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Saturday, February 4. 2012“Red Tails” reviewIf you want to see a kickass World War II movie, then Red Tails is your ticket. Saturday morning, after dropping Jason off at Little League Umpiring School, candy bar in hand I slipped into a seat at the local Bijou and was transported back to the exciting WWII movies I enjoyed as a kid, and which haven’t been made since. It’s the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, enduring racism on the ground and fighting Germans in the air. After I got home I scanned the reviews at Rotten Tomatoes. The negative reviews were mostly by relative youngsters who found it over the top or the characters too wooden, or some who not bothering about other films’ literal transgressions searched for them in this one. The more favorable reviews, however, got it. The film is unabashedly about heroism and patriotism. And, the dogfights have you at the edge of your seat, hands sweaty. Well worth the price of admission into when Hollywood made these movies regularly. This isn't about so many of today's so-called youth "heroes" who revel in lewdity and are rewarded with lewd sums of money that they flaunt. This is about real men who risked and gave all for what they believed, with little recompence except self-respect, and did it with dignity and discipline. During the movie I wished I’d brought 11-year old Jason with me. It seems the movie was actually made for him. George Lucas, unable to get film companies’ funding, made the movie out of his own pocket, $58-million invested in uplifting youth. As Lucas tells it, "For those of us in my group of filmmakers, like Steven (Spielberg) or Ron (Howard) or Marty (Scorsese), we want to make movies that enthralled us when we were little….It's corny. It's über-patriotic. And it's a really exciting action-adventure movie." But, more than that, “"I have only one agenda, and that's for a lot of young people to see this movie…" The report continues: “The good-vs.-evil, duels-in-the-skies aspect is what makes the movie especially timely, Lucas says. For many young people today, heroes — be they athletes, entertainers or presidents — aren't defined by skin color.” Go see Red Tails, and take your son, daughter, grandchildren.
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Saturday morning linksThe Great Good Place: Prime Burger Restaurant, in Midtown Manhattan But you’ll gag on the food at Gaga’s America's Underground Economy 19% of income not reported Robin Hanson’s theory of young consultants O’Sullivan’s First Law in Action Pew: Democrats getting hammered by religious voters. Union membership dwindles in Wisconsin, U.S. Gospels Contradict Obama's Idea Of A Socialist Jesus Obama cost Dems 17 states — so far A Battle the President Can't Win - His decision on Catholic charities makes Romney's big gaffe look trivial. Sen. Marco Rubio: Obama Will Try to 'Absolutely Eviscerate' Republican Opponent He's right. It's war. Truth will be the first thing to leave. Plan to Take British Health Records Into Virtual Reality Encounters Bureaucratic Reality, Shuts Down ObamaCare Advisers Predict Death of Health Insurance Companies First it was the free government cell phone scam. Now it’s the free government internet scam. Your Friday IRS regulation dump: Obamacare’s job-killing medical device tax Gulf Deepwater Drilling Ban’s Hidden Victims Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy It's intolerant to impose Western notions of tolerance on intolerant peoples Friday, February 3. 2012Job Growth and More Media BiasBy now, you've all heard the good news. It's been on the news everywhere, and the market jumped dramatically. This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that job growth exceeded everyone's wildest expectations. 243,000 jobs were added, far more than the expectation of 140,000. More importantly, 257,000 private sector jobs were added, while 14,000 government jobs were lost. Unemployment dipped from 8.5% to 8.3%. All of this is very good news. Even those who oppose the president and his methods of handling the economy will not serve themselves to disparage this growth. I certainly won't. What I will say is that the general media is great at reporting headlines, but not digging into the numbers or providing historical context.
