ANOTHER GRIM MILESTONE: Morgan Stanley Sells Entire New York Times Stake.
UPDATE: Check out this chart.
Archive for 2007
October 17, 2007
VIDEO: Bush warns of World War III.
A LOOK AT China’s emission standards.
IN THE MAIL: Howard Kurtz’s new book, Reality Show.
Plus, Jason Zweig’s Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich.
We traveled to the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Conference in New York, and talked to energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, MacArthur Genius Award winner and science educator Shawn Carlson, and appropriate-technology entrepreneur Shawn Frayne. It’s a fascinating discussion of everything from how America can save energy and protect the environment without sacrificing our lifestyle, to ways of helping the third world, to techniques for energizing American students’ interest in science and technology.
Amory Lovins’ website: Winning the Oil Endgame. Shawn Frayne’s website: Humdinger Wind Energy, LLC. Shawn Carlson’s website: Labrats.org. And there’s much more background on all of them at the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough page.
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ASK THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES QUESTIONS at the 10 Questions Video Forum.
Background here. It looks pretty cool — but then, InstaPundit is a cosponsor.
MORE POLICE VIDEO THUGGISHNESS: “Frank Waterhouse of Oregon is suing Portland police after he was tasered and shot with a beanbag gun. His offense? Videotaping a warrantless police search on a friend’s property. The police report helpfully explains that the force used on Waterhouse (who was standing far off on the edge of the property) was necessary because, ‘He had refused to drop the camera which could be used as a weapon.'”
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. This would make a good TV ad.
JULES CRITTENDEN ON the Democrats’ surprisingly narrow win in bluest Massachusetts. “Name-branded Tsongas trotted out Clintons and other lefty starpower, got heavy out-of-state financing, and only managed 51 percent. GOP take note.” Dems, too. Public disgust with the GOP Congress isn’t translating into enthusiasm for the Democratic Congress, not least because the Pelosi/Reid regime seems to have managed to slip below even the low standards established by their Republican predecessors.
GREG MANKIW ON BLOG COMMENTS: “I just don’t have the time to police comments and enforce good behavior, especially since some posts were generating more than 100 comments. And I don’t want to host a party in which a small vitriolic minority consistently tries to ruin the event for everyone else.”
Let ’em get their own blogs.
UPDATE: I had a column on this topic a while back.
OUCH: “The Laffer Curve and the supply siders pushing it seem to be the teacher’s unions of the right.”
HILLARY MILHOUS CLINTON: I see the analogy, but I still think she’d be more like President Cheney, only with hair.
Plus, a truly disturbing photoshop.
MORE CHINA TROUBLE FOR YAHOO! “Charging that a top Yahoo! Inc. official provided incorrect information regarding a Chinese human rights case to Congress, the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday called on the company’s leadership to appear before the panel.”
THE DANGER OF GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNS: The Weeds.
RADAR: JOHN EDWARDS’ SECRET AFFAIR with the MSM.
“I WAS ACCUSED OF MUGGING RANDI RHODES, and all I got was this lousy brownshirt.”
A FIENDISHLY INGENIOUS confidence scheme. Plus, a soft investment alert.
October 16, 2007
OKAY, NOW THIS IS REALLY STRETCHING FOR THE NEGATIVE SPIN: “As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch.”
Boo frickin’ hoo. (Bumped).
INTERIORS: Bill Quick has a new blog.
NPR: Ignore the noose.
HSEDUCTION AND TIMING: “Not wanting to step on her women’s message of progress with a contradictory message reminiscent of past fundraising scandals, the Clinton campaign waited as late as possible today to release her finance report detailing the donors and amounts rounded up by accused swindler Norman Hsu.”
AMERICA’S SLIDE INTO CHRISTIANIST THEOCRACY CONTINUES: “The invitation appeared one Sunday in Joanna Chase’s church bulletin: Come to a ‘faith forum’ and join a conversation about the intersection of religion and politics. Living in New Hampshire, Chase is accustomed to pitches from presidential hopefuls, especially those focusing on values-voting Republicans. But this one came from the team of a Democrat, Sen. Barack Obama.”
UPDATE: Obama’s Christianist tendencies are less surprising when you realize that he’s Dick Cheney’s cousin!
Hey, and Hillary is Dick Cheney with hair . . . it’s an Army of Cheneys!
JOHN PODHORETZ will become editor of Commentary.
READER PAUL STINCHFIELD WRITES that he’s unhappy PC Magazine’s list of their 100 favorite blogs includes only political blogs that lean left. Well, he’s right unless you count Drudge as a blog (Drudge doesn’t) but the PC Mag folks say the list is subjective, and a list of favorites can’t be wrong, so long as those blogs really are their favorites. I guess it just tells us where they stand politically.
But hey, it’s “PC” Magazine, right?
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE JEWS: The American ones.