Tuesday, February 9. 2010
Will Wilkerson uses the quote below as a take-off point to try to understand the Progressive's view of the Constitution:
The majority in Citizens United believe that the U.S. Constitution establishes a government of limited and defined powers. They asked: “Does the Constitution give government the power to prohibit speech by corporations (and others)?” The First Amendment indicated the government did not have that power.
The critics of the Citizens United decision assume the Constitution created a government of plenary powers with limited exceptions. They recognize that free speech for individuals is one such exception.
The short post is Two Conceptions of Government Power.
Of course, we tend to think that the Constitution already resolved these issues. Furthermore, we view government as an interest group itself - or assemblage of interest groups (the political classes, those dependent on government for jobs or money, etc etc) with unique powers (such as police powers) rather than as a purely benign and altruistic expression of "the will of the people."
Monday, February 8. 2010
 I cannot keep up with the uncovering of the global warming scam. Now it's Africagate. Where is Fearmonger-in-Chief Al Gore hiding?
And even more! Now we have Alaska Glaciergate as a companion piece to Himalayan Glaciergate. Related at Driscoll: The global warming guerillas. A quote:
Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss of investigative reporting. The web is all very well, they say, but who will pay for the tenacious sniffing newshounds to flush out the real story? ‘Climategate’ proves the opposite to be true. It was amateur bloggers who scented the exaggerations, distortions and corruptions in the climate establishment; whereas newspaper reporters, even after the scandal broke, played poodle to their sources.
Where is Big Oil? Not in the US
How about Mitch Daniels?
The t-shirt story at Powerline: But Enough About Me. What Do You Think About Me? (By the way, the lady did have medicalinsurance.)
A joke: Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island. (h/t, Jules). Legal Insurrection (of RI) has a new mission.
Am Thinker: Desperate Times and Left-Wing Psy-Ops
$ and politics:
The House Democrats' campaign operation has a significant cash advantage over its Republican counterpart: $16.6 million to $2.7 million. And incumbents are fund-raising in anticipation of competitive contests. Florida's Mr. Grayson said Wednesday that his $861,000 fourth-quarter haul was more than any other Democratic candidate's.
From Fracking the Academic Left:
I've spent decades trying to teach college students, and I think I can say after all these years that I've never succeeded in educating anyone. Not even one. Occasionally education has been seen to happen in my classes, or at least I would like to believe so. But education always comes from within. Students bring their eagerness to learn with them; you can't make them educated any more than a parent can "grow" a child. People aren't carrots. You can't "grow" them.
Sex Week at Yale
Saturday, February 6. 2010
Rightly or wrongly, they used to call these people "not college material." h/t Capt. Capitalism who thinks these things should have been learned in High School. I'd say Grade School. Readin, ritin, and rithmatic, right?
Who are the Tea Partiers? THEY ARE STARVING CANNIBAL MARTIANS WHO HAVE COME FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND PETS!!!!
Related: Tom Tancredo acts like a total jerk. Not funny, Tom.
The maybe coming Iranian Revolution. I hope they go for it.
Vanderleun: "Scientists said" is becoming the numero uno phrase that gripes my ass.
Krauthammer: The Electorate vs. Obama's Agenda
Why Antagonize China? The revitalization of Asian capitalism is the most important positive event in the world in the last 30 years.
Jules on Brown:
Whether Scott Brown realizes it or not, his future is not entirely in his hands. Their are people out there who have plans for him, and this has all the makings of an epic ride that doesn’t necessarily end well for him. Hang on. Remember that thing about getting a dog if you want a friend in DC.
Insty:
WAIT, I THOUGHT CALLING PEOPLE SOCIALISTS WAS A “SMEAR.” Gallup: Majority of Dems View Socialism Positively.
Related: A Stroll Down Extremism’s Memory Lane.
In response to a question asking Democratic Party delegates whether they felt George W. Bush was legitimately elected in 2000, fully 91% of respondents said he wasn’t. The poll also noted the response rate of self-identified Dems overall, 78% of whom thought Bush’s 2000 election was illegitimate (question 56).
Just for perspective.
Obama Reverses on Bankers. Like it or not...
First India throws the IPCC overboard - now the Netherlands. Oh, and now China. It's difficult to keep up. England, too:
Despite active measures by the BBC and the liberal Guardian newspaper to suppress climategate revelations, other media outlets like the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and the TimesOnline have picked up the slack and have run story after story about the fraud, the bad science, and the shameful actions of scientists in trying to suppress opposing viewpoints.
The Economist: Neither the president nor Congress shows any sign of knowing how to tackle the deficit. Related from VDH: Is Greece our future?
However much people may want global warming (the warmists want it for their narrative and for their grant $, and people like me because we think it would be good for humans), the scientists worry: Signs of Damage to Public Trust in Climate Findings
Obama picks campaigning over leading
Friday, February 5. 2010
Where not to die in 2010.
Also from Tax Prof: Law School Only Makes Economic Sense If You Go to a Top 70 School. Top 70? I'd say Top 25.
Fun in Hartford: NORTHEAST FISHING & HUNTING EXPO COMING FEB. 26-28
A bamboo bike?
How come no family members help this poor lady?
The wealthy don't pay the estate tax. Small businessmen, farmers,, and regular people are the ones who get stuck with it.
Rent control in NYC: Taxpayers, Meet Your New Tenants
Unpleasant Grannies rage against Tim Tebow's existence. Wonder whether they have grandkids...
Steyn: Credibility is what’s really melting
Something to have in hand when running or walking: Dog Spray
Tim Blair: Their faith upset by recent events, warmenists are lashing out.
Related: We have been swindled:
We've been set up as marks by a gang of opportunistic hucksters who have exploited the naïvely altruistic intentions of the environmental movement in an effort to control international energy consumption while redistributing global wealth and (in many cases) greedily lining their own pockets in the process.
Perhaps now, more people will finally understand what many have known for years: Man-made climate change was never really a problem -- but rather, a solution.
For just as the science of the IPCC has been exposed as fraudulent, so have its apparent motives. The true ones became strikingly evident when the negotiating text for the "last chance to save the planet" International Climate Accord [PDF], put forth in Copenhagen in December, was found to contain as many paragraphs outlining the payment of "climate debt" reparations by Western nations under the watchful eye of a U.N.-controlled global government as it did emission reduction schemes.
