July 2012 Archives

As someone that spends more than his fair share of time analyzing statistics, I am more acutely aware than most on how statistics can be manipulated to prove anything you want. So, I could march out here with some fancy numbers and blow everyone's minds, but we all know that someone else can do the same on the other side. I prefer to bring a little something we call common sense to the discussion. I...

  http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/jul/23/gun-control-falsehoods-fact-check/...

Remember during the GOP primaries when Newt Gingrich said this?"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior."At the time, it seemed that Gingrich was simply doing what he does so well, which is to spout utter nonsense with the gravity of a college professor speaking basic truths.  In this...

UPDATE 2: KPRC reports about our neighborhood thief.UPDATE:  KPRC Channel 2 in Houston has picked up this story; I will be giving an interview later this afternoon.  Also added is when the thief returned with an accomplice in a car to steal my neighbor's trees.  For about 6 months now, a thief has been stealing thousands of dollars worth of landscaping, trees, and bushes from our townhome development in mid-town Houston.  Last night he and...

This is so 1791:A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.We need something more appropriate for 2012. This seems pretty accurate:A heavily armed populace, being necessary to expand the power of the NRA and the profits of the gun manufacturing lobby, the right of the people to own weapons and ammunition which are designed to do...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-cavnar/gun-violence-is-not-norma_b_1689143.html...

Frankly. I've had it. With Mitt Romney and his surrogates ratcheting up the "Obama as other" rhetoric on a daily basis, I.ve had it. I've had it up to here ( hand to top of forehead) with the cries of "foreign" and "doesn't understand how America works" and "doesn't understand the American system" and "needs to learn how to be American."Doesn't understand America and how America works? Needs to learn how to be American? The...

The right-wing contempt for working people was on full display as Michelle Malkin joined the Fox and Friends crew: "Romney types, of course, are the ones who sign the front of the paycheck, and the Obama types are the one who have spent their entire lives signing the back of them," Very clever line. But as they say in the NFL, upon further review...Let's see, Ms. Malkin. The graphic says "Fox News contributor." I...

So the McCain people saw 23 years worth of Mitt Romney's tax returns in 2008 when Romney was being vetted as a potential VP nominee and decided to go with Sarah Palin instead? Yikes....