John Moore | January 23, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports that the House is planning witch hunts against the former Bush Administration:
Mr. Conyers’s own notion of civility has included holding no less than 70 hearings into Bush programs. Last year, he and 55 House Democrats demanded the Justice Department appoint a special prosecutor to conduct a criminal investigation into Bush [...]
John Moore | January 22, 2009
(from Drudge)A latest pew poll puts climate change dead last at 20 out of 20 in a list of important issues.
I wonder when our elite will catch on to what the rest of us already know:
“It ain’t that important!”
John Moore | January 22, 2009
We are at war, and the defenders of our liberty are getting the short end of the stick.
For the first time since the tradition began, the newly inaugurated President failed to attend the ball honoring the Medal of Honor winners. These are Americas heroes, and every President since Truman has seen fit to attend that [...]
John Moore | January 18, 2009
This should cause cognitive dissonance in the aging hippie leftie baby boomers who hate Bush. The Dalai Lama’s comments on terrorism are also interesting.
From The London Telegraph [emphasis added]:
NEW DELHI: The Dalai Lama, a lifelong champion of non-violence on Saturday candidly stated that terrorism cannot be tackled by applying the principle of ahimsa because the [...]
John Moore | January 18, 2009
Here’s how well the total gun ban worked in D.C. Note that the red dots are firearm homicides.
On the other hand, when a disabled marine on the way to Walter Reed went to change his tire, this happened.
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Thanks to First Strike for the map.
John Moore | January 16, 2009
The media and blogs are reporting that yesterday’s US Air ditching of an airliner in the Hudson River was the first successful ditching of an airliner.
This simply is not true.
In 1968, a JAL DC-9 with over 100 passengers ditched in San Francisco Bay. In that case, there were zero injuries (unlike yesterday’s).
None of this is [...]
John Moore | January 13, 2009
Note: This started as a twitter discussion with fellow Arizona blogger “Vox.”
Click here for more on AZ photo radar.
Photo-radar can easily be thought of as an efficient way to enforce speed limits (and other safety rules).
Unfortunately, it isn’t used this way.
The ticket charges for photo radar are more than for an officer issued ticket! This [...]
admin | January 10, 2009
All right! Enough! Everything man does is bad for the environment. We have to be reminded of it all the time!
ARGH!!
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches
admin | January 8, 2009
Or at least, that’s what Obama seems to think.
The goal is to increase the money being spent in the economy by government stimulus – which may even be a good idea.
One could do this, of course, by lowering the money the government takes from its citizens, letting them decide how best to spend it. It [...]
John Moore | January 3, 2009
From The New Atlantis (emphasis mine):
In Massachusetts v. EPA (2007), the Supreme Court held that marginal contributions to climate change, even if virtually imperceptible, were sufficient to establish legally cognizable injuries for the purposes of citizen suit standing. Under this reasoning, even marginal contributions to global climate change, such as those from a major transportation [...]