A Little Perspective

Mark Steyn hit it this morning when he remarked upon the list of 500,000 on the watch list, and that it is not easy to check that list instantly.
Steyn remarked that if you buy a book on Amazon.com, and access that site 8 years later, the site will instantly remind you of that previous book [...]

Pure, Blind, Dumb luck

I saw our Homeland Director on two TV news/opinion shows this a.m. She appeared either clueless, or restrained — either way it was not reassuring.
The Obama administration appears to treat this ‘attack” as a criminal matter at home, while it engages in war abroad — not just Afghanistan and Iraq, but in Yemen. Yemen appears [...]

We Are Relearning How To Fight

It is amazing to me to compare and contrast the Revolutionary War (since I wrote about the Delaware Crossing) with the fights we now endure.
In the Revolutionary War, the two British commanders were brothers – the Howe brothers. One commanded the fleet, the other the British Army – both had tried to talk King George [...]

Hugo Learns Fast…

From the Wall Street Journal: “Venezuela Warns on Toyota Plant
“Venezuela’s president has threatened to expropriate Toyota’s local assembly plant if it doesn’t produce more vehicles designed for rural areas and increase technology transfer.”
President Obama needs to send an envoy to teach Hugo how to do these things with greater subtlety!

So What Do We Do About Global Whatever?

There is a vast difference between scientific consensus and political consensus.
We are much like a patient who has been diagnosed with a serious illness by a doctor.
What is our confidence in the doctor? What is our confidence in the test results? If the prognosis is dire, do we even want to afford the proposed solution [...]

An Interesting Note

In other matters that may have escaped your eyes last week, filled as they were with the healthcare bill, Copenhagen, and Tiger Woods – the Senate defeated a bill by North Dakota Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan that would have permitted the importation of drugs from foreign nations – 51-48. (The bill passed, but lacked the [...]

The Copenhagen Snowstorm

I would hope that even liberals would oppose what is apparently going on in Copenhagen.
(I say “apparently” because it is like the Senate Healthcare Bill – no one knows what is being discussed!)
I assume that the United States will “promise” about $30 billion a year to match the European nations, and of course the “developing [...]

Chapter Four of CRU E-Mail Kerfuffle

In this chapter, I investigate the culture in which scientists fudge data, threaten others who hold competing theories with bodily harm or blackballing from publishing.
It should be noted that scientists are human, with the same human foibles as most of the rest of us, but they deal in a subject so distant from most that [...]

Chapter Three of CRU E-mails

Chapter three:
It was not just other CRU scientists who were concerned about the quality of the data, as revealed by the e-mails published from CRU, East Anglia.
(As an aside it might be noted that there are charges that the e-mails were “private” and “stolen” – and that may or may not be partly true – [...]

Columbia — Iraq — Afghanistan?

The continuing question about the Afghanistan policy is interesting. (See the Steve Chapman Op-Ed on the Editorial page.)
It is certainly chancy but it is based on the successful Clinton administration policy in Columbia, which then worked in Iraq. Columbia, the size of Spain, France and Portugal together, was half under the control of a Communist [...]