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So the new Star Trek Into Darkness teasers were released today.Watch and behold.http://youtu.be/9jFZOicwtBwNow watch and behold the Japanese version, which is exactly the same, except for the mind-blowing Wrath of Khan homage in the final shot.http://youtu.be/BrHlQUXFzfwGood stuff, I think. Yet the web is still abuzz as to who the bad guy is.The answer is that ... Read more

I'mconvinced that the greatest challenges we face as a nation are exacerbated by a woeful ignorance of basic economic principles that is not accompanied by an appropriate uncertainty in expressing economic opinions.In other words, when it comes to economics, our stupidity has done nothing to undermine our confidence.For instance, there are those who insist that ... Read more

Inmy post about Paul Krugman, I noted that taxes don't create prosperity. That provoked a response today from a thoughtful commentor named Levi, a reply which included the following observation:"In 2010 93% of the income gains went to the top 1%."I have not done any independent research to confirm this statistic, but I have no ... Read more

Abit of housekeeping - those of you who weren't directed here via the Deseret News ought to know that I've got a column over there that's being published on a semi-regular basis. I've praised Skyfall before I'd actually seen it, beaten up on The Star Wars Holiday Special, and, as of yesterday, excoriated bad ... Read more

Inaccordance with the Parnassus Ordinance (SK 8675309) forged immaculately via the Upper Volta Protocols circa 1856 and subsequently sullied with retroactive lucidity fostered by Stallioncornell.com's estuary settlements, I hereby decree thus that all sets, essences, collateral, debutations, cranials, laps, wanderances, spores, heftiancies, carts, intriguiaries, terpsichores, correlations/coronations both implicit and supplied that are duly registered with ... Read more

Today,New York Times columnist/Nobel Prize winner/hardcore partisan hack Paul Krugman, the man who Ann Coulter rightly labeled as the "only known economist who despises the free market," wrote a column that, even in my post-election anti-political stupor, still managed to enrage me.Keep in mind that I'm coming to accept the fact that America has decided ... Read more

It'sbeen suggested by many that Barack Obama is simply filling out Jimmy Carter's second term. If that's the case, it'd be nice if he were term-limited, but, alas, the Constitution is silent on the election eligibility of ideological soulmates. Can the nation survive three terms of Carter/Obamism? We're about to find out.I met Jimmy Carter ... Read more

Somelefty dude named Rudolf Rocker has taken a rather marked interest in this blog over the past few days, and he's also complained that I have refused to engage with him. He is entirely correct on that score. Yet after Hank replied to Mr. Rocker in an intelligent and reasonable way, I thought it might ... Read more

Rememberhow only rich guys were the only ones going to get their taxes raised? It's a really good thing that only rich people use energy, then, because now the president is planning to inflict a massive carbon tax on energy producers to "help close the deficit."Yes, in the midst of cripplingly chronic unemployment, our ... Read more

Turnsout the Obama administration, now that the election is over, has decided to shut down 1.6 million acres of federal land here in the West that was slated for oil shale development. As part of his so-called "all of the above" energy policy, he's decided that "all of the above" energy means "all of the ... Read more