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
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UN climate change expert: there could be more errors in report
Pajamas: Global Warming as