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They do when it’s Michael Crichton taking a novel approach to Global Warming Alarmism in State of Fear.

I’m not much on new years predictions but IowaHawk’s 2005 year in review is hilarious. I’m personally looking foward to PowerLine’s takeover of the Minneapolis Star Tribune , the Marines putting down the Reuter’s staff uprising in Fallujah, DNC chairman Howard Dean changing the party name to “Progressive Berserkers”, the US withdrawl […]

LGF has some instructive graphs on just how much the United States doles out in development aid.

And so the hardline reversion of Russia continues on it’s path.

If Microsoft wouldn’t be so heavy handed in their approach maybe so many of their initiatives wouldn’t go up in smoke. I can’t say that I’m surprised Passport is dead…

Voted most corrupt, most evil and now most admired. And they say the Red States are ’stupid’?

This isn’t the first reports I’ve heard of laser being aimed at commercial aircraft cockpits but it’s among the more disturbing. Some of the early reports I caught onto over a year ago were take off or landings, close to the ground anyway. But at least one of the reported incidents in the linked […]

Radley Balko of Fox News strikes a cord with the good news of 2004.
it’s easy to get so caught up with what’s going on in Fallujah, the calamitous tsunamis that hit South Asia, or the threat of terrorism, that we overlook the overwhelmingly positive but subtler, more gradual trends lurking beneath the headlines
Absolutely. And with […]

Bush is ‘Undermining UN with Aid Coalition’??? The feeling that the U.N. isn’t up to the challenge is historically accurate.. Yet these #$&*#@$ say that we (the U.S.) don’t have a good record ‘coordinating with anyone’.
And I suppose that too many groups coming to the aid of the 11 Asian nations effected by the […]

First we’re stingy and should raise taxes to help Asia. Then we’re not . Now today the New York Times says we’re stingy again (reg required).
I wonder if these idiots realize that almost 5 million has been given voluntarily.
To some people it doesn’t matter what America does, no amount of good will, money or […]

Could it be? Could freedom and the Orange revolution have actually won in the Ukraine? I know Putin has to be slightly miffed by his own roll in the failure of his take over bid.

It now looks like the Thai meteorolgists gambled and lost. A gamble that cost 114,000 lives. Unfortunately I doubt this is the final number.

The headline might ought to read Pentagon official falls on sword over Russia-Iraq connection disclosure. I’ll be interested to see where Mr. Shaw lands because it will be on his feet.

It is to laugh. Even other gun control groups are critical.
“I don’t think that any gun owners are likely to be persuaded by a press release that effectively calls them stupid,”
Do ya think?

Now most of us have known this for a long long time bu the anti-gun crowd must be crying in their non-dairy, non-fat, decafinated latte’s over the the reports from the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council.
Also of note and again something we already knew, criminals largely don’t buy from retail […]

It is really no surprise that someone who hates America that much should join Saddam’s defense team.
“The special court in Iraq was created by the Iraqi governing council, which is nothing more than a creation of the US military occupation and has no authority in law as a criminal court,”
When they put the bullet […]

While reading a CDC blurb on New Year’s Eve Injuries Caused by Celebratory Gunfire I came across a rather interesting note:
In 2001, a total of 738 deaths were attributed to firearm injuries, a rate of 19.2 per 100,000 population, which is substantially higher than the U.S. national rate (10.4) and higher than the rates for […]

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I have mixed thoughts on possibly dividing Iraq into 3 countries. Historically Iraq’s boundries today are what the British thought most expedient. There are 3 distinct groups in Iraq; Sunni, Kurd and the Shi’ite, who have only thus far gotten along because of the iron fist of Saddam Hussein.
The fact is that of the […]

Looking at the exit polls thus far and all I can say is that I hope they weren’t done by Zogby. The biggest problem I’ve had watching the Ukraine election is that everyone involved seems to be named Yush-something. Thankfully the media has done a fairly decent job of indicated which Yush- is which.

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Some parts of Indiana really got it, almost 2 foot of snow in the South Eastern 1/2 of the state. When I rolled out yesterday I was quite disappointed for not a flake had landed in my woods. It wasn’t until after 9PM last evening that it really started and by midnight there was […]

…Pop. No wait… a Soda!….Hold it, make that a Coke.

And people wonder why I like Indiana.