By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 26th at 03:00 PM  | 

Larry Niven’s awesome novel Lucifer’s Hammer concluded with an amazing vignette. A leader lies dying amid the ruins of a devastated world. His followers debate whether to take over and activate a surviving nuclear power plant. The great man’s dying words resonate and should be a part of the current American Energy debate. “Give my children the lightning again.” He said as he expired. Sadly, | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 25th at 12:55 PM  | 

Blogging has its positive and negative aspects. For the nonce; the positives of the blogging experience are still outweighing the negatives. For that reason, I continue whether the multitudes want me to or not. However, the negatives of blogging exist. The best characterization of these negatives that I’ve seen comes from Brett Stephens at Amerika.org, who describes them as blog drama.

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 25th at 10:30 AM  | 

James MacDonald of ForeignPolicy.com describes the current Seldon Crisis occurring in Western economies as the end of a seven decade experiment. This is described by Walter Russell Mead as The Blue Social Model. He talks us through its particulars below. Graduate from high school and you were pretty much guaranteed lifetime employment in a job that gave you a comfortable lower middle class lifestyle; graduate | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 24th at 04:00 PM  | 

“I asked the doctor if it was a boy or girl,” Wei said. “The doctor said it was a boy. My friends who were beside me said the baby’s body was completely black. I felt desolate, so I didn’t look up to see the baby. The nurses dealt with the body like it was rubbish,” Wei said. “They wrapped it up in a black plastic | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 24th at 10:54 AM  | 

“We have spent a substantial amount of time working with neighborhoods that are predominately Latino to build up their trust and to encourage them to come to us when it is essential to preventing and solving crimes,” Hale wrote in court documents. “HB56 may result in our deputies being viewed as state immigration officers instead of law enforcement officers trying to protect everyone in the | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 23rd at 12:00 PM  | 

James MacDonald of ForeignPolicy.com describes the current Seldon Crisis occurring in Western economies as the end of a seven decade experiment. This seven decade experiment is described by Walter Russell Mead as The Blue Social Model. He talks us through its particulars below. Graduate from high school and you were pretty much guaranteed lifetime employment in a job that gave you a comfortable lower middle | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 22nd at 06:30 PM  | 

James MacDonald of ForeignPolicy.com describes the current Seldon Crisis occurring in Western economies as the end of a seven decade experiment. This seven decade experiment is described by Walter Russell Mead as The Blue Social Model. He talks us through its particulars below. Graduate from high school and you were pretty much guaranteed lifetime employment in a job that gave you a comfortable lower middle | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 22nd at 10:30 AM  | 

Rick Perry runs for President after serving a long term as the governor of Texas. Texas shares over ½ of the US-Mexican Border with our neighbors to the South. Texas has benefitted from a generally positive historical relationship Mexican migratory workers and has seen some of the best benefits that immigration can offer the United States. Texas also has seen some of the worst. Narcotic | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 19th at 02:00 PM  | 

The separate issues of border security and immigration have become entwined as the American economy continues to wane, an illicit drug trade continues to flourish and a vast number of Americans remain unemployed as illegal immigrants take jobs on American soil. This leads to the immigration and border security issues becoming increasingly important and controversial. With President Barack Obama’s decision to shore up his Hispanic | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 19th at 11:00 AM  | 

The separate issues of border security and immigration have become entwined as the American economy continues to wane, an illicit drug trade continues to flourish and a vast number of Americans remain unemployed as illegal immigrants take jobs on American soil. This leads to the immigration and border security issues becoming increasingly important and controversial. With President Barack Obama’s decision to take a vacation from | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 18th at 05:00 PM  | 

I’m fairly close to becoming a big Rick Perry fan and just picking up my board and catching the wave! However, I have some reservations that stop me from authoring an explicit and direct endorsement. I need to be convinced Governor Perry will have the ability to understand and effectively execute a foreign policy. I want to be convinced he will improve the security on | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 17th at 12:00 PM  | 

I typically like to begin my blog entries with some quote from a powerful individual that addresses my topic. Today, however, I have to alter this procedure. My topic is Anthropogenic Global Warming and the speaker is none other than Al Gore. Therefore, we had to institute a 10 second delay in order to properly work-safe the commentary below. ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 17th at 08:30 AM  | 

Matt Drudge has done yeoman’s work in presenting an interesting analysis of our nation’s ongoing “Days Not Weeks War” with Libya. This conflict nears the ½ year mark of continued pointless ineptitude. NATO persecutes this war with the efficiency and diligence with which Harry Reid drives the US Senate towards the passage of a Senate version of the Federal Budget. President Obama continues to lead | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 16th at 01:55 PM  | 

A lot is wrong in Washington, DC. In response to these problems, President Obama has gotten out of town. He has gone on what RS Colleague, Dan Spencer accurately describes as a taxpayer funded campaign jaunt through Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa. He’ll be out speaking from 15 to 17 August. The President can run, but he cannot hide. The problem is not primarily in Washington, | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 15th at 10:45 AM  | 

“Not proposing anything bold and not trying to do something to definitively deal with our problems would mean that we’re going to have another year and a half like the last year and a half — and then it’s awfully hard to get re-elected.” Christine Romer (HT: NYT) I’ll fess up. I was totally taken in by Dr. Romer’s resume. I could have sworn she | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 11th at 11:00 AM  | 

Some on the Left have begun to fear Texas Governor Rick Perry. He has increasingly dropped not-so-subtle hints about a run for the White House. This has caused the usual and predictable sources to start unloading the smears. The second a leftist fears a Conservative politician; they immediately whip out either the race card or the class warfare card. Texas Governor Rick Perry doesn’t have | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 8th at 09:37 AM  | 

I’m not exactly a a charter member of The Senator John McCain Praise and Adulation Society. However, this Sunday’s appearance on “Meet The Press” featuring Senator McCain and the funny, funny man we know as Senator Kerry was a useful study in contrasts. It was a study of contrasts that played to Senator McCain’s good side.

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 5th at 11:30 AM  | 

SEN. JOHN KERRY: “And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.” (RealClearPolitics.com) People | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 2nd at 11:45 AM  | 

“My guess is that once the US loses its triple-A, it’ll be gone forever.” – Felix Salmon Izvestia in Atlanta (CNN) We now suddenly receive a recent history lesson abouthow S&P financially rated Lehman Brothers prior to its collapse. Why would this be any more relevant to today’s problems than Paul Krugman’s cheerleading for a big housing bubble back in 2002? Because S&P could still | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 1st at 11:30 AM  | 

We now have a group of U.S. politicians seeking political purity, who seem to have much in common with the Taliban. They are tea party members; and because of blind adherence to smaller government, they seem intent on risking destroying what American political leaders have constructed in more than two centuries of hard, often painful work. Like the Taliban, they see compromise as an unacceptable | Read More »