Don’t Know Shiite From Shinola
"There is little reason for me to hope to impart something new about the predictable progression of Iraq from (sectarian) rogue state to failed state to Islamic state, in the wake of the American occupation. There is no reason to expect me to best a column dated December 2006, titled "At Least Saddam Kept Order" MORE.
‘Commies Cars,’ I.E. Electric Cars, Trash The Environment
“The benefits [of electric cars] to the consumer are few, much less to the environment, unless a steady discharge of lead, cadmium, and nickel—the byproducts of batteries—is a blessing in disguise.” So I wrote in “Commie Cars,” in 2002. Another pesky matter about the junk science undergirding electric cars, alluded to in the same piece, [...Read On]
UPDATED: Called On The Carpet By The Cops (Backs To De Blasio)
Once again, members of the grieving New York Police force, who turned out to mourn the two cops murdered, turned their collective backs on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. (See why.) Understandable. And commendable. De Blasio is a crappy human being. Libertarians fall into grave error when they condemn all policemen as an [...Read On]
The Fourth Estate (Media) Moving Country Into Third Dimension
Being part of major US media—the Fourth Estate—means moving into a Third Dimension of your own making and taking the country with you. What was it that the Bush neoconservative Karl Rove once asserted at the heights of that regime’s manipulation of reality? “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own [...Read On]
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