in the blogosphere, “Dean’s World.” Dean was the first and is still the largest blog who put me on their blogroll, so I owe him a debt of gratitude. Dean’s World still sends me about 8% of my traffic on a daily basis.
There [...]
Back in the middle ages the Catholic Church sold “indulgences” which were essentially “Get out of Hell” cards that were available for a price. Different sins had different costs, but virtually any sin was “forgivable” if the perpetrator purchased the appropriate indulgence.
This is one of the great embarrassments of the Catholic Church to this day.
The [...]
Stewart Brand – John Tierney – An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’ – New York Times Stewart Brand has become a heretic to environmentalism, a movement he helped found, but he doesn’t plan to be isolated for long. He expects that environmentalists will soon share his affection for nuclear power. They’ll lose their fear of population [...]
BREITBART.COM – Cheney OK After Afghan Blast; 23 Killed BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber attacked the entrance to the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, killing up to 23 people and wounding 20.
Cheney was unhurt in the attack, which was claimed by the Taliban [...]
Group questions level of energy use at Gore home – Nashville, Tennessee – Tuesday, 02/27/07 – Tennessean.com “As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk (the) walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Drew Johnson, president of the Tennessee [...]
Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Keepers in Peril – New York Times VISALIA, Calif., Feb. 23 — David Bradshaw has endured countless stings during his life as a beekeeper, but he got the shock of his career when he opened his boxes last month and found half of his 100 million bees missing.
In 24 states throughout the country, [...]
Clintons’ Charity Not Listed On Senate Disclosure Forms – washingtonpost.com Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former president Bill Clinton have operated a family charity since 2001, but she failed to list it on annual Senate financial disclosure reports on five occasions.
The Ethics in Government Act requires members of Congress to disclose positions they hold with any [...]
Pelosi Falls Short On Election Promises – Politico.com House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is discovering the cold truth about governing with a slim majority: It’s much easier to promise behavioral change for Congress than to deliver it.
Pelosi vowed that five-day workweeks would be a hallmark of a harder-working Democratic majority. So far, the House has logged only [...]
I saw this photo today and had to share. Pugs are cool…
Iraqi Cabinet Approves Draft of Oil Law – New York Times BAGHDAD, Feb. 26 — The Iraqi cabinet approved a draft of a law today that would set guidelines for countrywide distribution of oil revenues and foreign investment in the immense oil industry.
The endorsement marked a major agreement among the country’s ethnic and sectarian political blocs [...]
So there is a major blogwar going on at DIGG. I find it interesting. DIGG allows readers to “digg” or “bury” posts by clicking a thumbs up or thumbs down icon. There has been an ongoing concerted effort to bury posts from certain conservative websites, most notably Little Green Footballs (who brought the RatherGate memo [...]
Of course this isn’t new.
Tennessee Center for Policy Research Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth†Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a [...]
At times in my life I have worked as a part-time professional cartoonist. I have never been brave enough to take the plunge into full-time cartooning/illustration work because it is a risky, poorly compensated business. Daryl Cagle, an established, ’successful’ cartoonists recently penned a missive to and about aspiring cartoonists. He had [...]
So, here is a guy who made a guitar, ukelele and fiddle from used matchsticks. That’s some dedication.read more | digg story
I subscribe to an origami mailing list and today it had a link to this Snopes.com article on a guy named Willard Wigan who sculpts figures smaller than the eye of a needle. Here’s a photo:
Yes, that’s the Statue of Liberty inside the eye of a needle. A real needle. Not even a big one. [...]
I don’t get this.
ScienceDaily: Birds Found To Plan For The Future Science Daily — Planning and worrying about the future has always been considered an exclusively human activity, but now at least one species of bird has also been found to plan for tomorrow. The finding also raises the intriguing possibility that, like humans, birds may [...]
This is why my dander is way up over the illegal immigration issue. In the space of a week, it’s happened again…
AZCENTRAL.COM – Gunmen kidnap 5 in vehicle near I-10 Five people were kidnapped early Sunday when three armed men hijacked the van they were traveling in with two other people at a stoplight [...]
BREITBART.COM – Judge Dismisses CIA Leak Trial Juror WASHINGTON (AP) — A juror was dismissed from the trial of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on Monday after court officials learned she had been exposed to information about the case over the weekend.
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton ordered the juror removed, saying “what [...]
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