U.S. Government Poisoning Program Kills 10,000 People...

I'd never heard of this before.  Apparently during Prohibition, the U.S. government deliberately poisoned industrial alcohol supplies.  The idea was to discourage thieves from stealing and selling the industrial alcohol alcohol to drinkers – but they did it anyway.  Some estimates place the resulting death toll as high as 10,000 Americans.

Yet another reason for citizens to keep their right to bear arms...

ClimateGate: Roundup...

I continue to marvel at the flood of published material, now that it's cool to be an AGW skeptic:

Sarah Palin rails about the “snow job” revealed by ClimateGate in a link-filled Facebook posting.  One thing Palin does very impressively is to leverage the Internet to get her messages out.  I can't think of any other politician who even comes close to this...

An MIT climatologist says “...at this point, the models seem to be failing.”  Doesn't sound like settled science to me!

Observed North American snow levels trending in the opposite direction of the climate models' predictions.  Oops!

Vindication for an early AGW skeptic.

What changes in snow levels tell us.

al-Zarqawi Surprised by His Reception in Heaven...

Sent along by reader Doug W.:

Abu al-Zarqawi died and George Washington met him at the Pearly Gates. He slapped him across the face and yelled, "How dare you try to destroy the nation I helped conceive!"

Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, "You wanted to end our liberties but you failed!"

James Madison followed, kicked him in the groin and said, "This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!"

Thomas Jefferson was next, beat al-Zarqawi with a long cane and snarled "It was Evil men like you who inspired me to write the Declaration of Independence."

The beatings and thrashings continued as George Mason, James Monroe and 66 other early Americans unleashed their anger on the terrorist Leader.

As al-Zarqawi lay bleeding and in pain, an Angel appeared. Al- Zarqawi wept and said, "This is not what you promised me."

The Angel replied, "I told you there would be 72 Virginians waiting for you in Heaven. What did you think I said?"

I was chuckling for hours after I first read it...

Krauthammer Tears Apart the “Ungovernable” Trope...

Fascinating patterns perceived...

George Will at CPAC...

Excellent speech:



His speech had me cheering – and wishing we had someone like this running for President in the last election. Maybe the next?

Excellent Rant About the Geert Wilder Trial...