I heard a very interesting interview on NPR yesterday with Bruce Bartlett. Bartlett is an economist who worked in the Reagan and Bush (the Elder) administrations, was plugging his book, Impostor. The imposter referred to is George W. Bush; and… Continue Reading
Yesterday, Sunni terrorists blew up one of the holiest sites for Shi’ite Muslims in Samarra, Iraq. To the right is a picture of the Golden Mosque before the destruction. The Golden Mosque housed the tombs of two of the founders… Continue Reading
I take shots at Pat Robertson. I do it because Pat Robertson has an appreciable following, which makes him dangerous. But there’s little need to take cheap shots at Fred Phelps; he’s so obviously a lunatic and has so few… Continue Reading
The Tennessee arm of the AMA says yes. The Nashville Tennessean says no. The data in favor of that argument is pretty compelling. In 2004, there were a total of six medical malpractice judgments, totaling $1.9 million. In that time,… Continue Reading
I confess, taking the survey, I didn’t think it would work out to be very accurate, that it didn’t ask enough questions. But the results are pretty much what I thought they would be, and the way I would describe… Continue Reading
Poor Dick Cheney. You know, I’ve actually heard left-wing conspiracy theories that the whole shooting thing was a set up. A set up? Puh-leeze. Harry Whittington was a personal friend of Cheney’s, a loyal member of the Texas Republican apparatus,… Continue Reading
In a recent contributing op-ed to the Los Angeles Fish Wrapper, a Muslim professor at Cal State Los Angeles publicly wrings his hands at the rioting and violence appearing in the wake of a few innocuous and generally unremarkable cartoons.… Continue Reading
It seems that the Power Ball lotto has reached a new record, $365,000,000. That’s a million bucks for each day of the year. The odds of winning are one in 146,107,962. Someone with sufficient capital at this point could, in… Continue Reading
A few days ago, the laptop seemed to go out of commission. A stop at Best Buy to visit the Geek Squad revealed that the problem was the power cable or the power converter. A call to Gateway produced a… Continue Reading
It seems that for many years, a very popular television show in Turkey, whose title translates to Valley of the Wolves. The show chronicled the adventures of a team of Turkish commandoes. It was cancelled but has returned in movie… Continue Reading