Russia Upgrades To Western Weapons

clipped from www.strategypage.com In theory, Russia is correct. South Korea would be in a better position to deliver weapons of mass destruction if it had the Global Hawks. The real reason the Russians don't want the South Koreans to have Global Hawk is because they don't want such a splendid reconnaissance vehicle operating in their neighborhood. The Russians know that the North Korean communist dictatorship is going to collapse soon, creating a united Korea with an economy much larger than Russias, and with about half the population of Russia. It's an old Russian custom to be paranoid about neighbors, and this is another manifestation of that. But Russia has gotten with the times, and is deploying lawyers and publicists to keep the Global Hawks away from their borders, rather than hauling out the traditional tanks and warplanes.

Lawyers, that is...

Nothing Else Matters

clipped from www.strategypage.com Labor unions are illegal, yet workers have formed them anyway, demonstrate, and end up brawling with police and Islamic conservative irregulars. The workers want jobs, and are increasingly willing to get organized, and get out in the street and fight. Meanwhile, the lifestyle police have been ordered to crack down on women who do not cover up, and thousands have been warned, or arrested. This has sometimes led to street violence, and in some neighborhoods, the lifestyle police stay away, unless they are prepared to come in force and ready to fight.      The government sees no reason to change course on its nuclear program, nor its attitude towards the threat of economic sanctions from Europe and the UN. Iran is on a Mission From God, and nothing else matters.

It Works Like This

clipped from www.strategypage.com May 8, 2007: All the blather from some circles in the U.S. about an imminent attack on Iran only plays into the hands of the Islamic radicals who control the government there. It works like this. If we don't attack, they'll cite their readiness to defend themselves as having successfully deterred the "Great Satan." If we do attack, the Iranian radicals can cry about being beaten up by the Great Satan, and rally the country (which generally despises their clerical rulers). This is why most of the talk about the U.S. attacking Iran is coming from Iran.

The Cosmic Coffin

clipped from www.theaugeanstables.com Perhaps the most striking element of the modern progressive concern for the “other” — and one of the great ironies of our “other”-oriented post-modern age — is that the “other” is really an abstract. He or she has no face, no autonomy, no concrete presence and personality — a mental construct. And so despite all the concern in Western thought about meeting, experiencing, and dialoguing with the “other” — itself an exceptional (and civic) cultural development — the most prominent practitioners seem the least ready to really meet, really experience, and really speak with the Muslim “other.” And anyone who dares suggest that the experience might not be very pleasant is banished as an Islamophobe. We may be committing suicide with our lack of willingness to have the courage to live up to our own values and actually encounter the “other” as an “other” and not as a pleasing projection onto the cosmic coffin of our narcissistic souls.

Because Power Is All That Matters...

clipped from instapundit.com Funny how Bush 41 led a hugely successful military effort with Gulf War I yet lost an election because of the perception that "it's the economy, stupid." Now, Bush 43 is in the tank because of the perception that Gulf War II is a disaster based on lies and gets no credit for a remarkable economic turnaround with record stock market highs, low unemployment, and huge chunks taken out of the budget deficit. How does that happen?

The RIGHT Kind Of Dem

clipped from qcexaminer.wordpress.com Exhibit D: Further, one of my favorite Iowegian bloggers, IowaVoice was forced to consult with an attorney after a liberal blogger and his minions set up a parody site also called “Iowa Voice” and searched court records in an attempt to dig up dirt, not only on the blogger, but the blogger’s wife. Exhibit E: On the Illinois side, amazingly enough this left-wing blogger has also been subject to blackmail and intimidation by Democrats. Apparently, it’s not enough to be a Democrat, you have to be the RIGHT kind of Democrat if you expect to blog in peace.

Happy Mothers Day!

clipped from www.amazon.com In Mommy Knows Worst, you’ll be treated to a visual feast of past parenting neuroses—as well as insight into why concerned moms and dads were driven to buy “delicious” baby laxatives, douse their baby in oil and put him in the sun, and strap Junior into a car seat that bore a strange resemblance to scrap metal. If you’re a baby boomer who lived through this childhood torture, well, we’re sorry. But if humor really is the best medicine (rather than bicarbonate of curd and mustard plaster, as was previously recommended for childhood ailments), then Mommy Knows Worst is cheaper than therapy. Photographs, advertisements, magazine articles, and government-issue parenting guides, which seemed so helpful in their day, are given a whole new slant by the master of the genre, James Lileks. Mommy Knows Worst is a rollicking tribute to old-fashioned parenting that gives us a whole new reason not to forget our past—it’s hilarious!

