Is Fred a Reagan Conservative?

Apparently.

Next question?

Blogburst Results

The Fred Thompson Blogburst raised enough money to run this ad in Iowa.

Let’s hope it works.

An Invitation for Osama

Osama, dude. In case you’re reading my blog: You are cordially invited to Basra.

47 Senators Stricken in Outbreak of Common Sense

How on earth did this happen?

Thank You, America

So says LTC Jim Crider.

Blogbursting for Fred

 It’s hard to get excited about many candidates. Fred is at least saying the right things. I just wish his campaign were better run.
Buttle’s World will at least link to the Fred Thompson Blogburst.

China Hands NSA Its Lunch

I’m not in the spy business, but even I can see this was sloppy.

Vindicated

Long have I grumbled at inattentive drivers who slow too much and too late on the highway, opining that they are the real cause of traffic jams.

Mathematicians at the University of Exeter have now math-modeled it.

My dad used to say that the police should equip one officer at every accident and police action with a ticket gun to slap a hefty fine on anybody who slowed down to look. He was right, too.

Science is Science

Consensus is politics.

Many of the scientists featured in this report consistently stated that numerous colleagues shared their views, but they will not speak out publicly for fear of retribution. Atmospheric scientist Dr. Nathan Paldor, Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of almost 70 peer-reviewed studies, explains how many of his fellow scientists have been intimidated.

Skepticism is a virtue. Be virtuous.

Vin has it right

I really wish some of the victims in the Nebraska mall shooting would sue the pants off of the mall for failing to provide protection in exchange for turning their mall into a free-fire zone.

I don’t get it

Why is Hillary running a negative ad against herself?

Fred. Any questions?

Thompson gets the Norris treatment in the best campaign ad of the year.

Zero Intelligence Watch

Two teachers and a principal should be fired, sued, and then fired again for what they did to this little girl.

School officials say the 5th grader was brown-bagging it. She brought a piece of steak for her lunch, but she also brought a steak knife. That’s when deputies were called.

Sun-tzu, Mario Puzo. Whatever

Mike Huckabee doesn’t care.

Multiculturalism = Death

Mark Steyn agrees with me, only he puts it differently. I could paraphrase his position as: Diversity kills.

Prognostication

Now that the Supremes are going to hear a Second Amendment case (for only the second time in U.S. history) you should expect to hear a lot about gun violence.

The MSM is going to scrape up every scare story it can find. I sincerely doubt that the actual incidence of violence will go up. They’re just going to report anything they can find that makes guns look bad.

And they’re not going to report on how the recent random attacks were in “gun free zones”. Well, this last moron thought it was a gun-free zone, but thankfully one woman was packing. In any case, just expect an uptick in reported gun violence.

The Courage to Do Nothing

It’s usually best. 

Orwell never saw the Internet

But, if he had, he could have predicted this.

Giant Spider Attacks Space Shuttle

Uh-oh.

Family Values

Definitely.

Her condition is so grave that police have not yet charged the man arrested at the scene until they know whether he will be charged with murder or attempted murder. He was scheduled to appear in Brampton court on Tuesday.    

Love the way they call him “the man arrested”.  

Update:

She died. Pardon my French, but this f*cktard killed his own daughter for not wearing her symbol of relgious misogyny. Now talk to me about the Religion of Peace.  

But that doesn’t count

Because, like, you know, they did that so long ago. It’s different now. Because there’s a presidential election coming up, and the Dimocrats all want to keep running against the lame duck.

Family Values

Yes.

“I saw my uncle and around 40 men storming up the street clutching axes, hammers, knives and bits of wood,” she said.

“My dad was shouting through the letter box, “I’m going to kill you”, while the others smashed on the window and beat the door.

“They were shouting, ‘We’re going to kill you’ and ‘Traitor’. 

Exposing the Flying Imams

What a huge surprise.

I have known three of the plaintiffs in the U.S. Airways suit for almost a decade. Soon after settling in Arizona in 1999, I became involved in the local Muslim community. Before moving to Scottsdale, I usually attended Friday congregational prayer services at the Islamic Community Center of Tempe, Arizona. Often, Ahmed Shqeirat, now the primary plaintiff, delivered sermons at the mosque where he has long been imam. I was struck by the political nature of his sermons. He repeatedly criticized both U.S. domestic and foreign policy and often exaggerated Muslim victimization. He advocated political unification of Muslims internationally and blamed the United States, Israel, and the West for perceived slights. He called for the political empowerment of Muslims in American society.

After hearing several sermons, I spoke and wrote to him to express my dismay at his emphasis of political over spiritual topics. He responded that “secularism is Godlessness” and asserted a right to “speak about political injustice.” The concept of purely spiritual Islam and creation of an intellectual environment welcoming to all Muslims regardless of political persuasion was anathema to him. 

Why John Bolton is no longer UN Ambassador

He’s way too smart and honest.Everything you need to know about the much-ballyhooed NIE is here.  

Is the sky falling yet?

I’ll bet you thought the Chicken Littles couldn’t get any sillier. How wrong you were. 

Darwin’s Surprise

An absolutely fascinating article at the New Yorker on viruses, retroviruses, and the fossils we carry in our DNA.Not to mention the fact that (assuming you consider viruses life) we can now resurrect extinct life in the lab.

Then, last year, Thierry Heidmann brought one back to life. Combining the tools of genomics, virology, and evolutionary biology, he and his colleagues took a virus that had been extinct for hundreds of thousands of years, figured out how the broken parts were originally aligned, and then pieced them together. After resurrecting the virus, the team placed it in human cells and found that their creation did indeed insert itself into the DNA of those cells. They also mixed the virus with cells taken from hamsters and cats. It quickly infected them all, offering the first evidence that the broken parts could once again be made infectious. The experiment could provide vital clues about how viruses like H.I.V. work. Inevitably, though, it also conjures images of Frankenstein’s monster and Jurassic Park.  

“If you think about this for five minutes, it is wild stuff,” John Coffin told me when I visited him in his laboratory at Tufts University, where he is the American Cancer Society Research Professor. Coffin is one of the country’s most distinguished molecular biologists, and was one of the first to explore the role of endogenous retroviruses in human evolution. “I understand that the idea of bringing something dead back to life is fundamentally frightening,” he went on. “It’s a power that science has come to possess and it makes us queasy, and it should. But there are many viruses that are more dangerous than these—more infectious, far riskier to work with, and less potentially useful.’’ 

Wild and marvelous. It’s a long article (being the New Yorker and all) but worth reading. 

Eyes on Hugo

The news from Venezuela could be very big.

Do you find this offensive?

Good thing you don’t live in Sudan.

Just look at what 0.006 C per year can do

I guess it’s official. We’re doomed.

There is hope

for France.