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For night owls who feel groggy all day after a full night’s sleep

I know perfectly well the principle of ayurveda that one of the worst things I can do for my health is to go to bed after 10 pm. At both mid-day and midnight, the hours between 10 and 2 are pitta time — the natural principle associated with metabolism. Pitta is strongest at noon and midnight. That’s why it’s best to have your biggest meal of the day at noon, when your digestion is strong. And you have fuel for the rest of the day’s work. Midnight pitta functions like a self-cleaning oven, burning off impurities. However, if you are awake at this time, the rise in pitta will make you hungry and if you eat, your body will have to metabolize the food and will miss its chance for housecleaning. The increase in pitta between 10 pm and 2 am also increases your energy and alertness, which is what makes many people feel they’ve gotten a second wind and convinces them that they are night owls, especially if their mind-body type is predominantly pitta.

However, knowing this has not helped me cure my night owl ways. Well, that’s not entirely how it goes. Often, I’m falling asleep around 9 pm, but I have to stay up to see my father to bed. He’s usually not sleepy until 10 pm. By the time he’s tucked in, because pitta has started to come up, I feel alert and can’t sleep. If I start to read blogs, I’m often up until 2 am (and if I start to write a post in response to something I’ve read, then I can be up until 4 am or later). Then I can get a full night’s sleep but still feel not quite awake during the day. I have not been able to break this cycle.

However, now I think I can break the cycle because now I don’t just know what to do: I know why. Recently I’ve been reading The Ageless Woman by Dr. Nancy Lonsdorf, whom I have known since she was in medical school at Johns Hopkins. She points out that one powerful ayurvedic remedy is accessible and affordable for almost everyone: a morning walk. It supports and balances prana vata, which governs the functioning of the mind. I did try a morning walk, and it was wonderful. But I didn’t realize how important a morning walk could be in helping me to break my night-owl cycle, recover my clarity and be fully alert and energetic all day until I read this at Caring.com (boldfacing mine):

7. You get a full night’s sleep but feel groggy all the time or get sleepy while driving.

What it’s a symptom of: This signals circadian rhythm problems or, more simply, getting out of sync with night and day. Irregular sleep patterns, staying up late under bright lights, working a shift schedule, using computers and other devices in bed, and having too much light in the room while you sleep can disrupt your body’s natural sleep-wake cycle.

Why it interrupts sleep: The onset of darkness triggers production of the hormone melatonin, which tells the brain it’s time to sleep. Conversely, when your eyes register light, it shuts off melatonin production and tells you it’s time to wake up. Even a small amount of ambient light in the room can keep your body from falling into and remaining in a deep sleep. The use of devices with lighted screens is especially problematic in terms of melatonin production because the light shines directly into your eyes. This light is also at the blue end of the spectrum, which scientists believe is particularly disruptive to circadian rhythms.

What to do: Try to get on a regular sleep schedule that’s not too far off from the natural cycle of night and day — and preferably the same schedule all week. (Experts recommend 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. or 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. every night, but that’s just a general outline.) If you struggle with not feeling alert in the morning, go outside and take a brisk walk in daylight to feel more awake; you’ll find that it’s much easier to fall asleep the following night. This is also a trick experts recommend to help night owls reset their internal clocks. Force yourself to get up and get into bright light one or two mornings in a row and you’ll be less likely to get that “second wind” and burn the midnight oil or experience nighttime sleeplessness.

As much as possible, banish all screens (TVs, computers, and iPads) for at least an hour before bed. Reading is much more sleep-inducing than looking at a lighted screen, but make sure your reading light isn’t too bright and turn it so it doesn’t shine in your eyes. Remove night-lights; if you need to get up in the middle of the night, keep a small flashlight next to your bed, being careful to turn it away from you. Check your bedroom for all sources of light, however small. Does your smoke alarm have a light in it? Put tape over it. Use an alarm clock without a lighted dial, or cover it. If your windows allow moonlight and light from streetlights to shine in, install blackout curtains or shades tightly fitted to the window frames. Don’t charge laptops, phones, cameras, and other devices in your bedroom unless you cover the light they give off.

Regarding the advice about blacking out all the lights in your bedroom while you sleep — this is real. Research shows even a pinpoint of light disturbs your sleep. My sleep improved dramatically about four years ago when I began to sleep with eyeshades, so if you can’t get your room completely dark, I suggest they’re worth a try.

