First they came for the hamburgers
Canada no longer has free speech
At Volokh:
Judge Richard Posner thinks the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 goes overboard in trying to protect consumers from themselves. Better to treat them — us — as "consenting adults."
Why do people in government think we citizens are idiots? ...but maybe we are, if we voted for these jokers.
From Dr. Bob:
What is it with these so-called policy gurus? Knowing little or nothing about how health care really works, they haul out the bromides and throw around statistics based on taking small numbers and projecting them across large populations, to come up with scary percentages which then echo around the web and inside the hollow heads of the parrots in media newsrooms. Oh, and our politicians then use this crapola to formulate policies, which always end up having massive unintended consequences and which never achieve the results promised. Newt’s a pretty bright guy — generally a far better idea man than a politician — but he’s whiffing at softballs thrown slowly, by and large, with this one.
So what’s my gripe? Where do I begin? How about at the beginning?
Kaus:
Here's a safe political prediction: Despite all the innovative e-mobilization and ad campaigns and town halls and community organizing, the August recess will not produce any effective groundswell of popular support for Obama's health care reform.
Joe Biden has me scratching my head. Powerline
Are the Dems in trouble in 2010?
Prof Gates happy for a chance to play the Race Card. John Stewart. Related: MSM covers for Gates
Related: Prof Gates has a summer home in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, which is the village the O wanted to vacation in too. Many do not know that Oak Bluffs has been a favored summer spot for affluent black Americans for a century. Martha's Vineyard also still has a good population of Wampanoag indians, mostly in the Gay Head area.
More on the obesity ridiculousness. Q&O
In which Dan Rather beclowns himself
“Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer?" Driscoll
