IN THE MAIL: From John Ringo, Eye Of The Storm.
Archive for 2009
July 2, 2009
REASON TV ON LIBERALS, CONSERVATIVES AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
CALIFORNIA ON BRINK OF issuing IOUs. Maybe they should consult a state whose budget isn’t a pathetic travesty and see if they can pick up some pointers.
IS OVERREGULATION killing entrepreneurship in America?
POLITICO: Washington Post sells access, $25,000+
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors. The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it’s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff.”
The offer — which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters — is a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival.
And it’s a turn of the times that a lobbyist is scolding The Washington Post for its ethical practices.
Ouch. But note that we haven’t heard the Post’s side of it yet.
UPDATE: Here’s the response. News people say business people were off the reservation.
MORE REPORTING ON THE NEW YORK CITY TEA PARTY, and be sure to read this critique, too. To succeed, the Tea Party movement needs to remain true to the grassroots, and move beyond rallies to concrete — and locally-focused — political and electoral action. Some, of course, are already doing that.
UPDATE: Reader Sam Hamman writes: “Is there a website that shows where all the tea parties will be held? Specifically AZ and CA.” Try TeaPartyPatriots.org. Use the “Find An Event” button at the upper right. Also, check these news stories.
RAND SIMBERG ON robot dogs and the space future he looked forward to as a kid.
UNEMPLOYMENT HITS 9.5%, highest since 1983. “I wonder what effect this economy will have on today’s graduating seniors? I bet they learn to be very competitive and aggressive and that those habits stick with them for the rest of their careers. The college class of 2009 is going to have it rough, but that will make them tough.”
Meanwhile, how’s that “stimulus” working out?
YEAH, BUT NIXON DIDN’T GET THE SAME COOPERATION FROM THE “CONTROLLED:” Helen Thomas: Not Even Nixon Tried to Control the Media Like Obama.
BOMBERS throughout history.
HOWARD KURTZ: Black Reporters on the Beat of Michelle Obama: Does Race Play a Role in Coverage? What about gender? All the names I see are women. It would be sexist to assign only men to cover Barack, wouldn’t it?
UPDATE: Reader Richard Palmer writes: “Imagine the reporting on Sarah Palin if she were covered by only pro-life, church-going, mothers who live in small towns. I guess that’s why she didn’t have many ‘girlfriend to girlfriend’ moments with the press.”
HEH: Quick! Spend the money before the taxpayers find out! That’s pretty much the motto for this Congress, isn’t it?
HAIL, ANTS: I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. “A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.”
A CALL FOR separation of economy and state.
WHO RAILROADED the Amtrak Inspector General.
CYBER-SCARE: Are fears of digital attacks exaggerated?
July 1, 2009
NAVY ELECTRICIAN gets Marines wired.
IRANIAN REVOLUTION (DAY NINETEEN): A roundup at the Berman Post.