Happy Anniversary! Now where's my flying car?

From Dinesh D'Souza's review of Who Speaks for Islam:

What can we conclude…? First, that the values of the cultural left are an important source in alienating Muslims worldwide. Second, that Muslims don't reject modernity or the West: rather, they embrace what may be termed "1950s America" while rejecting the libertine values of the 1960s. Third, America can build alliances with traditional Muslims by showing them the face of traditional America, so that they see that Hollywood values aren't necessarily American values. Finally, left-wing groups like International Planned Parenthood and Amnesty International should stop pushing feminism, gay marriage and libertine values in the Muslim world.

Read the review here. Buy the book at Amazon.com.

This is a tragic truth: You can spend your whole life figuring out why you are messed up and still be messed up once you’ve figured it out. After all your searching you know the why. But knowing the why does not produce the power to change.

You must know the Who. You don’t go to the problem for the answer. You must move from the problem to the answer. Our answer is Jesus. The question is: Do we believe what He did was enough?

–Lisa Bevere

For the first time, I feel like we deserve to win more than they deserve to lose.

Bill Whittle writes amazing essays. Read "Proud of the GOP" on National Review Online.

For the first time in almost a century, an entire month has passed without a single sunspot being visible on the sun’s surface. The event is significant because sunspots are caused by solar magnetic activity, and solar magnetic activity is increasingly believed by climatologists to be one of the primary factors influencing the earth’s climate. It is not uncommon to see 100 or more sunspots in a single month, but during the first seven months of 2008, the sun averaged only three spots, followed by the total disappearance of spots last month.

The disappearance of sunspots has caught most astronomers by surprise and defied almost all predictions, though one observatory seems to have gotten it right. In 2005, a pair of astronomers from the National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Tucson wrote a paper predicting that within 10 years, sunspots would disappear entirely. But their peers laughed at the two astronomers, and Science refused to publish their paper on the grounds that it was too controversial. In the end, “consensus” stifled scientific debate, and the NSO astronomers were ignored.

The scientific community is paying attention now, however. Some climate scientists believe that the sun’s “dynamo” (the process that creates its magnetic field) might be idling. As the sun’s dynamo slows and sunspot activity decreases, the sun’s magnetosphere is reduced, affecting cloud formation and climate modulation on earth. A long absence of sunspots has happened three times in the past 1,000 years: the Dalton, Maunder and Sporer Minimums. The Maunder Minimum coincided with the 400-year Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America endured bitterly cold winters that devastated agriculture.

If we are indeed entering another solar minimum on the scale of the Maunder Minimum, we can expect severe global cooling to follow, stressing both the agriculture and energy industries. The practice of harvesting corn for use as fuel ethanol will likely become a distant memory, and the United States’ short-sighted energy policies could mean there won’t be enough heating oil, natural gas and electricity to go around in the severest of winters. We hope it won’t come to that, but if it does, at least Al Gore will be where he belongs: out in the cold.

From The Patriot Post.

This clears it all up:

Community Organizer FAQ

Seriously, he comes across as a gentleman. Or is he trying to raise expectations of Palin's debate performance to an unachievable level?

Biden Says Press Has Been ‘Sexist’ and ‘Unfair’ to Palin

Obama Sued in Philadelphia Federal Court on Grounds he is Constitutionally Ineligible for the Presidency

Some basement-dwelling genius at the Democratic Underground published a detailed essay yesterday, with pictures and everything, proving that Sarah Palin faked being pregnant with Trig to cover up her daughter Bristol's pregnancy. Naturally, the majority of the DUmmies were peeing on the floor with glee at the prospect of catching She-Who-Will-Destroy-Them in a conspiracy.

But since it was thoroughly debunked today by Palin announcing Bristol is pregnant — and has been since before Trig was born — you'd think DU would issue a retraction. Turns out they just retracted the story: Democratic Underground Forums - Request error. What a bunch of losers.

I think we can all agree that Palin's pick of an experienced statesman like John McCain to head her ticket shows that she is much better prepared to be VP than Biden who is trying to thrust an unqualified youngster who was a do-nothing state legislator before being elected to the Senate where he put in a few months of attendance before going AWOL to run for president.

Runalong with Pastor Mark: Who's more qualified: Palin or Biden?

Obama Says Palin Pregnancy “Off Limits”