Science! Your Moment of Geek: An Analysis of Blaster Fire in Star Wars.
Written by an actual physics professor. So it’s not just for fanboys, either…
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Disaster preparedness meets estate planning: What are the tax implications of the zombie apocalypse?
For law nerds only…
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FIGHT BACK: You can help the victims of Brett Kimberlin’s lawfare harasssment here.
Fellow bloggers Aaron Walker, R.S. McCain, and others – along with their loved ones – have had their lives turned upside down by Kimberlin.
Something else you can do is spread the word about Brett Kimberlin. The more people who know about him, the better…
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Happy 35th Star Wars Anniversary? Maybe. Maybe not.
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War On Women Update: Senate Dems Pay Female Staffers Less Than Male Staffers.
Doesn’t fit the narrative. But the optics are even worse than you’d imagine:
Of the five senators who participated in Wednesday’s press conference—Barbara Mikulski (D., Md.), Patty Murray (D., Wash.), Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.), Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) and Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.)—three pay their female staff members significantly less than male staffers.
Murray, who has repeatedly accused Republicans of waging a “war a women,” is one of the worst offenders. Female members of Murray’s staff made about $21,000 less per year than male staffers in 2011, a difference of 35.2 percent.
It’s as if all that talk about looking out for women was empty demagoguery. But then again, it usually is…
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NARRATIVE FAIL: George Zimmerman Complained About Sanford Police in Defense of Homeless Black Man.
Wow. Well, after that NBC Edit-gate, who can feign surprise at this flagrant omission from the record?
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Shocker: Obama White House leaked sensitive info for The Obama Is Totally Awesome blockbuster movie.
Well, everybody knows that leaks of classified info are only despicable and immoral when Sean Penn can star in an anti-GOP movie about them.
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Leftie Hate Update: South Carolina AFL-CIO Leader Bashes Governor Nikki Haley
PiñataIn Effigy.Come on ABC, let’s tell it like it is. Piñatas are a Mexican tradition. I don’t see a whole lot of Mexican folks at this AFL-CIO event.
Video at the link.
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Leftie Two-Minute Hate Trends: Out, George Zimmerman. In: Corey Booker?
That’s just a fancy play on words on my part, of course. Everybody knows Lefties have enough hate in them to hate several dozen people at the same time. Some have enough to hate an entire civilization!
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Journalism is hard. Despair is easy: WaPo Attacks Romney for Mormon Militia Action 150 Years Ago.
Evidently, the Romney campaign has access to time travel technology which it’s keeping from the public. Good that the WaPo is holding them accountable. The nerve!
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What does it say about Lefties that one man of principle speaking up irks them this much? Further, what does it say about the Obama campaign that one man of principle speaking up can cause so much damage to their strategizing? (via Insty)
Mayor Booker is a true public servant. He’s demonstrated it time and again. We need more people like him in politics. If Democrats don’t see him as one of their own, Democrats have no business in American politics. That is, unless American politics is only about elites serving each other…
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That Exploding Cigar Feeling: Over 40 Catholic Dioceses and Organizations Sue Obama Administration for Infringing Freedom of Religion.
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R.S. McCain on the great unmasking of convicted terrorist and Leftie hacktivist Brett Kimberlin.
People who lie to hurt others need to be stopped. Brett Kimberlin is that kind of people. My hat’s off to all those on the Dextrosphere who are shining a light on Kimberlin. Yes, that is my hat below.
(Photo courtesy of my crummy cellphone camera)
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Saul Alinsky was not available for comment: Former Daily Show Producer: I Felt Uncomfortable Mocking People Just Because I Disagreed With Them.
I wish him luck. Heresy like this is prosecuted and punished severely by progressives, who generally disapprove of dissent…except when it’s patriotic, of course.
UPDATE: As I was saying…
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Ed Driscoll on “almost unimaginable media hypocrisy”: Letterman Mocks Romney’s Wealth Despite Being Worth Nearly Double.
This lack of self-awareness is incredibly common among Lefties. As I’ve remarked before, it often seems as if they are permanently tossing rocks from the proverbial glass house. First of all, no one in the Hollywood plutocracy should be criticizing the amassing of vast wealth. That much should be obvious, but like I said: self-awareness is lacking. In fact, if there’s such a thing as “obscene profits” Big Hollywood is right up there with Big Oil. I mean, are you going to tell me with a straight face that this is not some form of pollution?
Ed is being nice, of course. There’s nothing unimaginable about this…
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Burning Question of the Week: Could We Trust an Army of Killer Robots?
That didn’t really work out on Caprica, did it?
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Just for laughs: Awesomely Bad Lawyer Videos.
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Professor Douglas: Convicted Terrorist Brett Kimberlin and the Left’s Political and Criminal Intimidation Network.
What a despicable group of people. Must read…
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Who knew there were Birthers in publishing? Obamas Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.
It’s not quite what you’d think, but it is amusing. Mind you, I’ve never been a Birther. I’m a Competencer.
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Old Media Update: CNN Hits Lowest Primetime Demo Rating at 9 PM In 15 Years.
