Naismith was Canadian. I always thought baseball was the synonymous-with-America sport. (Although, you do have a point that other countries are actually decent at baseball, whereas America dominates basketball).
But the Chinese have always loved basketball. I remember hearing years ago about a survey done asking Chinese to name a famous American. The #2 response was Thomas Edison. Number 1: Michael Jordan.
Hilliary Clinton’s web site hacked!
My bad, turns out to be an unofficial blog which was hacked, heres a snapshot from 2007 -http://web.archive.org/web/20071011230010/http://hillaryclinton.us/
Evidently though the big O’s campaign site was hit, see: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/hacked-obamas-campaign-website
Uh…I’m pretty sure her website is “HillaryClinton.com”
hard to say, registered since 02?
see revision two posts above
it is .com … not .us
I never heard of the .us site before
A libertarian hate-piece (ok, harsh term, but there is some strawman-building done) by Jonah Goldberg that I found linked under the Wikipedia section of “criticism of Libertarianism”:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/205097/freedom-kills/jonah-goldberg
New study shows men need to cuddle, and women need sex:
http://healthland.time.com/2011/07/07/survey-shows-who-really-wants-to-cuddle-its-men/
Just a note on that John Stossel video.
It is a pretty popular complaint among libertarians that poor management of forests have been the primary cause of increases in forest fire activity. Of course, this argument is very hard to support with data (notice he quotes no study supporting his assertions). In fact, the most recent evidence suggests climate change carries most of the blame. For example, here is Westerling’s 2006 article in Science on how warming and earlier springs have increases western U.S. wildfire actvitiy.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/313/5789/940.short
He concludes:
“ecological restoration and fuels management alone will not be sufficient to reverse current wildfire trends.”
As far as U.S. policy toward Native Americans, I doubt you will find many defenders. Of course, improving the position of native people is pretty low on everyone’s priority list, including that of most libertarian think tanks. For example, maybe Jeff Tucker could write more op-eds about the plight of people living on reservations and less op-eds about how the jackboot of the state is keeping his clothes dirty through phosphorus restrictions.
Just a thought.
You’ll have to parden by French, but, no shit.
It’s okay. Explitives are often used as substitues for evidence. So I can dig it.
Did you miss the link? It was meant to illustrate the fact that everything down to the length of your nose hair has been blamed on global warming, so it’s not exactly surprising that forest fires are included in that list…which is also to say, I’m not exactly sure how many people are very convinced by the “it’s because of global warming” argument these days…regardless of the question.
Oh that was indeed an excellent piece of evidence that was well researched. After all, it includes links from sources as authoritative as treehugger.com (citing their scientific claim that global warming will lead to World War 4) and the daily mail (I often catch up on news about climate change and Fergie there). And collecting all these links together certainly proves…something…I’m sure.
Unfortunately, I am not interested in debating your bold and original positions on global climate change.
What would interest me more (and would be more relevant to John Stossel’s video) would be if you could point to what peer-reviewed study was underlying John Stossel’s assertions about poor forest management and wild fires. He mentioned none, which is odd because he normally loves to interview economists or scientists supporting his position. Maybe you can help point in a better direction?
There’s not a lot of original contribution to be made on the subject of Native Americans. Basically, this is the situation: the US government and early settlers lied, cheated and stole the vast majority of land which the Native Americans relinquished. Most of the wrongs committed cannot now be reversed due to the passage of time and the death of witnesses (and there’s not a lot of physical/contractual evidence for most claims). The US government has now put the Native Americans who want to remain in the vestiges of their one-time culture (aka reservations) on the public dole to keep them sedated and docile.
This is all really horrible stuff and the Rothbardian remedy is blunt and extreme: elminate the monopoly of law held by US courts, permit the US government or other illegitimate landholders to be sued in courts other than US government courts, restore territories for which it can be proven they were stolen through force, fraud or both and liquidate whatever US government or private assets are necessary to satisfy these legal damages. What is there left to editorialize on?
Clayton -
…or just stop welfare to the reservations and let the Native Americans live their own lives. I think, to some extent, they really need to let go and evolve–culturally that is.
There’s not a lot of original contribution to be made on the subject of Native Americans.
That’s never stopped anyone at LvMI from editorializing on abolishing the Fed. Does the case really change that often?
The benefit of editorializing isn’t original contribution (that’s what scientific research is for), the benefit of editorials is to make the case and raise awarness. IOW: Its about PERSUASION–changing people’s minds.
Of course, that is only really a benefit if you actually care about the subject. If you’re just using Native Americans as an easy, emotional political prop to tug at the heart strings and further your ideology as a whole (US is bad indians => abolish the entire DOI??? huh???) maybe you DON’T need to write about them so often.
So write about the govts war on clean shirts instead. Much more fun. So much less depressing.