Unless you live under a stone, you know the Supreme Court heard arguments today on California’s compassionate use marijuana law (which you can read about on Drug War Rant and Volokh and Sollum’s blogs). You may not know that the states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi filed an amicus brief in support of the potheads, [...]
From the left, we have some total bullshit about depleted uranium:
The US has been using depleted uranium (DU) in Iraq. The results, for people in Iraq and American soldiers, are truly terrifying. We’re dispersing this stuff into Iraq’s air, earth, water. It has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.
So it’s not the nicest stuff in [...]
Speaking of meltdowns, Arctic ice has been melting like crazy for the past 250 years or so, since the end of the Little Ice Age that peaked in 1650. National Geographic has the scoop on how far this recession has come:
To put this in perspective, when European explorers first sailed along the Alaska coastline in [...]
RatherBiased.com has some good news:
CBS News just announced that Dan Rather will be stepping down from “CBS Evening News” anchordesk on March 9, 2005.
Not a moment too soon.
UPDATE: Who’s your pick to replace Dan? I think CBS should go with either John Stewart (to maintain Dan’s bias) or Howard Stern. Howie would bring the dwarves, [...]
It’s good to get an Iraqi view on some of the mythology that people like Juan Cole are pumping into the culture about Fallujah. It turns out that Cole’s view of Fallujah’s history is the Saddam view, not the academic view. See IRAQ THE MODEL for the real story:
So you can see how conflicting all [...]
My old California buddy Stefan Sharkansky has been doing a great job bird-dogging a Washington State governor’s race that’s seen some pretty dubious developments coming out of Democratic Party stronghold King County, home of Seattle. First they find an unexpected cache of 10,000 ballots show up out of the blue in the last few [...]
Here’s a unique insight into the inner life of progressive Portland from the local freebie:
If there had been a cultural dictionary of Portland during the 1980s, the definition of “Progressives” would have been Steve and Marcia Moskowitz.
He was a brainy Reedie lawyer who left the city attorney’s office to become a top aide to mayor [...]
Sure enough. See Real Clear Politics on the election:
This was the equivalent of The Alamo for the mainstream media. CBS News and the New York Times, and to a lesser extent their colleagues at the other major networks and newspapers, exhausted themselves in a near-pathological desire to remove George W. Bush from office. They know [...]
Aren’t liberal Democrats smarter, cooler, and better-educated than backward Republicans? Probably not, according to the research of law professor Ilya Somin:
Political Knowledge by Strength of Party Identification
2000 National Election Study
Self-Described Party Alignment / Average Political Knowledge Score
(Average number of correct answers on 31 point scale)
“Strong Republican” / 18.7
“Independent-Republican” / 15.7
“Strong Democrat” / 15.4
“Independent-Democrat” / 14.2
“Weak [...]
Read The Sore-Loser Party and Bush’s Secularist Triumph.
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