http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:45:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mary Landrieu was last seen taking a $300 Million Bribe in order to pass a bill to spend 2 or 3 Trillion dollars (exact numbers are hazy) in spending of money that nobody has in order to force everyone in the US to drop their health insurance and accept Universal ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/11/23/have-you-seen-this-senator/ This review will not take long. Darling wife and I took our three young children and a neighbor kid from across the street to a movie followed by Five Guys for burgers. We saw Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze's tragically flawed adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic. Perhaps you ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/10/17/movie-review-where-the-wild-things-have-relationship-problems/ All hands alert! I don't have anything to add because this is so shattering there is nothing that can be added. If this extract scares you then you have to read the whole thing. And then we all shall have to do something. At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/10/16/monctons-warning/ After the NFL has made a mockery of itself by obsequiously smacking its forehead against the ground on which DeMaurice Smith, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton walk, it is up to NFL fans to find out if it is possible for the NFL to be embarrassed any more. Remember, this ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/10/15/limbaugh-the-sequel-is-it-possible-to-embarrass-the-nfl/ At the top of the news are a few Nobel Blogs about the very deserving winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics Michael Spence gives an overview Peter G. Klein on Oliver Williamson Paul Romar on Elinor Ostrom Peter Boettke on Lin Ostrom Barack Obama is George Soros's marionette? http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/what_soros_wanted_obama_delive.html Liberal warnings of TEA party violence are ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/10/15/101509-interesting-articles-from-around-the-interwebz/ The biggest news of the day is the slow melt of the glaciers of journalistic support for the pseudo science of anthropogenic global warmening. Today Drudge has the following links above the fold BBC: What happened to global warming? US CHILL MAP... Montana cold breaks records... Record Cold temps in Idaho threaten ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/10/12/101209-interesting-articles-from-the-interwebz/ Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard is not really a book. It is an article from the "Philistine" magazine of March 1899 that became immensely popular and was reprinted as a pamphlet in Russian, German, French, Spanish, Turkish, Hindi, Mandarin and Japanese, perhaps more. It is freely available on the ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/10/12/book-notes-message-to-garcia/ The Guardian recently analyzed David Cameron's speech to the British Conservative Party Conference for the popularity of his applause lines. I've extracted in popularity order all the lines that got more than 15 seconds of applause, while excluding the introduction. The interesting thing to me is that all the most ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/10/10/central-concepts-from-david-cameron%e2%80%99s-speech-to-the-conservative-party/ Heading up the news today, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what again? AP analyzes something for once. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_nobel_analysis_1 How about Obama's war record? http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/09/exit-stage-left-exeunt-stage-right/ "Classy" White House calls Joe Scarborough an A---hole for laughing at President Pantywaist's Nobel Peace Prize http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2009/10/09/white-house-scarborough-e-mocking-nobel-scarborough-rushs-manhood- Tom Coburn proposes to dump Political Science research funding since it's pure ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/10/09/10909-list-of-interesting-articles-from-the-interwebz/ Quin Hillyer seems to think so, and so writes in the American Spectator. The Pentagon is playing dirty pool on behalf of the already-dirtiest pool players from Boeing, with regard to the huge (179-plane, about $40 billion) air refueling tanker contract that Northrop Grumman Corp. and EADS won ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/10/08/is-the-fix-in-for-boeing-on-the-tanker-competition/ Imagine you are a climate researcher who has been assembling the data that is used to support claims of global warming. Or imagine you are Phil Jones from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. Or imagine you are a scientific fraud. Did I write "or"? ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/09/23/umm-you-know-all-that-climate-data-that-proves-global-warming-well-nobody%e2%80%99s-had-it-for-20-years/ At bottom a corporation is simply a legal fiction that allows a business or other concern to be treated as if it were a person. Since it is a fictional person, the taxman treats it like a real person when it comes time to pay taxes, and charges it a ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/09/22/who-pays-corporate-taxes/ The Lament Configuration is a portal to Hell from the Hellraiser movies Every once in a while we need to remind ourselves that progressive neo-Jacobins, syndicalists, anarchists, revolutionaries, communists and fascists have stolen the name "liberal" and invented the fabulist lie "progressive" for what they do. Nobody likes their real names. ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/08/25/horowitz-alinsky-beck-satan-and-thee/ K. Gonzalez, the student of unknown (by me) gender who worked so hard to get into Berkeley, to pay for one semester, and wrote this about the experience, sounds like a wonderful person, with one exception: The part that breaks immigration law. But the editorial drone who wrote the headline ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/08/24/illegal-immigration-has-consequences/ The calls for fixing America's "broken healthcare system" are misleading. America does not have a monolithic government monopoly for healthcare like the ones many socialist countries have that are so popular to those conducting UN funded studies. America has a healthcare market with a substantial part of the market ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/08/15/take-action-use-the-other-sides-tools-against-the-healthcare-highjack/ Rest in Peace Barbara Wagner. She has died in the year since this was news, but Barbara Wagner's story was discussed some in late Summer 2008. Not much discussion went on, since there were no healthcare hijack bills on the floor of the House and Senate. But now the White ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/08/10/revisited-cancer-coverage-denied-by-government-but-assisted-suicide-covered/ Obamonsters Inc.© has been flooding the zone with pure insanity about the health scare plan, much of it actually in the bills. Not only are the bills filled with billions, perhaps trillions, in giveaways to ACORN, Americorps, the SEIU, and foreign tourists, they have abortion and euthanasia mandates that would, ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/07/30/we-scare-because-we-care-an-obamascare-roundup/ The Debate on Health Care is over. At least that is what the hard-left Democrats and their lackeys and lickspittles in the Pravda Media tell us. This was a surprise to me, since I never saw the debate, heard it, or read it. I have a television. I watch the ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/07/21/shouting-from-the-rooftops-to-be-heard-in-the-debate-over-health-care/ Newspaper Press The Code of Ethics of The Society of Professional Journalists is a flawed document because it holds journalists to inhuman and contradictory standards. No intelligent journalist with an ounce of empathy who learns about the facts of a situation can ever be non-biased and free of attachments to people ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/07/06/toward-a-new-ethics-of-journalism/ Happy American Independence Day! While you're manning the grill, playing backyard football, devouring delicious beef and pork products, and watching big explosions in the sky, think about the spark that lit the flame in 1775 and 1776. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once ... http://www.redstate.com/ljmiller96/2009/07/04/echoes-of-the-shot-heard-round-the-world/