The coming liberal meltdown
[Update at end of post] As I keep harping, I said back on June 1st that Romney was going to win big, and that’s certainly how it seems to be unfolding. Then on July 23rd, I doubled-down and said that...
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First shots are already being fired in Clinton/Obama post-election feud
I posted this as an update to my post last Saturday on the coming liberal meltdown, but I think it deserves a post of its own. First, one Wednesday Matt Bai over at the New York Times blog wrote a...
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“The Gods of the Copybook Headings” illustrated
[Thanks to the links from Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds), Chaos Manor (Jerry Pournelle), and John C. Wright's Journal (John C. Wright -- what, you were expecting Karl Rove?). In fact, if you follow the...
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Article: The Legal Consequences of Illegal Wars
I am a member of a special-interest national security e-mail discussion group (long story); one of the other members today posted a link to an article in Foreign Affairs by David Kaye entitled “The...
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Speaking of horror….
…I can’t do any better than point you at Mark Steyn explaining how thoroughly Putin has punked Obama: Charles Crawford, Britain’s former ambassador in Serbia and Poland, called last Monday “the...
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Obamacare, IT, and magic thinking
A very common pattern in a IT project such as the Healthcare.gov website is that those in the trenches know how bad things are, but those at the top don’t — or don’t want to know, leading to a...
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Obamacare and the Unstopped Project
The most valuable IT consultant is someone who stands athwart a failing software project, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it....
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Post at Ace of Spades: why Obamacare is different
I have a new post up over at Ace of Spades about why Obamacare is different from the usual anti-GOP tropes put forward by the Democrats, and why they should be very, very afraid: 1) How many of you...
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Obamacare and the Fraudulent Turk
Decades ago, while home for the holidays from college, I attended a church-sponsored all-night New Year’s Eve party for college students. The organizers, whom I knew, had cozened me into providing...
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Obamacare and the Bifurcated Cusp
Decades ago, as a computer science undergrad at BYU, I took a graduate math class in catastrophe theory, taught by Prof. Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson. This wasn’t because of particular skill on my...
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Obamacare and the Widening Gyre
[rewritten, with some additional links] As many writers have been noting, particularly over the past week. the Obama Administration is getting more and more desperate in trying to make Obamacare...
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Obamacare and the Subversive Masses
It is clear that with the start of 2014, the Obama Administration — as many (including myself) predicted — wants to declare victory with Obamacare and go home. It is also clear to many of us — but...
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