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A recent WSJ article about Tom Petty and how he is perceived relative to his rocking “peers” caused me to instantly grimace thinking about the time a couple of years ago when I saw The Strokes open for Tom Petty in Chicago at Northerly Island and The Strokes just blew Petty off ...
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One of the biggest follies in the health care legislation is assuming that America is a “captive system” or a “closed system”. In these sorts of models (probably Hawaii is a good example) you can implement change and individuals don’t have a lot of choices and ...
World
Ever see the 1958 movie The Blob ? Commenter George V, at this Neptunus Lex post , watched it during Halloween, and wrote a pretty funny comment .
In the movie, quick-thinking citizens use CO2 fire extinguishers to freeze the outer-space blob which is threatening humanity, after which the ...
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EPA
Some criminals in Australia are using toy guns to rob people.
Well, why not? Gun control laws in Australia are, to my American eyes, rather severe and draconian . Only about one-in-twenty people own guns for hunting or sport shooting. No one is allowed to carry concealed for self defense.
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Australia
I have written many times about how amazing I think it is that wildlife can thrive in urban settings. In my industrial park I have seen all types of crazy things that seem certainly out of place. This time of year the geese show up, migrating from the north. We are near several bodies of water ...
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Hearts and minds? Overrated. If you want to run a successful counterinsurgency, it all starts with the person at the top.
On Thursday, December 3rd, Mark Moyar will appear at the Pritzker Military Library to discuss his new book, A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to ...
World
Iraq
Over at Hit&Run, there is a thread about how simplistic and empty Sarah Palin is compared to Obama or previous conservatives. Leaving out the fact that both Reagan and Goldwater suffered the same contempt in their time that Palin does now, it does raise the issue of whether it is important ...
White House
chicagoboyz.net - 32 hours ago
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In his post “Why Has Holder Decided to
Try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a Civilian Court?” [h/t
Instapundit ] Eric Poser says: Then what is the answer? It is surely this: the Obama administration has decided to offer a two-tiered system ...
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Since When Do Prosecutors Decide the Type of Trial?
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Stones Cry Out
found this 32 hours agofound this
On the subject of the civil trial of KSM , Trochilus raises a point I hadn’t considered:
Given the nature and depth of Islamo-facist enmity toward all Western institutions, including all faiths other than their own, toward all our democratic institutions, including our judicial system, ...
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In George MacDonald Fraser’s picaresque novel Flashman (which is set in 1839-1842), the hero (actually more of an antihero) marries the daughter of a very wealthy Scottish mill owner. This creates problems with Lord Cardigan, the commander of the fashionable regiment in which Flashman is ...
White House
Sarah Palin
I enjoy perusing bookstores and recently saw this book that caught my eye – The “SAS Urban Survival Handbook”. Readers of the blog know that the SAS are the British equivalent of the US special forces military units.
Since the book’s theme is intentionally ...
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International Monetary Fund
Tax rates vary significantly by state. The states with the lowest income tax rates, and most importantly the lowest “marginal” rates (the tax rate on your last dollar of income) tend to attract the wealthy and entrepreneurs and have higher rates of growth. Florida, Texas and Nevada ...
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(…and so far, the blob seems to be winning)
Here’s a New York Daily News article on mathematical ignorance among City University of New York students:
During their first math class at one of CUNY’s four-year colleges, 90% of 200 students tested couldn’t solve a ...
World
It has been written here many, many times that is getting more and more difficult to build base generation power plants in the USA. I can’t imagine what it would take to actually start up a nuclear power plant right now. Besides the billions and billions of dollars your company will ...
Congress
Gene Green
Long time readers know that I am an accredited self defense and home security expert with close to two decades of experience. Ever since my state legalized concealed carry, I am routinely armed not only with a concealed firearm, but also a variety of less-lethal self defense devices.
Lethal ...
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chicagoboyz.net - 5 days ago
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To say that in a planned society the
Rule of Law cannot hold is, therefore, not to
say that the actions of the government will not be legal or that such a society will necessarily be lawless. It means only that the use of the government’s coercive ...
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A Planned Society and the Rule of Law
chicagoboyz.net - 5 days ago
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In my previous post , I listed some
(but far from all) of the practical problems present
by trying in a civil criminal court an individual (1) captured overseas (2) evidence against collected using covert means (3) with no chain of evidence or ...
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How Obama is Bringing Martial Law to America
chicagoboyz.net - 5 days ago
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“Men, we’ve got to give this man a
fair trial before we hang him.” — attributed to
Judge Roy Bean. Finding an impartial jury for the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) is the least of our worries in President Obama’s ...
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The Worst Kind of Trial
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessman had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary’s men, but a little uncertain also about your own . . . You would be especially likely to be beaten if you depneded ...
