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Wednesday, May 26. 2010The anti-politician
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Ten lessonsThe always-useful Walter Russell Mead on The Top Ten Lessons of the Global Economic Meltdown. One quote:
The Duke witch-hunters
KC Johnson asks Whatever Happened to the Group of 88? Unbelievable.
About those synthetic cells
It's not artificial life, it's a laboratory-transformed life. WSJ
Weds. morning linksSipp is writing again: Das Is Culch Brill: The Teachers' Union's last stand Douthat thinks conservatvies should compromise their principles before they have to make political compromises Neo: The welfare state’s dirty little secret is out The commerce clause and Obamacare Coyote: Germany’s Ban on Short-Selling Climate alarmism in Britain: “…the poll figures are going through the floor.” Related, Oxford Union debates warming vs economics, warming loses The impending battle for Kandehar Megan: Public Pensions Headed for Disaster Axelrod implies that Sestak is lying. This is a potential serious mess. We have no data, but the government should do something anyway Simon on the culture wars:
Fawning press now gets cold shoulder from Obama
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Tuesday, May 25. 2010RushAVI reflects on Me 'n Limbaugh. My only meaningful disagreement might be that I do not see Rush's bragging as genuine, but as radio shtick. Nobody who says "I speak with half my brain tied behind my back, just to keep it fair" is a serious braggart. I think what drives Lefties nuts about Rush (besides his opinions) are his cheerfulness, infectious optimism, fair-handedness and kindness with callers, and his regular-American (as opposed to elite American) points of view. The lack of angst and anger is simply not fashionable and is, indeed, repugnant to the elite Liberal mind.
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Tuesday morning links
There are not enough wild fish to feed all those people. Google wants to protect cougars from themselves Demographics and the wefare state: Europe forced to re-examine the concept of “reality” Denmark: Clear-Cutting Forests to Save the Planet Peterson at Am Thinker can't believe the O stood for this. I believe it. I think he thinks the enemy is us. Germany now runs the EU - or owns the EU Chavez moves against the food producers. Brilliant. Let them eat cake. Catch up with Washington Reb. One quote: "even peace & love finds that violence is a final measure of intellectual, ethical and philosophical conviction." The new culture war:
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Monday, May 24. 2010Sickening and scaryTom Friedman makes me puke. Talk about Liberal Fascism. The arrogant, condescending SOB needs a dose of humility, real quick. But if life hasn't delivered it to him yet, maybe it never will...
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BordersAt Pajamas,
But not just "perceived," Dr. X. People are getting fed up with flagrant violation of the law. It is not the best way to begin a new life in a new place as an outlaw, and this sort of thing does not help the illegal cause. Poverty Pimps: Afraid To Alarm The Natives!Till Bruckner worked for NGOs in Georgia and Afghanistan before managing Transparency International's Georgia’s aid monitoring programme in 2008-2009. He writes in Aid Watch: Just Asking That Aid Benefit The Poor about Secret NGO Budgets.
Bruckner also writes at NGO Watch, "How Corrupt Is The World Food Program?"
A respondent to Bruckner's top piece says he's afraid to alarm the natives:
I bet he votes Democrat.
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Monday morning linksSocrates visits modern Greece New Jersey goes Greek Crittenden: Duty, Honor, Blah Blah Blah, Etc. Arizona laws vs. New York practices Krauthammer: This Admin is lawless Insane on the Canadian border Why the Republicans Could Still Lose in November Steyn asks Why is (DC taxpayer) Jonah Goldberg buying condoms for 30-year old men he doesn't know? Town in RI heads into receivership Powerline: In Sweden and Switzerland, 7 of 10 people work past 50. In France, only half do. Gratzer in the B Herald: Central planning’s bad medicine begins:
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Sunday, May 23. 2010US Led By SchlemielsHarvard professor Ruth Wisse, author of Jews and Power, argues that the defensive self-blame and even self-abasement that Jews adopted in the millennia since the fall of the This argument is at the heart of today’s critiques of Obama’s feckless and failing foreign policy. On May 20, Wisse addressed the thirteen Jewish cadets graduating West Point. Wisse uses the humor about schlemiels to make her point. There are many definitions of the Yiddish term, mostly varying in emphasis, but basically a schlemiel is naïve, gullible, even a simpleton. Wisse starts with some
A schlemiel doesn’t know how to find the notch in a saw. Sound like Obama? Oy vey! But, it's even worse than that among many leading Jews, as Jennifer Rubin points out about the Rabbis selected as safe for Obama to meet with:
Same goes for the Americans of the 1930s.
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Saturday, May 22. 2010Pres. Obama’s “Security Strategy”!The New York Times report on President Obama’s speech today to West Point’s graduating class is headlined “President Lays Out Security Strategy Based in Diplomacy.” That “security strategy based in diplomacy” is actually based in both self-delusion and believing that other nations and foes can be similarly deluded.
