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I definitely won't be voting for Clint Eastwood for President. I was going to, of course, but not after that performance. Let's see... what other choices are there?

One of my best friends from college was a delegate (hard to believe that there would be anyone at a GOP convention from Berkeley, but apparently there were several). He sent me an angry update email a few days ago. Below is an excerpt: Convention business started Tuesday Aug 28th, and it...

Under British law you have a "duty to retreat"... learned from the French, no doubt.

Navy SEAL book on killing of bin Laden gets good review from New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/books/no-easy-day-by-mark-owen-with-kevin-maurer.html?_r=2&hp A SEAL’s Own Story, Bin Laden and All ‘No Easy Day’ by Mark Owen Tells of SEAL Raid on Bin Laden NYT...

Yes, but at that point only the hard-core believers will buy it. Most of the country will not. If Romney wins the election, he'll blame Obama. But I don't think anyone will be in the mood to entertain that excuse either.

I'm not making any predictions about the election (which to me appears to be a tossup), but rather about the economy. The loser of this election will feel like the winner a couple of years from now when the economy tanks... again. Only this time it will be worse. Much worse. Skyrocketing...

This reminds me of the "luxury tax" on Yachts back in 1990. Remember that? The idea of a “luxury tax” on yachts had 80% support from the public. And, no surprise, college professors all across America clamored for the tax in the name of “fairness.” Under sustained public pressure...

My cardiologist likes vitamin D, K2 and L-arginine for cardiovascular health. (Proper K2 supplement dosage appears difficult to determine.)

California 2-1-1. http://www.211california.org/about-2-1-1/what-is-211 "2-1-1 is a free phone number and online database that connects Californians quickly and effectively to existing health and human service programs, joblessness support and disaster response information in their...

I don't think volume is the best measure of the impact of the FTT because of the exclusions. Three things I'll be anxious to see are: (a) How much FTT revenue is actually collected (the French Finance Ministry projected 1.1 billion euros each year); (b) the FTT's effect on volatility (the...

A friend of mine who lives in Sweden recently sent me an email in which he described Semeta as "an incompetent and delusional bureaucrat." My friend believes that if there's an enhanced agreement FTT in Europe it's likely to be "for show" only and will be extremely limited in nature if it...

The death penalty is a tough one because, as I stated in my previous post, many criminals deserve capital punishment. But in the long run, I think it's a losing policy. We could end up executing the wrong person, and too often the penalty takes decades to be carried out anyway. Hard-time life in...

There's no doubt that many criminals deserve the death penalty, but I'm against it for two reasons: (a) If we execute the wrong guy, there's no way to undo the damage. (b) In many states, it's so expensive and it takes so long (in some cases decades) to execute a convicted murdere they're more...

No surprise here. At least 50% of the conservatives I know have no problem with gay marriage, and many would support a revamping of the tax system even if it meant they would lose some of their tax breaks. I'm a conservative, but I have no problem with gay marriage, I'm against the death...

The guy called you "an asshole and stupid"... and you want to sue him for what? ...Telling the truth?

They didn't die young because of their diet. They died young because of disease (plagues often wiped out 30-50% of an entire population in a matter of months), wars, famine, natural disasters, etc. They ate healthy unprocessed foods when they were available. That's what we evolved to eat, not...

How were you "damaged" by what he did? (Other than having your feelings hurt.) When you file a lawsuit, you're asking for quantifiable damages (compensation) for harm that was done to you.

I've been supplementing K2 for a couple of years. I've been taking 200mcg daily. Not sure if that's enough to make a difference.

There are 2,380 delegates to the GOP convention. Two behaved badly. Thanks for letting us know that 99.916% of the delegates were well behaved.

Reality check: guns are not going away. ==================================== Record-Low 26% in U.S. Favor Handgun Ban Support for stricter gun laws in general is lowest Gallup has measured "Americans have shifted to a more pro-gun view on gun laws, particularly in recent years...