The media won't dig in, but others have in order to see what the numbers behind the numbers say, particularly since the CBO's report earlier this week was so lackluster. The first bit of perspective comes from the Democrats, who spent most of the early 2000's disparaging the job growth of the Bush years as "McJobs". I notice none of them are speaking right now. Which is odd, because while we added about 90,000 very good paying jobs, over 113,000 of the jobs added were clearly "McJobs", or low wage labor. Any job growth is good, so I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I just want to know why "McJobs" were bad 9 years ago, but good now? If any Democrats would like to comment on this, they are more than welcome. Another bit of news that went overlooked was the surge in part-time and temp work. Again, any job growth is good. I have nothing but good feeling for people who have been out of work but have managed to wrangle a paycheck. But if Obama's goal is "An Economy That Works", I'm sure he didn't mean "Works Temporarily and Part-Time" A third, though somewhat justified question, is why the BLS has actually increased job growth estimates by a very large amount over the course of 2011. It's possible preliminary numbers were low, but by 23%? Revisions are always needed - by why so many positive adjustments? Usually it's "seasonal fluctuations". Which means...?
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Who really "owns" their home? Who really "gets" a college education?It's about bubbles - things with form but lacking in substance. Most "homeowners" have mortgages, if not second mortgages, or at least lines of credit against their homes. If you have a mortgage, you are essentially a renter - but a renter with the capital risk and the maintenance costs and risks. The ownership is an illusion and, if the place is paid off, you lose your interest deduction and so what have you gained by that process of eliminating your leverage? Well, if you are retired with lower income, you have gained the ability to remain in the house if you can cover the property tax. For economic reasons, more people are renting: Homeownership Rate Falls to Lowest Level Since 1997; The Homeownership Bubble Is Still Deflating. The American Dream of home ownership is and has been a foolish ideal. However, it was an ideal which expert salesmen sold us since the 1950s. A sentimentality sales job, like cars. Chances are, you ain't buying no family estate that your grandkids would want to own. Expert salesmen, again both in government and out, also sold us the college degree bubble. Once a meaningful social marker, it has become so diluted that it no longer means anything at all, or, I should say, can mean a lot or can mean nothing, depending on what was learned. I know, because I interview people for jobs. I have seen college grads who don't know what it means to graph a f(x), don't know the difference between RNA and DNA, and have never read Chaucer. Oh, I see. They have a BS in Business Administration. Is that "college"? Oh, somebody wrote a term paper about Virginia Woolf? Wow. I guess they can write a sentence. What is meaningful is a rigorous High School degree. From that, you have the foundation to learn anything you want to. Is a college degree job training, a few additional High School years, a social marker, an expensive prolonged adolescence, a merit badge, a haven for dedicated scholars, or what? Nobody knows anymore, but it is widely sold as a necessary qualification. Hence a piece like this in the NYT: Why go to college at all? My theory used to be that a college education should prepare you to understand, in depth, every page of the Sunday New York Times. I don't buy their paper any more, which is their loss. Mine also, to some extent. Friday morning linksYesterday was Candlemass Time to take down the Christmas decor Vanderbilt University’s Assault on Religious Liberty From a Christian standpoint, So what's wrong with men's rights? Just Fill the Darn Potholes, We’ll Do the Rest From Tim Dalrymple:
