Trying to keep the lies straight
It ain’t easy. Although there’s hardly any need to do it when you’ve got the MSM is on your side.
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Windpower woes
[Hat tip: Instapundit] Wind power sounds like a wonderful thing, a renewable resource that’s clean and available and could help wean us off our dependence on fossil fuels from sketchy foreign countries. All that’s needed is the will to do … Continue reading →
Hollande’s French honeymoon…
…is already over.
Continue reading →It’s an awfully good thing the president’s a Democrat…
…otherwise the news would be bad.
Continue reading →HDR photography and seeing
Commenter “Harold” alerted me to a type of photography I’d never even heard of before, although I’d probably seen it and not known what I was looking at—HDR photography: High dynamic range imaging (HDRI or HDR) is a set of … Continue reading →
That 2000 Florida vote
I’d heard a lot about the Florida vote in the 2000 presidential election. Hanging chads, Pat Buchanan, virtual tie, recounts, Supreme Court, lingering rage. But I’d never encountered this factoid before: How campaigns try to sway polling results: “In a … Continue reading →
What the 2012 Republican candidate for president is up against
I’ve got a new article up at PJ, entitled “Romney’s daunting challenges.” My original title for the piece was the title I gave to this post, because I didn’t want it to be about Romney, but about what any Republican … Continue reading →
Romney. Taxes.
I’m in a hurry right now and don’t have time to write a post on this, although I plan to later. But I thought you might like a nice fresh new thread to discuss Romney’s tax info release and the … Continue reading →
Neo-neocon today
The euphemistically-named Arab Spring and its aftermath have made me think it might be time to offer a post re-explaining my brand of neocon thinking. After all, haven’t recent events proven neoconism to be bankrupt? But before I reinvented the … Continue reading →
Anti-colonialist Obama
David Goldman takes a long, hard, and well-worth-reading look at anti-colonialist Obama: What’s the difference between growing up in the Third World, and taking an Ivy League course in neocolonial studies? It’s about the same as the difference between sex … Continue reading →
Obama says…
…my biggest failure is the Republicans’ fault. And it may also be that I work too hard. Although actually, that’s my biggest weakness. Or maybe it’s that I care too much. So, do I get the job?
Continue reading →Editing Stephen Glass
I was searching for something or other, and I happened across an article on a different subject that caught my eye—this 1996 article by Jonathan Chait (he of BDS pride) about his fallen buddy Stephen Glass, the serial liar whose … Continue reading →