Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Bruce McQuain, of the always thought-provoking and very economically libertarian QandO blog, has an interesting post that provides a good overview of just how many large natural gas resources there are in the U.S. and the world. http://www.qando.net/?p=10647 Add to that our vaste coal and oil resources… Folks,
Continue readingMy computer got attacked by malware this morning — andy iPhone is not conducive to blogging. I hope to have my computer back working tonight, but I’m not optimistic. Until I’m back in business, feel free to use this as an open thread. Also, check out the stellar submissions at
Continue readingDQ here. My wife works for the government. She received an e-mail today from the Dan Tangherlini, Assistant Secretary for Management, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Performance Officer, U.S. Department of the Treasury. The message related to the possible shut down of the government and it began with the following paragraph:
Continue readingI know that we have been round and round on climate issues in our always edifying Bookworm Room discussions, so here is an interesting lecture that I found at our friends at Flopping Aces. The lecturer, Prof. Courtillot, professor of geophysics at the University of Paris, does an excellent job
Continue readingHere’s J.E. Dyer about the administration’s threat to cut off pay to active duty military: The possibility that the military will be required to continue on duty without pay also highlights one of the important differences between the military and the rest of the federal government. The government can’t require
Continue readingFor a while there, my “retweet” button, located near the top of posts, vanished. My wonderful web master has now reinstated it. If you’re a Twitter user and if you like a particular post, please think about re-tweeting it. It’s a simple act (two clicks of the button), but it
Continue readingMy sister was cleaning out her closets and found and sent to me an old Life book, The World’s Great Religions (Special Edition for Young Readers), published in 1958. The section on “Customs and Sections in Islam” makes for some interesting reading: Today, most Moslems can afford only one wife
Continue readingI’m not saying Obama is drunk. I’m not saying he’s had a puff of pot or a smidgen of smack since his college days. I’m just saying that the following photo, from April 5, 2011 on Wikimedia Commons, might give us a good idea of what Obama looked like back
Continue readingI agree completely with Michael, who blogs at Political Commentator and is a Watcher’s Council member: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYSRsHElEok[/youtube] He’s a very solid speaker, sounding more controlled and stable than the gal interviewing him.
Continue readingIf you’re old enough to have lived through the 1970s, you recognize my post title: Gilda Radner’s famous character Roseanne Roseannadanna would let loose with a foolish tirade, and then wrap it up by saying “It’s always something — if it ain’t one thing, it’s another.” Someone needs to resurrect
Continue readingA matched set: The first about the beasts at the top of the Nazi hierarchy, the second about the beasts at the bottom.
Continue readingPaying work places its demands on me, but I thought you’d like to see and think about (and perhaps comment upon) an article that tries to imagine what it would be like if the newly discovered gospels reveal that Jesus was an openly gay man. I find it a bit
Continue readingIsrael as the next Saudia Arabia? According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, Israel’s unusually large and high-quality shale oil reserves may yield as much oil as all of Saudi Arabia’s proven oil reserves. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576242420737584278.html These discoveries are in addition to of Israel’s recently diclosed gas
Continue readingOne of my all-time favorite economic historians is Harvard’s Niall Ferguson, who does a very good job dissecting the transatlantic political and economic cultures with characteristic British clarity in erudition. He’s not perfect, however: witness his bad judgment in affixing his name to a worn-out political rag like Newsweek. But, I
Continue readingFor those of you who have wandered over from other sites that have promoted my book, welcome! If you troll around here, you’ll get a sense of my writing style and world view. If you’re interested in the book, there are a few ways to get it. First, there’s Amazon.
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