COMPARING THE S&P 500 with Obama’s disapproval numbers. The worse Obama does, the better the market, or so’s the claim. . . .
Archive for 2009
August 21, 2009
EVAN COYNE MALONEY: Hitler Comparisons and Media Reporting: Then and Now.
WHAT KIND OF FOOLS DO THEY TAKE US FOR? First class.
WHAT WOULD YOU COOK, if you were on Top Chef? I favor the “alcohol and raw meat” approach.
ON NRA NEWS, I talked with Cam Edwards about Heller, the Second Amendment, and my piece in the Hastings Law Journal on how the Second Amendment is doing in lower courts. You’ll have to wait until my face appears on the rotating-link screen. I’m wearing my “Enjoy Capitalism” shirt from Bureaucrash. Cam actually recognized it.
TEST-DRIVING Kia’s new hybrids.
JOHN BOOT really likes Inglourious Basterds.
UH OH: AP sources: $2 trillion higher deficit projected. “The Obama administration expects the federal deficit over the next decade to be $2 trillion bigger than previously estimated, White House officials said Friday, a setback for a president already facing a Congress and public wary over spending.”
Don Surber calls it this week’s Friday Afternoon Bombshell.
PROTECTING NEW ORLEANS, the world’s largest water pump.
FROM C-SPAN, some Dan Lungren Town Hall Video.
A MUCH-IMPROVED VERSION OF WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER: But there’s a catch.
THE ROSS PEROT OF 2012? Wayne Allyn Root talks about his new book, The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts. And about his planned run for President. On Reason TV. Er, but how’d that Perot thing work out last time?
BILL WHITTLE, SCOTT OTT, STEPHEN GREEN: Laughing At Our Enemies: The Power of Parody.
3D PATTERNED NANOSTRUCTURES: “Patterned tin and nickel panels self-assemble into nanoboxes.”
ANDREW KLAVAN: A Subtle Theological Point.
According to Ben Smith over at Politico, President Barack Obama gave some theological weight to his health care plan during a phone call to a group of Rabbis the other day. Referring to the belief that God decides during the Jewish New Year “who shall live and who shall die,” Obama told the rebs, “We are God’s partners in matters of life and death.”
In response to this statement I would like to make a subtle theological point: No, we’re not. For those of you who aren’t versed in the finer points of theology, let me try to simplify that for you: No. We’re not. Or to put it even more simply: No. We. Are. Not.
Related: Obama’s Twisted Faith. As when Obama started talking tonsillectomies and cardiology, he’s opened his mouth and revealed his ignorance. I’d just as soon, of course, that the President didn’t try to justify policy on religious grounds — and, until January 20, so did most of the media and punditocracy — but this effort is particularly lame.
PUTTING EMBEDDED VIDEO IN PAPER MAGAZINES. “The chip technology used to store the video – described as similar to that used in singing greeting cards – is activated when the page is turned. Each chip can hold up to 40 minutes of video.”
SCREW KEY turns your key fob into a toolbox. I carry one of these on my key ring, which is kind of similar. It’s handy, and goes through airport security without a hitch.
ANN ALTHOUSE: “Obama also has a big problem with moderates. Basically, Obama has a big problem. He got lots of people to trust him, chiefly by doing exactly what Krugman now complains about: speaking in vague generalities. It only works from a distance.”
UPDATE: Ron Brownstein: Obama’s Erosion.
A CORVETTE’S dying gasps.
MORE ON MSNBC’s “Edit-Gate.” “The fact that an African-American man was willing to show up to protest Obama, while carrying an AR-15, and that MSNBC evidently found his presence at the event inconvenient, speaks volumes about the MSM’s current attempts to discredit the Mobs of August by painting them as racist.”
POST-PARTISAN, POST RACIAL? Voight: Is Obama creating a civil war in America? We’re a long way from that, but he’s certainly been the most divisive President since Nixon.
UPDATE: Victor Davis Hanson:
Worse still, his base is now arguing for him to get more partisan, get meaner, get angrier, and get more fired up — also at precisely the time that polls suggest he is falling for already doing just that — and losing his once bipartisan, no-more-red/no-more-blue-state supposed transcendence.
In truth, as partisans tell Obama to get nasty, his rhetoric the last 90 days has already been exclusively polarizing. The administration and its supporters have ridiculed tea-parties, town-hallers, Republican skepticism about deficits, etc. — evoking everything from Brooks Brothers to the Nazis, from being un-Christian to now getting “wee-weed up.”
Even Nixon never did that. Of course, he had Agnew, who was a more reliable hatchetman than Joe Biden.
ROGER KIMBALL: My final piece on Yale and the Danish cartoons: Martin Kramer connects the dots. You’ll be shocked to hear that there’s Saudi money involved.