Sierra Faith

Over half our family light bulbs are flourescent, but Sacramento wants to make them all flourescent.
Fortunately, as needed, Carson City is not far. . . .

Why the Antique Media has no idea why their inability or unwillingness to tell the truth can cripple our ability to think clearly:
“What I think many of us are concerned about is that we stumble into active hostilities with Iran without having aggressively pursued diplomatic approaches, without the American people understanding exactly what’s taking place,” [...]

Chilling scenarios from Barry Rubin of the Jerusalem Post.
A few years ago I ran a simulation game for a European military command. At the start, I gave the premise of the exercise as being that Iran had just obtained nuclear weapons. Then I asked the US “leader” how his country would respond. He explained that [...]

A must read by Caroline Glick.
A whopper of a first paragraph:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an evil man. But he is not a stupid man. Indeed, he is smart and fastidious. He understands power and how to get it. And he understands that the purpose of a nation’s foreign policy is to sell ideas and [...]

Jeb and Newt gave great speeches at the National Review Institute’s Conservative Summit this past weekend.
One candidate who did not attend was the former mayor of New York City.
Here is a paean to the man who cleaned up a mess of a city, and who lifted the American spirit on September 11, 2001.
I too want [...]

We pay tens of millions of dollars to terrorists, that’s why.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush has ordered the transfer of about 86 million dollars in aid to strengthen security forces loyal to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, the White House said.
Confirmation of the US aid came a day after an Islamic militant carried [...]

More nuttiness.

Religion of Peace indeed.
Over 5000 women and girls are killed every year by family members in so-called ‘honour killings’, according to the UN. These crimes occur where cultures believe that a woman’s unsanctioned sexual behaviour brings such shame on the family that any female accused or suspected must be murdered. Reasons for these murders can [...]

Video here — introduced by National Review editor Rich Lowry.

Another example of our Antique Media simply being lazy and stupid.
Scalia followed Thomas, not vice-versa.
Consider a criminal case argued during Justice Thomas’s first week. It concerned a thief’s effort to get out of a Louisiana mental institution and the state’s desire to keep him there. Eight justices voted to side with the thief. Justice Thomas [...]