http://neveryetmelted.com The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. -- D.H. Lawrence Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:11:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The most epic World of Warcraft duel is not going to be fought inside the game, reports the New York Times. Nor will broadswords, enchanted armor, and magic spells be producing the decision. DPS will be inflicted by interagency memoranda, and the Communist Party rather than the program algorithm ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/07/chinese-ministries-battle-over-wow/ Rich Lowry makes the same point, observing that the democrats are operating on the basis of a mandate for radical change that they never had. On November 3, the fairy tale died. The election results in Virginia and New Jersey dismantled the self-satisfied, just-so story that Democrats have been ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/07/the-democrats-mandate-gap/ David Brooks, too, observes that the willingness of democrats to try for radical change at the risk of the economy is costing them the support of the non-ideological center. Independents turned on the Republican Party because the MSM persuaded them that it was George W. Bush's intransigent extremism which ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/07/democrats-scaring-independents/ Sergeant Kimberly Munley The commanding officer of Fort Hood, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone, reported today that a civilian police officer was responsible for ending the massacre at the Army base. Fort Hood police Sgt. Kimberly Munley and her partner arrived in under three minutes after receiving reports of gunfire on Thursday afternoon. ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/06/she-shot-him-four-times-though-hit-twice-herself/ How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. --Winston Churchill, The River War, 1899. As the commentariat sharpens its pencils and waits for further information on the ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/06/the-liberals-will-not-blame-islam/ Nidal Malik Hasan The Roanoke Times offers background on the Army psychiatrist who ran amok yesterday at Fort Hood, killing 13 and wounding 30 others. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of shooting 12 people to death and wounding 31 others at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, was the ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/06/fort-hood-shootings/ Daniel Henniger explains that economic fears drove independent voters to flee the Republican ticket and vote for Barack Obama, whose calm tones and competently-run campaign promised he could handle the crisis. The economic crisis was not resolved quickly. Democrats chose not to adopt the conventional policy of cutting taxes, ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/05/the-american-leadership-crisis/ Guy Fawkes arrested in the cellar of Parliament with the explosives. Remember, remember! The fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason, and plot; There is no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot!’ Early in the morning of November 5, Guy Fawkes crept, torch in hand, into the cellar beneath the House of Lords in the Palace ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/05/remember-remember-the-fifth-of-november/ Readers emailed new video links to Big Hollywood in response to the original story back in late September about children at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, New Jersey being taught to sing songs praising Barack Obama reminiscent of the forms of indoctrination used in totalitarian states. Liberals ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/05/eleven-more-school-kids-singing-praises-to-obama-videos/ Virginia Governor McDonnell (Rep) 59, Deeds (Dem) 41 New Jersey Governor Christie (Rep) 49, Corzine (Dem) 45 New York (23d District) Owens (Dem) 48, Hoffman (Con) 46 We won the two big governor's races and, despite the uphill difficulty in New York's 23rd Congressional District, came close to pulling off a conservative ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/04/a-good-night-for-the-gop/ The Chicago Tribune gleefully welcomes a new primetime Sci Fi drama which premiered on ABC last night. One of the principal aliens is played by Morena Baccarin, who was the beautiful courtesan in Firefly/Serenity. The new show's plot features some amusing parallels to reality. Imagine this. At a time of ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/04/v-o/ I don't always agree with the Jack Russell Terrier camp of Conservative blogging (Michelle Malkin, Pam Geller, Dan Riehl, and so on). I recently thought they were all being silly about the 30 year old Roman Polanski scandal. But today I certainly think our most belligerent rightwing bloggers are ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/03/reason-is-winning-in-nys-23rd-district/ Senator Orrin Hatch (R- UT) yesterday. in an interview with CNS, questioned the constitutionality of the democrat health care reform bill, and explained why Nancy Pelosi and the democrat party's congressional leadership are willing to defy opinion polls and risk losing control of Congress by ramming through ObamaCare. The ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/03/its-all-about-dependency/ Air Force Times: 11 airmen and six National Guardsmen from Guam flew into Al Fashir, in Darfur, Sudan with an Air Force HC-30 transport to pick up six locked duffel bags at the request of military liaisons from the US Embassy. Sudanese military personnel were loading blue explosive canisters onto an ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/02/air-crew-awarded-medals-for-2006-sudan-confrontation/ Clarice Feldman has never seen anything like it. http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/02/what-a-fall-was-this/ Queue in Baltimore (Baltimore Sun photo) Bill Kristol suggests, if you want to see ObamaCare in action, just look at how well the federal government is doing passing out Flu