The Smug Baldy Speaks

Scientific American is reporting today that a recent survey of users of magic mushrooms have had profound mental changes that have lasted up to 14 months:
Most of the volunteers looked back on their experience up to 14 months later and rated it as the most, or one of the five most, personally meaningful and spiritually [...]

One of the things I find interesting bout the FISA bill is that it doesn’t provide the telecoms that colluded with Bush administration officials with immunity from criminal charges.

Moderate America is a political blog that’s claims to be more about policy than people. To the folks - mainly fringe nut-cases - that tend to think that there really isn’t any such thing as a political moderate, or worse - that a moderate has no views whatsoever, moderate-america responds:
A political moderate is a [...]

In a recent column, conservative economics professor and syndicated columnist Walter Williams asked the question, "Are Americans Pro-Slavery?" You read that correctly, slavery. You see, Dr. Williams would like you to think that US Federal, as well as State and Local taxes amount to a condition of slavery, since American workers spend a healthy [...]

John McCain’s got some powerful faith, and here’s where he revises history with his erroneous belief that America was founded upon Christian principles as a “Christian” nation. Never mind the fact that the founding fathers were largely deists, freethinkers, and Quakers. No, John lets his freak flag fly:

HT to Les at StupidEvilBastard.com

Sean over at Cosmic Variance hopes, as I do, that Hillary Clinton will stop taking the low road in her attempt to secure her nomination. In the most recent example, Hillary’s support for the ill-conceived gas tax holiday is built upon a foundation of presenting opponents (most importantly, Barak Obama) as elitist and [...]

Over at RedState.com, gamecock raised a bunch of crazy ideas, but let’s start with this. I ask you - does this statement by John McCain somehow frame a difference between himself and Barak Obama in purely moral terms?
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ABC News is reporting that the section titled “Family Recipes” on John McCain’s official campaign site also appeared verbatim on the FoodNetwork.com website.
The recipes in question – including Ahi Tuna with Napa Cabbage Slaw, Passion Fruit Mousse, and Farfalle Pasta with Turkey Sausage, Peas and Mushrooms — were all credited on the website to [...]

The Alabama House of Representatives approved a bill on Tuesday that would allow the sale of “Gourmet Beers” that contain higher levels of alcohol than currently allowed by law. A group of beer enthusiasts calling themselves Free the Hops lobbied for the change, saying that without such a law, Alabamians would only be allowed [...]

So the Heartland Institute’s Conference on Climate Change has come and gone, and they’re touting it as a “Smashing Success”, and saying:
The alarmists in the global warming debate have had their say–over and over again, in every newspaper in the country practically every day and in countless news reports and documentary films. They have dominated [...]