We always hear that the religious Right is a great demon bent on lying and destroying our world, but what about the equally fanatic religious Left, that shapeless army of Buddhists, Christians, and observant Atheists who make up their own reality from moment to moment? One of their house organs is Sojourners Magazine, the source [...]
What’s the more significant recent election, France’s rejection of the European constitution, or Beirut’s election of Saad Hariri and his slate to lead the new democratic government?
France gets more play, but I’d go with Lebanon, one of the immediate consequences of the Bush policies in the Middle East. Besides, countries like Lebanon are [...]
Mark Felt, age 91, says he was Deep Throat:
SANTA ROSA, Calif. – A former FBI official claims he was “Deep Throat,” the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon’s Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday.
I’ve got no reason to doubt him, but I’d like to hear it from Woodward.
Here’s the [...]
After this blow he might just hang up his spurs, poor devil.
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the Vdare Blog offers a simple and cogent explanation for recent Republican victories:
The key reason why some states vote Republican, I’ve found, can be summed up in the three-word phrase:
Affordable Family Formation.
In parts of the country where it is economical to buy a house with a yard in a neighborhood with a decent public school, [...]
Software-based TiVo replacements are coming out of the woodwork. Freevo is open-source, and there’s SageTV, MythTV, SnapStream, and Media Center. TiVo is screwed.
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There’s been a lot of whining about the filibuster deal on conservative web sites and blogs. Folks, you need to get over it. Politics is all about compromise and that’s exactly what this is. You get Owens, Pryor, and Brown, and the other side gets to spike a couple of people nobody’s heard of. The [...]
Comments from Democrats on the Keith Thompson essay lead me to believe that they see themselves as more virtuous than Republicans. Isn’t it odd that the political process, which is first and foremost a discussion of policy alternatives to meet common ends, would degenerate into an opportunity for assertions of personal moral virtue?
I [...]
Venture capital is so marvelous it can turn crap into gold:
A new Tukwila company has scored $8 million in financing to turn cow manure and trash into usable energy.
Prometheus Energy Co., which has kept a low profile for the past two years, is developing a new technology that transforms the methane gas produced at landfills, [...]
Damage control notwithstanding, the Pepsi chick’s speech did sound vaguely insulting:
What is most crucial to my analogy of the five fingers as the five major continents, is that each of us in the U.S. – the long middle finger – must be careful that when we extend our arm in either a business or [...]
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