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Monday, May 19. 2008

Monday morning links

Dems for School Choice, in Florida

Shoot the messenger. Steyn at NRO, about that radical mosque

Rock star! 75,000? The triumph of image over substance. It works well on the kids. Related: James Lewis on the iconography of Obama.

The empirical cost of weddings. Captain Capitalism. I think these fancy weddings are BS. A party planner I interviewed one time told me that the success rate of marriages varies inversely to the cost of the wedding.

Kudlow: Pols are striking out on energy

A thoughtful and principled argument for a tax: Conspiracy

Speaking of taxes, Mike Adams on the Fair Tax

Everything is so scarey. The Omniphobia Epidemic

Is the AP good for America? Pajamas

A warmer climate would reduce hurricanes.

Why we like to grow our own.

The full transcript of Bush's Knesset speech.

HMS Exeter found off Java. (h/t, Theo)

The Age of Educational Romanticism. Charles Murray at New Criterion

The Global Warming Myth. What is settled is the politics, not the science. (h/t, Icecap)

Holding things responsible for what men do with them.

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Since when is a party planner the go to expert on marriage longevity? Bet all kinds of weddings end in divorce.
#1 Patina on 2008-05-19 09:34 (Reply)
Rock star.75,000.

Read those comments about Obama. What a bunch of awestruck anus openings. Sounded like hippies at Woodstock. One commented; " Obama's now bigger than Jesus."
#2 sean on 2008-05-19 10:32 (Reply)
But
#3 Leag on 2008-05-19 10:44 (Reply)
"Obama's now bigger than Jesus."

That's absurd. Only the Beatles are bigger than Jesus.
http://tinyurl.com/3qh998
#4 Mister Snitch (Link) on 2008-05-19 10:56 (Reply)
All four Beatles put together would definitely be bigger than Jesus. As far as just Obama its hard to tell. Plus you would have to believe the Shroud of Turin is the true burial cloth of Jesus for us to get a reference size for Jesus. Otherwise its pure speculation.
#5 sean on 2008-05-19 11:10 (Reply)
I hate the fair tax. It has absolutely ruined otherwise interesting commentators, who it sucks in for some inexplicable reason. They were smarter than that, and then just look at them.

You can't move the point of tax collection later in the earn-spend cycle without taxing something twice. In this case, everybody's retirement savings. Forget it. They don't want 30% of their savings instantly confiscated, thanks anyway, no matter how much you like the theory.

Go for a flat tax. That's better anyway. Everybody has an equal stake in rational voting if they have to vote tax increases on themselves whenever they vote tax increases on others.
#6 Ron Hardin (Link) on 2008-05-19 11:57 (Reply)
Barak Obama tracks wonderfully here in Oregon. After all, our state motto is, "We love dreamers." Gag.
#7 Susan on 2008-05-19 12:57 (Reply)
Did you see the mess they left behind? HE came, they saw, they ate and drank all manner of junk food and conquered the park with filth.

The "tax me more" crowd was out in full strength, big fat preachy fingers wagging this way and that, sticky with the Venti Frappacino of the day's sermon, and nary a green to stand up and say the emperor has no recycle bin!
#7.1 Phil on 2008-05-19 16:55 (Reply)

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