Peggy on Hillary

I’m still chuckling about this, because it’s so dead on. On one hand, if the Democrats nominate her, welcome to a GOP presidency from 2008-2012. On the other hand it’s scary to let someone like that even that close to the presidency.

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan

This is the exact opposite of the truth. Hillary [...]

James Baen, RIP

HT to
Hell In A Handbasket. I have no idea how many Baen paperbacks I’ve read, But the names of Weber, Pournelle, Drake, Stirling, come to mind. it must be a lot.
James Baen died yesterday. Read the
eulogy by David Drake, and remember this was the guy who trusted his readers so [...]

GDP Growth and What It Means

BizzyBlog.com has this quote:
Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 5.6 percent in the first quarter of 2006, according to final estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
For a big economy like ours, [...]

Democrats, God Pt. Deux

Pho responds to
post in the comments with what I think is an excellent question:

Specifically I am intrigued — and a little unsettled — by your statements about church and state. You seem to be saying that the Establishment Clause simply doesn’t apply at the local level. How far does that go? Can local officials [...]

New NYC Freedom Tower Has Lighted Spire

In latest redesign:

The latest design of the skyscraper being built to replace the World Trade Center covers its 20-story concrete base with thousands of glass prisms and tops it with a lighted spire meant to resemble the Statue of Liberty’s torch, the lead architect said Wednesday.
Other details of the latest design for the 1,776-foot Freedom [...]

No New Honda Plant in OH

The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio has lost the derby for Honda’s new assembly plant and the 1,500 jobs that go with it.
Honda will build the $400 million plant in Greensburg, Ind., rejecting Ohio sites in Fayette and Van Wert counties and a site in Illinois, an industry source said yesterday.
A second source familiar with the project confirmed [...]

We Have Two Good Reasons To Vote For DeWine

VikingSpirit’s blog:
It’s gonna be a tough race for DeWine…but this is good news. Not good news that he’s below 50% though, given his incumbency status. I think DeWine will get above 50% once he shores up his conservative support. But, the problem is DeWine hasn’t done much of anything to do that. DeWine only has [...]

Democrats Uneasy about God.

Pho’s 2nd Response to the Blackwell Blog’s non-apology is well thought out and a good read, but understandably doesn’t quite understand the viewpoint of the conservative christian.
Take this paragraph:

So my wife and I are trying to raise our children in this faith. It’s not easy. We see the Christian message pretty much everywhere. And as [...]

Net Neutrality: Cringely Chimes In…

With a couple of good articles.
Here and
here.
The angle he takes is looking ahead and seeing the full impact of a non-net-neutrality ISP.

Let’s say Net Neutrality goes away and the broadband ISPs start offering tiered services. My simple test suggests that one possible impact is that Bit Torrent traffic, which currently uses, say, [...]

Jay Cost on the 1994 -2006 Comparison

Is 1994 a Model for Democratic Success?
What do they have to do? This is the $2.3 trillion question, one for which many answers abound. Most of the answers center on a date and a word. The date is 1994 - the most surprising of political years since Dewey defeated Truman. The word is “nationalize.” The [...]

Jack Bauer: Everyman

Timothy P. Carney on 24 & Homeland Security on National Review Online
24 is a true American drama and Jack Bauer is an American hero. When I was in Germany a few years ago, a Cabinet official said that Europe was once half-full of free-thinkers and independent spirits, but then they all got up and moved [...]

What I Did On My Summer Vacation…

Well, for the first time ever, I attended the
Cisco Networkers 2006 conference in Las Vegas.
Hot, very, very hot. But it’s a dry heat. Like an oven. And you know how we all love hanging out in ovens.
Nevertheless I did get a chance to learn a lot and mosey about in a [...]

Slashdot | Dueling Network Neutrality Commentary on NPR

Big Discussion over at
Slashdot. Pro and Con as you would expect, Attitude towards capitalism seems to be a pretty good predictor of where you will line up on this issue. Those who fear big business more than government tend toward supporting a Net Neutrality Law. Those who fear government more than [...]

Beware the Wrath of the Stay at Home Mom

Great post at
SpunkyHomeSchool:

As elite educated women, we’ve betrayed the cause. We’ve stopped reading and believing the baseless, self-absorbed feminist philosophy. Instead we’ve gone back to the Truth and are making the choice to stay home and have a baby. (Maybe even more than one!) And making matters even worse, we’re daring enough to tell [...]

IKEA debating sites for store in Ohio

IKEA debating sites for store in Ohio
Swedish furniture and housewares retailer IKEA is considering opening a new store in Ohio, but it can’t decide where.
Oooh, (nixguy) raises his hand) I know where! pick me! pick me!
Joseph Roth, a spokesman for IKEA said the company’s expansion planners are looking at the Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland areas.
Roth [...]

Light Posting Alert

Work Stuff.
It’s going to go on most of the week. Carry on.
Follow the links on the sidebar to the rest of my buds at the SOB Alliance who will shoulder the burden of my non-posting ;-).
Actually it’s pretty cool what I’m doing, and I can tell you later, but not now.

Strickland Goes Negative, Calls Blackwell ‘Incompetent’

In this article at
Vindy.com, Ted Strickland says this:
Ken Blackwell has been in state political leadership for almost a decade and a half, and look at the state. He is incompetent in how he’s conducted elections. I represent change, and that’s what people want.”
This quote isn’t getting much news, but it should because it’s such [...]

I’m Not Sure They Even Understand What Cut and Run Means…

Jonah Goldberg on Democrats & Iraq on National Review Online:

Florida Senator Bill Nelson says “Terrorists and insurgents shouldn’t be rewarded for killing American soldiers.” And, Chuck Schumer in a pitch perfect pose of deep regret and sadness lamented that insurgents were getting a “get out of jail free card.”
This is repugnant. Shame on them.
What on [...]

End of Cell Phone Charge Per Minute?

The Enquirer - $45 Cricket wireless arrives:
With a name like Cricket, Cincinnati Bell’s latest competitor doesn’t sound like much of a threat.
The entomological appellation is that of the wireless telephone service division of Leap Wireless International of San Diego. Cricket’s $45-a-month, all-you-can-talk, all-you-can-text service is coming to the Cincinnati regionon Tuesday. The company’s area general [...]

Welcome To The Liberal Utopia of Belgium

Where Liberals and Socialists run everything, people like me can expect
this kind of treatment:

Yesterday my husband Paul Belien, the editor of this website, was summoned to the police station and interrogated. He was told that the Belgian authorities are of the opinion that, as a homeschooler, he has not adequately educated his children and, [...]