Archive for 2009

WHY YOU CAN’T GET SWINE FLU VACCINE: “The shortage of swine-flu vaccine results not from drug- company greed or outsize demand but almost entirely from the government’s decision to pander to unfounded and unscientific fear.”

OUCH: “Obama goes to Europe and comes back with no Olympics. Goes to NJ and his candidate loses. Same in Va. Maybe he should stay at home since he comes back empty handed each time.”

UPDATE: Actually, this explains it all: He sent Biden to NY-23 instead of going himeself. Bet Owens is glad! Nobody messes with Joe!

BEWARE THE AXIS OF INSTAPUNDIT. “Heaven help us if Harvard ever discovers Twitter.”

NOW THAT’S JUST SWEET! Happy “quarterversary!”

TALKING ABOUT THE NATIONAL MEANING OF TODAY’S ELECTIONS, over at The Hill.

UPDATE: Liveblogging the results. So far it’s a GOP sweep in Virginia, but I’d be surprised if New Jersey finishes at Christie 55, Corzine 38.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Associated Press, NBC and Fox are calling New Jersey for Christie.

[Yeah, it said Corzine there for a minute — sorry, crossed neurons or something as I meant Christie. Drove to Asheville and back today (the long way around because I-40 is blocked by a landslide) and just wrote a quick oped on the elections, so I’m a bit fried . . . .]

MORE: PoliPundit: GOP Margins in NJ & VA bigger than 1993.

GREEN, BUT NOT BLUE: British Cops Unable to Use Blue Lights on New Electric Car. “Cops based near Oxford in the UK have revealed that they are unable to to use flashing blue lights on their new electric car – in case it drains too much power from the battery.”

WE CAN REBUILD HER, we can make her better. And for a lot less than six million dollars, though to be fair, Steve Austin didn’t get any “sweat equity.”

PAYING MORE ATTENTION to fathers. “Fathers tend to do things differently, Dr. Kyle Pruett said, but not in ways that are worse for the children. Fathers do not mother, they father.”

COMING FROM FERRARI: An all-wheel-drive hybrid? I doubt it’ll much resemble the all-wheel-drive hybrid from Toyota that I’ve owned for years . . .

WILL IT BE A ROUGH HOLIDAY SEASON FOR RETAILERS? Time for an Insta-Poll!

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BYRON YORK: “A lot of observers are having trouble figuring out the philosophical underpinnings of Barack Obama’s foreign policy.”