Month: August 2010

Two incidents in the last week, utterly unrelated, but with a common theme. First up, the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The United States, looking to end …

65 years ago yesterday, President Truman made the decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II. This decision probably saved more lives than it destroyed, given …

As in TIME magazine in this piece titled Islamophobia and the 'Ground Zero Mosque' Debate.  Two particularly bald-faced ones I'll highlight:...figures like Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf -- the Arab-American …

And so the proponents of the religion of peace did not... though they did kill a bunch of others, all of them on a humanitarian medical mission purposed in …

Open Secrets is a tremendously useful site. It is the one-stop shopping site for all the public records of politically active groups. Bob Owens, over at Confederate Yankee, noted …

An economics lesson coming our way via Fausta:We are led by hooligans and their defenders in the media.When will we learn?...

Lots of disenfranchising going on out there on the Left Coast.Via Wheat&Weeds....

President Obama's highly-touted Recovery Summer continued to unravel as the US economy "unexpectedly" suffered a net loss of 131,000 jobs in July. However, the jobless rate, calculated separately via …

Years and years ago, I heard or read a phrase that stuck in my memory (far better than the source): "It's not illegal" isn't a defense, it's a confession." …

It's Friday, which means it's time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Enter your best caption for the following picture: Winners will be announced Monday morning. Update: Winners announced. …