Mitt is a bit out of touch. Obama was out of touch too. They are both bubble guys. Why Obama should be worried Congressman Issa On Obama Green Job Failure: “We Would Have Done Better Throwing The Money Out A Window” Op-Ed: Hoosier role model - Indiana will prove a tipping point in the fight for right-to-work Obama: I Pushed Dodd-Frank And Health Care Reform Because Of Christ What??? We have a theocracy here? Also, what if Bush had said that? What does Obama do all day? America's waning influence - Any honest diplomat will tell you that American power and global influence is waning, and if we shy away from acknowledging that fact, we'll only speed up the process. Mitt Romney’s trouble is his near-perfection A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Review of the 2010 Health Care Reform Law U.S. spies to rely more on allies due to budget austerity Thursday, February 2. 2012Thursday morning linksIsolated Peru tribe makes uncomfortable contact (photo) Lots of good stuff up at American Digest Why Women Lose Interest in Sex Rocking Mongolian girls Inconvenient Truths About Sundance Goldberg on Groundhog Day Kenya doctor fights mental health stigma in 'traumatized continent' The Coming of the New Ice Age: End of the Global Warming Era? Obama to Unveil New Vote-Buying Scheme Justice Department rejects Fast and Furious cover-up claim Why U.S. Needs Amphibious Skills Greece Warns It Will Soon Be In "Condition Of Absolute Poverty" Twelve Ways Obama Could Lose - Some Democratic voters are irrationally sure of victory. Henninger on Obama:
Wednesday, February 1. 2012Political QQQOne of these days, Romney is going to say something like “Obama just doesn’t understand how the real economy works, partly because he’s never had a job.” And the New York Times will run a front page story, quoting Al Sharpton and a bevy of psychologists, about how that is racist code. Make book on it. Jonah Goldberg, in a piece at NRO The evil, evil Koch brothersThe protest sign in the piece says "Koch kills democracy." How the unassuming, philanthropic, and low-profile Kochs were selected as bogeymen of the year I do not know. They are known to be supporters of Libertarian and free market organizations so I suppose, by a certain sort of logic, the Left must always demonize defenders of freedom. As we have noted countless times here, the Left never includes individual freedom in their political calculations (unless it's about sex). That is not an oversight; it's because We The People are viewed as the feckless masses requiring Ivy League overlords to make our decisions for us. To which we peasants say "Basta!" Is real democracy consistent with maintaining liberty? The ancient Greeks said it wasn't. They believed that democracy was mob rule, and our Founders decided that they were correct. The modern Greeks are proving it again. As we have also repeated claimed here, individual liberty, unlike money, really is a zero-sum game. Every drop accrued by the State is a drop taken from me whether it is meant to be "for my own good" or not. We're all here for the freedom, not for the government. The American Spirit is to be annoyed with government, and to view it as a necessary evil but limited in its powers. Still, it seems odd to me to select a couple of wealthy Libertarians as targets.
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Weds. morning linksObama sandbags the Archbishop Contraceptive mandate could face tough sledding in Supreme Court Warm winter disproves global warming! Mead: Die, Yuppie Scum!
Here's why union membership keeps falling Weakness always invites war Gingrich robocall: Romney forced Holocaust survivors to eat Gingrich is a toxic person Obama's plan to win Ohio And Oakland Mayor Quan Says Occupy Protesters Using City As ‘Playground’ She calls that "play"? I call it criminal mob mayhem And Occupy Providence Protesters Disrupt a Pro-Life Rally, Showering Condoms on Catholic School Girls And Adbusters Tells Occupiers to Take to the Streets of Chicago a la 1968 Government Schools: Nice Work if You Can Get It Unions hijacked the government schools years ago. For the good of the children, of course Psychology of participation in insurgency Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda Islamist stops university debate with threats of violence The Pragmatics of Lebanon's Politics Neal Puckett Speaks to NPR About the Haditha Trial U.S. military says Taliban set to retake power: report
Tuesday, January 31. 2012Didn't Mao try this already, David?If David Brooks isn't being facetious here, then he's gone nuts:
Mao called it the Cultural Revolution, enforced by the Red Guard at gunpoint. It did not work out well. And what's with "mass"? I think he is calling my parents the "mass." He ought to meet them sometime. They sacrificed everything, and worked two jobs, to put us kids through U Mass (we all had jobs during school to help out) and have never had any money to spare or to save. Good habits and decency, however.
