Somebody informed Insty about this book: The Blame Game: The Complete Guide to Blaming: How to Play and How to Quit
But blame is essential for self-esteem
Sol Stern tells the story of Tel Aviv
Stefani Germanotta is buying a Scottish castle
You needed to know that.
Getting Ahead In Today’s Mad Max Real Estate Market - Why the end game of this housing bust is going to be unlike any other in my lifetime. He says:
I've been through quite a few housing booms and busts. I’ve renovated houses so old they still showed visible damage from King Philip’s War, so I’ve been exposed to every housing bust since wigwams, one way or the other. The early nineties were pretty bad, as I recall. The late seventies/early eighties were Armageddon. But they all mostly had discrete causes and effects, and in fairly short order Metacomet or Jimmy Carter or whoever was mucking up the landscape got run out of town, and something like normalcy returned.
This time I'm not so sure.
Mona Charen: Why Sarah Palin Shouldn't Run
Like I say, I love her but she ain't my candidate. She is good at what she's doing - she should keep it up and enjoy life.
Strangling innovation with red tape
START: Another Phony Crisis, Another Rush To Vote
Via Betsy:
Charles Krauthammer sees the statement "Don't touch my junk," as a metaphor for how Americans are thinking about their government today.
And at Powerline:
Krauthammer explains: "The junk man's revolt marks the point at which a docile public declares that it will tolerate only so much idiocy.
Secretary of State Clinton Lashes Out at Europe; Demands That They Appease Muslims
Kotkin: How Liberalism self-destructed. A quote:
Liberalism once embraced the mission of fostering upward mobility and a stronger economy. But liberalism’s appeal has diminished, particularly among middle-class voters, as it has become increasingly control-oriented and economically cumbersome.
Today, according to most recent polling, no more than one in five voters call themselves liberal.
and
Modern-day liberalism... is often ambivalent about expanding the economy — preferring a mix of redistribution with redirection along green lines. Its base of political shock troops, public-employee unions, appears only tangentially interested in the health of the overall economy.
Sen Brown treads a fine line in push to alter health law
I think he wants to be re-elected. Guess he likes the gig.
Wisdom via SDA:
I admit I have been as reluctant to admit this as anyone. My whole career has been based on the proposition that somewhere, under all the insults and lying and general bad behaviour that makes up the bulk of political life, there was some genuine issue at stake: that if you could just strip away the politics, you would eventually get to the policy. It has taken me all these years to understand that, no, it’s just politics all the way down.
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