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The following op-ed piece, written by Loyd Case, appeared on ExtremeTech this morning. For all you Heinlein fans out there, this is a must read!
October 23, 2006 Heinlein's Children By Loyd Case
Isaac Asimov reportedly...
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I'm always showing up to the game a little late.
This morning I discovered Maximilian Pakaluk, associate editor at the National Review Online. Given that he's an associate editor, I suspect I may not be the first to discover the man, but his recent review...
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This Press Release was written by Kamal Nawash, President of The Free Muslims Coalition
The Free Muslims Coalition, a national Muslims organization, condemns Muslim cab drivers who refuse to pick up passengers who carry alcoholic beverages.
Recently...
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Been a busy few months. Lots of new stuff.
Beyond the new girlfriend, the new apartment, and the new job search, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that we're all somewhat at risk of acquiring a new Congress and a new Senate, neither one of which...
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AWOL is subtitled “The Unexcused Absence of America’s Upper Classes from Military Service – and How It Hurts Our Country,” which sums up the basic theme of this book. Organized in a she-said, he-said, they-said fashion, AWOL gives the reader an inside...
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When it started warming up in Chicago a couple of months ago, Corey & I started pestering our landlord to install central air in the office. For various reasons, it didn't happen until this week, by which time the six of us who share the office had...
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From The Washington Post:
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit in Detroit, home to one of the largest Arab populations outside the Middle East, on behalf of scholars, lawyers, journalists and nonprofit groups challenging the National...
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Seriously, I couldn't make this up. Here's the link....
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This morning I viewed an interview on CNBC with PG&E Chairman and CEO, Peter A. Darbee. It seems that his company has just initiated a new energy project that uses cow manure as a source for natural gas. Now, I've got to tell you that this is a great...
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Got marriage? In partnership with Fragrant Design, LLC, my company is conducting a quantitative study to figure out just what aspects of a wedding make it particularly satisfying. The point is to help FD construct wedding packages for its clients—mostly...
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This article is an excerpt from Chapter One in my new book The Chicken Little Factor - Debunking Experts’ Lies. You can find out more about the book here, and can order the book from this link.
The Greens have “alerted” all of us to the alarming possibility...
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Back on October 2, 2005, I wrote “To Live Forever - Or at Least as Long as Possible.” In that article I made one particular point:
The single most significant discovery thus far is caloric intake's effect on aging. In test animals, with all other things...
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Pelican Publishing has just released my new book:
The Chicken Little Agenda - Debunking “Experts” Lies. (Click the link for detailed information on the book.)
Review the announcement from the Pelican Spring Catalog here.
“Robert Williscroft...
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Ahh, your hipster friends love El Che, don't they? Physician, intellectual, and freedom fighter, Che Guevara remains the beloved icon of the Great Unwashed.
Of course, the reality on the ground is a little different. The real Che Guevara was a sociopathic...
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Excerpted from Brigitte Gabriel’s speech delivered at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC, Saturday February 18, 2006. [Thanks to John Howland of USNA-At-Large]
Brigitte Gabriel began her career as the News Anchor for “World...
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PETA wants you to cast your vote for the sexiest vegetarian alive. At the top of the list of finalists: Kelly, pictured below, who evidently hasn't made the connection on where her shoes and handbag came from.
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[This article was written by The Free Muslims Coalition and distributed on February 23, 2006]
The Bush administration recently approved an Arab company's attempt to take over the operation of seaports in six major American cities. The sale...
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Turns out the incredible speaking pottery of Pompeii is nothing but a well-crafted 2005 April Fool's Day joke from Belgian television. The admission is here... although, oddly, the April-Fools disclaimer doesn't show up every time you load the page. In...
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Note: Sadly, this story turned out to be a hoax. Click here for more detail.
Many thanks to my old classmate Collette McNeill for turning me on to this amazing story.
It turns out that a group of French archaeologists made a remarkable discovery while...
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Thanks to USNA-at-Large's John Howland for this:
One August night in 2002, John P. Ruggiero went drinking.
Ruggiero, a 20-year-old Midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, returned to his dorm room so obliterated that he thought it might...
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Trust Wretchard the Cat for a riveting historical perspective.
“Asymmetrical Warfare, 1906” tells the story of American forces locked in desperate combat with Moro forces in the Phillippines at the turn of the 20th Century. The tactics and...
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No Right Turn posted the following:
The sickness spreads
While the world is focussed on bird flu, there's another disease spreading: the disease of Abu Ghraib. And it has now spread to America itself:
More than 100 inmates at a Los Angeles County...
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You heard it here first.
Arrianna “Oh, what famous friends I've got” Huffington, founder of the eponymous Huffington Post, wants you to quit driving your SUV. In particular, her “Detroit Project” wants you to watch this video,...
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I keep a “Quote of the Day” module up on my Google home page. To be honest, I rarely look at it, but occasionally it serves up a doozy like this one:
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it...
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Surprised?
Actually, what did surprise me is where I read it: The Huffington Post. This blog, as it turns out, offers this and other similar drivel from an absolute gold mine of cranks, including Deepak Chopra, Bruce Cohen, Walter Cronkite, John Cusack,...
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