Then again, neither stratagem should come as any real surprise to those who've paid attention.
The EU is a tyrant. It is time for the Euroweenies to man up and rebel.
"I found it fascinating that the people who were editorializing against it were The New York Times Company and The Washington Post Company," Thomas said, according to a report in The New York Times. "These are corporations."
Thursday, February 4. 2010
Justice Department seeking "retarded" or "mentally ill" lawyers.
Art as manifesto: The Bauhaus group
Our blog pal Mr. Free Market signs off. I guess his site has not been corporate enough. We shall miss him.
TREES WILL NOT BECOME UNSTOPPABLE KILLING MACHINES, ADMIT CLIMATE SCIENTISTS
College life: The Hamilton follies cont'd
Burlington VT: Our experiment in socialism
Kudlow vs. Schumer?
Blue Crab:
Longtime readers know that I have a brother with Down Syndrome.
My brother is considerably more decent, honorable, polite and has a better vocabulary than Mr. Emanuel.
By a very large margin.
Why does the US MSM ignore all of the climategates? Perhaps they do not wish to confuse us.
Powerline: Obama Attacks Churches, Charities and Home Values
Is the O's dishonesty harmful? Reason
Obama Budget Includes $4 Billion Bonanza for ACORN
Our friend Roger begins:
Last week, Howard Zinn, reigning anti-American historian of America, died of a heart attack. He was 87. Zinn’s gift to posterity was A People’s History of the United States, a book that has done more than any other textbook to instill hatred and contempt of America in the nation’s teachers and their students. No wonder it was such a runaway success. First published in 1980, it has gone on to sell some 2 million copies. And its brief against America was memorialized in “The People Speak” a 4-part mini-series that aired in December.
The outpouring of sentimental pap that Zinn’s passing occasioned was as large as it was nauseating. Typical was Bob Herbert’s emetic eulogy in The New York Times...
Americans do care about the "greater good." Right now, that means caring about the federal debt.
Wednesday, February 3. 2010
 FOX News may have Megyn Kelly but check out one of our Maggie's Farm fact-checkers (photo).
The intolerant Left: Tebow and NOW at Hot Air
Hypocritical Repubs
What is the IPCC supposed to be doing?
Related: Global warming is dead
The wine train stimulus scam
Keep an eye on Iran this month
An excess of Ivy League
Legal Insurrection: Here's What Early Draft Of Constitution Said
Insty:
CHANGE! (Or is this Hope! instead?) Estate Tax Repeal Creates Boom for Lawyers. Yay, lawyers!
Read and weep: The new tax proposals
Frank Rich wants to see more violence
Dems worried about 2012
Government medical care: Canadian pol to US for heart surgery
Photo from Theo, of course
Tuesday, February 2. 2010
Monday, February 1. 2010
NH teacher, 100, gets degree a day before dying
The O admits he lied about "If you like it, you can keep it."
Roger Simon: Climategate: Al Gore and the politicization of science
Spiro Agnew: Prophet
Homosexuality in Afghanistan
Ugh. Awful RINO Lindsey Graham Pushes Climate Policy Because “Congress Needs a Win”
Like the slave trade: Americans arrested taking children out of Haiti
UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article
Union greed has dismembered Michigan
The O: Let's work together, you f-ing bastards
Payoff: Sugar Tariffs Cost Americans $2.5 Billion in 2009. I thought we had free trade.
Via SDA:
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Carol Platt Liebau (Harvard Law Review), February 2009 - "[Tom Pirelli] did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he'd leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done."
Byron York (National Examiner), January 2010 - Many observers have remarked that, even when dealing with the most momentous issues facing the country, Obama has seemed oddly removed from the hands-on work of making policy.
Sunday, January 31. 2010
 Temp is -12 global warming degrees F up the mountain at Killington today. Think I'll just ski half a day, have a couple of beers and some chili, and drive back to NYC.
Saturday, January 30. 2010
NY Times: Monogamy Is for Losers
False Rape Claim Over Bad Sex. Seems reasonable. On the other hand, many would argue that bad sex is better than no sex.
"Democracy in America" at 175
Evil, Capitalistic, Bigoted America Comes to Haiti’s Assistance
New study shows heavy male politicians considered more reliable, honest than thinner counterparts. More cheerful, no lean and hungry look, less likely narcissistic?
The O did a heck of a partisan debating job on the GOP yesterday. Lies like a real pro with impressive earnestness and innocence, and still wrong on the issues.
Sky burials in Tibet
Economic Freedom Declines in Britain. Related: Advert for 'reliable workers' banned as discrimination. Would it also be discriminatory to advertise for unreliable workers?
A rogues gallery of Obama appointees
Nancy Pelosi will fight for you. That is, she’ll fight against you. Related at Forbes: A Bipartisan Health Care Plan
Will wonders never cease? AP fact-checks the O
Why businesses aren't hiring. Coyote
The Fannie and Freddie Secret
Protesting too much that the health care bill is alive, the lady doth show that the health care bill is dead
Another good reason to use transparency rather than McCain-Feingold for reform
Friday, January 29. 2010
Crude and diabolical but hilarious: Ace on Chris Buckley's take on the SOTU. I would live in terror were Ace my editor.
Climate science chief calls for honesty. Good grief. h/t, Englishman
"Best practices" in medicine often turn out not to be.
The arrogance of power. Noonan with Washington is sick and broken—and it can solve all our problems. The very notion that Washington politicians can solve our life problems is insidious, manipulative, infantile, and destructive to the country.
Speech for me but not for thee. Constitutional lawyer proposes amendment to limit free speech. h/t Insty
Thursday, January 28. 2010
Re the SOTU, Powerline's Not a double-down but at least a down and a half. Also, Fernandez has some thoughts. I did not watch it.
More of the usual links later -
Wednesday, January 27. 2010
Man who enjoys things informed he is wrong.
Why women cannot be mechanics.
Forty years of feminism: Is a BJ the new goodnight kiss?
Five Shocking Stats About Men and Sex
Formerly Socialist Israeli Kibbutzim Discover the Virtues of Private Property
Fully robotic and computer-controlled: the factory of the future is now.
Algos at war: Computer-driven trading raises meltdown fears
Hoyer: I can't have my way. Ergo, The process is broke
The moral rot at Duke continues
From muckraking hero to criminal. Stupid jerk.
