Global Cooling Prediction
Keith_Indy on Jan 04 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Hmmm, cooling to set in by 2012, which also coincides with the Mayan calendar cycle…
It’s the end of the world as we know it…
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Christmas Gifts For Congress
MichaelW on Dec 07 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Radley Balko has just the thing for your regulation-loving Congressman or woman.
Also, Katherine Mangu-Ward finds a great vintage gift that working stiff who’s just tired of it all:
Are you stuck in the “working man’s rut”? Would you rather be on the “able-bodied welfare recipient’s promenade“?
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AIDS threat downgraded
Lance on Nov 21 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
The United Nations’ top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared for the announcement…the latest estimates, due to be released publicly Tuesday, put the number […]
“Military Intelligence” a contradiction?
Lance on Nov 20 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
No, but like with all bureaucracies you sometimes have to wonder.
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Veterans as Victims III
Lance on Nov 19 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Jules Crittendon looks at various data on suicide and PTSD. It weaves a more complex and multifaceted story about the documentation and analysis of veteran mental health than the word “epidemic” implies.
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Veterans as Victims II
Lance on Nov 16 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
As an update to my previous post, I should note that Eugene Volokh notices some issues as well.
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The WSJ For Free?
Lance on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
This will make blogging easier for me.
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Bernanke Opens the Kimono a Bit
Lance on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Some further steps toward transparency at the Fed.
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Newsweek says “Screw Them”
Lance on Nov 14 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Newsweek picks up Kos.
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The Golden Haves
Lance on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Kenn Rogoff has a father-son talk about inequality.
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More from Michael Yon
Lance on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Michael Yon in celebrating his weblog award expresses his frustration at how our politics made the situation in Iraq worse. Check out the short guest post from Sgt Stephen M Deboard on the new old face of counterinsurgency.
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Photography geeks take note: Part II
Lance on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Michael Yon Follows up his previous post on being geared for combat as a photographer with another.
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BDS Illustrated
Lance on Nov 10 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
How sad, how typical. The man can’t even visit the wounded.
Hat Tip: McQ
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The Virtues of Clear Writing
Lance on Nov 10 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Way to go Volokh Conspiracy, which has been certified as at the Junior High reading level.
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Free Speech and Fred Phelps
Lance on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Eugene Volokh has a series of posts up on my personal favorite Democrat, Fred Phelps, and the legal hot water he has gotten himself into due the ruling in Snyder vs. Phelps. You canm read all the posts on one page here.
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Stocks Dip as Dollar Falls to New Low
Lance on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
This stuff is not over and risks to our assets and economy remain high.
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More Pessimism from The Jihad Rank and File
Lance on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
The Jihad has failed.
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Ezra Misrepresents Study on Vouchers
Lance on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Stuart Buck shows us how.
H/T- Pejman
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More on Housing and the Red State-Blue State Divide
Lance on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Virginia Postrel has two follow ups to her article in the Atlantic on the effect of housing restrictions on the political makeup of communities.
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ST:NG Home Theater
Keith_Indy on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
And I continue to be jealous…
Hmmm, maybe when we get the money I can do the Mos Eisley Cantina.
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Pigs Are Flying Somewhere
Keith_Indy on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Tuesday that the troop surge, which began in June, has had a significant impact on the situation in Iraq
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The Peril of Government
Lance on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Publius Endures has two posts of note on the perils of the large state:Why Power Corrupts (aka Reason 858 Why Small Government Is Best) and Why Big Government Encourages Corruption (cont’d).
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Visual Relationships Between Words
Keith_Indy on Nov 06 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
This is kinda cool. If only because I like seeing pretty pictures…
(h/t lifehacker)
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Juan Cole is ridiculous
Lance on Nov 06 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
John Rohan at Shield of Achilles takes on Juan Cole, and Andrew Sullivan by extension, on the issue of the State Departments revolt.
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Quote of the day
Lance on Nov 06 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Once again thanks to the sharp eye of the Everyday Economist we get this gem from Arnold Kling:
“Managing innovation is not like managing projects, so that the politicians who say we need a “Manhattan project” for alternative energy are idiots.”
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Photography geeks take note
Lance on Nov 05 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
In addition to a tremendous collection of photo’s, Michael Yon’s latest goes into the details of his equipment and what he suggests be used, in Consumer Reports: Geared for Combat.
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Human Rights in Iraq
Lance on Nov 04 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
David Adesnik has two posts which address the UN’s recent report on Human Right’s in Iraq, and Fred Kaplan’s very relevant discussion of air strikes.
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A Hero in Castro’s Gulag
Lance on Nov 04 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet
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Mankiw On Health Care Statistics
Lance on Nov 04 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
In the New York Times. He says don’t believe what we are told about them.
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Who was Milton Friedman?
Lance on Nov 04 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
A devastating response to Paul Krugman’s essay “Who Was Milton Friedman” from Anna J. Schwartz and Edward Nelson (pdf)
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