P.S.

I’ve been trying to get Dad out in the sunlight, especially to go swimming, but mostly I can only get him to sit on the front porch and listen to “Prairie Home Companion.”

Phyllis Chesler needs donors and subscribers to continue

Phyllis Chesler needs donors and subscribers to continue her work in the fight against anti-semitism and for equality for women everywhere — please go and read her post and donate — here is a sample:

I have done the first and only major academic studies about honor killing; both appear in Middle East Quarterly and at my own website. I and am now at work on a third such study. I have been condemned by many western feminists for this work. No feminist group, individual, or philanthropist has funded this work, nor have they funded my coverage of Islamic gender apartheid in both Muslim-majority countries and in the West. This includes Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and ex-Muslim feminists and anti-jihad activists who frequently quote from my work and who privately acknowledge it. My work on behalf of girls and women in flight from being honor murdered and who are seeking asylum in the United States has similarly gone unfunded.

This work, which I have undertaken with my whole heart and mind is a crucial part of defending Western values, defending both America and Israel, defending the human rights of women, Muslim and ex-Muslim dissidents, and religious minorities trapped under Muslim rule. It also constitutes bridge-building and is meant to address the “hearts and minds” of those who live in the West and those who live in jihadic civilizations.

Dr. Chesler’s annual expenses to do this work are $100,000 to $125,000, which does not include any compensation for her. Please read about the projects she is working on and those she has planned — they deserve the financial support Dr. Chesler needs to complete them. The Afghan book she has planned probably refers to her marriage in her idealistic youth to an Afghani Muslim, which she was lucky to escape with her life. This will be a very important and timely book and I hope she gets to write it.

P.S.

Dr. Chesler — I do have a suggestion for you: include a PayPal subscription button with your PayPal donation button. If you had 2,000 subscribers paying $5/month, that would provide you with the money you need to continue your unique work. It also might motivate more people to subscribe instead of reading for free if you included a graphic showing progress to each month’s subscription goal. Specific targets and progress reports do motivate people to action.

UPDATED — If nominated, I will run, if elected …

I will serve.

Update, 7/9/11: Click for Maryland’s requirements for filing to be a candidate for U.S. Senate. The deadlines haven’t been updated yet for the 2012 election, so I assume the final deadline for filing is early July 2012. So I am going to let my readers decide: if I can raise at least $2,000 in donations to me personally — since I don’t have a campaign committee — by August 9, 2011, then I will begin my campaign with a master mind group webinar every two weeks dedicated to creating a platform of what a Republican fiscal conservative senator can do to restore prosperity to the United States and to Maryland. There’s no campaign finance committee, so that’s why the donations have to be to me personally.

With at least $2,000, I can buy the software and some gizmos, such as a video camera, that will help me get rolling. I’ll use the video camera to make weekly videos for YouTube. I also would get some photographs made and have to buy some new clothes for the photographs and videos. I’ve lost over 50 pounds since last June and nothing I have now fits. By December, we’ll know if there’s enough buzz, money and volunteers for me to file. Remember, the first hurdle is to win the nomination. Dear gentle readers, what do you say?

Obesity and sleep

Dear Attila is musing tonight on why people become overweight and proposes two explanations. I agree with her, but want to add a third — sleep deprivation. Luckily, the Los Angeles Times published a story this week explaining, “Lack of sleep contributing to obesity” (boldfacing mine):

“You’re fighting against the tide to lose weight when you’re sleep-deprived,” said Dr. Amy Aronsky, medical director of The Center for Sleep Disorders in Portland, Ore., and a board certified sleep specialist. “Good sleep is as important as a good diet and exercise when it comes to weight loss.”

Where’s the link between sleep and obesity?

Hormones are the likely culprits. Normal adults need seven to nine hours of sleep per night, particularly deep sleep and REM (dream) sleep, Aronsky said. When we don’t get the good quality and proper quantity of sleep, hormone levels are altered, plus we wake up feeling unrested.

Some people are genetically programmed to need just five or six hours of sleep per night to be healthy, but that’s a tiny portion of the population, said sleep expert Dr. Michael Decker, associate professor at Georgia State University and spokesman for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Children ages 2 to 3 need 10 to 12 hours of sleep per night, while children ages 5 to 10 need 9 1/2 to 11 hours, Decker added.