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Being Green Means Being Economically ViableI've always been 'Green'. Not "I recycle and you should stop driving an SUV and if you don't you're evil" Green. I'm more of a constructive 'green'. In my youth I did ecological projects with the Boy Scouts, planting trees, cleaning parks, learning about nature by hiking the Appalachian Trail. I figure it's better to improve than scold, and you should start at home anyway. It's better to be concerned about how you do things and let other people worry about how they choose to live. If people want to be 'green' because they fear Carbon Dioxide, that's their choice and I'm OK with it. I don't agree with them, and I really don't appreciate when they decide their way is better and want to force me to do things their way. My teen years were marked by two contrived events now known as "The Energy Crisis". Political situations had led to a belief that oil prices would rise forever and we'd run out of fossil fuels by 2000 (technically, we were supposed to hit Hubbert's Peak in 1979 - but Hubbert didn't count on various factors which extended his timeline). All kinds of crazy stories in the 1970's drove many to the point of hysteria. Not dissimilar to what we're being told today, except back then the world was cooling, not warming. It doesn't matter which way the temperature was going, because ecological consciousness was, and is, part of the 'correct' cultural identity. As I matured, I learned it's not just about ecology. It's about efficiency. Continue reading "Being Green Means Being Economically Viable"
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Education revolutions in Louisiana and North CarolinaTuesday morning linksWhy You Should Postpone College Farmers Making $100 Billion Don’t Need Subsidies to Grow Redwing: More on the Makeover of Favorite Shoes Has the Higher-Ed Revolution Begun? Democrats Vs. Republicans: Who's The Most Greedy? Romneycare and Obamacare Are Identical Awesome: Calif. To Pay For High Speed Rail With Extortion Obama's Flawed Case for Insourcing - American workers are losing jobs to machines, not to Chinese workers. Average Federal Employee Makes Twice as Much as Private Sector Employee & As Much as Microsoft Employee Like Education, Government is a monopoly service industry, but armed. We'd like to see some competition. Federal Housing Authority and Freddie Mac: Betting against the homeowner Dining with Vultures: Rent-to-Own, the Feds, and the Housing Sector The Buffett Rule Won't Apply to Warren Buffett Geologist: What should the world’s temperature be? A little warmer, please. Without that good greenhouse effect, we'd all be dead. Without CO2, we'd all be dead too.
Yuval Levin: Religious Liberty and Civil Society
Monday, January 30. 2012Help Wanted: Personable Conservative for run for Pres of the USIn my view, Newt is unelectable, and not only because he comes across as an unusually unpleasant and undisciplined person. I don't know whether Mitt could win a national election, but I think the point is that he would help hold down potential losses in the House and Senate. He is not a rooted Conservative in the way that Obama is a rooted Leftist, it seems to me, and is the white bread candidate. Likeable, in my view. Not exciting, not overtly humorous, and not too quick on his feet. He'd be fine as President, I think, but not an Obama-style media celeb which seems to be what people enjoy these days, and not a Cut Government Down to Size Conservative. Of course, holding the House and/or winning the Senate are more important than the White House, but we all tend to focus on the White House race because it's a sport, a soap opera, the Kentucky Derby. It gives us stuff to talk about. Perhaps I am wrong. Maybe a calm, pragmatic, non-ideological CEO Mitt-type is what the country needs and wants now. However, the Conservative Repubs see, rightly or wrongly, the opportunity to crush a weak Obama and to win all the chips. Emotion can get in the way of mature, logical thinking. If Mitt wins nomination, it's because party members have voted for him in the primaries. There is no puppetmaster. Who and where is that mystery person who can pleasantly and inspiringly articulate the Constitutional Conservative case (it ain't Sarah Palin)? Would it require a brokered convention to bring that person onto the field? That would make for some very good TV. Otherwise, Moderate Mitt will be the party's figurehead. Speaking of politics, how is this for red meat?