Brooks: The PhDs vs. the MBAs. I'm with the MBAs: Without those MBAs, who would pay the bills for the PhDs in Medieval Studies?
Sowell is pleased by last week's election: Great Scott!
Insty introduced us to Future of Capitalism.
The Krautman: Obama’s Budget Cuts: A Q-Tip Not a Scalpel, A Fraud… Lunch Money (Video)
Suddenly, there is no rush:
Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, deflected questions about health care. “We’re not on health care now,” he said. “We’ve talked a lot about it in the past.” He added, “There is no rush,” and noted that Congress still had most of this year to work on the health bills passed in 2009 by the Senate and the House.
Tuesday, January 26. 2010
 Photo from Chicago on Thurs, as the O was arriving.
You're crazy. Can't they do better than that?
Most polarizing first year presidency. Seems that way. Related from Anch: What does the O like about America?
Med school set-asides in MA. Why not try it out with pilots and bridge engineers first?
Scotland: Don’t Blame the Monks for the Drunks?
Blame Bush? Haven't the Dems controlled Congress for 4 years?
Related from Insty:
NEWS FLASH: Entitlement Spending Grows Like Giant Cancer on U.S. Economy. I wish this were hyperbole, but . . . .
Garage sale for the middle class! Of course, they would pay for it too.
Will Obamacare rise from the dead? I doubt it.
Are we back to selling black kids again? Haiti orphans at risk from traffickers -government, UNICEF. In Haiti, many "orphans" are simply kids whose parents cannot afford to support them.
Trying the race card one more time: Critics of the O's policies are racist. How very post-racial and post-partisan.
How Green Are Your Nukes? Environmentalists spar over nuclear power.
How the French see the US in Haiti
From VDH on the O on McCain-Feingold:
No presidential candidate did more to destroy the idea of public campaign financing than Barack Obama, who set a record in private donations from Wall Street, ended a three-decade-long bipartisan tradition of curbing presidential campaign expenditures, and, once elected, proceeded to nominate a number of Wall Street insiders.
I can't believe he said I am the big difference. Who would say that except in jest?
Pajamas: Hard to Kill: Why Government Agencies Take on a Life of Their Own
Monday, January 25. 2010
The latest climate scandals, hot off the press at Climate Depot. It just keeps coming. As Roger Simon says:
Anthropogenic Global Warming is rapidly morphing into the greatest scandal in the history of science since the belief in a flat earth – and people had a lot more excuses for that. Not that the Obama administration is even beginning to acknowledge it. Who knows what they say to each other behind the scenes? They have enough to worry about.
Friday, January 22. 2010
Heading up north today for some skiing, thanks to golbal climatistical instability.
Hopenchangen. It was a joke. Nobody took it seriously as other than as virtuous posturing - except possibly the O, who is already beginning to resemble a lame duck.
Related: The CRU was just the tip of the iceberg. One quote:
NOAA stands accused by the two researchers of strategically deleting cherry-picked, cooler-reporting weather observation stations from the temperature data it provides the world through its National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). D’Aleo explained to show host and Weather Channel founder John Coleman that while the Hadley Center in the U.K. has been the subject of recent scrutiny, “[w]e think NOAA is complicit, if not the real ground zero for the issue.”
And their primary accomplices are the scientists at GISS, who put the altered data through an even more biased regimen of alterations, including intentionally replacing the dropped NOAA readings with those of stations located in much warmer locales.
As you’ll soon see, the ultimate effects of these statistical transgressions on the reports which influence climate alarm and subsequently world energy policy are nothing short of staggering.
The details of the giant hoax just keep emerging, don't they? Not to worry - somebody will find new reasons to need global governance by our betters.
Hugo Chavez accuses U.S. of using weapon to cause Haiti quake. Of course. Who wouldn't want to damage Haiti? Or own it? What a prize.
Dept. of Schadenfreude: Weeping into their cappucinos in Amherst. "Send them all to Amherst" he says where, presumably, any enemy of Americans and freedom will be welcome. Hasn't radical murderous sociopathic chic gone a bit stale yet?
The Krautman addresses the proletarian uprising, He begins:
You would think lefties could discern a proletarian vanguard when they see one. Yet they kept denying the reality of the rising opposition to Obama's social democratic agenda when summer turned to fall and Virginia and New Jersey turned Republican in the year's two gubernatorial elections.
The evidence was unmistakable...
NJ's new governor: “I’m Gonna Govern Like A One-Termer”
Three excellent Maggie's-type links at Thompson
The world is getting richer. Must be due to climate change.
Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors. So who is supposed to create the wealth they want to redistribute? Or are we all supposed to be poor and stupid?
Re the banks, at Dino:
President Obama is part of that portion of during their lives, the business world where most of life takes place. the US that has had little or no contact with the private sectorHe is anti-business and he knows almost nothing about business. In a sense he lives in an alternate reality. Not good news for the rest of us.
Via Legal Insurrection in April:
What history shows us is that a liberal, blame-America-first Democratic President, urged on by a liberal, blame-America-first Democratic Congress, is a prescription for political self-destruction. Leave Democrats to their own devices, and they will screw themselves politically, just when they are at the height of power.
Re the Supremes' decision, Althouse is good: Hillary Clinton was promoting free speech on the internet...On the day that the Supreme Court struck down a U.S. statute as a violation of free speech.
Related, Surber reminds us:
The ACLU is a corporation.
Common Cause is a corporation.
The New York Times is a corporation.
Stick the hand-wringing over corporate speech already. Americans know better.
And Maggie's Farm, I suppose, is an informal corporation. Oh, I almost forgot. We are a not for profit "commune," so I guess we're OK with free speech either way.
 Image on right borrowed from Chicago Boyz
Too much free speech? The NYT freaks out. Why, I ask myself, should some businesses be gagged when media corporations, unions, and George Soros is not? The Times Corporation, a de facto arm of the Left wing of the Dem party and clearly enamoured of their own political speech, beclowns itself with pure partisanship masked as sanctimonious purity.
Not an elite. From Brown:
"If you were to tell me growing up that a guy whose mom was on welfare and parents had some marital troubles, and I had some issues growing up, that a guy from Wrentham would be here standing before you right now and going to Washington, D.C., are you kidding me?" Brown said at a postelection news conference.