Studies have shown that when sleep is restricted, the hormone ghrelin increases and the hormone leptin decreases. Ghrelin tells our brain that we’re hungry, while leptin tells it we’ve eaten enough.

Average leptin levels decreased 18 percent when sleep was restricted to four hours per night over two nights, according to a study published in the journal Sleep Medicine by Dr. Eve Van Cauter, Average ghrelin levels increased 28 percent when sleep was restricted.

In other words, when we don’t get enough sleep we feel hungry, even if we’ve eaten enough.

In another Van Cauter study, healthy young volunteers showed signs of prediabetes when they were restricted to four hours of sleep for six nights in a row.

The stress hormone cortisol also surges when we’re sleep-deprived. When that happens, we crave high-fat, high-carbohydrate foods (“comfort foods”) to increase our serotonin levels to calm down, said Dr. Michael Breus, author of “The Sleep Doctor’s Diet Plan.”

Other studies consistently show that adults sleeping fewer than six hours a night increase their likelihood for becoming overweight or obese — even when exercising and eating right, Decker said. Among adults ages 32 to 49, those averaging five hours of sleep were twice as likely to be obese after nine years compared with those averaging seven hours.

The news for kids is just as alarming. A study of 8,234 children (starting at age 38 weeks) found that the odds of being obese by age 7 increased 50 percent for children averaging fewer than 10 1/2 hours of sleep. Another study found that 58 percent of obese kids averaged fewer than eight hours of sleep, while just 11 percent of non-obese kids averaged fewer than eight hours of sleep.

By coincidence, I’ve been MIA this week due to sleep deprivation. To help out a friend, from Sunday night to Tuesday afternoon, I battled with iTunes and an iPad, and just as I was recovering from that, my beloved big grey cat, Beauregard, was sick Friday night and I was up with him into the wee hours. The veterinarian treated his dehydration with IV fluids Saturday morning, and took a blood sample, but we won’t have the results until Tuesday. Beauregard did not perk up from the steroid shot and is still lethargic and not eating or drinking, so my heart is aching at the possibility of losing him.

My own quest to lose weight is going well. It also is becoming more comfortable — I credit a more active application of the principles of ayurveda and some ayurvedic supplements that I began to use in May. And that brings up another element to consider regarding weight control: ayurveda discerns 10 mind-body types, with the three dominated by kapha dosha having the characteristic of putting on weight easily and needing to exercise regularly to maintain a healthy weight.

P.S.

If you have a comment that hasn’t been approved, it’s because I haven’t looked at the comments since last Sunday. The subject of gay equality can attract toxic comments and I need to be well-rested to respond to them courteously.

Conservative arguments for gay equality

Empire State Building bathed in a rainbow of lights. — The Empire State Building bathed in a rainbow of lights in honor of Gay Pride Week.

Yesterday evening I took my father to see our local minor league team, the Ironbirds, and when we got home we watched an episode of “Columbo,” one of my father’s favorite TV shows, through the magic of Wii and streaming Netflix. Dad loves how Peter Falk springs the trap on the murderer. I am saddened to learn of his passing from dear Moe Lane and dear Little Miss Attila.

I enjoy “Columbo,” too, but pulled out my iPod Touch to check out Twitter, which is how I learned that the gay marriage equality bill passed in New York. I see Hot Air had the live feed of the voting. I had not wanted to get my hopes up, having gone to watch the Maryland House of Delegates give final approval to Maryland’s same-sex marriage equality bill, only to see it sent back to committee to avoid being defeated on the record. (I plan to make YouTube videos of each of the speeches and add my own remarks.) Regarding New York, I am semi-elated: elated because it’s an advance for gay equality, semi because equality should not be subjected to the whims of majority votes and it should not vary from state-to-state. I consider equality for lesbians and gays to be an unalienable right, even if it is almost totally alienated right now.

