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Posted at 9:30am on Jul. 10, 2008 Gun Grabbers, Post-DC v. Heller - Alert!
By kowalski
When the Supreme Court rendered its decision in District of Columbia vs. Heller overturning the Washington D.C. gun ban and protecting the 2nd Amendment as an individual right, opponents of the ruling were were quick to buoy themselves upon the closely divided 5-4 aspect of the decision. Many of them opined that even though the ruling seemed like a temporary setback for the gun grabbers, it could have "legislative benefits" down the road and serve to rally anti-gun forces throughout the country.
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Posted at 7:28pm on Jul. 8, 2008 T. Boone Pickens on Energy Policy
By kowalski
Very briefly, I'd like to alert everyone -- through a shameless act of cross-promotion (or what Mr. Pickens might refer to as "...merging with routes that were contiguous to me...") -- that there's a discussion going on over at TMR concerning T. Boone Pickens' energy policy suggestions. I've already commented in the thread in a number of different "voices" and so I'd like to Kowalski myself and mention it here -- for anyone who is interested:
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Posted at 8:42am on Jul. 3, 2008 Hunt Oil, Kurdistan, CBS, Waxman and State Dept.
By kowalski
This morning CBS/Politico are running a very tersely worded and rhetorically loaded little story [HT Drudge] about the oil deal between Hunt Oil and the Kurdistan Regional Government, consummated in 2007.
It look and reads like they're trying to use it to show the President was somehow negligent in his oversight of the deal, and then insinuate that it has caused problems in the Iraqi oil-sharing agreement process. Side note: they say that the deal "complicated negotiations" for an oil-sharing agreement. And...so what...does that mean? Anything can complicate the process of a negotiation as complex as the Iraqi oil-sharing agreement, but that doesn't necessarily mean those complications are intrinsically wrong, or undesirable. But I digress...
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Posted at 5:55pm on Jun. 10, 2008 Thank you to Erick
By kowalski
Thank you to Erick and everyone else at Redstate and The Minority Report for the mention.
Since they've been so generous, I'll keep it short and sweet: Our business is direct mail and printing at the best prices in the country, and we do it here in --- Massachusetts. Astonishing, I know! [Clarification: although we're based in Massachusetts, our clients are nationwide and our largest jobs are nationwide mailings.]
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Posted at 10:24am on Jun. 10, 2008 Slate Magazine Celebrates Che Guevara's Birthday
By kowalski
Briefly noted in the media:
[Update: Actually his birthday is June 14. Slate is really building up to the party by celebrating it a few days in advance.]
For those of you who hadn't realized it, today is Che Guevara's birthday. Slate Magazine is celebrating it on their home page and in their "Today's Pictures" section with a big: "Happy Birthday Che!" The pictures are generally flattering to the mass-murdering Communist.
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Posted at 7:31pm on Jun. 4, 2008 Clinton to Concede on Friday
By kowalski
Drudge is running the teaser from ABC that Clinton is to concede on Friday. Of course, everyone knows this is the time lag between certain defeat and finding a way to make sure that all of her long-bought (with other people's money) friends will still keep feeding at the public trough. Largesse must be maintained. And at this point the Clintons are also looking for good ways to get the $30 million dollars back without offending any of their big supporters. That's why she didn't concede last night.
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Posted at 5:52pm on Jun. 2, 2008 Kennedy's Surgery Successful
By kowalski
Well, the evidence is that prayer doesn't work much in terms of affecting brain tumors, so I'm not surprised that nobody had much to say about prayer in the articles today. But the surgical resection at Duke University apparently went very well and Ted Kennedy is recovering successfully from his brain surgery to remove at least a portion of the aggressive and fatal tumor that is slowly working its way through his nervous system.
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Posted at 1:27pm on May 31, 2008 Comrades! Barack Obama People's Graphic Contest!
By kowalski
Comrades!
Thank you all for your participation in General Secretary Absentee's "Obama Gaffes" contest. For those of you who whose creativity was inordinately constrained by the centrally planned theme of that contest, I have created a new thread in which you -- the lifeblood of the Proletariat -- can participate to win prizes that will be awarded (and announced) according to a new meeting of the Central Committee. My offering to the winner will be generous and may include such prizes as a Get-Out-Of-Gulag card, pending Party approval -- and other prizes will be announced as the contest moves forward. The guidelines are essentially the same as these.
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Posted at 1:54pm on May 29, 2008 How to Get a Woman
By kowalski
I've been holding off making a serious comment about Scott McClellan's vomitorium of a tell-all, mostly because I've been very busy. But just watching the news about Sex and The City I had a thought about what Mr. McClellan might want to do with the rest of his life.
That movie has made it abundantly clear that the way you get large numbers of women to do anything you want (at least in terms of paying for tickets and $500/oz. popcorn) is to serve them up (quoting the Washington Post) a heapin' helpin' of "romance, melodrama, and fabulous footwear." When Scotty was the Press Secretary, he looked like he was about to pop open and spill his innards all over the White House Press Room on so many occasions that he just became unwatchable to me. The guy looked like he was having serious girl trouble. How nobody in the Administration realized that Scott McClellan gave every outward indication of being a man who was uncomfortable in his job -- actively fighting his own conscience and his own instincts and the often referenced but rarely seen "inner demons" -- completely amazes me. To the extent that gives credence to his allegations about the Administration being out of touch, I'll grant that part in his case. You really, really don't want someone as your Press Secretary who doesn't want the job, someone who telegraphs that as transparently as Scott McClellan did every time the questions got tough.
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Posted at 7:37pm on May 27, 2008 Landing an Interview at NIF and PPPL
By kowalski
Hi folks:
Most people who have been around on this blog during my time here know that one of my important interests is the development of thermonuclear fusion energy as one of America's true 'alternative' energy sources. I see it as one of the three best, most important sources of central power station energy for the United States and elsewhere in the world in this century, along with conventional fission and exoatmospheric solar power.