News from the Middle East: Giant Hummus Plate Astonishes World. And from Betsy, Why doesn't the world community get upset about Saudi Arabia?
New Republic: Ram it through
Harsanyi:
Fifty-eight percent of those polled by The Washington Post recently claimed they preferred smaller government with fewer services, with only 38 percent favoring a larger government with more services (and, yes, it is a terrific struggle not to place ironic quotations marks around the word services).
This is the highest number for the “smaller government” category since 2002. And a full year into President Barack Obama’s term, most polls, and state elections, tell us that the electorate is walking — maybe sprinting? — back from the progressive economic policies that now dominate Washington.
From the new face of organized labor at NRO:
*A majority of union members in America (52 percent) now work for the government. This is up sharply from 49 percent in 2008. Put another way, Sherk finds, three times more union members now work in the Post Office than in the auto industry.
Union membership in the productive sector of our economy continued its long-term downward spiral, falling from 20.1 percent in 1980 to a mere 7.2 percent in 2009.
A full 37.4 percent of government employees now belong to unions in 2009, up 0.6 percentage points from 2008.
* Private-sector unions lost 834,000 members in 2009. Public-sector unions, in contrast, actually gained 64,000 members.
Thursday, January 21. 2010
 Breaking: Pelosi announces that she can’t pass Senate ObamaCare bill.
Maybe, in time, Congress can come up with some reasonable fixes, like interstate insurance competition, some subsidies for the poor, encouragement of major medical policies, tort reform, disconnect insurance from employment, etc. But this monstrosity of a government takeover seems dead for now.
Thank you, Scott Brown - and thank you, Massachusetts.
Good luck with that: Voters-Be-Damned… Obama Plows Ahead With Radical Agenda- Will Nationalize Student Loan Industry
When will Sen. Brown be called a RINO?
Politico: Dazed Democrats rethink entire strategy
Canada Free Press: Saying No to Emperor Obama
Big Journalism: Behold the Face of the Tolerant Left: Keith Olbermann, Unplugged and Unhinged
John Kerry's next?
Bush: One year out of office
Thinking more about a Repub health plan
Barone: Liberals still want to pass health care - but not the ones who have to face voters in November
George Will on the health care bills:
In their joyless, tawdry slog toward passage of their increasingly ludicrous bill, Democrats cling grimly to Robert Frost's axiom that "the best way out is always through." Their sole remaining reason for completing the damn thing is that they started it.
Why does the press always interpret "anger" when Conservatives win elections? Especially given things like this: Far left has taken over Democratic Party, Sen. Bayh says.
And things like this: Barney Frank Deals Potential Death Blow to Obamacare
And this: Lanny Davis says Blame the Left for MA
Walking back climate change claims
Q&O:
I’ve come to the conclusion that most of the left are closet authoritarians who, at the drop of a hat, would resort to what this blogger describes if they could get away with it, always with the naive belief that this dictator would be “a benevolent despot”. Of course, as pointed out previously, definitions mean little to the left who apparently don’t realize that “benevolent despot” is an oxymoron of the first degree.
Kimball: “Massive profits and obscene bonuses”: more populist nonsense from Obama
Wednesday, January 20. 2010
I hope Sissy popped a bottle or two of bubbly last night
Auster:
On January 19, 2010, in a Massachusetts election, the "Scott heard round the world" defeated, or at least put into disarray and confusion, the greatest leftist attempt in history to turn America into an unfree, statist society.
Rush's advice to the Dems:
We of good cheer should offer our friends on the other side of the aisle some good advice:
DON'T CHANGE A THING.
KEEP DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE PRESIDENT.
SUPPORT THE STRATEGY OF REID AND PELOSI.
Experiences are more rewarding than material objects. But isn't shopping "an experience"?
Roy G Biv, and what color is Vermont?
"Climate" bill tax is dead.
California: An Obituary
Insty: "PETER SUDERMAN: Everyone Hates Health Care Reform."
At City Journal: The Union Rules - What better to call the White House’s latest handout?
Michael Mann's climate stimulus package
Chart below via a piece at Carpe Diem:
Tuesday, January 19. 2010
Friday, January 15. 2010
Toon above via Theo
Anchoress: “Haiti is the broken bloody body of Christ”
Related, from Why is Haiti So Poor? (h/t, Marginal Rev):
Haiti, once called The Jewel of the Antilles, was the richest colony in the entire world. Economists estimate that in the 1750s Haiti provided as much as 50% of the Gross National Product of France. The French imported sugar, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, cotton, the dye indigo and other exotic products. In France they were refined, packaged and sold all over Europe. Incredible fortunes were made from this tiny colony on the island of Hispaniola.
How could Haiti have once been the source of such wealth and today be the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere? How could this land that was once so productive today be semi-barren? How did "The Jewel of the Antilles" become the Caribbean's hell-hole?
A Massachusetts Miracle looks possible. Not likely, but plenty possible. Related: Coakley does not have a good record as prosecutor.
Related: Dems Sucker Punch Mass Union Members
Fear Factor - The ideologues in Washington are scaring Americans.
Every group effort or organization has its obvious jerk. But maybe it's not so simple.
Climategate: How they hid the effect of the sun. Hid the sun? Related from Driscoll: It Was Only A Matter Of Time
Hey, Mr. Taliban: We aren't looking for a fair fight.
Thursday, January 14. 2010
Our friend Roger gets it. Related: Red has already won in Massachusettes Massachsittes MA. Related: Seating Mass. Senate winner could be delayed. Of course.
You want some Moslem cartoons? Here's one.
Full Body Scans to Double as Annual Checkups
Pethokoukis: 9 reasons why the Dec. jobs report is bad news for Dems. Their policies are job-killers.
Google is getting fed up with China. China does not trust its people.
Who predicted this? Obama Wants $33 Billion More for War. Guy is a cowboy warmonger.
Game-Changer: Why Did Reporters Keep Silent About Edwards? And Bill Clinton too. They're in the tank. Duh.
Wednesday, January 13. 2010
Tuesday, January 12. 2010
Horowitz' 8-part series on Rules for Radicals
To walk, or not walk, away from your mortgage
Pope gets religion: Pope Denounces Failure to Forge New Climate Treaty
More on The dirty little secrets of ObamaCare
Why Peak Oil is Peak Idiocy: Endless Oil
Dr. Sanity: CALIFORNIA WASN'T SACKED IN A DAY--or, How A Golden State Became A Failed State
The Logic of Liberty: Whose Responsibility Is Your Health?
