Arnold ran as a Republican. California has a Democratic Senate. He proposed a "universal" healthcare insurance package which was apparently...
Digging underneath the media accounts is always sooo interesting. Just moments ago, I commented on Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Obama...
A Little History Not long after the term "BHDS" (Bush Hatred Derangement Syndrome) came into vogue on the right, the...
I've got a much longer piece on this sitting on the shelf, half-baked, but I wanted to make a note...
A while ago, I estimated that the Iraq war has probably saved in excess of 400,000 lives. More recently, Confederate...
Today: Venezuela's top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of food from its trucks...
I'm not, at this point, a huge fan of certain parts of "intelligent design" -- the main proposition of which...
First we learn that underground magma is probably what's melting the Greenland glaciers, now we learn volcanoes may be melting...
There are some things which are so stupid that only the well-educated and intelligent can believe them. Behaviorism: Methodological behaviorism......
Sean Burns: Lacking any shred of common sense or internal logic, THE MIST instead goes for hamfisted social commentary, positioning...
The bible says the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. In one sense, I agree: if you believe...
... may not have originated in China! According to the oddly-named "Jennifer 8. Lee": They are served in Chinese restaurants...
What if I said that a given state judge wasn't aware there was a first amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech...
Read this. Someone is circulating counterfeit US $100 bills so good that they're almost completely indistinguishable from the real thing....
Mike links to a fascinating set of postings on a pro-Ron-Paul discussion forum; to make a long story short, a...
As a conservative, it's somewhat amusing, and a pleasant change, to watch Hillary and Obama and their respective media apparatus...
Boston: Mayor Thomas M. Menino embarked on a highly public campaign yesterday to block CVS Corp. and other retailers from...
"The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever...
Since I sometimes have trouble cramming in a few minutes or hours for blogging, Random Observations is hardly your one-stop-shop...
[This was written last night and queued up for today before I discovered the TNR's expose of Ron Paul's old...
Why do some people believe in God and some don't? And, as a person who's encountered phenomena I can't explain...
No doubt. Just what we need: a commander in chief who takes politics personally. I know nothing of the woman...
In a recent discussion prompted by Ron Paul's civil war revisionism, the topic of Fort Sumter arose. I admit to...
Recently, while stumping for Barak Obama, Oprah Winfrey complained: We need a President who cares about our relationships with our...
On Meet the Press, Ron Paul gave us another window into his view of US history: 600,000 Americans died in...
A co-worker recently complained to me about the tremendous cost of the Iraq war. I pointed out that, as far...
"If you make unauthorized copies of copyrighted music recordings, you're stealing." Agree? If so, I think you'll find you'll be...