vaccine right now. With Barack Obama as her front man, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi--the real power in the Democratic party--has gone ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/02/swine-flu-and-obamacare/ Hat tip to Bruce Kessler. http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/02/bad-medicine/ Megrahi welcomed home in August by Muamar Gadaffi's son and designated successor, Saif al-Islam The Telegraph reports that unidentified "senior official" source has revealed that predictions of the Lockerbie bomber's imminent demise have proven inaccurate. So much for the "within three months" legal basis for his compassionate release. Of course, ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/01/how-surprising/ Photographed in Prince William County Via the Politico. http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/31/change-2009/ Mark Steyn responds to National Endowment for the Arts chief's Rocco Landesman's hyperbolic flattery of the Chosen One. In his keynote address to the 2009 “Grantmakers in the Arts” Conference, Landesman hailed Obama as “the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar”. He didn’t mean a “powerful writer” as in a compelling ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/31/obama-most-powerful-writer-since-julius-caesar/ Jeremy Meister is becoming a bit irritated with the liberals as the next round of debate on so-called Health Care Reform gets underway. So now that the fifth bill on health care reform is out, here comes the next round of arguments. Meaning that Conservatives will have to restate ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/31/arguing-over-socialism/ I plan to buy all of mine from them. 1:19 video Hat tip to Ace via Bird Dog. http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/30/good-mobile-home-commercial/ A junior staff member (since fired) working from home placed a secret House of Representatives Ethics report on a publicly accessible internet site, and someone then shared the document with the Washington Post. Since the great bulk of the scandalous information involved democrats, the Post was understandably appalled, and was certainly ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/30/more-bad-news-for-democrats/ David Harsanyi thinks Americans need a good stiff drink as we survey the sheer size of Nancy Pelosi's Pharonic pyramid of paper. The King James version of the Bible runs more than 600 pages and is crammed with celestial regulations. Newton's Principia Mathematica distilled many of the rules of physics in ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/30/so-let-it-be-written-so-let-it-be-done/ Peggy Noonan is feeling a bit depressed today contemplating 1990 unreadable pages costing $2.24 million dollars a word. While Americans feel increasingly disheartened, their leaders evince a mindless . . . one almost calls it optimism, but it is not that. It is a curious thing that those who feel ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/30/callous-children/ A musical tribute from Creedence (with malice) to our democrat rulers via Moe Lane. 2:16 video http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/29/fortunate-son/ Capitol Weekly reports on an interesting recent political dialogue in California. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, famously told the governor to “kiss my gay ass” at a Democratic fundraiser last month. Two days later, the governor responded in the veto message of one of Ammiano’s bills. Earlier in the month, the San ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/29/exchange-of-courtesies-in-california/ Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., in the Journal, notes just how well the Obama Administration has done in turning the economy around. Banks continue to fail at an alarming rate, the dollar is under assault, and Washington is looking at a future of trillion-dollar deficits. One might have guessed it would ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/28/economic-suicide-mission/ I found it distasteful to vote for a liberal democrat in the Connecticut Senate Race of 1988, but William F. Buckley Jr. had proposed that conservative Republicans do precisely that in order to rid the US Senate and the Republican Party of that odious skunk Lowell Weicker, and Buckley's reasoning ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/28/thank-you-joe-lieberman-and-william-f-buckley-jr/ Why would anyone possibly want to carry a weapon in a National Park? In classic liberal newspaper fashion, the Yellowstone Insider performs some grave chin-stroking over the successful passage of Senator Tom Coburn's S. Amendment 1067 (Text: pg. 1 -- pg. 2, attached to bill H.R. 627 regulating the credit card ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/28/legally-armed-in-national-parks/ William McGurn, in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, notes just how much Barack Obama relies on being able to blame George W. Bush. Nine months after Barack Obama entered the Oval Office, his most adamant critics must concede he's delivered on "change." And we see it in our first post-gracious ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/28/our-angry-national-janitor/ http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/27/halloween-in-obamistan/ Charles Krauthammer discusses Barack Obama with the German news magazine Spiegel. SPIEGEL: Mr. Krauthammer, did the Nobel Commitee in Oslo honor or doom the Obama presidency by awarding him the Peace Prize? Charles Krauthammer: It is so comical. Absurd. Any prize that goes to Kellogg and Briand, Le Duc Tho and Arafat, ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/27/barack-obama-is-like-brazil/ Lord Stern, British Government Climate Expert and Chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, recently advised the London Times that we all need to stop consuming meat. People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/27/repent-the-end-is-near/ Gallup finds that conservatives continue to outnumber liberals and moderates, and that growing numbers of Americans agree with conservative positions on many specific issues. Get ready for 2010. We will be taking the country back. Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/26/center-right-nation/ Andrew Neather, a former speechwriter for Tony Blair, Jack Straw, and other Labour panjandrums, revealed recently, in a column in the Evening Standard defending Labour immigration policies, that Labour ministers encouraged massive Third World immigration out of a desire to change the character of the British nation, as well as ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/26/labour-ministers-conspired-to-change-the-population-of-britain/ A recent ACT ON C02 1:00 television commercial depicting a father reading a bedtime story to a little girl featuring a doggie drowning as the result of Anthropogenic climate change provoked a good deal of criticism. The best kind of criticism, of course, is mockery. 1:10 video Hat tip to the Barrister. ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/26/climate-change-bedtime-story-revised/ Jeremy Clarkson, of the British television program Top Gear, visited the United States back in 2006. He didn't like a lot of the same things about this country that I don't like. Step out of the loop, do something unusual and you’ll encounter a wall of low-paid, low-intellect workers ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/25/visiting-the-american-nanny-state/ James Lewis has read Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, and proposes that Americans apply Alinsky's tactics for "community organizing" to stopping Barack Obama's radical leftwing agenda. According to Alinsky, you want to "pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Don't be deceived by the honeyed baritone voice and big ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/25/turning-the-tables/ Larry Elder produced this 7:33 music video which delivers a conservative rap on the politics of race. Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds. http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/25/rightwing-rap/ What kind of people are running the Executive Branch and conducting American policy? Paul Mirengoff points out a revelation in Dick Cheney's speech that a cursory reading could easily have missed, and points out how much this particular political exchange reveals about the ethics and character of Barack Obama ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/24/no-class-bad-character/ Spook86 discusses the impact of egalitarianism-at-all-costs on the Navy presently. Just wait until Obama makes his move and abolishes Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell for even more unintended consequences. As the Navy brass prepares for a "co-ed" submarine force, they might consider the impact of human biology on other elements of the service. Navy Times ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/24/34-pregnant-sailors-at-some-stations/ Mark Steyn discusses the Obama-style of presidential leadership: Chicago tough on domestic media opponents, boot-licking to foreign adversaries. If you're going to attack the press, you need a lightness of touch, not a ham-fisted crowbar such as the White House wielded Thursday, attempting to ban Fox from the pool interviews ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/24/obamas-chicago-way-stops-at-the-waters-edge/ The third time is enemy action, asserts the old Intelligence Community saying. The Mirror: A British nuclear expert taking part in disarmament talks with Iran has died in mysterious circumstances at a UN building in Austria. Timothy Hampton, 47, plunged to his death from the 17th floor and was found in a stairwell ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/24/first-time-happenstance-second-time-coincidence/ Here is a short 0:53 video from Finland showing a Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) attacking and killing a reindeer calf (Rangifer tarandus). BBC: A BBC natural history film crew gathered the extraordinary footage along a reindeer migration route in northern Finland. It finally proves this eagle species does occasionally hunt reindeer, something ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/23/golden-eagle-killing-reindeer/ The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday: The U.S. pay czar will cut in half the average compensation for 175 employees at firms receiving large sums of government aid, with the vast majority of salaries coming in under $500,000, according to people familiar with the government's plans. As expected, the biggest cut ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/23/wall-street-living-under-the-czar/ Even from across the Atlantic, the Telegraph has not failed to notice the terrible things happening to Barack Obama's approval rating in the polls. The decline in Barack Obama's popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/22/worst-presidential-approval-drop-in-50-years/ Ayn Rand, young and svelte, in Hollywood Ilya Somin, at Volokh, having just finished Jennifer Burns's excellent new biography of Ayn Rand, makes a point of recommending it, and offers his own view of Rand. Ayn Rand was the greatest popularizer of libertarian ideas of the last 100 years. Many more ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/22/the-influence-of-ayn-rand/ Bill O'Reilly actually made an eloquent statement with some intelligent points this time. "Something very disturbing about the Obama Administration fighting harder against Fox News than the Taliban." 2:45 video Hat tip to Jim Hoft via the News Junkie. http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/22/disturbing-irony/ Last night, Dick Cheney gave a speech at the Center for Security Policy in which he surveyed the Obama Administration's short and dismal foreign record. He condemned the cancellation of the missile defense of Central Europe, strongly criticized what he referred to as "turning the guns on" US Intelligence ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/10/22/politics-before-security/