Leave it to Likeks to point out that it used to be much worse -- if you can believe it

Bumbling The Apocalypse

clipped from www.suntimes.com Most terrorists seem like bumbling losers if they're caught before the act: That's certainly true of the Fort Dix jihadists who took their terrorist training DVD to the local audio store to be copied. It was also true of the Islamists arrested in Toronto last year for plotting to behead the prime minister, one of whose cell members had a bride who wanted him to sign a prenup committing him to jihad. The Heathrow plotters arrested while planning to blow up U.S.-bound airliners included a Muslim convert who'd started out as the son of a British Conservative Party official with a P. G. Wodehouse double-barreled name and a sister who was a Victoria's Secret model and ex-wife of tennis champ Yanick Noah. But then Mohammed Atta and the 9/11 gang would have seemed pretty funny if you'd run into them in that lap-dance club they went to before the big day where the girls remembered them only as very small tippers. Most terrorists are jokes until the bomb goes off.

Zion Bill

clipped from instapundit.com Apparently, in their minds, a fascist must always have a swastika prominently displayed on the sleeve at all times - otherwise he’s just a victim working out grievances. These journalists wouldn’t recognize fascism if it smacked them over the head with a hammer and sickle, which is the Soviet version of swastika. They probably wouldn’t have believed me if I were to tell them that in the twisted minds of these ultra-nationalist maniacs, all Westerners were under the suspicion of being Zionist running dogs working to enslave and destroy Mother Russia. To appreciate just how crazy they were, consider the fact that one of their worst imaginary Zionist enemies was Bill Clinton.

And Cultural Collapse

clipped from www.frontpagemagazine.com The pious Muslims who constructed the school had filled propane tanks with explosives and buried them beneath the floor. They built artillery shells into the ceiling and the floor. To save the world for Allah, they decided to butcher little girls. And the brutality is not limited to the Middle East. Last month in Oslo, Norway, Norwegian-Somali women's rights activist Kadra was brutally beaten by a crowd of men piously calling out "Allah Akhbar." She was attacked for exposing the fact that inside their mosques in Norway, Norwegian imams praise female genital mutilation in the name of Allah. Late last year Hirsi Ali published her memoir, Infidel. In describing her own life, what she actually explains are the two competing human impulses - conformity and individualism. In her own life, the clash of the two has been played out on the stage of Islamic ascendance and Western cultural collapse.

Angry Words

clipped from www.frontpagemagazine.com For Bin Laden, it is now the final stage in a three-act play.  Having “destroyed the stronger and more deadly superpower,”the Soviet Union, “the effeminate American Empire is not a problem.” Bin Laden attacked U.S. installations in 1998 with impunity.  Americans responded with “angry words” followed by “let’s get out of here.”  This attitude began in 1983 Beirut after the U.S. Marine compound was destroyed and 241 U.S. Marines were killed, repeated in Somalia in 1994.  Bin Laden’s attacks on American interests continued throughout the 1990’s, culminating with September 11, 2001, when Bin Laden opened the third phase - bringing his Jihad to America.

Economics Is For Donkeys?

clipped from www.benadorassociates.com Ahmadinejad's high-risk strategy may soon force the Islamic Republic to fight on two fronts: inside the country against a growingly restive population, and outside against a coalition of determined enemies that will not be content with limited fire-works as imagined by him.

Or will the Dems continue to undermine any chance of winning against the nutjobs?

I'll Pass

clipped from www.michaeltotten.com AltaInd: the US should fight only those countries that threaten it and not go to war on behalf of other counties Sort of defeats the purpose of having allies, doesn't it? And it rules out our war against Nazi Germany, saving South Korea, the rescue of Bosnia and Kosovo, and the liberation of Kuwait. I'll pass.

A Problem With More People Than Tenet...

clipped from www.newyorker.com On the New Republic Web site, the international-relations expert Ronald Steel wrote that Tenet “exemplifies the rule that those in high places will endure virtually any humiliation before surrendering a position of power.”

