Month: December 2009

I guess Harry Reid reached 60 votes for cloture late last night. I haven’t had a chance to look at the abortion language yet. Meanwhile, the Republicans are forcing the Senate clerk to read Reid’s manager’s...

While Israel professes to have frozen settlement building, a highly dubious claim, it has continued its policy of subsidizing settlement businesses and agriculture, even employing Palestinians as cheap labor around the West...

Hello again painting fans. This week I’ll be continuing with the Cape May, New Jersey painting.  The photo that I will be using is seen directly below. I’ll be using my usual acrylics on an unusual 6 by 6 inch...

The government has an increasingly free hand in deciding what information it releases to the public, and its response has unsurprisingly been towards less disclosure. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning...

Sometime in the next few hours it is going to start snowing here. And it is going to snow for a long time. By tomorrow night there may be over a foot of snow on the ground. Since I live in a cabin in the woods, we have a...