Beregond's Bar

Since almost all of our politicians are cowards who are unwilling to make the hard and unpopular choices that we elect them to make, President Obama created a presidential commission on how to reduce the budget deficit. Here’s a shocker. The retired politicians and bureaucrats who make up the commission think they need more money [...]

Confederate Yankee links to this story which demonstrates that the “Peace Activists” on board the Turkish ferry boat Mavi Marmara were organized into squads who communicated via radio to coordinate the attacks. (Almost passed over is the fact that there were only 15 members of the IDF aboard, while there were at least 60 terrorists.) [...]

For years I’ve laughed at people like Jenny McCarthy and her claims that vaccines were responsible for autism. It looked like bad psuedoscience, particularly since several studies had cleared thimerosal (and the mercury it contains,) which McCarthy thought was the culprit. Nevertheless it can’t be denied that autism went from 1 in 10,000 live births [...]

UPDATE 06/14/2010 The spoof heard around the world: We Con the World, The Turkish ‘Aid to Gaza’ Song. Launched on YouTube and then banned by YouTube. Watch We Con The World on PJTV: http://pjtv.com/v/3750 Copyright law permits parodies as an exception. Not only did the creators of this video consult lawyers before they released it, [...]

We’re watching another blood libel take shape in the media. Like the “massacre” at Jenin, which never happened, a credulous international press is repeating any assertion made by a gang of thugs with terrorist links because they call themselves “Peace Activists.” In reality many of them were members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Sure, there was [...]

Some folks are only in favor of free speech as long as they agree with the content of that speech. If popular speech was all we worried about there would have been no need for the First Amendment. But government censorship is not all that we need to fear. Last Wednesday ftrradio.com was subject to [...]

Type I diabetics require insulin. Many type II diabetics require insulin. Depending on how and where you shop for things, insulin is either the most expensive or the second most expensive regular expense of diabetes. (The most expensive for many, including me, are the test strips. It should be noted this post ignores the cost [...]

Last night I made and then deleted a post that linked to this image from Doctor Jerry Pournelle’s blog. I deleted the post because I was having formatting problems with the image on the main page. It was too wide for the column and about 40% was cut off. However the post didn’t go entirely [...]

While trying to get up the gumption to post more on my blog, a friend on Twitter told me about a new Internet radio station for conservatives. This was RFC Radio, Radio for Conservatives. I became first a fan, and then was invited to become part of the technical staff. I worked to fix things [...]

Twitter today with no notice made the optional mandatory. For one refresh cycle of my Twitter web home page there was a one line notice that a change had been made to settings. It included a link to the Twitter blog for details, but there was no post yet. The post is up now.  The [...]