Blow Up? Or Blown Up?

clipped from www.victorhanson.com The more a Palestinian imam promises us our death, the more the Iranian president promises a world without America, the more these al Qaedists, like the most recent keystone clowns at Fort Dix, do their small part in trying to reify such mad rhetoric, and the more the sophisticated apologists assure us that we, not they, are the real threat, the more likely the sofa-sitting, channel-surfing American will some day very soon blow up, rather than be blown up.

That's God's Word?

clipped from littlegreenfootballs.com Under cross examination, the Columbia University-trained physician was forced to acknowledge a history of family violence, a fascination with weapons and a belief that good Muslims should engage in armed jihad, or holy war. U.S. Attorney Victor Hou asked Sabir about an audio tape, found at his house, in which a religious lecturer said God would “destroy the disbelievers.” “That’s God’s word. I have to believe in it,” Sabir said.

Polish Darkness?

clipped from instapundit.com DE-COMMUNIZATION IN POLAND: A Polish court says it's unconstitutional, leading Perry de Havilland to observe: "But surely justice cannot be served by allowing the communist era and above all, the role of the people who made it all possible, to vanish down the memory hole. If people did despicable things during the communist era, why should they escape punishment? I cannot imagine a German court being allowed to stop the process of de-nazification in Germany, so why tolerate something similar in Poland in the aftermath of communism? Forgiveness can not come before repentance and a lot of people have yet to repent. I wonder if there are any senior judges who might have an embarrassing file on their communist era activities that they would rather not see the light of day? Just wondering."

Nothing To Do With Terror?

clipped from pierrelegrand.net Well gosh they know where they are and the investigation continues…HOLY SMOKES. We are supposed to be comforted by the fact that the FBI KNOWS where they are? Hell they knew where Moussaoui was as well and that didn’t do us a bit of good. The FBI has turned into the Keystone Kops. In 1993 they knew where the second most important person, Abdul Rahman Yasin, in the plot to drop one WTC into the other with a truck bomb that ultimately blew out 6 floors of reinforced concrete was because they interviewed him. Then they let him go and he went straight to Iraq but hey now they have a cute little WANTED POSTER. Ooops yea I know Saddam had NOTHING to do with terror.  Can someone get the Government to alert us in regards to their attitude towards those who want to murder us? Is this a war or a law enforcement operation? We have heard a lot of criticism of the Clinton Administrations feeble attempts to prosecute folks who were at war with us. Is the Bush Administration any different?

Little Worms (Part 48365)

clipped from www.davidwarrenonline.com The larger truth he serves is the realization that we will get nowhere against the psychopathic, Islamist enemies of our civilization so long as we allow them to thrive parasitically on our own vacuous and craven left-liberalism -- parrying each new threat against us with evasion, conciliation, sophistry, and equivocation.

No Problem Here ... Move Along Now...

clipped from www.canadafreepress.com Islamberg is not as benign as a Buddhist monastery or a Carmelite convent. Nearly every weekend, neighbors hear sounds of gunfire. Some, including a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, have heard the bang of small explosives. None of the neighbors wished to be identified for fear of "retaliation." "We don't even dare to slow down when we drive by," one resident said. "They own the mountain and they know it and there is nothing we can do about it but move, and we can't even do that. Who wants to buy a property near that?"

Last One Out...

clipped from www.captainsquartersblog.com At the time, we thought that the Strib might be pushing Lileks out because of his connections to the conservative blogosphere. Now, though, it looks much more like a case of complete managerial incompetence, because the new editors have most of the Strib's reporters playing musical chairs:

The Irrepressible Martyr Mickey

clipped from littlegreenfootballs.com The monstrous clone of Mickey Mouse used by Hamas to teach children violence, hatred, and Islamic supremacism was back on the air yesterday. Hamas issued a statement with the usual toxic mix of whining victimhood and murderous threats; MEMRI TV captured and translated the latest episode of this nightmarish Islamic children’s show. And the media, meanwhile, continue to make excuses and cover for this depravity, in story after story that claims the evil mouse is doing nothing more than teaching “resistance against Israel.” It’s more disgusting than the show itself.

Why You Should Visit Glenn This Morning

clipped from instapundit.com KAROL SHEININ ON THE FORT DIX TERRORISTS: "When Elvis and Dritan Duka, two of the three brothers arrested on terrorism charges in Fort Dix, were kids, they were neighborhood bullies. When they got a little older, they became drug dealers. How do I know? They grew up in my neighborhood, my brother and his friends used to brawl with them on a fairly regular basis. My brother's best friend's mom was friends with their mom. Then they moved to New Jersey and became Jihadis." No doubt we'll soon hear that the case for carbon caps is a "slam dunk." Actually, they campaigned against a "culture of corruption" before the voters ended Republican control of Congress. Since then, not so much.

