A QUESTION. So look at this picture of an anti-Zelaya march in Honduras:
Now note this AFP story, which says that “hundreds” of protesters marched. While, technically, even 10,000 would just be one hundred hundred, does that sound like a lowball to you?
UPDATE: Well, well, look at this. Hundreds — of thousands, maybe . . .
Thanks to reader Garnet Fraser for the link.
YOU CAN DO MAGIC.
WHAT EVERY CITY NEEDS: A human-powered monorail system.
JOHN STOSSEL: The Arrogance of Health Care Reform: Why do politicians with no business experience think they can run 15 percent of the economy? “Most people are oblivious to F.A. Hayek’s insight that the critical information needed to run an economy—or even 15 percent of one—doesn’t exist in any one place where it is accessible to central planners. Instead, it is scattered piecemeal among millions of people. All those people put together are far wiser and better informed than Congress could ever be. Only markets—private property, free exchange, and the price system—can put this knowledge at the disposal of entrepreneurs and consumers, ensuring the system will serve the people and not just the political class.”
BROOK MANTIA SENDS: If we can put a man on the Moon — then why, now, 40 years later, can’t we put another man on the Moon? Why, indeed.
MICHAEL TOTTEN on the future of Iraq.
IN THE MAIL: From George Shultz et al., Reykjavik Revisited: Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons : Complete Report of 2007 Hoover Institution Conference.
BILL WHITTLE WITH LEON COOPER: A Soldier’s Story: Escaping Death, Iwo Jima & The Atomic Bomb.
MEGAN MCARDLE: “If you want to talk about awesome future cost savings, pass them. Otherwise, you have to defend the actual bills we might pass, not some better bills that we haven’t and probably won’t.”
INSTAVISION: I talk to Harry Stein, author of I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next To A Republican, about politics and social interactions. Is “right leaning” the new “gay”?
NEW JERSEY POLITICOS charged with corruption.
DAN RIEHL accuses Obama of premature opining on the Gates case. “As the occupant of the WH, Obama has a responsibility to speak for all Americans. He appears to be showing a pattern of not doing that, but seeing everything through a lens of racial politics, first. It is as unfortunate as it is dumb.”
UPDATE: Politico: At Big Moment, Obama Goes Small.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Andy Borowitz: Obama to Replace Anesthesia with Press Conferences.
MICKEY KAUS: “However you interpret these sentences, it’s hard to see how Obama hasn’t given a flashing green light to non-trivial tax increases on middle class families.”
WEIGHING SCHOOL BACKPACKS: “On average, 6th graders in the study were carrying backpacks weighting 18.4 pounds, although some backpacks weighed as much as 30 pounds. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that a child’s backpack weigh no more than 10 to 20 percent of a child’s weight. Consumer Reports recommends keeping the weight closer to 10 percent of a child’s weight. But one Texas study found that most parents don’t check the weight of their child’s backpack.”
Well, I did. “It’s likely that she’s carrying one-third her bodyweight there.” But the schools don’t seem to care.
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: “Basic sex education teaches us that the so-called ‘pull-out’ method is an unreliable and risky method of contraception. But a new study suggests that, in terms of pregnancy prevention, withdrawal works just as well as condoms.” I’m skeptical.
NOW ONLINE: The PJTV Health Care Forum. I moderated the Congressional panel.
THE END OF THE SPACE RACE: “There is almost no doubt that the Chinese will be on the moon within a decade, while we will still be earthbound and potentially bankrupt as a nation with our economy, our technology, and our industrial might in ruins because of uncontrolled government spending, borrowing, and taxing. I had an exciting childhood living in the midst of the space race, but it saddens me to think that time, 40 years ago, may end up being the historical high point of our going out into space, the final frontier.”
It doesn’t have to be that way, unless we let it be that way.
MARKDOWNS on top DVDs.
IT WAS THE NEIGHBORS: They Do Stuff Like This All The Time.
First Perriello, now McCaskill. Bad neighbors.
OUR HEALTH CARE FORUM WILL START AT 7, on PJTV.
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