http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:44:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tony Kane wrote of the recent email hack aimed at Britain’s Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia. In today’s Huntsville Examiner, his article “ClimateGate emails provide unwanted scrutiny of climate scientists” describes the professional practices rampant among the Western World’s scientific elite. On the surface, the emails seem to ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/11/23/how-does-knowledge-accumulate-when-the-scientists-all-lie/ John McCain has recently shown Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham the same deeply abiding loyalty that his campaign staff once showed to Governor Palin. In other words, the wheel on the bus are going thump, thump, thump. The issue leading to the latest tergiversation from "Our Friend" Senator ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/11/20/you-just-cant-trust-john-mccain-hee-hee-hee/ We just got a fascinating glimpse of what proponents of nationalized healthcare will do to improve the outcomes of Federal Medical Programs. They won’t know that you are sick, they therefore won’t attempt to cure you. As a result, they will fail far less often and prove that ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/11/20/sibelius-recovers-the-downed-trial-balloon-reality-won%e2%80%99t-let-the-cost-curve-bend/ John Maudlin confounds the best efforts of the Federal Government to lie about the current state of economic play. He measures not what the indicators say the economy is doing – but rather what happens to people who live and work in this economy. He elicits an accurate ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/11/16/a-stimulus-that-could-kill-you/ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle Aristotle spoke these words and inspired an entire philosophy of how mankind should relate to the society they live in. Thinkers, theologians and revolutionaries from ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/11/13/when-freedom-from-the-law-is-lost-so-is-all-other-emancipation/ If my boy were a few years older, and expressed a desire to study architecture, my advice to him would be direct and simple. “Young Man, do not attend Columbia University even if they offer you a scholarship.” To get a sense of the current academic climate that flourishes amongst ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/11/10/death-by-diversity/ Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid all three entered 2009 with a commanding mandate and as much political power as any Democratic Leadership has had since Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Their mandate ordered them to fix the economy and put America back to work. They didn’t want ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/11/09/a-smokescreen-not-a-solution/ Last night’s election brought a cornucopia of good cheer. The gleeful image of Bruce Springstein chewing nails while a victorious GOP celebrated to “Born to Run” still has me in a state of elevated good cheer. The one downer was the special election in NY-23. But, like ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/11/04/what-michael-steele-should-do-after-ny-23/ If there were any part of the current Congressional Leadership’s agenda about to die a well-deserved death, it would be Senator Boxer and Senator Kerry’s asinine Cap and Trade Bill. This bill seeks to drive up energy prices and make business creation harder in the teeth of a brutal ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/10/19/graham-caps-the-gop%e2%80%99s-aspirations-he-trades-our-power-for-his-personnel-adulation/ If our media worked to inform the people - instead of electing Democrats, the Stimulus Plan of 2009 would go down in history with the $500 jet-fighter toilet seat. It would be remembered as our modern Teapot Dome Scandal. It would go down in history as one of ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/10/17/at-a-wrap-rate-of-73333-does-america-deserve-damnation/ Work grew boring; I took a break and watched about ten minutes of CNBC market coverage. I walked back to my cube understanding why the Cialis bottle has a warning about erections lasting longer than four hours. They had a big, giant odometer graphic on their screen with ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/10/15/the-constant-dollar-dow-and-the-illusionary-bull-market/ <p> My initial response to Barack Obama’s humble and gracious acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize wasn’t one of my finer moments in amateur political commentary.  I think I referred to it as the Nobel Respiration Prize over on Redstate.com.  Hemmingway defined greatness as grace under pressure.  He said nary a ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/10/15/when-honors-and-awards-become-a-curse/ Senator Max Baucus may have just earned himself a new nickname – “The Prestidigitator.” The recent CBO scoring of his new proposed Health Care Mandate seems to suggest he pulled the rabbit out of the hat. Presto! We can now afford to spend $900Bn we do not ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/10/08/get-rich-or-don%e2%80%99t-kill-yourself-trying/ When Comedian Whoopi Goldberg went on The View to defend Roman Polanski, I figured she had to be kidding. Her contention that feeding a thirteen year-old girl Quaaludes and champagne and then forcibly sodomizing her “wasn’t rape-rape” had to be one most asinine comments ever made by a literate ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/10/06/no-wonder-whoopi-goldberg-was-confused/ It was a Thursday, 1 Oct 2009. The glories of fall shone resplendently, a gentle breeze stirred golden leaves into fanciful eddies and will-o-the-wisps. There are times so good, and moments so perfect that happiness appears to be the natural state of all mankind. It was just ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/10/02/putting-the-economy-on-the-single-buyer-health-plan/ So, did you hear the one about the pimp, the underage Salvadoran hookers and the Community Organizers? Bank of America recently did and they even saw the video. It could have been an SNL skit - but the bank execs weren’t exactly laughing. Having taken $45Bn in ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/10/01/pulling-the-tarp-out-from-under-the-acorn/ It was Sunday the 27th of September, and famous fugitive movie director, Roman Polanski, was arrested on a 30-year-old charge of sexual molestation. This led to a great uproar amongst the motion picture arts community. Who could possibly still want to put Polanski in jail? Faded-Starlet, Debra Winger, offered ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/09/29/the-tragic-plight-of-roman-polanski/ It was a boring afternoon and I was heading back to the office after an off-site meeting. Then Rush Limbaugh had to go and say something that made me laugh so hard I nearly totaled the Focus. Col. Kaddafi had spoken at the UN and suggested reopening the ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/09/29/the-un-it%e2%80%99s-worse-than-a-waste-it%e2%80%99s-a-tumor/ To properly commemorate the 70th Anniversary of Josef Stalin’s invasion of Poland in 1939, US President Barack Obama announced the decision to halt all development of Ballistic Missile Defense in Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe cringed; the Russian’s celebrated and tried not to appear overly smug. The avuncular, cuddly ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/09/18/yalta-%e2%80%9909-%e2%80%93-unilateralism-we-shouldn%e2%80%99t-believe-in/ The Internet can be weird and spooky some days; and not just because I post stuff on it. It’s been about three days since I finished the James Howard Kuntsler novel, World Made By Hand. I cruise through Wizbang this AM and see a link to this post, right ... http://www.redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2009/09/15/when-mother-nature-forecloses/