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Poor Reading Comprehension at MSNBC.com: Chuck Todd and Co. Misinterpret Poll Data That Shows Obama Trailing Romney, False Narrative Struggles to Emerge: “Speaking of that New York Times/CBS poll,” write Mr. Todd et al:
It shows Romney at 46% and Obama at 43%. But get this: It also has the president’s approval rating at 50%. (How is Obama’s job approval at 50%, but his head-to-head number is 43%?) And given that this poll was a “call-back survey” — with the respondents first interviewed back in April — it feels like we need more poll data to make sense of all the events of the past two weeks.
Note the ever-so-slight undermining of the poll’s methodology (echoing the White House – hey, it’s MSNBC). Who knows? The methodology could be an issue. Things happen. But questioning the fact that Obama’s approval numbers do not match his head-to-head numbers vis a vis Romney is a newbie mistake. The fact is that in comparing both figures, MSNBC‘s crack team of political analysts is making the proverbial ‘apples and oranges’ comparison: both numbers cannot be expected to be similar because they were not asked of the same group of respondents.
Proof? The PDF of the NYT/CBS Poll document itself spells it all out on the front page: “Asterisk indicates registered respondent only.” Registered what? Registered to vote, I suppose. But it doesn’t matter. What matters is that the document includes figures derived from two different groups of respondents and distinguishes between them using an asterisk.
Take a look at the results for Question 1 – concerning Obama’s approval rate – on Page 2 of the document (just select page 2 at the poll document site, here). No asterisks next to the respondent headings to be found anywhere. Then go to Question 3 – which we can sum up as “would you vote for Obama or Romney if the election were held today?” – on Page 5. The question is preceded by another one. Essentially, “are you registered to vote”? The respondent headings each have an asterisk next to it.
There’s your answer, guys. That’s how. Two different groups being polled about 2 different things: (1) approval and (2) preference compared to Romney.
Via Political Wire, where they are equally baffled by how Obama can be behind Romney when his approval rate is 50%.
Now that I think about it, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by instances of poor reading comprehension at MSNBC…
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Reality-based: Alarm Grows Among Dems About Obama’s Chances.
Keep pushing, though. You get cocky now, you’ll throw it all away…
UPDATE: Related: Some comments on the latest Obama Poll-mageddon, from TOM.
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Two Candidates In One! Barack Obama Slammed John McCain on Immigration in 2008, Flip-Flops in 2012 to Attack Mitt Romney.
Odds are it’s really more than two candidates, actually…
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Chris Matthews’ Brain: Grossly overpriced at $2300.
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Frontiers of Defamation: Columbia Pictures Wins Social Network “defamation by omission” lawsuit.
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Revenge of the Jedi: George Lucas opts to build low-income housing in pissy, elite-liberal, Marin County.
Now all they need over there is a state prison and Marin County will finally be representative of California state government’s three main constituencies: “the very rich, the very poor, and the public employees.”
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Same Team, Different Location: Former Obama Speechwriter to Pen NBC White House Sitcom.
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Science! Demystifying gamma rays.
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MASH-UP OF THE
WEEKMONTHYEAR: Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver.Expertly-produced video at the link (with apologies to Martin Scorsese, of course)…
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BREAKING: President Obama Backs Gay Marriage in ABC Interview.
Just as some were predicting…
UPDATE: Kinda sorta backs gay marriage? That sounds more like the Obama we’ve come to know…
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File Under ‘Disarray’: Liberal Donors’ Plan Worries Top Democrats.
The Dem leadership is sweating over plans by wealthy Lefties? Really? It’s that bad?
What isn’t worrying them?
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Professor Douglas: Journalist fired for criticizing Black Studies programs is married to a black man.
The PC Police don’t care. In their eyes, her crime was first and foremost daring to dissent.
UPDATE: Related content from TOM. And who can forget the other notable instance this year of a spouse from a mixed marriage being accused of racism by the Lefty commentariat? It’s almost as if the Lefty guardians of PC orthodoxy find mixed marriages inconceivable…
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Tea Party Triumph: Six-term Senate veteran Lugar defeated in Indiana primary.
Well done! Remember: don’t get cocky and don’t stop fighting. This is just the beginning of a very long beginning…
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Greece on the Pacific? Grant Cardone’s Open Letter to Gov. Jerry Brown.
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Civility Update: Cher doesn’t want to breathe the same air as Romney and his ‘racist homophobic women hating tea bagger masters’.
Women hating? You mean as illustrated here?
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I know it was you, Fredo: White House Punts on Same Sex Marriage—Again: POTUS cancels trip to NC on day of Gay Marriage Vote.
Or could this be part of an ingenious plan set in motion by Fredo Biden himself?
Related prediction here.
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HHM: More football spiking in the thwarting of Underwear Bomb Redux?
Can’t be ruled out. You gotta accentuate the positive. And there’s not a whole lot of positive going on for the White House…
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My former colleague Brett Battles’ new thriller is now out on Kindle, free for a limited time: Every Precious Thing. It’s the next installment in his ‘Logan Harper’ series.
Brett is the award-winning author of The Cleaner and the ‘Jonathan Quinn’ novels it spawned, among other titles.
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Science Explains President Obama? WSJ: “Talking about ourselves—whether in a personal conversation or through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter—triggers the same sensation of pleasure in the brain as food or money, researchers reported Monday.”