Jules:
...if you don’t support race-based preferences and assorted left-leaning social programs, you’re a racist. But if you make bizarre ”light-skinned” and “Negro dialect” remarks and support the above, you’re not only not a racist, but deserve a vigorous defense.
A doc's angry letter to Sen. Nelson
The filth of one-party politics in Massachusetts. The allegedly SEIU push-polling is disgusting. Related: The Scott Brown campaign aimed to raise $500,000 in one day on the internet. They raised over one million. The election is next Tuesday.
Saturday, January 9. 2010
Thursday, January 7. 2010
Wednesday, January 6. 2010
Dodd out? That's a problem for the Repubs. Dodd would have been easy to run against. We think Linda McMahon might be the best deep-pocket bet against Blumenthal. She is not a social conservative so she won't frighten the CT voters - and her past co-ownership of the WWF (now WWE) gives her some street cred.
Oh, great. Democrats Considering Health Care-Immigration Deal To Overcome Key Sticking Point. Gotta pander to that illegal immigrant vote.
Didn't Adam Smith cover this already? What makes a nation rich? One economist’s big answer
Your climate scientists at work:
If published as is, this paper could really do some damage. It is also an ugly paper to review because it is rather mathematical, with a lot of Box-Jenkins stuff in it. It won’t be easy to dismiss out of hand as the math appears to be correct...
Pondering and pondering David Brooks' "educated classes."
The cowboy spirit. Dr. Sanity. What gal would want a guy without some cowboy in him?
9 points. Republican Heir To The Liberal Lion?
Now they are using the redskins to block Cape Wind. What next? Of course, the whole project is a dumb scam anyway, but uncovering the elite hypocrisy is the fun part. They don't want oil, they don't want wind, they don't want nuclear - but they do want their overland SUV permits and their 10,000 square foot houses overlooking Nantucket Sound.
Another org co-opted by the long march through the culture: AALS: A Learned Society or a Bunch of Left-Liberal Busybodies? Gramsci tactics, Prof.
We should have a category for New England sites. This good one is new to us: As Maine Goes.
We posted on Sol Stern and ED Hirsch yesterday. This is about the opposite: Thoughts on the Rotenberg Letter. Isn't the notion of "institutional racism" a bit dated these days?
Tuesday, January 5. 2010
 Getting on the Scott Brown bandwagon: Michelle, Riehl, Sissy, Fowler at NRO. It's a long shot in wacky MA. Photo is Brown. He has three weeks to make his case against the Dem machine candidate who is avoiding the press, off on vacation, and assumed to be a shoe-in as a Dem. Easy gig, big staff, dinner out every night, do as you are told.
Barone: GOP Should Push Education and Pro-Family Tax Reform. Douthat also has advice for Repubs.
Yes, they are saying that this frigid winter is due to global warming. As Legal Insurrection rightly asks, What would they say if it were a warm winter? Heads I win, tails you lose.
At Samiz on the C of E:
I have zero tolerance for a state privileged organization who claims to speak from a position of moral superiority advocating force backed restrictions on secular life. The sooner the Church of England is disestablished the better.
Call it what it is: Iran's revolution
MacDonald:
The recession of 2008-09 has undercut one of the most destructive social theories that came out of the 1960s: the idea that the root cause of crime lies in income inequality and social injustice.
Brooks:
The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year.
The educated class believes in global warming, so public skepticism about global warming is on the rise. The educated class supports abortion rights, so public opinion is shifting against them. The educated class supports gun control, so opposition to gun control is mounting.
The story is the same in foreign affairs. The educated class is internationalist, so isolationist sentiment is now at an all-time high, according to a Pew Research Center survey. The educated class believes in multilateral action, so the number of Americans who believe we should “go our own way” has risen sharply.
A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.
VDH:
...over one-third of all the efforts to repeat 9/11 have occurred in 2009—just as the United States has made unprecedented efforts to renounce the prior war on terror, to demonize a prior President, to use euphemism, to bow and apologize abroad, to turn war into jurisprudence, and to reach out to the Muslim world.
Via Driscoll:
...Tim Blair writes, “New York City banned smoking in bars and nightclubs four years ago, and imposes the highest cigarette taxes in the US. But if you’re a junkie, the city will spend $32,000 teaching you how to shoot up.”
Via Wizbang:
When George W. Bush returned, bloodied and bruised, to his Texas home after eight years in the White House, 43 percent of Americans surveyed by Scott Rasmussen "strongly disapproved" of the job he had done. Today, after less than a year in office, 46 percent express the same intense level of opposition to Obama.
Dems will do health care in secret meetings. Image below from Moonbattery -
Monday, January 4. 2010
 I am back from my skiing and family vacation, and trying to catch up with the past week or so of Maggie's. I'd suggest that you do so too, if you have been away. Good stuff, as always.
Like our link that reminded me that our sexagesimal system (base 60, used for angles and time) derives from the Sumerians.
By the way, if you haven't given up hoping for global warming yet, you would have if you had spent the last couple of weeks in New England.
I believe in open government, but this is nuts: Obama Imperils Intel Briefings
Volokh: Why is it More Wrong to Attack a Person’s Religion than their Secular Moral or Political Views?
Copenhagen success (brr) continues. Related: Once in a generation cold snap forecast for NC. Related: Britain facing one of the coldest winters in 100 years.
Related: Peru's mountain folk face extinction due to cold. We're all gonna die by freezing! We need more free Government Oil!
Not enough rapes to keep the academic Feminazis happy: The radical feminist empire strikes back at Duke. They were obviously heartbroken that the lacrosse players never raped anybody.
Cocky Dem Coakley Goes On Vacation 20 Days Before Senate Election in Massachusetts
This Henninger piece is worth re-linking: A Rodney Dangerfield America? America isn't dead. It's just dead in the water.
Also, more on science is too white. Racists used to say science was too Jewish. Now I think they mean that it is too Asian.
Thursday, December 24. 2009
Photo below from Gateway -
This quiet Interpol decision of the O prompted Anchoress to re-post The Art of the Painless Coup
Post Copenhagen: Is Man-Made Global Warming a Dead Issue? I tend to think so, because it was such a big joke.
