The unofficial bio of Leroy Jethro Gibbs
The ambiguous utopias of Iain M. Banks
Latest Rasmussen: Obamacare: Majority of Americans Are Skeptical
Shrinkwrapped: Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out
Franklin Graham sounds a bit pissed at Obama
Why can't men be more like women?:
It is telling that scientists are so thoroughly steeped in knee-jerk male bashing that they do not even ask whether there might be something positive about having less oxytocin.
Why the Obama-FDR comparison doesn't work
Williamson at NRO:
Americans love Big Government. But it's not a blind love — it all depends on the direction the arrow is pointing on the cashflow chart. Ask George W. Bush
, who got himself cruficied for trying to reform Social Security. Ask anybody who has touched Medicare, or even idly thought aloud about doing so. Ask a farmer or anybody marching in the Small Business Administration pork parade.
The problem with big bills, at Commentary:
If the best place to hide a book is in a library, then the best way to hide a favor for a contributor or a quiet little power grab is in a bill 2,000 pages long.
Stelzer: For now, economy is looking up
Greece: tax-dodging as a way of life
Powerline:
If Obama is an enigma today, it's because of the contrast between his remarkably open disdain for his domestic rivals and opponents on the one hand and his obsequious approach to the nation's foreign adversaries on the other. As enigmas go, however, this one is more troubling than puzzling.
Am Thinker on Palin-hatred:
...the fury directed against Palin by leftists is so overwrought, and at times maniacal, precisely because her innate common sense is so powerful and effective when she dares to declare that the emperor of government economic planning has no clothes. Like Mises and Reagan, Palin understands with utter (and to leftists, frightening) clarity that leftist utopias have no practicality or viability, but are, in Mises' words, "illusory fantasies."
Like most people, self-important intellectuals don't like their cherished dreams and aspirations dismissed as fantasies.
Sporting Art via Theo
