Taking a break for now

Sadly, Megan McArdle is taking a break from blogging while she works on a new project. I'll miss her.

Mark Steyn on Afghanistan

Mark Steyn explains what has gone wrong in Afghanistan. Of all our recent wars, this is the one I totally fail to understand. Let's get the hell out and try to forget about the place!

Scams and frauds target older Americans

Boomers beware: Scams, frauds and other financial exploitation schemes targeting older Americans are a growing multibillion-dollar industry enriching the schemers, anguishing the victims and vexing law enforcement officials who find these crimes among the hardest to investigate and prosecute.

Volt production stopped

GM halts production of the Chevy Volt. 

Who were the first Americans?

This will shake things up: A stone knife that is still sharp places Stone Age Europeans in America 20,000 years ago.

Archaeologists have long held that North America remained unpopulated until about 15,000 years ago, when Siberian people walked or boated into Alaska and then moved down the West Coast.
But the mastodon relic found near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay turned out to be 22,000 years old, suggesting that the blade was just as ancient.
Whoever fashioned that blade was not supposed to be here.

Notice how archaeologists' careers become wedded to a single view of events. You can see the conflict in the review of Across Atlantic Ice. The essence of science is to think like no one has thought before.

Bill Clinton favors the Keystone Pipeline

Bill Clinton Recommends America ‘Embrace’ the Keystone Pipeline.

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Why Can’t the Obama Administration Make Its Case Without Disseminating Hate? | Power Line

Have we ever had an administration like Barack Obama’s? An administration that tries to benefit from pitting Americans against one another? An administration that uses its billion-dollar slush fund, not to mention the resources of the Executive Branch, to demonize private citizens who disagree with its policies? An administration that uses hate as an instrument of domestic politics? I don’t believe that there is any precedent in American history for the mean-spiritedness that now emanates from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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ATT relents but watch your bill

AT&T relents on restrictions on their unlimited data plans. 

Americans are highly skeptical of Individual Mandate

72 percent of Americans believe the Obamacare mandate is unconstitutional.

Andrew Brietbart is gone

Andrew Brietbart is dead at age 43.