On the other hand of reality, as Belmont Club’s Richard Fernandez sums up the dysfunctional Obama foreign policy, that no one abroad wants much part of:
Good luck, West Pointers.
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Friday, May 21. 2010Friday morning linksMcArdle: How to Save for Retirement in One Easy Step Powerline: The Loser Letters: A Belated Re-Plug Insty on the legality of recording the police Where Brazil gets their energy Douthat: Can anything overcome the dynamics of statism? Krauthammer: Obama Refuses to Stand Up For His Own Country Rush Blitzes Clueless, Hypocritical Mexican President Related: Mexican president: Of course we ask immigrants to show their papers From Robin Hanson's Regulation Ratchets:
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Thursday, May 20. 2010Good update on Russia
But does anybody care? Cathy Young at Weekly Standard: Very Little Hope and Very Little Change
What's your opinion, y'all?What's y'all's opinion on Draw The Prophet Day (which is today)? And what do you think about my construction of the plural possessive "y'all's"? Correct, or a problem for the Grammar Nazi? Should it be y'alls'? In the South, I have even heard it said as "y'allses," as in "Where did you park y'allses car?" (Grammar Nazi link h/t Tiger)
Blumenthal hasn't earned forgivenessSaletan at Slate: Why should anyone give Richard Blumenthal a break? A quote:
Also, a good one: USA Today: Political waves: Great pretenders drown in their lies Thursday morning linksChinese Snap to Attention for Bra-Removing Contest Blumenthal reminded me of Spitzer too. The press seems disinclined to give him a pass, but that will probably pass in a day or two. Related and amusing: "I Did Not Serve In That Country, Vietnam" Ace gives Kinsley hell. Rightly so. Government by Professors? Or Death by Professor. Immigrant crossings into Arizona on the rise Related: Why does Mexico want people to leave? And how come they don't let people move to Mexico? Reason: From Banning Books to Banning Blogs - How the DISCLOSE Act will restrict free speech Dick Morris: One more vote for the Senate
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Wednesday, May 19. 2010How California is driving high-tech out of the statePolitical disappointmentThe Critz vs. Burns "failure" is a disappointment, even in a 2:1 Dem district. What the Dems have begun to master over recent cycles is to run as Conservative-sounding centrists. When they get to DC, however, they end up, willingly or unwillingly, under the thumb of the Pelosi leadership. That's how our system tends to work. So whether they run with more conservative local themes or not, in the end it doesn't matter. In the House, it is Party that matters, 99% of the time. That's why voting Party instead of Person makes sense most of the time, and why, for federal elections, being an Independent, even though it sounds nice, just means you don't care. Weds. morning linksChuck Schumer vs. Free Speech:
Pat Buchanan: Greece should default Attack Machine: Has Obama made enough money? Chris Shays watched Blumenthal go down that road Is the O all about sex appeal? Am Thinker A new holy site? Second mosque planned in shadow of ground zero Does free trade make humans human? Because they are so good at running things? Chris Matthews Wants Obama to “Nationalize” The Oil Companies Got Kleenex? How Hugo Chávez broke my heart. She says she is an "idealist." Meaning reality does not overly concern her. China does not want to be part of the Post-War World Order. I can't blame them for that. Who owns the USA? Nice of them to let us use it. Texas doctors opting out of Medicare at alarming rate The collapse of private insurors is not a bug, it's a feature: Medical insurance in MA
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Tuesday, May 18. 2010Bait for the crazy birthersWe aren't birthers here, but this video would feed their wacky theories.
CT's Blumenthal is a liar, with a plug for Martha DeanPopular CT Democrat and senatorial candidate Richard Blumenthal outed as a first-class snake and liar. Link fixed. Also, the excellent CT Attorney General candidate Martha Dean has been saying these things about Blumenthal for years. She's a Repub, so nobody listened. See Martha Dean for AG. I have met her. She is great. Tuesday morning linksThey lent us the money, so it's their fault: Greece Considering Legal Action Against U.S. Banks for Crisis Reason: We Are Out of Money -American governance won’t begin to inch forward until the political class faces basic facts. Less Than One-Third of US Meteorologists Believe In Manmade Global Warming More Moslems in bikinis, please Bruce Walker: The Left's War on Free Speech The wrecking of Venezuela - Venezuelans are starting to fall out of love with their president. Will they be allowed to vote him out of power? h/t, Fausta From Black and Right's Obama’s Risky ‘Southern Strategy’ II,
Obamacare: “Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?” Samuelson: How Much Should the Government Spend? Vanderleun finds the bullshit in the gelato Kinsley tries to explain why the Tea Partiers are much worse people than the 60s protesters. Lame. Globe: Health care fails small businesses. Related, A Technocrat's Fantasy - and our nightmare Why does the O avoid the press?
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Monday, May 17. 2010Where's the money gonna come from?From Ranson in the WSJ, The Revenue Limits of Tax and Spend:
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Read that whole thing. Related: States’ Tax Collections Falter, Widening Budget Gaps.
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