Each time I’ve tried switching this site to a different theme, it’s gone haywire and started returning 404s for existing pages. If you run into that problem going forward, please go to the main site page directly (andstillipersist.com) and just leave a comment on whatever the most recent post is. Thanks! ..bruce w..
Via Instapundit comes this rather damning image contrasting the “Obama Flag” (available for sale!) with the chilling image from Libya. Meanwhile, here’s the rest your morning roundup: Tomorrow (9/21) is Clint Eastwood Appreciation Day. Go see “Trouble with the Curve” and drive the Left nuts. Megan McArdle talks about the merit pay issue for teachers. […]
Thought it was time to freshen things up a bit. The theme itself is pretty plain vanilla, but the photos that show up in the header are now all photographs that I took, and almost all of them were taken around our house here in Parker, Colorado. I may keep tweaking the configuration, or I […]
From conservative-mole-within-State, Diplomad: In the late-1990s, I was working in State’s Political-Military Bureau in Washington. One of our duties was to work with the Pentagon planning and executing “noncombatant evacuation operations” (NEOs) in countries where the security situation had gone belly up. We had the job of getting our people out of harm’s way. This […]
Via Slashdot come a link to this MIT video (sorry, can’t find a way to embed it) about the work that Rodney Baxter (founder of iRobot) is doing to develop a new kind of industrial robot: cheap (~$22K), safe, and programmable by factory workers. What rings true in Brooks’ commentary is that people will find […]
[UPDATE at end of post] Russian President-for-Life Vladimir Putin can show off his pecs and fly with the geese, but Russia is largely a world-power has-been at this point, even with its nuclear arsenal. China, though — China, with fewer nukes, is more dangerous, all the more so because of its internal problems (weak economics […]
But of course they’re not. This is an American citizen being brought in for questioning…for making a movie trailer that offended some Muslims. Go read Glenn Reynold’s roundup. ..bruce w..
Hat tip to Andrew Malcolm over at Investor’s Business Daily (formerly at the LA Times). His political blog should be on your must-read-daily list. ..bruce..
With everything else going on — the election, the Chicago teachers’ strike, the upheaval and assaults in the Middle East — it’s worth keeping in mind the single biggest financial timebomb here in the US: underfunded pension obligations. This is, in my opinion, a more serious crisis than the massive unfunded Federal entitlement obligations for […]