Change… Obama Now More Loathed Than Bush at End of His Second Term
The Saudis take a stroll down J Street
Bet you didn't read Page 148 Of Health Care Bill
Now livestock are 50% of global warming. What global warming?
An argument for bombing Iran's nuke facilities - in the NYT
"Divisive" means you don't go along with the Left. Powerline
Newt video with "red meat." Doesn't sound like red meat to me - just logical and reasonable. Too bad he never comes across like a Teddy Bear on TV.
Grinch of the Year: Mr. Sutley. What a putz.
"Huge storm"? A commenter observes "Sounds like winter to me."
Liar in Chief: If you like your insurance you can keep it. Not
One of our favorite smart dudes, David Gelernter, on a new book about Darwin. A quote:
David Berlinski, one of the most impressive Darwin dissenters, quotes (in a Commentary essay) a smugly childish pronouncement by the journal Nature: "With all deference to the sensibilities of religious people, the idea that man was created in the image of God can surely be put aside." But what makes these ignoramuses so sure they know what the Bible means by "create"? How do they know that "evolution by natural selection" is not exactly what the Bible does mean? And how do they know that man is not "in the image of God"? Yes, we all know about the Bible's famous seven days, but has Nature never heard of a parable? It's not such a difficult concept. Does Nature fault the Bible for not starting with an account of Darwinian evolution?--right after the verses dealing with the Big Bang and astrophysics, which in turn follow the verses that brush everyone up on the necessary algebra, geometry, and calculus?
"The Torah speaks in the language of man," say the rabbis, and when the Bible emerged, men did not speak Darwin's language. But they did care about right and wrong, good and evil, justice and mercy, sanctity and man and God, and these (not biology or astrophysics) are the Bible's topics. Charles Darwin was a great thinker who taught us not only about science, but about religion--specifically, about what religion does not teach, and (for that matter) does not care about. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, at England's Christian heart. Darwin rejected the church, but the church didn't reject him. What does that mean? Berra has no comment.
Wednesday, December 23. 2009
Toon via Theo -
Like we said yesterday, the Dem bill is just the launching pad. Yes, that's the whole point.
Trial Lawyers Win Added Clout From Democrats In Health Bill. Wonderful!
How China sabotaged the climate talks
Va. Republicans aim to take 4 Democrats' congressional seats
The happiest states in the USA
ObamaCare designed to be un-repealable
Similar message from Betsy
Nelson Says More Senators Seeking Special Treatment in Light of Nebraska Deal
It's getting hot out there. Better DRIVE TO THE HIGHER LATITUDES
Not your grandfather's England:
A millionaire businessman has been jailed for two and a half years for taking on a knife-wielding burglar who held him and his family hostage in their home. Munir Hussain, 52, was told he was wrong to take the law into his hands and attack Walid Salem, 56, after the masked intruder threatened to kill him.
That's why we refer to Europe as EuroDisney. Not a serious place. It was, for a short while in history. Now it's just a cool vacation destination.
Even the Huffpo is disenchanted with the O (h/t, Winds):Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator
Related: Would You Buy a Used Car from This Man?
Fun with Hugo! First - Was it Santa? Second: Hugo renames Angel Falls
Tuesday, December 22. 2009
Climate touches every white liberal's erogenous zone. Krauthammer.
The UN's Pachauri, like Gore, is getting rich off climate.
Pajamas: The Socialist Revolution Has Come to America
Ted Dalrymple revisits Calcutta
Cool rocks. Slide show of some rochers extraordinaire
Kim Peek died.
A book: From Poverty to Prosperity
C of E vicar advises parishioners to steal
Debating national identity turns dangerous?
Point of Law: Impermissible Ratemaking in Health-Insurance Reform: Why the Reid Bill is Unconstitutional
Samuelson in the WaPo: A Parody of Leadership. One quote:
Even if Congress passes legislation -- a good bet -- the finished product will fall far short of Obama's extravagant promises. It will not cover everyone. It will not control costs. It will worsen the budget outlook. It will lead to higher taxes. It will disrupt how, or whether, companies provide insurance for their workers. As the real-life (as opposed to rhetorical) consequences unfold, they will rebut Obama's claim that he has "solved" the health care problem. His reputation will suffer.
Monday, December 21. 2009
 Photo on loan from Moonbattery -
Pethokoukis: The political blowback from healthcare reform
Kimball via Insty:
Since it was Ben Nelson of Nebraska that finally got Harry Reid his desperately needed 60th vote for socialized medicine, I hope 1) that the next two year are unpleasant for Sen. Nelson and 2) that he loses in 2012 by a landslide.
WSJ: Change Nobody Believes In - A bill so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas eve.
Prepare for a new term: "climate instability"
What is "settled science"? From Global warming and the 'settled science' baloney at Am Thinker:
While not faulting journalists and politicians for their stupendous ignorance when discussing most scientific subjects, I do condemn their utter lack of coherence concerning basic scientific definitions, processes, and principles.
Specifically, the chattering classes have no appreciation of the following truisms: settled science comes only in the form of physical laws while the causes behind specific phenomena are sometimes never definitively settled. And the more complex the system being observed, the longer it takes to reach a consensus about the causal mechanisms.
Saturday, December 19. 2009
Begin your Christmas shopping yet? I thought I'd begin today or tomorrow.
Did everybody know that Wikipedia is a non-profit? FAQs about Wikipedia
What would they do to me today if they saw the pictures I drew in Kindergarten? (h/t, Tiger)
California as a failed state
Is health care reform a gift or lump of coal?
Above the law? SEIU and the MA Senate race
From Michael Feinstein in the NYT:
If you look at a list of the most popular Christmas songs, you’ll find that the writers are disproportionately Jewish: Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas,” “The Christmas Song” (yes, Mel Tormé was Jewish), “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “Silver Bells,” “Santa Baby,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Winter Wonderland” — perennial, beloved and, mostly, written for the sheet music publishers of Tin Pan Alley, not for a show or film. (Two notable exceptions: “White Christmas,” introduced in “Holiday Inn,” and “Silver Bells,” written for “The Lemon Drop Kid.”)