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Monday morning linksSpike Lee: The New Bill Cosby? Woman meets child born out of rape, given up for adoption 77 years ago New bridge in Mexico loaded with big dreams Angry about inequality? Don’t blame the rich. The earth's coming deep freeze: Children just aren't going to know what sun is UK's Global Warming Office Issues New Temperature Data: No Warming in the Past 15 Years Burt Rutan on Schooling the (climate) Rogues:
Activists want climate change on TV weather reports NYT Mag: Will Israel Attack Iran? There's no free trade in sugar: Sugar Tariffs Cost Americans $3.86 Billion in 2011 With the 2012 election heating up, it must be “cry racism” season again What’s Wrong with Peak Oil Theory? Consider ‘Peak Gas’. Conservatives Opposed To Mitt Romney In The General Election Coyote: Backpage and Sex Workers Drones Are Not Enough - Getting counterterrorism policy wrong. Obama Fosters the Skyrocketing Tuition He Criticized The Most Important Non-Presidential Election of the Decade - Wisconsin's Scott Walker is facing a recall after his labor and spending reforms. If he loses, public unions will flex their muscles nationwide. Sunday, January 29. 2012Things I don't want to hear anymoreI'm with VDH on this: What We Do Not Want to Hear Anymore. By way of correcting the drivel many of us are tired of, he concludes:
Sunday linksOld ad via Doug Ross Look for Green Lights When Choosing a Partner (h/t Schneiderman) Can You Choose to be Gay? Meet the Marriage Killer- It's More Common Than Adultery and Potentially As Toxic, So Why Is It So Hard to Stop Nagging? Does School Stunt The Teenage Brain? This name-dropping futile GM still seeking more taxpayer cash Related: The Trouble with the Copyright Debate - Does every illegal download represent a lost sale? German Enviro Minister: Cut Solar Subsidies Big Brother Is Now Your Diet Coach - Should the government be watching what you eat? Dr. Sanity: THE LIBERAL SOLUTION: FOSTERING DEPENDENCE:
How the Daily Mail stormed the US David Cameron: human rights laws stop Britain protecting against terrorism THE THIRD JIHAD PRODUCERS RESPOND TO ANTI-ISLAM CLAIM
Saturday, January 28. 2012Climate: Cui bono?
The brief video interview with the Princeton Physics prof there is interesting too. He says they would have had many signatures if they had taken the time. These fellows are saying what we have been saying here for years, but they have more street cred than we have. Indeed, the story of the AGW hysteria is a fascinating story of the politicization of scientific inquiry coupled with governmental and academic greed for money and power. It is a cautionary tale. Furthermore, I think many of us would welcome a little global warming. I think it would improve the planet, overall. It certainly did so in the past. Watch, over the next year, more scientific organizations and agencies find the courage to publicize these politically-incorrect views. At Maggie's Farm, most or all of us are Environmentalists and Conservationists. We want land and water and air to be protected. We do not even approve of urban sprawl because we may need all of our farmlands someday and, as pleasant as urban hiking can be, we need the woods too. But at the same time, we like to live in reality.
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Controversial Book Asks ‘Is Marriage for White People?’ When Will Housing Hit Bottom? Scientists: Chill on global warming "One of the more insidiously deceptive lines of the socialist-liberal agenda is the banal phrase: "Violence doesn’t solve anything."" America’s Dirty War Against Manufacturing (Part 1) Let's Be Fair about Taxation The economic chart that may doom the Obama presidency Alternative Certification and 'Colorblind Racism' - The sooner the higher-education bubble bursts, the better. How the CDC is overstating sexual violence in the U.S. "Note to some of my fellow progressives: If we can’t argue about Israel without using anti-Semitic tropes, then the debate is lost before it even begins" What Obama Won't Mention Today in Michigan: Campus Has 53% More Administrators Than Faculty Obama: Follow the Example of the Military? The U.S. military needs to invest in troops, not technology Morning Bell: A Slashed and Burned Military Good Grief… Obama: People Don’t Get Rich Without Government Investment Reuters Acknowledges Rubio Hit Piece is a 'Fiasco' and a 'Disgrace' Multimillionaire Elizabeth Warren: I’m not wealthy. $14 million isn't wealthy? How does an academic accumulate that? Even on her $400,000 Harvard salary? Friday, January 27. 2012"Those jobs aren't coming back"A propos yesterday's post on Fishtown: Apple's Jobs to Obama: "jobs aren't coming back" to U.S:
Friday morning linksImage on right via House of Eratosthenes A Patti Smith update A site that is new to me: C J Chiver's The Gun A Q&A on benefits and risks of taking aspirin Can Ontario Really Deliver North America's Best Smart Growth Plan? Good news: Fried foods no health risk Reaffirming: Los Angeles Students Roundly Reject ‘Healthier’ School Lunch Menu Why the cafeteria crusade is a crock Should the ‘Morning After’ Pill Be Available to All Ages? Elites hate the poor. It's PJ O'Rourke, of course:
After Obama's Empty Words, Daniels Said It All Alarming Thoughts On The SOTU from Clark Judge SOTU: Of the Ignorant, By the Ignorant, For the Ignorant Why, Precisely, is America so Great? Ace is funny:
Also via Ace's Science: Low IQs Linked To Conservative Beliefs, Such As Racism And Fascism:
That's me for sure - always confused MSM attempts pre-emptive strike on Rubio Four ways Republicans can win Hispanics back It’s time for journalists, human rights activists and church leaders in the U.S. to confront the prospect of Christianity’s destruction in the region of its birth. President Obama leaves event promoting clean energy in a motorcade of 22 fossil-fueled vehicles.
