Archive for: August 2009

August 30, 2009

Questions That Need Answers

Filed under: Uncategorized - 30 Aug 2009

My primary questions to the Obama Administration are these three:

Your FCC Diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd, wrote the following: “It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press…. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration…. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.” How do you defend this statement in light of the First Amendment?
Your health care adviser, Ezekiel Emanuel, said that “Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously” and that a doctor ought to also take society’s needs into account as well. * How should ordinary Americans interpret this attitude in light of the denials of the existence of “death panels.”
Against what enemy do we need to protect by creating a “civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded” as the military?

I cribbed that last question from Glenn Beck’s excellent week-long series on reasonable questions in unreasonable times. Glenn formulated dozens of questions that we can and should ask our elected officials. The questions, by themselves, are listed here. Among them are the following:

The Skeptic’s Handbook

Filed under: Uncategorized - 30 Aug 2009

An Aussie chick (Joanna Nova) produces a nifty little compendium of ways to shoot down the AGW argument. Download your PDF copy here.

She helps you focus on four vital points that kill AGW dead dead dead:

The greenhouse signature is …

August 27, 2009

The Rails Have Been Laid for Many Years Now

Filed under: Uncategorized - 27 Aug 2009

If you haven’t been watching Glenn Beck this week, you really must. Even if you think Beck’s a first-class boob, watch this week. He’s dug up information that no one else has dug up: backgrounds and philosophies of Obama’s “czars.”

Go …

Federally-funded artistic astroturf

Filed under: Uncategorized - 27 Aug 2009

A link was up on Drudge briefly today to a piece about how the NEA was trying to steer art to help Obama adminsitration goals.  I mentally shrugged; of course the teacher’s union would do what they could to support …

August 26, 2009

Ted Kennedy Dies, leaving Barack Obama with….

Filed under: Uncategorized - 26 Aug 2009


h/t maggie katzen

August 25, 2009

“Cash For Clunkers” had really obvious problems that certainly wouldn’t be analagous to other government programs, right?

Filed under: Uncategorized - 25 Aug 2009

Did you get cash for your clunker?  You have until November 1 . . . oh, wait — no, you don’t.  The program completely failed to anticipate the turnout and was out of the $1 billion it had been allocated to take four months to spend in a week.  So its budget was tripled, and it ran out of the rest of that money in . . . less than one month.

But that’s a good thing, right?

Meet Your New DOCTOR

Filed under: Uncategorized - 25 Aug 2009

I didn’t like my earlier version of this NEW DOCTOR poster, so I reworked a couple things.


click to embiggen

Credits: For the original source image, Darleen Click at PW’s posted video (the video wasn’t all …

August 23, 2009

A Subtle Theological Point

Filed under: Uncategorized - 23 Aug 2009

Andrew Klavan corrects the record on Obama’s partnership with God.
Obama told the rebs, “We are God’s partners in matters of life and death.”

In response to this statement I would like to make a subtle theological point:  No, we’re not.  …

August 22, 2009

Conspiracy Theories.

Filed under: - 22 Aug 2009

You know the silliest things about modern conspiracy theorists?  Its that a conspiracy is by definition secretive, these thugs are ripping you off right out in the open.

For instance, that wacky Death Panel monger chillbilly is at it again,

Today’s …

August 19, 2009

The Banality of Evil

Filed under: - 19 Aug 2009

Matt Holzmann recalls how bureaucracies can do more harm than ravaging armies.
I had a relative in England who died less than three months ago. I will relate her story. She was never in the best of health, but contracted …

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