Libertarians and Conservatives, at Ace. One quote:
Barney Frank is a crusader against any efforts to impose or even encourage any sort of traditional morality by the government. He is -- as regards only traditional morality -- a libertarian.
Meanwhile, he's supporting the government's efforts to throw you in jail if you don't purchase a government-qualified health insurance plan.
Liberals -- leftists, really -- continue to "bravely" (is it brave anymore?) tweak and thwart traditional mores and taboos while simultaneously replacing them with new taboos and new Temperance Crusades even more onerous and obnoxious and freedom-destroying than the ones they're so "courageously" freeing us from.
IN: Government-permitted gambling
OUT: Government-permitted Ho-Ho's and Mountain Dew
IN: Gay "bathhouses"
OUT: Actual baths -- too much water and too much energy used!
IN: Transgenderism
OUT: Transfats
IN: Anal bulbs
OUT: Light bulbs
h/t Gateway - An interview with one of our favorites, Thaddeus McCotter, plus the Republican Policy Committee Principles (listed below on cont. page)
Continue reading "Saturday links"
Friday, December 18. 2009
 Q&O on Copenhagen, etc:
China is emerging as a leader among the 130 nations that make up the misnamed Group of 77. While Hugo Chavez may be the court jester, the real power of that group lays with China. And China sees a developing power vacuum with the diminished role of the US – partially due to the financial crisis and partially due to a young and inexperienced president. Again, they’re not staking out a negotiating position, they’re telling the rest of the powers the way the table is set. Demands will follow later.
Too logical? Climate Change Is Nature's Way: It's our good luck one of Earth's many ice ages ended 12,000 years ago.
Yes, He Can: President Obama’s Power to Make an International Climate Commitment Without Waiting for Congress
Meanwhile, in this insanity, billions of taxpayer's $ to Third World countries to cope with an AGW which doesn't exist.
Video of no fuel, no emissions, no brains
He lives in a different world from that of Bernie Sanders
Hot Air: Merry Christmas: Senate ObamaCare vote may come on December 24th
Americans Souring on Democrats
Real global warming, at Insty
The atmosphere is cooling. Cold as hell in the Northeast now. And to our continued amusement, Copenhagen remains in a deepening deep freeze
Yes, Al Gore caught again lying like a Polar Bear-skin rug
Also via Lucianne: President Obama’s allies try to shield him from a potential climate catastrophe
Powerline on Pawlenty in NH. Right message.
Walker: Obama the America denier
Wednesday, December 16. 2009
Alex Massie in Spectator: American Exceptionalism & the Decline of Limited Government
Re health care, the O says we're "on the precipice." Truth, for once. No wonder he uses a teleprompter most of the time.
DOE sends a “litigation hold notice” regarding CRU
Harry Reid, Card Shark
York: Why Democrats push health care, even if it kills them
City Journal: Teachers’ Unions vs. Progress—Again. New York resists reforms that would bring in millions and improve teacher quality.
Faster? Please. Yet another proclamation that global warming is "accelerating, much faster than we anticipated," as activists have been telling us since the late '90s.
I think that was shortly after the decade of global cooling scares.
Tiger on what Jamie Dimon should have said to the O, including this comment: "...it is hard to see how anybody smarter than a reporter would be fooled by such silliness."
Tuesday, December 15. 2009
 Feeding the ego by going green
Terrible poll numbers for the O. Why?
Gimme money. That's what Copenhagen is all about.
WSJ: The 'Cost Control' Bill of Goods - How Peter Orszag and the White House sold a health-care illusion.
Didn't they say the polar ice would be gone in five years, three years ago? They are moving the goalpost.
Pick just one thermometer
Good political advice from Newt (video) h/t, reader
Thompson: The wrong kind of rich
30% of Dems believe in astrology. Good grief. Explains a lot.
Powerline: Are the wheels coming off healthcare?
Monday, December 14. 2009
 Oopsie daisy. Story at Dr. X. Luckily, it wasn't occupied yet. Only 1 guy was killed.
Government vs. Markets: Q&O
Vanderleun defuses Gore's lethal poem
Diversity Infects Medical School. Brilliant!
Heather Mac Donald: The Bilingual Ban That Worked
Thomas Sowell dissects intellectuals
How Mossad hacked the Syrian computers for their raid on the mysterious facility
Teddy Kennedy From The Grave: Medicare As A Path To Single Payer
Jimmy Carter: Abuse of Women Including Genital Mutilation is the Fault of Catholics & Southern Baptists.Everybody knew that.
Mark Steyn: Obama goes from dazzle to drone. A quote:
Can you believe this line made it into the speech?
"I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war."
Well, there's a surprise.
David Horowitz on Better Red than Dead.
Related, from Michelle: Hollywood & Howard Zinn’s Marxist education project. Good grief.
Why docs and hospitals are wary of government medicine, via Marginal Rev:
State Medicaid programs, by the way, are easily the worst payers, according to Athena's annual ranking. In New York, for instance, claims must be tendered on a dead-tree form instead of electronically and in blue ink—black is grounds for rejection—and then go on to spend a full 161 days, or almost a half year, in accounts receivable.
Saturday, December 12. 2009
 Dynamite from Krauthammer: The new socialism
Forget CO2 - now it's nitrogen!
Dino on climategate: Something’s (probably) got to give
SISU on Scott Brown
About time: Britain, Long a Libel Mecca, Reviews Laws
More on the Minnesota Teacher Brainwashing Program
High Premiums in Senate Democrats’ Health Plan
Climategate’s Harry_Read_Me.txt: We All Really Should
Get a Government Job, Series #4,291 John Derbyshire
CNN: 61% Oppose Senate Health Care Plan
The Nobel speech is getting good reviews.
Bainbridge: Is Medicare Really "Big Government at its Best"?
Trying to rewrite history:
Reid, like most Liberals, is trying to revise the racist history of the Democratic Party, and better yet, to transfer that history to the Republican Party. You would too if you had the racist history of the Democrats.
Study Shows Good Little Eco-Ninnies Who Buy Organic 'n Stuff More Likely to Lie and Cheat in Experiments That Test Ethics
I do not understand this: ACORN wins in federal court
15 reasons why they fell for the hoax
No Pasaran: "It's the same old leftist playbook: Approach every desired major policy change as a crisis, and demand immediate action."
