We aim to please (most mostly we aim to hit) . . .
MID-MORNING UPDATE: The FBI raids the office of the DC Chief Technology Officer, who is (or was) Vivek Kundra, who is now the new CTO for the Obama Administration. However, it appears that the focus is not on Kundra, but on two other [...]
First off, don’t miss Henderson’s analysis of the pending missile shot by the North Koreans.
Opposition within Congress to the cram-it-through legislative approach of the Democratic leadership:
“The process by which these changes have been forced upon this body is so deeply offensive to me, and so deeply undemocratic, that it puts the omnibus appropriations package in [...]
Links worth reading:
Democrats try to rebrand earmarks as good government. Not a surprise, since they’re also trying to rebrand trillion-dollar deficits as good economics.
And speaking of good government, Rep. Charlie Rangel responds to direct questions about his tax issues.
Robert Samuelson weights in on Obama’s approach to the economic crisis:
Confidence (too little) and uncertainty (too much) [...]
I grew up in a family that always subscribed to Time magazine, and I started reading it at a fairly young age. But when I went off to college in 1971, I decided to conduct an experiment. At that time, the three major weekly news magazines — Time, Newsweek, and US News & World Report [...]
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A headline on the Fox News website reads like this:
Obama to End Military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy
I hope beyond hope that this is some nasty trial balloon to judge how huge the backlash against this is going to be. Let me short cut the process for you, you are about to gut [...]
As has been reported elsewhere in the press, reclusive actor Patrick McGoohan died earlier today.
The 17 episode series of “The Prisoner” was transformational in many ways for television. In an age of episodic television, where everything was resolved in 30 minutes and at the end nothing ever changes, McGoohan’s show was one enormous story [...]
I would like to say thank you to everyone who reads what Bruce Webster and I post here, and wish every one of you a Merry Christmas.
Even though times are a bit rough and likely headed rougher, it’s important to keep in mind that for christians like myself, we celebrate the birth of our lord, [...]
We have family and friends coming over for dinner (actually, two of our grandsons have been here since Sunday; we’ve been having a great time with the Wii, the ping pong table, and the air hockey table), a total of 10 people. Here’s what I’m fixing for dinner:
roast turkey (22.5 lbs)
corn bread stuffing (water chestnuts, [...]
I have recently been re-reading The Ancient State by Hugh Nibley and just this morning finished reading “The Hierocentric State” (originally published back in 1951 in Western Political Quarterly 4/2). The article itself suggests that key aspects of the vast nomadic cultures of Central Asia (e.g., the Mongols) were idealized and emulated by more sedentary [...]
Henderson Genealogy and Family History
Ruins of the Henderson farm at Rhian, Caithness
Folks who know me understand that I have been very proud of my Father’s Scottish heritage. For the past several years I have been working to discover and record as much of my family’s history and genealogy as I can.
This effort has taken me to Caithness [...]
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