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January 2008

Schwartzenegger Endorses McCain

Arnold ran as a Republican. California has a Democratic Senate. He proposed a "universal" healthcare insurance package which was apparently...

The Unhinged Vote

Digging underneath the media accounts is always sooo interesting. Just moments ago, I commented on Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Obama...

Clinton Hatred Derangement Syndrome?

A Little History Not long after the term "BHDS" (Bush Hatred Derangement Syndrome) came into vogue on the right, the...

Prescott Bush and the Nazis

I've got a much longer piece on this sitting on the shelf, half-baked, but I wanted to make a note...

More Iraqi Numbers

A while ago, I estimated that the Iraq war has probably saved in excess of 400,000 lives. More recently, Confederate...

Chavez: Protecting Venezuelans from Food

Today: Venezuela's top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of food from its trucks...

Detecting "Design"

I'm not, at this point, a huge fan of certain parts of "intelligent design" -- the main proposition of which...

Where is Al Gore when you need him?

First we learn that underground magma is probably what's melting the Greenland glaciers, now we learn volcanoes may be melting...

Behaviorism

There are some things which are so stupid that only the well-educated and intelligent can believe them. Behaviorism: Methodological behaviorism......

The Mist

Sean Burns: Lacking any shred of common sense or internal logic, THE MIST instead goes for hamfisted social commentary, positioning...

The Fear of God: The Beginning of Stupidity

The bible says the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. In one sense, I agree: if you believe...

Fortune Cookies

... may not have originated in China! According to the oddly-named "Jennifer 8. Lee": They are served in Chinese restaurants...

Judicial Stupidity

What if I said that a given state judge wasn't aware there was a first amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech...

The "Supernote" Counterfeit Mystery

Read this. Someone is circulating counterfeit US $100 bills so good that they're almost completely indistinguishable from the real thing....

Ron Paul & the Psychology of a True Revolutionary

Mike links to a fascinating set of postings on a pro-Ron-Paul discussion forum; to make a long story short, a...

Hillary, Obama, Soros, The Times, and (oh, incidentally) MLK

As a conservative, it's somewhat amusing, and a pleasant change, to watch Hillary and Obama and their respective media apparatus...

Caring for the Poor and the Sick

Boston: Mayor Thomas M. Menino embarked on a highly public campaign yesterday to block CVS Corp. and other retailers from...

The Ron Paul Unraveling

"The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever...

Ron Paul: The Jig is Up, the News is Out

Since I sometimes have trouble cramming in a few minutes or hours for blogging, Random Observations is hardly your one-stop-shop...

Ron Paul's "NeoConfederates"?

[This was written last night and queued up for today before I discovered the TNR's expose of Ron Paul's old...

Atheism and the Supernatural

Why do some people believe in God and some don't? And, as a person who's encountered phenomena I can't explain...

Hillary: "This is very personal for me."

No doubt. Just what we need: a commander in chief who takes politics personally. I know nothing of the woman...

Fort Sumter and the Civil War

In a recent discussion prompted by Ron Paul's civil war revisionism, the topic of Fort Sumter arose. I admit to...

Oprah's Evolution

Recently, while stumping for Barak Obama, Oprah Winfrey complained: We need a President who cares about our relationships with our...

Ron Paul on the American Civil War

On Meet the Press, Ron Paul gave us another window into his view of US history: 600,000 Americans died in...

The Cost of War

A co-worker recently complained to me about the tremendous cost of the Iraq war. I pointed out that, as far...

Copyright

"If you make unauthorized copies of copyrighted music recordings, you're stealing." Agree? If so, I think you'll find you'll be...

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