Arizona launches Build The Border Fence website

(This is my latest article for AZIVN. The State of Arizona has launched a website asking for private contributions to help build a border fence.)

Recently, a new Arizona law permitted the state to raise money from private and public sources to build a border fence. Republican state senator Steve Smith sponsored the bill, [...]

Gamechanger?

S&P favors Reid plan, Boehner plan may result in losing AAA status

Utah Democratic Party head is openly gay

“He said he was worried that if he told people he was gay, they would know he was a Democrat, That’s what really scared him.”

Heh.

Norway memorial

“Norway chooses LOVE and ROSES.”

Music and lyrics by Warfare Legacy, written after the killings.

Tragedy strikes. Obama, Biden forced to cancel fundraisers

Poor babies, and surely many members of Congress are also being forced to cancel fundraisers because they must stay in DC to deal with some foolish emergency affecting the entire country. Oh, the indignity of it all. It is deeply tragic that the reality of the debt crisis is interfering with their money-grubbing.

Norway must somehow still be the fault of Muslims, MSM opines

Lenin’s Tomb is spot on.

However, if you want to understand the attitude of the punditocracy to fascist terrorism, consider the query put by BBC News to the former Norwegian Prime Minister yesterday: “Do you think not enough attention was paid to those unhappy re immigration?” Or, consider this New York Times article blaming the [...]

Google+ as a primary news source, and more

I first learned about the Norway bombing and murders on Google+. So did Scoble. So did lots of people. Images and videos appear as part of the feed, unlike Twitter, and there’s no 140 character limit. On Facebook, what you see is filtered, so you may not see all of someone’s posts. This doesn’t [...]

Hawaii has problems of abundance with solar power

More people want solar on their roofs yet the grid can barely handle that much fluctuating power yet.

High levels of customer-generated solar power on the grid can be problematic for utilities because the generation systems are outside their control, and the source of the energy — the sun — fluctuates with cloud cover. Those [...]

World’s biggest wave power project in crisis

German utility firm RWE npower renewables has withdrawn its backing for the world’s largest “wave farm”, throwing the future of the 4MW facility in doubt, the Sunday Herald can reveal.

Part of this was triggered by financial problems within RWE npower but still, the sea is an unforgiving place and also, well, with all the [...]

Norway shooter mentions “investor contacts” Who are they?

From Breivik’s ponderous 1518 page manifesto, pg. 1470

Friday July 22 – Day 82: Initiate blasting sequenses at pre-determined sites. Test dirt for gram of gold per kg. Have enough material for at least 20 blasts. Start capitalization of project as soon as I have results. Time is running out, liquidity squeese inc. Call / [...]