Oil prices about to drop?

Larry Kudlow thinks oil and gas prices are about to drop. Supply and exploration are increasing and demand is at least beginning to level.

He also reports that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued the first license for a nuclear power facility in thirty years. Construction of the New Mexico facility could begin in August.

Could this finally be some real progress on the energy front?

World Cup, anyone?

A humorous take on soccer.

SCotUS

My take on the campain finance opinion and Hamdan? If it takes that many pages to explain, you're probably getting it wrong.

Scalia gets Hamdan in his introductory paragraph. The Court simply did not have jurisdiction to take the case.

Thomas gets it right in his concurrence in Randall.

Sadly, the respondent didn't even challenge Buckley v. Valeo's legitimacy in Randall. (not that he would have succeeded)

Campaign Finance Reform

George Will flays the argument for campain finance regulation.

Golf?

Maybe golf would be more exciting if they did allow steroids. And cheating. Imagine how fun that would be! Not the same old boring golf (b o r i n g - Slaps is right, if you put spaces in between letters of words, it totally emphasizes the adjective - maybe it should be in caps too - B O R I N G - just to fully capture how mind-numbingly B O R I N G golf is). I'll bet steroids would be good for golf. Just like they are good for every other sport. Until science allows us to genetically produce superhuman baby gods that will eventually march around the earth wielding giant hammers, hurling lightning, and having titanically competitve sporting events, the best hope we have for physical greatness is steroids. It's not McGwire or Bond's fault that Babe Ruth lived in a time when people were too dumb to know about steroids. Imagine how much more hammerin' ole Hank woulda done juiced up. Someone needs to build a time machine so we can do some tradition-altering science to test this theory out. And don't get me wrong, as great as steroids are (and they clearly are great based on results), I too miss the good old days of fat men hitting homeruns and then going out boozing and whoring. Now THAT'S a tradition worth keeping.

Golf?

Does he mention how b o r i n g golf is to watch?

In Praise of Golf

Daniel Henninger has a good piece on Golf and the role of tradition in shaping institutions.

In Praise of Golf

Daniel Henninger has a good piece on Golf and the role of tradition in shaping institutions.

ABC News

This is rather humorous.

Wow

Even I'd like this basement.

It's not easy...

...being green.

It must be a hard life when you're constantly stressed out about the fact that the piles of money you make are dependent on so much raping and pillaging of the environment.

Rockin Conservative

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is the #1 most conservative song?!?!? Really?

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around

I know I'm no expert....but really? Maybe I'm missing something here about what conservative thought truly is...

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along

That's the most conservative rock song?

And he has Neil young in the second list? I'm pretty sure even if the words sound like they could be in any way supportive of Conservative government, they are not. And I know it's the second list and he's reaching, but "Shattered"?

Pride and joy and greed and sex
Thats what makes our town the best

Sextastic, that song!

At any rate, someone who includes anything by Blink 182 after saying, and I quote: "And, to be sure, it must be a great rock song" is an idiot. I could go on, but I'm too busy going through Neil Young songs to find the lines that support capitalism and drilling for oil in Alaska.

Liberalism, on the Couch

Mark Goldblatt employs a liberal favorite, psychoanalysis, on liberals.

E.J. Dionne makes very little sense...

...if you didn't already know. Today he argues for a New New Deal from progressives. Conservatives help the rich; liberals raise the standard of living of everyone else he says. Now, arguably, FDR and Congress raised the standard of living for many people. Even conceding that point, it couldn't have been done without the technological development that preceded the social works and welfare programs. This development is in large part a result of capitalism, not wealth redistribution.

Dionne's complaint is that labor markets are increasingly competitive. His solution to this condition, predictably, is not to be more competitive. Nope, Americans need the government to protect them from the market. Ironically he quotes the head of the UAW in his plea. The UAW is in large part responsible for the inability of American car companies to compete with foreign companies. American companies are staggering under their labor agreements and all the wonderful benefits they provide. Guess what? If you pay labor much more than it is worth, your company can't compete. As a result your company will never have new jobs to give out.

But Dionne doesn't want those kind of jobs. Jobs that don't coddle people until the grave aren't "well-compensated" jobs.

Griffey

I've gotta take back the good stuff I said about Griffey. Jarrod and I went down to Cincy last night, and Jr. dogged it most of the night. He let two balls he likely could have caught drop in front. They cost the Reds at least 2 runs. Cincy lost by 1.

I wish I could take my all-star vote back.

Rockin' Conservative?

“NRO is a frequent stop on my daily news/opinion surf. Its contributors are often linked by other sites I read, from Prof. Reynolds to TPMcafe. Also, I need my Mark Levin, and I read Mark Steyn wherever I find him. Hey, thanks for including BÖC in the Conservative Top 50 and the second tier, and my well wishes to the entire NRO crew.”

— Buck Dharma, Blue Öyster Cult

Godzilla made the top 50 and Divine Wind was in the second 50.

Memories of Gayness at Ashland

Apparantly Mike Myers recently said of Sean Connery, "Women wanted him. Men wanted to be him. In my case I wanted to be him, and I wanted him."

RE: Finally!

Too bad he's going to hurt his back or twist his ankle or get a paper cut on his pinky finger and miss the second half of the season...just like he does every year.

ZAM!

Finally!

Griffey finally getting it done for the Reds. Big three run homer in the 9th to give the Reds the lead and win over St. Louis. He's been playing like the old Griffey lately. This is what Cincinnati fans have been waiting for since he came to town in 2000.