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 [...]
About 300 times a day, some spammer tries to post an ad in my comments, but my software (Fahim Farook’s Blacklist for WordPress) blocks him. Some of these ads relate to credit reports, so in the interest of public awareness I bring you this little tip:
Starting Wednesday, residents of California and 12 other Western states [...]
Why did George Bush win the presidential election? Some folks say he out-organized Sen. Kerry, others say he had a better message, and I’ve personally figured it was just a matter of getting more votes. But we’re all wrong, as this friend of Matt Gross explains: Bush beat Kerry because he’s an abuser, not because [...]
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, [...]
Of the Big Three left-wing blogs, I’ve always thought Kevin Drum’s Political Animal was the most insidious. He’s not as hysterically partisan as Atrios and Kos, but the message he hides behind the veneer of reasonableness is just as destructive. The latest bit of evidence is his alarmed reaction to news that Santa Clara University [...]
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 [...]
Ron Haskins, the architect of the 1995 welfare reform, is having a lively discussion of welfare policy on Slate with Jonah?Edelman and Mickey?Kaus. Here’s one of Haskins’ comments:
Nor have I even mentioned fathers. Two parents not only earn more money than one, but they can talk to children twice as much as a single [...]
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