Thursday, January 26. 2012Thursday morning linksSurviving Girl Land: Sex, Lies, & Proms 4 billion YouTube views/day Golden Missed Opportunity - School choice is on the move everywhere—except California. Alternative certification is coming Mead: The Once and Future Liberalism - We need to get beyond the dysfunctional and outdated ideas of 20th-century liberalism:
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Marine's career threatened by controversial rules of engagement Happy Birthday to Egypt’s Doomed Revolution 15 Questions The Mainstream Media Would Ask Barack Obama If He Were A Republican Wednesday, January 25. 2012In favor of a Keystone Beer pipeline from CanadaThe US has 55,000 miles of oil pipelines already. Who would object to a beer pipeline from Canada? Cheap beer, for America! That's what we need to help the country grow.
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Weds. morning linksVia Insty, Having An Opinion Is Now "Bullying" The Tragic Truth About India's Caste System - Untouchables cling to it because they have few other choices Here's an idea: A call for a Cuban Spring Energy: On Black Holes and Other Democratic Party Voids President Obama’s Very Dishonest Campaign Ad Regarding Energy Romney Gave 15% to Charity – Obama Gave 1% to Charity Tax rates of presidential candidates, in one chart As in Europe, Big Government Coming After Pensions Rising wealth of Asians straining world fish stock The coming disaster in Egypt Black Women Lead Shift To A Post-Blue World State Dependency on the Federal Government:
Taking the money surrenders autonomy Nile Gardiner on the SOTU: Barack Obama is still driving America towards decline
Haditha Was Exploited To Increase Danger To The US, US Troops, And To NoncombatantsThe killings at Haditha in November 2005 were blown up by opponents of the US in Iraq into an indictment of the US and its troops. This onslaught sapped the will of many Americans. The following rules of engagement and the drawn out prosecution of the Marines involved have undermined the morale and endangered the lives of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Take the premise that at Haditha both the Marines and those who were killed in houses 1 and 2 were correct in their own view. The long term losers are both US troops and noncombatants. Both Marines and US troops generally are at increased risk due to perhaps understandable rules of engagement that in practice are often excessive and dangerous. Noncombatants are at increased risk of oppression, or more impersonal death from US technology, in countries where thuggish foes seek domination and can serve as refuges for further attacks on the West. Haditha was a decidedly treacherous town overrun with Al Quaeda led foes who blew up Marines in the convoy and fired on the survivors from the nearby houses. What else could the Marines do but attack and eliminate the threat from the houses? Walking in, exposing themself to harm, would have been suicidal. Those inside lived in fear of the insurgents, who had already executed the local police force, and were aware that an IED was to be exploded. What else could they do but huddle inside? Warning the Marines beforehand would have exposed themselves to extermination. Walking outside, hands up, after the attack on the Marines, may have been a good move, but they knew gunmen were nearby and they didn’t want to be in the middle of a shootout. Continue reading "Haditha Was Exploited To Increase Danger To The US, US Troops, And To Noncombatants"
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