WYOMING CAUCUS COVERAGE from Bill Bradley.
Archive for 2008
March 8, 2008
THOUGHTS ON BARACK OBAMA AND SAMANTHA POWER, from Michael Totten.
LOADS OF REZKO NEWS ON Rezkorama. It’s constantly updated! And some related thoughts here.
THOUGHTS ON gloom, doom, and campus killers.
RETURN OF the muster.
We talk to Jim Dunnigan, publisher of StrategyPage.com and author of numerous books on war, intelligence and security, and Austin Bay, who blogs at AustinBay.net, and who is the author of both novels and nonfiction works on war and military matters. They fill us in on the latest developments in Iran, Iraq, and Venezuela, and talk about why the Obama Campaign is good for America. (An Obama Presidency is a different story . . . .)
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DOMESTIC TERRORISM UPDATE: Eco-terrorism on trial out West. “Kolar testified against Briana Waters, telling jurors that her former friend helped her and three others set a massive fire at the University of Washington. Kolar also admitted to trying in 1998 to burn down the Wray Gun Club in Wray, one of four arsons she confessed to in her deal with prosecutors.” (Via And Still I Persist).
HILLARY CLINTON, peacemaker.
UPDATE: More here.
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Can McCain win if there’s a recession?
HEH. My favorite Allan Sherman song was You Went the Wrong Way Old King Louis.
A ROUNDUP ON THE Wyoming Democratic Caucuses.
NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR ENGINEERS in Syria.
NOT VERY JUDICIOUS:
Shawn Sage long dreamed of joining the military, and watching “Full Metal Jacket” last year really sold him on becoming a Marine.
But last fall, a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner dashed the foster teen’s hopes of early enlistment for Marine sniper duty, plus a potential $10,000 signing bonus.
In denying the Royal High School student delayed entry into the Marine Corps, Children’s Court Commissioner Marilyn Mackel reportedly told Sage and a recruiter that she didn’t approve of the Iraq war, didn’t trust recruiters and didn’t support the military. . . . His foster parents, as well as his social worker, supported his decision to enlist early. Despite being denied, he still shows up for USMC physical training.
Read the whole thing.
CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: Women earn most of America’s Ph.D.’s but lag in the physical sciences. Beware of plans to fix the ‘problem.’ Quotas in the physical sciences. Sure — if it’s a successful American institution, fairness requires that it must be crippled . . . .
(Via the Insta-Wife).
TRUER FOR MORE AND MORE, I EXPECT: “I find myself watching YouTube more than TV these days.”
March 7, 2008
FOLLOWING UP ON TODAY’S EARLIER POSTS, could you have the beer robot bring you a beer while you sit and watch the RoboMower mow your lawn? The picture certainly brings that to mind. And then, I guess, the paintball robot could keep neighborhood dogs from despoiling your perfectly-tended grass. . . .
SUSAN ESTRICH: Nasty Twists in Democratic Race.
WOMEN’S HISTORY, with porn stars. But what point are they trying to make by pairing Hillary Clinton with Jenna Jameson?
A MCCAIN WRIGGLE on taxes?
JAMES LILEKS: “Sign of the times: you hear about a bombing of a Times Square recruitment office, and you assume it’s nutjob antiwar folks, not Al Qaeda.” I guess that’s proof that we’re winning . . .
UPDATE: Worries at Berkeley: “After a bombing at a Marine recruiting center at Times Square in New York City, Bay Area military supporters came to Berkeley City Hall Thursday to express concerns that the city’s Marine recruiting center could suffer a similar attack.” Given the extensive incitement of anti-military hatred by the Berkeley city government, that’s a reasonable fear.
JONATHAN CHAIT: Hillary Clinton, fratricidal maniac. I hope he’s not calling her some kind of . . . monster.
But there’s some criticism here.
AMAZON IS OFFERING $50 TO $150 REBATES on new MacBook computers. (Via Backpack Computing).
TOM MAGUIRE has more thoughts on Obama’s Samantha Power flipflop problem.
UPDATE: More Obama national-security disarray: Intel Adviser Breaks with Obama over FISA, Telecoms.
“I do believe strongly that [telecoms] should be granted that immunity,” former CIA official John Brennan told National Journal reporter Shane Harris in the interview. “They were told to [cooperate] by the appropriate authorities that were operating in a legal context.”
Read the whole thing.
MORE: No we can’t!
ED MORRISSEY: STRIKE TWO FOR THE TIMES:
He’s annoyed, sure, but hardly spitting and cursing. By the time she asks “Why are you so angry?â€, the question is so inappropriate that he asks her to repeat it — and she declines, hopefully out of embarrassment.
Interestingly, the Times now has tried twice to get his goat, and for the second time, they’ve wound up with egg on their face.
Perhaps they’ll hire Rebecca Aguilar for attempt number three. Hey, she’s available!
UPDATE: McCain experiences the media shift: “When you’re the darling of the press, you’re feisty. When you’re the Republican nominee for President, you’re dangerously unstable.”
MORE: Physics Geek: “This is like that line from Jerry Maguire: ‘You’ve never seen me very upset.’ He’s visibly irritated, but he hardly raises his voice. Total non-story.”