Jan 11, 2016. According to a recent poll, 41% of Trump supporters favored bombing Agrabah, the central (and fictional) location of the Disney film Aladdin. Update: 30% of Republicans and 19% of Democrats also favor bombing the Disney City. The gap is bigger for opposition. Only 13% of Republicans oppose bombing Agrabah, while 36% of democrats do. Hillary's supporters seem a bit sharper ... [Read more...]

Jan 8, 2016. The armed Oregon moochers (famous for grazing their cattle on public land) are "defending" a couple of arsonists. But what you don't hear is the story of their arson. They were hunting illegally (in Oregon), got spotted, and to cover their tracks, set the area on fire. Burned up 139 acres and almost killed their son, Dusty, [Read more...]

Dec 16, 2015. Trump says that "with the terrorists you have to take out their families." He doubled down on it in the Dec. 3 debate when Rand Paul questioned his plan. Trump replied, "So they can kill us, but we can't kill them? That's what you're saying?"

Trump's reason? "When they say they don't care about their [own] lives, you have to take out their families." That's to stop future terrorists. Obviously you can't kill the families ahead of time; you don't know who they are. So after the attack, kill the families to scare the next would-be terrorist. Let's think how that works … killing babies…  [Read more...]

Nov 25, 2015. The Paris climate summit is the sequel to the Copenhagen climate conference. But perhaps more dangerous, because the UN learned from past mistakes and this time it has coopted and snookered the environmentalists. They're now cheering for an agreement that even OPEC loves. We've read the EU and  [Read more...]

Nov 16, 2015. Krugman's op-ed on terrorism is generally excellent. No, those puny terrorists can't destroy western civilization, a spectre raised by Jeb! Bush, who apparently learned nothing from his big brother. And yes, appeasement (as the Liberals in Canada are doing) is a dreadful idea.

But right at the end he misses the most horrible truth when he says "Do you remember all the pronouncements that 9/11 would change everything? Well, it didn’t — and neither will this atrocity." Unfortunately Krugman's dreaming. So what did 9/11 change?

By enabling the Rumsfeld-Cheney-Bush overreaction, it caused: [Read more...]

Aug 24, 2015. So a bunch of politicians (mostly Republican) are sure they understand the nitty gritty of the Iran deal and can out-think six major countries and a whole slew of US nuclear physicists. Believe that, and I've got a bridge to sell you. Let's check with somebody who might actually know something.

Efraim Halevy, a former head of Israel's Mossad spy agency, said the deal forced Iran to accept an “unprecedented” system of inspections.

“Anyone who has followed events in Iran in recent decades or has studied the matter has to admit truthfully that he never believed Iran would ever agree to discuss these issues, let alone agree to” some of the deal’s terms, [Read more...]

Aug 20, 2015. Bernie knows it's nonsense, but he's not saying. He's happy to have people fall for this line. 2015 is like 2007 and Bernie is like Obama. Let's take a look.

• This time in 2007
  • Hillary had 125 Democratic endorsements
  • Obama had 47