In the conversation on Twitter, some conservatives were decent enough to call for conservative arguments for gay equality — @jtLOL (Jim Treacher of “The Daily Caller,” who correctly sizes up Obama’s recent speech to an audience of the last 600 gays unable to process the fact that “he’s just not that into them.”), @NolteNC (John Nolte, editor-in-chief of Big Hollywood, who has a lovely tribute to Peter Falk) and @sistertoldjah (who is one of the first conservative bloggers I began to read in 2008 and yesterday noted that the conservative world is more diverse than it gets credit for), and I suggested they read my blog. Oops! I’ve been focusing on my health and haven’t posted since May 16. Regular readers will recognize the following list of conservative reasons I have advanced for gay equality in general, and gay marriage equality in particular:

Religions are free to define marriage any way they want for their own members. The Catholic definition of marriage does not bind Unitarians or Mormons or Jews or atheists. In fact, Mormons have THREE definitions of marriage, including one that defines all marriages not celebrated in a Mormon temple between Mormons according to Mormon rites to be inferior, base and spiritually dead. Mormons use this inferior marriage — a civil union for straight people, really — to force their members into the absolute obedience and tithe-paying required for the superior temple marriage. The reason that government must define marriage in a religiously pluralistic society is that secular legal marriage protects the individual’s liberty to change religions or be free of religion and still marry–and divorce. (I think I’m the first person to point out the value of government-defined secular marriage in preserving individual liberty and religious freedom.) Governments, which are the realm of coercion, can only provide for individual liberty when they restrict religions to the realm of persuasion. All the arguments against equality for gays are founded in religion and religions must not be allowed to appropriate the coercive powers of government to impose their rules on an entire population.
The modern gay rights movement has a spiritual foundation because it really began in October 1968 when gay ordained Baptist minister Troy Perry founded the Metropolitan Community Church, not with the Stonewall riots in June 1969. Because the MCC performs religious marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples, there’s no need for gays to sue any Christian religion for discrimination. (Similarly, women are not barred from equality on the grounds that it would allow them to sue the Catholic Church to force it to ordain female priests.)
If the Left could weaponize gays to bring down free market economies and democratic republics, then it would fight as hard for gay equality as it has for black equality. It can’t, so it hasn’t and it won’t. No group experiences discrimination as comprehensive as that forced on gays: in the name of family values, we are forced out of our own families. However, gays have responded to discrimination by becoming entrepreneurs and professionals, which makes gays a natural constituency of fiscal conservativism and explains why 31 percent of gay voters voted for Republicans in 2010 (including me). Gays are the most getable demographic in 2012 for Republicans because there’s no voting bloc Obama and the Democrats have screwed over more than gays and they are furious and looking for a new home. They are worth getting: Obama’s margin of victory in 2010 was almost exactly the size of the gay voting bloc.
Regarding the demographic composition of the Left: there are three groups who are only on the Left because social conservatives drove them out of the Right for religious reasons: gays, women who support choice because they do not want to be the property of a man or a religion, and Jews. The first two groups were driven out because they are uppity and do not respond to the demands of a religion to produce children. Jews got tossed out for refusing to become Christians. The Left strings these three groups along but never really fights for them because each one has too many entrepreneurs to allow them to be weaponized against free markets/capitalism. Instead the Left exploits them for money, labor and votes. Let us call them useful idealists.
Gays want marriage for the hundreds of rights at the state level — and the 1031 rights at the federal level — that allow same-sex couples to build their lives together. We have no agenda of destroying the family — we want to make families . If we can have full federal and state secular marriage rights, we have no reason to persuade any religion to change.
I think one of the reasons some religions are fighting gay equality harder than others is that they have figured out how to get government money through their various charities and enterprises, such as adoption services and hospitals, which also function as recruitment centers to gain converts, and gays will be like a radioactive dye exposing the rivers of cash they’ve been taking in that will be cut off if they refuse to operate on the same non-discriminatory basis as any other government-funded operation. Remember, religions retain the right to discriminate according to their beliefs as long as they do so on their own property and their own dime.

It’s almost 4 am. That’s enough for now.

Update: Prof. Reynolds, unalienable rights that are opposed by a majority are going to have to be imposed by courts. It is not acceptable to gays to be fully human in one state and not in another. It is antithetical to the concept of unalienable rights. Such a checkerboard also is a source of economic and social stagnation. Until mid-2001 when Maryland included sexual orientation as a class protected against discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations (such as restaurants, theatres, stores), I couldn’t move from one county in Maryland to another because I had equality where I lived and therefore could protect my quadriplegic life partner, but did not in the county where my parents lived when it would have been best for me to move. This disparity almost cost me my life and did result in heavy financial losses.)

Update: Thank you, Prof. Reynolds, for the link, and welcome, Instapundit readers!

