This is wicked awesome:
Popular Mechanics takes a look at the equipment and services behind their new “street view” maps:
The 11-lens, softball-size, video game-style gadget that had privacy advocates shifting in their seats turns out to be changing how users interact with video and the commercial realms. Now it’s got everyone from the military to the NBA ready to remap the world, and we get hands-on in a PM exclusive.
VDH Strikes again:
February 27, 2008
The Future with Europe
The Swiss newspaper Junge Freiheit interviews VDH
Private Papers
JF: Professor Hanson, you criticize U.S. immigration policy in your recent book Mexifornia. What is it that bothers you about the development at the Southern border?
VDH: Many things. 1)We are wide open to terrorist infiltration; 2) We privilege illegal immigration from Mexico, while penalizing and delaying legal immigration from Asia, Africa, and Europe; 3) We serve as a safety valve and enabler for Mexico, which therefore will never make needed reforms; 4) We are creating a chauvinistic tribalism, a race industry that tries to convert the presence of 15 million illegal aliens into some sort of political movement; 5) We use cheap illegal labor to ensure our own entry level workers cannot bargain or organize.
As you see, I could go on…
A brilliant opinion piece by Dr. Hanson, be sure to hit the link and read the whole thing at his site:
Victor Davis Hanson
27 February 2008
Listening to the give-and-take entitlement bidding war between Hillary and Barack, I thought there must have been a number of Americans—tens of millions in fact?—whom they have more or less forgotten. Who are they?
The forgotten American day in and day out pays off his monthly mortgage…
One of the roles of this blog is to track trends. One of the more interesting ones is what is ahead for the religious right. A fascinating look at this comes from David Kuo, former deputy director of faith initiatives for the White House under George W. Bush. He has published a piece called Not Your Father’s Religious Right. The link is:
A very nice summary from John at Power Line:
… Today, the benefit of that experience has largely been lost. A generation of American voters has not experienced the failures of the Great Society, the near-collapse of American cities, double-digit inflation and unemployment, seventy percent tax brackets, or the disaster of Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy. In the absence of historical memory, and with a powerful assist from the ever-forgetful press, liberalism is once again emerging as the philosophy that sounds good. The fact that it doesn’t work awaits as an unpleasant surprise for a new generation. In the meantime, Barack Obama may well be the plausible candidate who can lead voters, once again, down the blind alley of leftism. He is, as Steve Hayes argues, an opponent who must be taken seriously. …
James A. Weaks: Christian, husband, father, conservative, scouter, paralegal and geek. I am the IT manager and a Paralegal for a small law firm in Durham, North Carolina. I live in Hillsborough, North Carolina with my wife, our two children, and a weird dog. This is my personal blog where I post things that interest me.