(He had Mission Accomplished too.)

Hillary Says Mission Accomplished

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Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...

Of Filth And Fantasy

clipped from sigmundcarlandalfred.wordpress.com The Baron highlights the difference between an authoritarian type ideology and a totalitarian ideology. The authoritarian ideologues concern themselves only with your behavior. A good example of that was Gorbachev’s Soviet Union. Totalitarian regimes concern themselves not only with your behavior, but they try to enforce as certain way of thinking. A good example of that can be found in the Arab world. They are so frightened of free thinking citizens, that they refuse to upgrade their schools- and in the particularly toxic and dysfunctional Palestinian society, Mickey Mouse is used to indoctrinate children not just to love the Great Leader, but rather to learn to love murder and death. This kind of filth is almost unique in the world. Like the Palestinians, the leftists have known nothing but failure. Like the Palestinians, leftists will blame anyone and everyone but themselves for the ideologies that have led millions to decades of despair, desperation, ruination and hopelessness.

And Michael Moore gets wasted in the ending shot:

"It is interesting that while Michael Moore is taking Americans (and cameras) with him to Cuba, when the wall in Eastern Europe came down, the influx of sick Albanians and Bulgarians to Cuban hospitals came to a standstill. They headed to western hospitals and western trained doctors.

It would appear as if the Albanians and Bulgarians are a whole lot smarter that Michael Moore.

Great minds really do think alike."

Beautiful.

Heads In The Sand

clipped from iraqthemodel.blogspot.com I had said it over and over again that some of us in Iraq and America are sending wrong messages to the terrorists and the dictators behind them; in fact I wasn't surprised when I saw Zawahiri appear on al-Jazeera to announce America's defeat, not long after Reid did. The cost of liberating Europe was enormous in blood and treasure and thereafter it took half a century of American military presence to protect Europe's nations from subsequent threats—now if that made sense during a cold war, and it did, then I don't understand why would anyone demand a pullout from Iraq (and maybe later the middle east) when the enemies are using every evil technique, from booby trapped dead animals to hijacked civilian aircrafts to kill us and destroy the human civilization.

Debating In The Dark

clipped from weeklystandard.com Finally, Iran has seemingly carried out at least one direct attack against Americans in Iraq. The only public incident that has been tied to Iran to date is a January 20 attack in Karbala, where 12 men disguised as U.S. soldiers entered the Provincial Joint Coordination Center and mounted an attack that killed five soldiers and wounded three. Military blogger Bill Roggio noted in late January: "Based on the sophisticated nature of the raid, as well as the response, or cryptic non-responses, from multiple military and intelligence sources, this raid appears to have been directed and executed by the Qods Force branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps." AS THE DEBATE OVER a timeframe for Iraq withdrawal rages, it is obvious that some of the most prominent debaters lack the bare minimum of knowledge necessary for serious participation. Understanding the various factions opposing us in Iraq does not settle this debate--but it is a first step to serious engagement.

What Wahhabi?

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com But the greatest intelligence failure of the past two decades was the CIA's failure to understand and sound an alarm at the rise of jihadist fundamentalism. It is Wahhabi extremism and the call to holy war against infidels that gave us the perpetrators of Sept. 11 and much of the terrorism that has followed. In his attempts to blame others for CIA shortcomings, Tenet cannot say, "I told the president that our Saudi allies were financing thousands of mosques and schools around the world where a hateful doctrine of holy war and violence was being inculcated in young potential terrorists." Fatefully, the CIA failed to make our leaders aware of the rise of Islamist extremism and the immense danger it posed to the United States. We have made only a down payment on the price of that failure.

The Window Of Impunity

clipped from www.davidwarrenonline.com I have written before in these pages that “global warming” is a great imposture and fraud, that will, a generation from now, look like the Club of Rome forecasts for a generation ago. That aside, it is tremendously consequential: not because the predictions are plausible (they are based on computer modelling, which cannot even tell you reliably what the weather will be next week), but because it offers a “window of impunity” to vastly increase the scope of government. That is why, all over the world, politicians have scrambled aboard the climate-change bandwagon even more enthusiastically than the media.

