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THere’s been more and more coming out…from the scientific world…in the nature of inconvenient truths that, contrary to AlGor et al, climate is being driven by the sun…and, global temperature seems to have peaked in 1998! SOMEBODY…ANYBODY… PLEASE HIT ALGORE WITH A CLUEBAT & SHUT HIM UP! Firstly, from the Boston Globe (not exactly a bastion [...]

San Fransicko Gun Ban Shot Down

Municipalities can’t ban people from owning handguns, court rules San Francisco’s ban on handguns, blocked by a legal challenge since voters approved it in November 2005, suffered a possibly fatal blow Wednesday when a state appeals court ruled that local governments have no authority under California law to prevent people from owning pistols. The First District Court [...]

Fraudulent Numbers on Iraqi Deaths

The Lancet is a very well-respected medical journal, based in Britain. In 2006, three weeks before the American election, Lancet published a report on "excess mortality" in Iraq. The report put forth numbers of civilian Iraqi deaths directly due to...

Juno: Worth Seeing, And Seeing Again

I recall leaving the movie theater after seeing the fantastic Almost Famous and remarking to a friend, "I don't know what I just saw, but I know I just saw something really good." I had a similar reaction after having...

One Missed Call: More J-Horror Translated

Beginning in the 90's, a number of horror films were produced in Asia that would have a big impact on American cinema. The most important of these were Ringu (98), Ju-on (03), Kairo (01), Uzumaki (00), and Jian gui (02)....

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Blognote

Blogging has been off lately - yeah, of course, the holidays, right? That hasn’t been too bad…but the touch of pneumonia has been another story. Things are on the upswing…and hopefully will continue to be so.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

Yesterday I noted Robert Samuelson laying out some harsh but needed truths: entitlement programs, especially Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, are growing at an alarming rate and will soon come to push aside other necessary spending. These programs represent an...

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Graves candidacy on hold

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Debating the Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism

Minnesota's angry humorist strikes again

Dancing with the Sauds

South Dakota Blogs

Clinton by a Nose in New Hampshire

Why should we be surprised?

New Blog Added

What's the talk in DC today? I hear it's this article...

Social Services and Education are being hogs

The Sacred Fire Of Liberty

The New York Times' Jaundiced Reporting on Veterans

New Efforts In Energy

I wonder why we haven't seen that yet....

Progress in Iraq

Clinton, Obama, 08

The Argus goes after State Government. Again.And the evil part of me hopes they succeed.

The New Masterpiece

New Hampshire Post Script

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Regents against gun rights and freedom

No politics in this post...

More Holiday Cheer!

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