Nearly two years ago, I wrote a post about the future of broadcast video, comparing Al Gore’s venture, Current TV, with YouTube and similar venues. The post ended thus: On our DirecTV satellite system, we have hundreds of channels, though fewer than we used to; we dropped all the movie channels when we discovered that […]
[UPDATED 03/27/08 — some additions and a few corrections] Of course, I’m talking specifically about “anthropogenic [human-caused] global warming” (AGW), the cause célèbre of the Environmental Left. Here’s the short answer: because I have a degree in computer science, I’ve done professional work in simulations and modeling, and I’ve had classes in numerical analysis (not […]
[UPDATED 03/22/08: Oh, by the way, according to the LA Times the city of Denver is ‘short on funds’ for the DNC convention.] The “Re-create 68 Alliance” didn’t get the protest permits they wanted for the Democratic National Convention scheduled for this August here in Denver — and they’re already making threats: Denver could […]
Maybe people will hold up cigarette lighters during moving parts of oral argument. — comment posted at the Volokh Conspiracy Legal geeks everywhere are salivating over the fact that the US Supreme Court is doing what is in effect a major review of the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution (“A well regulated Militia, being […]
[UPDATED 03/14/08: In fairness to Gov. Spitzer, I’ll note that this article in the New York Times today says that Spitzer has claimed to his aides this week that he used prostitutes “only in the past eight months”, which directly contradicts the press reports citing sources that claim that Spitzer had been using prostitutes either […]
Angelina Jolie, who has been doing humanitarian work in Iraq, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times that says: the surge is helping the UN’s humanitarian efforts and that she’d like the troops to stay: During my trip I also met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has announced the creation of […]
Here’s the news report: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early “We will be pretending to count votes and we will be running totals through out the night.” ..bruce w..
Since one of the two authors of this piece in the Christian Science Monitor is a partner at David Boies‘ law firm (as in David Boies, Gore’s lead counsel in Gore v. Bush), I assume this article is serious and not a parody: The 22nd Amendment is often described as prohibiting an already twice-elected president, […]
My sister send me an e-mail asking what I thought about the status of the US presidential elections right now. My reply was a bit lengthier than even I expected, but since my cohort Henderson has already posted his thoughts, here are mine. My original first choice was Giuliani, which I talked about at length […]
Getting perspective
Here and elsewhere, I have decried the deliberate or inadvertent lack of historical perspective on current problems, particularly with regard to things military, and especially among the mainstream media and the Left. I come from a family with a strong and long history of military service and am myself a student of military history. My […]
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