Well, posting from hotels is hard in the morning (for me at least). But I’ll get a post out tonight.
Hmm. Interesting?- Google Voice Users Can Answer Phone Calls in Hangouts May 22, 2013Gmail users got a taste of Google's new Hangouts feature this week, but it turns out it has a little bit of Gmail's voice calling baked in as well.Read more... […]Whitson Gordon
- A Free Press May 22, 2013Wait. I thought it was racist to criticize Barack Obama. […]Keith Burgess-Jackson
- Myrrh-Bearing Women Sunday, St Mary Magdalene Convent May 22, 2013(ROCOR) - On Sunday, May 21, 2013, the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, His Grace Bishop Agapit of Stuttgart celebrated Divine Liturgy (and all-night vigil the evening before) at the Russian St Mary Magdalene, Equal-to-the-Apostles Convent in Gethsemane, Jerusalem. He was joined by Archimandrite Roman (Krassovsky) and other clergymen of the Russian Ec […]Josephus Flavius
- Time Passes Very Slowly May 22, 2013Paul Templar worked as a guide on the Zambezi river near Victoria Falls, and he knew the local hippos: That day I’d taken clients out with three apprentice guides — Mike, Ben and Evans — all in kayaks. We were near the end of the tour, the light was softening and we were taking in […]Isegoria
- Sailor Runs World Record 1.5 Mile, Fails Pushup Portion of Fitness Test May 22, 2013PENSACOLA, FL — A U.S. Navy Sailor who smashed through the world record for the 1.5 mile run Tuesday is being discharged from the military for failing to maintain physical fitness standards, officials said. His run record was one part of a bi-annual fitness exam mandated by the Navy called the Physical Readiness Test (PRT). With […]NavyFork
- Obama Adviser Realizes that the Size of Government Matters After All May 21, 2013(Ilya Somin) In his first Inaugural Address, President Obama famously said that we should not ask “whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.” I criticized this indifference to the size of government in one of my very first posts of the Obama Presidency. More recently, however, longtime Obama adviser David Axelrod recognized that t […]Ilya Somin
- Obama's Kulturkampf May 21, 2013http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2013/05/irs-also-targeted-religious-groups/ […]steve
- Jack Dunphy : If the Obama Administration Ran Your Local Police Department May 21, 2013Transcript from dispatch center:911 Operator: 9-1-1, what is your emergency?Caller: Iâm calling from 1324 Elm Street. Iâm upstairs hiding in a closet, and some men with guns just broke in downstairs and theyâre robbing my family.Operator: Hmmm. 1324 Elm Street. I donât think we have anyone in that area.Caller: What?Operator: Well, thatâs pretty far […]Jack Dunphy
- The Air Travel Rights You Aren't Aware Of (and How to Get Them) May 21, 2013If you've ever sat in a plane on the tarmac only to have the flight cancelled, been bumped just before boarding, or landed at your destination only to be told your luggage will arrive sometime in the next 12 hours, you know how air travel can suck. In all of those cases, the airline owes you for your trouble. Sometimes it's good customer service, a […]Alan Henry
- Guns Using Cased, Telescoped Ammunition May 21, 2013AAI Corp continues to develop caseless, telescoped ammunition and machine guns to fire it under the United States Joint Service Small Arms Research Program Office’s (JSSAP) Lightweight Small Arms Technologies (LSAT) program. The caseless, telescoped ammo and gun developed by AAI under this program, was first mentioned at The Firearm Blog in 2010. In a paral […]Richard Johnson
- John Yoo : Lots of Partisanship, No Adult Supervision May 20, 2013The unfolding of the Obama Administration's aggressive attitude towards the media continues to reveal the same sorry themes as the other scandals erupting inside the Beltway. The first is partisanship. This weekend came news that the Justice Department conducted an invasive investigation into the daily activities of Fox News reporter James Rosen, to the […]John Yoo
- Lingo the Clown May 20, 2013textastrophe: […](author unknown)
- A Tough Beat May 20, 2013Anthony Daniels, who also writes under the name Theodore Dalrymple, has for years told us about Britain’s underclass. He observed it up close as a prison psychiatrist. One of the things he often ran into, in broader society, was disbelief: Lords and ladies and so on would simply not believe that what Daniels was describing took place. Which brings me to Roge […]Jay Nordlinger
- Matthew Hennessey : More Smoke than Fire: Some Informal Climate Math May 20, 2013One of the environmental leftâs favorite pictures to paint is of North America as a pristine ecological paradise prior to the industrial revolution of the 19th century. Often, the most hysterical headlines about climate change employ alarming phrases such as âFor the first time in human history!â and âNever before seen levels!â and âAll-time high […]Matthew Hennessey
- Secret thoughts of creative professionals May 20, 2013From Matt Groening back in the day… (via Biblioklept, This Isn’t Happiness) […]Abraham
- Google Voice Users Can Answer Phone Calls in Hangouts May 22, 2013