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January 11, 2008
OBAMA AND HILLARY, IN BLACK AND WHITE: “I don’t think the Hillary puzzle has to be explained by covert racism on the part of New Hampshire Democrats and Independents; covert stodginess and a reluctance to admit that they are voting like their grandmother and not their kids may be the real cause.”
I GUESS THOSE BIG STARTING BONUSES STILL AREN’T BIG ENOUGH: “College grads who want wealth and social status are passing up law and medicine for careers in investment banking.” It not only pays better, it’s a better lifestyle. Then there are the law-firm layoffs.
KICKING MEN OUT OF DAY CARE: The latest Ask Dr. Helen column is up!
UPDATE: In the comments, a discussion of sex between teenage boys and older women. Is it bad?
TAKE THAT, TROLLS: Jonah Goldberg’s book is still at #10.
Has Paul really disassociated himself from, and “taken moral responsibility” for, these “Ron Paul” newsletters “for over a decade”? If he has, that history has not been recorded by the Nexis database, as best as I can reckon.
Much research follows.
BOB ZUBRIN, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Grass makes better ethanol than corn. Actually, I’m pretty sure Zubrin knows that . . .
You can also turn it into methanol, and I believe that’s a good deal easier. And if you missed it, our Zubrin podcast is here.
MICKEY KAUS: “There isn’t another contested Democratic primary for 9 more days? What are we supposed to do in the meantime? Can’t they speed the process up?”
HOW THE IPHONE blew up the wireless industry.
BOB KRUMM: “Some speculate that Fred Thompson went easy on John McCain last night and is playing the role of stalking horse for him. I disagree and here’s why.”
WE’LL HAVE TO CUT BENEFITS, OR SUFFER: “The US is at risk of losing its top-notch triple-A credit rating within a decade unless it takes radical action to curb soaring healthcare and social security spending, Moody’s, the credit rating agency, said yesterday.” My guess is, we’ll suffer.
ARE THE MEDIA rooting for an Obama tragedy?
FRED THOMPSON IS ENDORSED by Human Events.
“SNOW FALLS ON BAGHDAD, for first time in memory.”
UPDATE: Reader Kevin Greene emails: “I had no idea Al Gore was in Iraq.”
THOUGH THE MCRIB IS ACTUALLY KINDA YUMMY: “In South Carolina, Fred’s all in. If he wins, he deals Huckabee a pretty tough blow, as the argument will be made, ‘If Huckabee can’t win South Carolina, where can he win?’ Thompson will tout himself, as one of his guys put it to me, as authentic barbecue to Huckabee’s McRib.”
SAME OLD CORN, different flakes. What did people do before Photoshop?
WATCH OUT, CNN: 400,000 viewers for Breitbart TV. By comparison, “As of 2005, CNN in primetime attracted less than 700,000 daily viewers, but with a budget of zillions of dollars and a ton of real estate, technicians and on-air talent.”
NOT THAT THE LANCET STUDY needed any more discrediting, but there’s a new one out producing a fourth the numbers.
Plus, doing the math on Saddam.
January 10, 2008
JONAH GOLDBERG IS now up to #11 #10 #9 on Amazon.
As Rand Simberg notes, “All the one-stars at Amazon by people who haven’t read Jonah’s book are not only being pulled down, but they’re creating sales.” (Bumped).
ANBAR UPDATE: “Iraq’s western province of Anbar, hotbed of the Sunni Arab insurgency for the first four years of the war, will be returned to Iraqi control in March, a senior U.S. general said Thursday. In a telephone interview from Iraq, Marine Maj. Gen. Walter E. Gaskin, commander of the roughly 35,000 Marine and Army forces in Anbar, said levels of violence have dropped so significantly—coupled with the growth and development of Iraqi security forces in the province—that Anbar is ready to be handed back to the Iraqis. . . . Thus far, nine of 18 Iraqi provinces have reverted to Iraqi control.” Halfway there: T.M. Lutas’s prediction from April is looking pretty good.
UPDATE: Rounding up the history.
DON SURBER: Bush is wrong. “Trading land for peace does not work.”
MARK STEYN: “Actually, it was (Democrat) Bob Kerrey doing the whole secret-muslim thing and (Democrat) Bill Shaheen doing the sold-cocaine thing and (Democrat) Andrew Young doing the Bill Clinton’s-slept-with-more-black-women-than-Obama thing. We NRO guys are staying well clear.”