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Perhaps the most frustrating part of Tom Clancy’s last work, “Teeth of the Tiger,” released back in 2003, was the fact that the “Emir” wasn’t dealt with. The Emir, a rough analogue to Osama bin Laden, was the moving force behind the bad guys in the last book, and at the end he was no […]

UPDATE 3 Important, additional information has surfaced. Please read this follow-up post. I distinctly remember back in the mid-to-late 90s seeing an ad in The Daily World in Aberdeen, Wash. – the paper I worked for – advertising some sort of public assistance for the poor. Why did I remember this particular ad? Because I […]

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They just had to pass it. It had to be done immediately and reading that 2,000+ page piece of legislation was just too difficult. Now, as soon-to-be former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lectured, we’re going to find out what’s in it. Today’s New York Times reveals that the answer isn’t good. In an unintended consequence […]

Last week, NASA made a big hullabaloo about a microbe that they had “trained” to consume arsenic instead of the normal phosphorus. The discovery was said to open up all sorts of new possibilities when it came to what sorts of environments we could theoretically discover life in on other planets. A week later, it […]

President Obama announced earlier this evening that he’d come to a deal on extending much of the current tax structure for two years. The deal reportedly includes: The current tax rates for all income levels are extended for two years. The payroll tax is cut by 2 percent for 2011. Unemployment insurance benefits will continue […]

Via Reason magazine’s “hit & run” blog comes yet more evidence that California politicians must expect to be getting a bailout from the feds. California's high speed rail project could be shaping up as the awesomest catastrogeddon of 2011. The California High Speed Rail Authority is committed to breaking ground on a leg of the […]

A few quick things that may interest you from the past week: MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer likens Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell to Jim Crow laws. There’s certainly a case to be made for repeal (though I think the current system works well), but Brewer doesn’t make it. If she really thinks repeal will cause no problems, then […]

If you think little changes can solve this, your name is Paul Krugman. In other economic news: “Surprisingly,” the unemployment rate climbs to 9.8 percent and if the tax cuts aren’t extended before the lame duck session ends, expect the market to tank.

Really deep. President Obama? He’s a blue dog Democrat. Methinks that term doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.