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Archive for 2007
December 28, 2007
TRUST THE GOVERNMENT WITH YOUR PERSONAL DATA: Full Social Security Numbers Were Compromised In Election Commission Theft.
SNOWBALLS: Fred Thompson vs. the press.
BLOOMBERG GROUP RUNS anti-gun ad in Iowa. Dan Riehl comments: “If that’s the first card Bloomberg has decided to play, his entry into the race is bound to help the Republican candidate more than anything else.”
CALLING FOR A 2008 SCIENCE DEBATE. Sounds like a good idea to me. And through the page, I notice that my former Tennessee colleague Stuart Pimm is one of the organizers.
Of course, the result might not be pretty.
RANDY BARNETT: Was the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Conditioned on Service in an Organized Militia?
UPDATE: Some related thoughts here.
FROM BLOGBURST TO TV: Jon Henke emails that the Thompson campaign is running this TV ad in Iowa with money raised from the blogburst.
FROM MICHAEL YON, a news flash for Osama bin Laden.
THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO regulate online communication.
ROAD TESTING the Terraniac. With video.
MORE ON Huckabee and stem cells, from The Politico. And it goes beyond stem cells:
Mike Huckabee last year accepted $52,000 in speaking fees from a bio-tech giant that wants to research human embryonic stem cells, a non-profit working to expand access to the morning after pill and a group pushing to study whether tightening gun control laws will reduce violence.
Ugh.
IRAQPUNDIT on Pakistan and Iraq.
JOHN HINDERAKER CHARGES HARPER’S with smearing U.S. troops.
ELEVEN IRANIAN SPECIAL-OPS TROOOPS killed in Iraq.
UPDATE: Oops, I misread that. They were “special groups,” not special ops — Iranian-backed militias. Was a bit rushed this morning as we were getting ready to return home from Atlanta, where the Insta- wife and daughter were hitting the after-Christmas sales. Or trying to, as a lot of stuff was sold out.
A FRIGHTENING POST FROM JEFF JARVIS, on the lowest common denominator and free speech.
Almost as depressing, however, was this photo of air travel as it used to be. Sigh.
PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Investor’s Business Daily tells Bush not to be shy:
The Congressional Research Service issued a report last week confirming that earmarks not included in the actual bill but written into accompanying reports — which is most of them — do not have force of law and can therefore be disregarded by the president. . . .
But don’t just blame Democrats. This out-of-control, unaccountable waste and abuse of the citizens’ hard-earned money is a bipartisan disgrace. Byrd’s Republican counterpart on the spending panel, Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, out-oinked even Byrd, with $774 million in earmarks. So did Alaska’s Sen. Ted Stevens, infamous for the taxpayer-funded Bridge To Nowhere and responsible for $502 million in earmarks this time around.
Not only would the president have the Constitution on his side if he declared war on the earmark racket; he would have the vast majority of Americans with him. Most people are tired of finding out after the fact that they’ve paid for billions of dollars in projects that should have been locally financed — or maybe not built at all — due to the 11th-hour stratagems.
I hope the President does the right thing.
I LIKE THE SNOWFLAKES at Katie Granju’s new digs.
SAY IT AIN’T SO, RON: “Yes, I know I wrote an article tentatively supporting Ron Paul, but please, someone, tell me this clip in which Dr. Ron Paul rejects the theory of evolution has been edited to remove the full context of the remark.”
GHALIA AYMEN REPORTS FROM PAKISTAN:
As they mourn and try to recover from the shock of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistanis are trying to come to terms with the security failure that allowed such a carefully coordinated shooting-suicide bombing to take place, and asking themselves if it was, indeed, a failure —or a conspiracy.
Neither answer is a good one. Even if there was no government–approved conspiracy to eliminated her, the fact remains that Bhutto was presumably being protected by the tightest security possible. Pakistanis ask themselves if someone of her stature is so vulnerable, how can a common person be safe in their home?
The feeling of insecurity and uncertainty combines with the general atmosphere of sadness and mourning. Bhutto’s supporters and even those who would not have voted for her are expressing their sympathy for her and her family.
The sadness is quickly transforming into anger.
Read the whole thing.
ABE FOXMAN: “We welcome and accept Will Smith’s statement that Hitler was a ‘vicious killer’ and that he did not mean for his remarks about the Nazi leader to be mistaken as praise.”
STEPHEN KAUS: Hillary bucks the spirit of the 22nd Amendment. Yes, that’s Mickey’s brother.
240 PROTESTS AGAINST the Iranian Regime this month.