Friday, December 11. 2009
Y2Kyoto: I Say We Start By Canceling The Olympics
Take This Paradigm and Shove It: Each year, I get invited to Washington DC to serve as a pimp. (h/t, Insty)
Climategate gaining traction - even in New Jersey
Dino: From the Snail Darter to CO2
Watts: The Smoking Gun at Darwin Zero
NASA Stonewalling Stokes Fears Climategate Will Spread to U.S. |
Climategate may be just the tip of the global-warming iceberg, according to experts. The next weather-science scandal may erupt right here in the United States. For nearly three years, NASA has resisted the efforts of free-market groups to release e-mails that could reflect the same sort of pro-warming bias seen in the recent e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of East Anglia University.
Breitbart launches a new Big
Medical magic:
Shut up, they explained, everybody's going to be totally stoked about the new plan. Well, everybody except the doctors and hospitals...
Betsy begins:
Something Olympia Snow gets right!
The Wall Street Journal points to a speech that Olympia Snowe made last month when she pointed out that the best social reform bills passed by Congress are ones passed by a real bipartisan majority not a phony one of just one Republican senator voting to give the whole shebang a false veneer of bipartisan cover.
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Dems Need to Come Out of the Single Payer Closet. I thought they already had done so.
Thursday, December 10. 2009
 Image via Moonbattery
More experts have second thoughts about AGW
Palin vs. Gore:
I’m putting my money on the Alaskan Mom…
It’s been nearly two years since the Goracle first announced that the arctic polar cap “will disappear in 5 years.”
Via View from 1776:
In Copenhagen Treaty negotiations, poorer nations are demanding massive transfer payments from the United States and other developed nations. Good luck to them in collecting promised payments.
AGW is a potential bonanza for rent-seekers and power-seekers. That's why the facts no longer matter.
It changes every day: Government medical takeover update
Get ready for Health Care 'Sticker Shock'
Isn't this racial profiling? The NYT: Christmas gifts for people of color?!?!?!? Shades of separate water fountains.
Tuesday, December 8. 2009
 Cute gal, to cheer us up, via Washington Rebel, who seems to compete with Theo for demure tottie and outspoken opinion -
EPA Finding Gives It Effective Control of the Economy. Suddenly, it isn't funny. Indeed, it is one reason businesses are wary of new hires.
Democrats' war on small business and family businesses. Also, not funny. And it is why small businesses are wary of new hires.
With no functioning MSM, people like Harry Reid get away with pure BS like this. Unbelievable.
Come all Ye Warming Faithful
Pajamas on the politics of non-warming:
To date, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has never offered any evidence of a “human fingerprint” on the modest (0.5 degrees Celsius) warming that occurred between the 1850s end of the Little Ice Age and 1940. They haven’t even given us a convincing story about the 0.2 degree Celsius warming that occurred from 1940 to 1998 (part of that tiny warming has disappeared). James Hansen’s predictions of massive overheating, given to the Senate in 1988, have been overtaken by a quiet sun and a telling drop in global ocean temperatures.
The public has noticed there’s been none of the long-predicted runaway warming — or any warming at all since 1998. They’re reading the Climategate emails of the “consensus scientists” confessing they don’t know why warming stopped. That’s a huge confession.
The public cares less and less for tired scare stories of a parboiled planet.
Monday, December 7. 2009
While the MSM is preoccupied with Tiger Woods and wackos sneaking into White House parties, government health care is proceeding apace behind the scenes. Nat Hentoff on The Cold Heart of Obamacare. Jay Cost on Why Does the Public Oppose ObamaCare?
Christmas trees axed from Copenhagen conference. However, Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges. Yes, indeed, The C Students of the World Unite!
Did you read this? CRU Raw Temp Data Shows No Significant Warming Over Most Of The World. And did you catch this excellent one from Bolt? - Climategate: how the conspirators gagged on their deceptions
Krugman quotes union study to support government jobs plan. At this point, Krugman has about the same degree of credibility as Andrew Sullivan.
 The NYT drank the Kool-Aid years ago - for political, not scientific reasons. They know nothing about science or math (how much stats did Pinch take in college?), but they do know that they approve of any kind of authoritarianism of the elites and the experts as long as they and their Manhattan pals are the elites and experts.
I think that it is notable that they have finally admitted that Climategate exists. They have not quite gone so far as to admit that a debate about the science - or about the hysteria in which they have participated in avidly - exists.
Their editorial concludes:
It is important that scientists behave professionally and openly. It is also important not to let one set of purloined e-mail messages undermine the science and the clear case for action, in Washington and in Copenhagen.
They did not decide to mention that those emails go to the heart of all of the hysterical pronouncements of the IPCC. The CRU is the beating, seemingly duplicitous, heart of the entire movement.
Rather than being the cynics and skeptics that we expect of hard-nosed journalists, the NYT predictably drinks the Kool-Aid because it suits their authoritarian politics. Pathetic, limp - and unprofessional.
Sunday, December 6. 2009
 Image via Mr. Free Market
Christmas books: The Dangerous Book for Boys
Good streaming Christmas music via FBC radio . It's not mall music.
Not being an economist, I always have to look up the exact definition of rent-seeking
A nation of Watanabes. My view? There is no such thing as predatory lenders. There is such thing as greedy, predatory, amoral borrowers and risk-takers on the bank's nickel.
Sometimes Ace gets serious and, when he does, he says wise things. As in this piece (which is not really about Palin). h/t, Villainous. One quote:
...politics is not about Simon Pure purity on questions. They are advancing the idea that politics is about coalition-building, doing what is necessary to attract 51% to your flag, and that those they consider too hardcore about conservative principles are doing the party a disservice by elevating philosophical integrity and ideological coherence above the vagueries and punts often necessary to negotiate a rough consensus.
An outrage indeed. The re-do of the Sunmaid girl. They made her less ethnic, and no longer a field worker.
I have heard many views on this: House Republicans Seek Reprieve For Navy SEALs. I tend to think it's like those cases where they arrest a 6 year-old girl for having a butter knife in her lunchbox.
NSFW: Obama's Safe Schools Czar. This creep would have been arrested if he came by my elementary schoool.
Is California the Dems' model for growth?
Via Pethokoukis, The chart that keeps the WH econ team up at night:
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UN climate change expert: there could be more errors in report
Pajamas: Global Warming as