I also thank Daniel Blatt for his link and welcome Gay Patriot readers. Daniel ponders the following:

The question is: how do we break them [Leftist gays] from their prejudiced view of the GOP, particularly given how the media dwell on social conservatives’ (alleged) dominance of the movement — and the ignorance of many gay leaders of the underlying philosophy of the Republican Party as it has evolved since the nomination of Barry Goldwater in 1964 and the election of Ronald Reagan sixteen years later.

One of the reasons I started this blog is to educate gays about the principles of fiscal conservativism so they can see their natural home is on the Right. By casting gays out of every socializing institution and by stigmatizing gays as intrinsically evil, it is the good intentions of social conservatives that have paved the road to hell for gays. That is why another reason I started this blog is to educate social conservatives about gay equality so they can see that gay equality actually supports their core values of individual liberty, strengthening marriage and the family and creating a more moral, stable and prosperous society. So, Daniel, that is what gay conservatives must do. We are the among the pioneers and the ones in the best position to do it.

I also welcome readers from the Sundries Shack, and thank dear Jimmy Bise for linking this post even though he opposes gay marriage equality.

A convenient summary of why anthropogenic global warming is a hoax

Please read “Former ‘Alarmist’ Scientist Says Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGM) Based in False Science” by Bruce McQuain at Hot Air. Here’s the punchline:

Evans reaches the natural conclusion – the same conclusion Lindzen reached:

At this point, official “climate science” stopped being a science. In science, empirical evidence always trumps theory, no matter how much you are in love with the theory. If theory and evidence disagree, real scientists scrap the theory. But official climate science ignored the crucial weather balloon evidence, and other subsequent evidence that backs it up, and instead clung to their carbon dioxide theory — that just happens to keep them in well-paying jobs with lavish research grants, and gives great political power to their government masters.

And why will it continue? Again, follow the money:

We are now at an extraordinary juncture. Official climate science, which is funded and directed entirely by government, promotes a theory that is based on a guess about moist air that is now a known falsehood. Governments gleefully accept their advice, because the only ways to curb emissions are to impose taxes and extend government control over all energy use. And to curb emissions on a world scale might even lead to world government — how exciting for the political class!

Indeed. How extraordinarily unexciting for the proletariat who will be the ones stuck with the bill if these governments ever succeed in finding a way to pass the taxes they hope to impose and extend even more government’s control over energy.

While you’re listening to the CEOs of American oil companies being grilled by Congress today, remember all of this. They’re going to try to punish an industry that is vital to our economy and national security, and much of the desire to do that is based on this false “science” that has been ginned up by government itself as an excuse to control more of our energy sector, raise untold revenues for its use and to pick winners and losers. All based on something which is, according to Evans and other scientists, now demonstrably false.

The only value I can add is to caution my idealistic friends who believe in global warming that the economic policies that use global warming as their justification are destroyers of prosperity both for individuals and for nations — on purpose. The prosperity and well-being you wish to create in your own lives and for the world will be generated — but by pretty much everything you have falsely been told is the boogeyman by people who had only their own best interests at heart and the very darkest of ulterior motives.

David Swindle on how to argue with a progressive

David Swindle is the editor of David Horowitz’s blog, Newsreal, and he recently had some very instructive fun with a progressive who applied to blog for Newsreal. I commented:

David, I recommend always starting from axioms. The axioms of fiscal conservativism/classical liberalism are that individuals generate wealth from their own ideas when they can operate in a system of free markets and social mobility based on achievement under a government structured to preserve individual liberty and provide a strong defense and secure borders. The axioms of Leftism/progressivism/socialism are that wealth comes from rich people who got it by exploiting the poor and/or cheating, wealth must be re-distributed because the individual is ultimately helpless and hopeless, and re-distribution of wealth can be done best by an all-controlling government which will ensure prosperity for all regardless of whether or not people bother to make the most of their talents.

Another problem that has to be taken into account is that the Left does not understand individualism and is outraged by diversity when it is a diversity of ideas or philosophies. Thus they find the Right hopelessly confusing, especially since it has two groups whose ideas cannot prevail simultaneously: social conservative/fiscal liberals and fiscal conservative/social liberals. It becomes even more confusing when you take into account that the majority of social conservatives will identify themselves as social conservative/fiscal conservatives when they are out of power, and fiscal conservatism will deny tax monies to their enemies, but when they are restored to power on the basis of their pledges of fiscal conservativism, they become social conservative/fiscal liberals again on account of how much good they can do with all those tax dollars.