WWII Interned

clipped from fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com While people may not want to return to the methods of World War 2, it is dishonest to pretend, as it is now fashionable to do, that Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conducted war according to some high moral standard that the Bush administration has somehow betrayed. The current rules of engagement of Bush-Hitler would be unrecognizable compared to that waged by the Greatest Generation, and more to point, compared to warfare conducted by any other country in the world today. World War 2 was the era of unrestricted submarine warfare, unlimited attacks on enemy cities, the development of weapons of mass destruction to counter threats which turned out were nonexistent and the internment of thousands of Japanese-American civilians. One may or may not like the facts, but they are the facts.

Did I forget to mention that there were only 9 allies? Or that Einstein helped "mislead us" that we needed to invent the bomb? Down the MSMemory Hole it goes...

The Missing State

clipped from fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com This is not to say that an American presence on the ground is required indefinitely, but maybe it is rational to argue that the last four years in Iraq have bought a lot of information and capability that would otherwise not have made it into the military system at all. Based on what I have heard, the State Department is far, far behind the Defense Department in the game of having an "ear to the ground", which is really ironic because while it is the job of career diplomats to be the best informed about conditions in foreign countries they are sometimes the most dis-informed because their natural operating environment is at the level of leadership, which in Iraq might be a nest of intrigue comparable of world-class proportions.

Did I Mention That They Have Nuclear Weapons?

clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk President Musharraf could declare a state of emergency in Pakistan amid growing civil unrest against his increasingly embattled regime. Security forces were placed on high alert yesterday, detaining hundreds of activists on the eve of an anti-government rally in Karachi. Rival demonstrations are planned by supporters of General Musharraf, raising fears of violent clashes in the southern port city today.

The Results Of The "Moderate" Mosque

clipped from littlegreenfootballs.com As we’ve been saying here for a while, it’s completely irrelevant whether suspected plotters like the Fort Dix jihadis are card-carrying members of Al Qaeda International, Inc. Al Qaeda isn’t a formal organization, it’s an ideology—a philosophy of Islamic supremacism that is not limited to one group or country, but spreads through the medium of Islam. I’d like to see mainstream media take one tenth of the energy and resources they’ve spent investigating US secret programs and put it into investigating where people like the Fort Dix Six learned and hardened the Islamic rationale for their plans. The New York Times has told us that the mosque they attended was a “moderate” mosque, and that’s as far as it’s going to get.

That Old U.N. Magic

clipped from fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com The UN plans to name Zimbabwe head of the Commission on Sustainable Development. Western countries are "concerned". Samizdata is rolling on the floor laughing. Zimbabwe will get the position because it is rotated through a number of countries. The UN can do little harm as long as it is universally understood that it operates according to the principles of magical realism. Unfortunately it often presented as the very fount of wisdom, capable of offering sound advice on climate change, economic development, human rights and nuclear proliferation when it is not always well qualified to do this.

The Evidence Just Keeps Building

clipped from timblair.net So many pointed heads, so little tinfoil. BTW- did you know Churchill instigated the invasion of Poland in order to get rid of the pacificist Neville Chamberlain? They weren’t Sausage-Eaters who blitzkrieged their way to Warsaw, it was actually a group of Boer mercenaries, recruited by the warmongering Churchill during his stint on the High Veldt; the Huns never had any territorial ambitions, Hitler really wanted to use his democratically elected position to urge Germans to join a united Europe, a sort of early EU. This was all scuppered and millions killed to satisfy the lust for power of the evil Churchill. (Who like his distant royal relatives is really an alien lizard. And that’s another thing- Churchill was in cahoots with the British royal family, who were outraged that their fellow hatchling the Kaiser had been deposed by the democratic nazis, and wanted to destroy Germany for thie insolence. The evidence just keeps building).

Heh.

The Worms Begin The Defunding

clipped from powerlineblog.com Secretary of Defense Gates has written a letter to Congress expressing his concern over proposals to fund the Defense Department in three-months increments and to delay the second increment. Here is the text of the Gates letter: In my view, such a proposal would cause significant disruption to the effective and efficient operation of the Department of Defense and the health and welfare of the U.S. military. In submitting the FY07 supplemental request in early February, the Department planned on these funds becoming available by no later than mid-April. Accordingly, starting in mid-April, the Department began a series of actions to mitigate the impact of the delay in the supplemental on our deployed forces by slowing down spending in less critical accounts. In addition, funds budgeted for fourth quarter Army operations and personnel costs have been or are in the process of being moved forward and expended to partially make up the shortfall.