My comment hasn’t been published yet, but my reputation score as a commenter through Intense Debate was -43 when I submitted it. So I will note that I object to reputation scores because they are a tool for mobbing. Facebook just signed a deal with Web of Trust, which is being used to tar a friend of mine via reputation scores. He has absolutely no recourse except to ask his e-mail list to counter all the lies the people opposed to his ideas are telling about his website, and, by extension, him. Avast!, the anti-virus program, now also shows its own reputation scores in Google search results — I hope they haven’t licensed them from Web of Trust. I am expecting that reputation scores are a new front in the wars of ideas and mobs will rule until the whole concept is scrapped. In the meantime, since I am in the minority on the Left as a fiscal conservative and on the Right as a lesbian advocating for gay equality and for social conservatives to stay in the realm of persuasion rather than seek to impose their ideas through government, the realm of coercion, I am going to have to accept that my reputation score is going to be negative.

Condo blocking Staten Island mom from installing wheelchair lift is violating local law and the federal Fair Housing Amendments Act

Go and read — including the comments, please, since I’m one of the commenters — I had to learn a lot about disability rights law in order to advocate for my late life partner, because she was quadriplegic due to multiple sclerosis the last 10 years of her life — and we lived in a condo apartment. I am shocked at how proudly and openly so many of the commenters hate people with disabilities under the guise of playing by the rules. But it is not the condo association’s rules that govern this situation, it is the Fair Housing Amendments Act and the local human rights law cited by another commenter.

What to watch? The lesbian wedding on ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ or the first Republican presidential debate?

Just kidding: lesbian wedding FTW. I figured out how to make YouTube playlists and for the last two weeks I’ve been singing to the clips from the musical show where Callie wakes up from her coma and her first words to Arizona were, “Yes, I will marry you.”

Sorry, Fred.

Update: I thought Fred Karger was included in the first debate, but he’s not. Tonight’s candidates are as follows: No; Hell, NO!; Not on Your Anti-Semitic Ass; Who?; and WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER.

Why Sarah Palin will win in 2012

I’m sorry it’s been so long since my last post. I’m working on my health and creating a career that generates money. My weight loss program is coming along slowly, but surely — over 42 pounds lost so far. But I don’t like writing about the process — it feels better to keep that private. I’ll report on results when I’m ready.

However, I’m writing this post to draw the attention of my dear gentle readers to a video by Tammy Bruce about Gov. Sarah Palin as a policy wonk and a blog post by DaTechGuy pointing out Gov. Palin’s leadership on policy issues and predicting that that is why she will run for president and win in 2012. Certainly Gov. Palin is the only prospective candidate in the field with both a mastery of energy policy, the most vital expertise for restoring health to our economy, and executive branch experience.

So here is a sample of DaTechGuy’s examples of Gov. Palin’s leadership:

Do you remember when Sarah Palin said this about drilling:

For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.

So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That’s all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.

Sounds pretty topical, When did Palin say this? AUGUST OF 2009 when gas was still in the low $2 per gallon. Bloggers covered it. The MSM didn’t. Where would gas prices and the economy be today if the MSM reported this and the president listened to her 2 years ago?

Note to DaTechGuy: Obama intends to destroy the U.S. economy by skyrocketing energy prices — that’s a feature, not a bug. So, of course he’s not listening to anyone who would interfere with that.

Here’s Tammy Bruce explaining why Gov. Palin is a policy wonk — I saw this the first moment I read about Gov. Palin’s experience and it’s always puzzled me why others don’t see it immediately, too:

By the way, in this video Tammy talks about Gov. Palin predicting that quantitative easing by the Fed would lead to inflation. I spent Easter with Dad in the emergency room — he was finally diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and is feeling better now — and had several hours with G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature from Jekyll Island, which was given to me by FreedomWorks at BlogCon in September 2010. It describes the creation and operation of the Federal Reserve System, which is all about bilking taxpayers through inflation. I expect it’s a book that Gov. Palin has read, but even if she hasn’t, reading it has enabled me to see that Gov. Palin clearly has a grasp of the Fed’s modus operandi and therefore can predict accurately the consequences of its actions.

Update, 4/28/11, Thurs.: While Gov. Palin is a policy wonk, White House correspondent Keith Koffler explains why Obama is silly. I explain why Obama is a sociopath.