As Hitler said after Munich, I have met the enemy and they are "little worms". There's almost nothing that I agree with Hitler on but he certainly had that one right. And it seems to never go out of style.

They Say It Wasn't Racial...

clipped from www.captainsquartersblog.com Compared to these three cases of arrested development, Don Imus was a model of propriety. What kind of men think that raping a woman and punching her in the face makes for humor? It doesn't matter whether they were talking about the Secretary of State or the secretary working at XM Radio, it's disgusting and repellent. It shows once again that the two hosts of this show have few redeeming qualities, if any.

... so it must be OK. After all, it was just brutally misogynistic and everyone is allowed to do that so we can avoid facing up to the Islamist thugs. I'm betting they get away scott free. Makes me want to wretch...

New Nekkid No Nos (Obama Version)

clipped from instapundit.com They told me that if George W. Bush was reelected we'd see objectionable paintings taken down. And they were right! (Via Don Surber, who comments: "Shades of John Ashcroft and the nekkid statue." Hey, thanks to Alberto Gonzales, Ashcroft is acquiring a retroactive glow!)

Church Sanctuaries Again

clipped from hosted.ap.org LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Churches in five big U.S. cities plan to protect illegal immigrants from deportation, offering their buildings as sanctuary if need be, as they pressure lawmakers to create a path to citizenship for the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. On Wednesday, a Catholic church in Los Angeles and a Lutheran church in North Hollywood each sheltered one person, and churches in other cities plan to do so in coming months as part of the "New Sanctuary Movement."

But the Iraqis should have been left to the plastic shredders? Remarkable. Maybe because leasing out their sanctuaries doesn't require much blood or sweat?

Fred Rethinks The Boycott

clipped from article.nationalreview.com The refusal by the French people to bow to this political extortion should be recognized and cheered. They have not only sent a message to anti-democratic forces inside and outside their borders, I believe they are telling us something even more important. We are beginning, I think, to see our old friends and allies put aside disagreements and rivalries to do what has to be done. It has been a long road, but the forces of civilization and order are beginning to understand that we are in a global struggle against the forces of death and destruction. Maybe it’s time to rethink the “boycott France” movement that got so much attention a few years ago. Americans once toasted General Lafayette, and his son George Washington Lafayette. I think this would be a good time to toast Monsieur Sarkozy. And if you’re going to use wine for that toast, make it French wine.

King Arthur!

clipped from article.nationalreview.com Today, it’s still the fashion for American pundits and pols to snicker at the revenue-enhancing power of tax cuts. But while they laugh, the world at large is shifting toward what works. First it was Estonia going for a Forbesian flat tax. Then Germany elected the Rhineland’s answer to Margaret Thatcher. That was good for as far as it went, but now France? Yes, the people of Gaul found their inner Charlemagne and put tax-cutting Nicolas Sarkozy into office. The realm King Arthur continues to widen.

Purdue Saves Another 15%

clipped from science.slashdot.org "Purdue researchers say they have made a major advance in the design of the internal combustion engine, one that could seriously boost fuel efficiency and cut emissions. A key portion involves building intake and exhaust valves that are no longer driven by mechanisms connected to the pistons, a departure from the way car engines have worked since they were commercialized more than a century ago. The homogeneous charge compression ignition technique would make it possible to improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by 15 percent to 20 percent, making them as efficient as diesel engines while nearly eliminating smog-generating nitrogen oxides, Shaver said.'"

Return Of The Economy Killers

clipped from article.nationalreview.com This time around, an evaluation of at least one wave of tax-rate increases — whether on oil company profits or hedge-fund capital gains, or by way of the expiration of the Bush tax cuts — will give investors the opportunity to view the coming stock market decline like an auto crash in slow motion. Current Democratic proposals to raise taxes are the equivalent of the ones imposed by President Nixon, and if those proposals come to fruition, the second decade of the 21st century may look just like the 1970s — with one caveat. Many foreign politicians have learned from their mistakes; they now know that socialist, redistributionist policies are economy killers. But since too many American politicians have not yet learned this lesson, our economy and financial markets will be stuck fighting bad policy from within, and supercharged competition from without.