JOHN LOUDON: A Tea Party President in 2012?
Archive for 2010
November 21, 2010
ADVICE TO REPUBLICANS from Stacey Campfield.
CHANGE: Red-Light Cameras See Cities’ Support Fading. “Democrats were not the only losers on Election Day. Traffic cameras designed to catch red-light runners also took a ballot box beating as they were voted down in Houston and at least four other cities nationwide.” Red-light cameras lose pretty much every time they’re put to a vote. Voters understand that they’re about revenue, not safety.
AMAZON: We’re leaking our Black Friday deals early. And just a reminder that when you buy anything from Amazon through links on this site (or the search box over in the right sidebar), you put a little money in my family’s pocket at no cost to you. (Bumped).
YOUTUBE: Jack Webb on the TSA.
BYRON YORK celebrates transparency. “Readers would have no idea what [University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles] Franklin really thinks about the voters whose opinions he’s measuring and commenting on. But now they do.”
Meanwhile, Franklin responds.
LIBERTARIAN PIONEER DAVID NOLAN has died.
PROFESSOR JACOBSON: The Conservative Cloward-Piven Strategy, Annotated.
DON SURBER EXPLAINS IT ALL.
DO YOU THINK? Asking The Wrong Questions: Public Acceptance of New TSA Procedures Has Been Exaggerated.
Related: “Getting on a plane has turned into the theater of the absurd.”
Also, “Enron had better PR” than the TSA.
BLOGGINGHEADS TV: Ann Althouse talks to Jacob Weisberg about his new book. “Why ‘Palinisms’ after his famous ‘Bushisms’ — why not ‘Obamisms’? And many other questions.” Answered in the comments this way: “One big reason he chose Palininsms is because – as Althouse has discovered, the woman is a goldmine. Biden may actually say more stupid things, but who is gonna buy a book about Biden, other than Biden?”
AIRLINE SECURITY and animal behavior.
EXPOSED: Steve Benen, economic wrecker.
NOW THEY TELL US (CONT’D): Consumer Risks Feared as Health Law Spurs Mergers. “Consumer advocates fear that the health care law could worsen some of the very problems it was meant to solve — by reducing competition, driving up costs and creating incentives for doctors and hospitals to stint on care, in order to retain their cost-saving bonuses.”
MARKDOWNS IN nutrition and fitness.
C-SPAN: Newt Gingrich on Presidential Politics. “There’s no possibility that I would ever go to a debate and have Olbermann or Chris Matthews asking questions. I watched the debate a couple of years ago and it was an embarrassment because they were so relentlessly hostile and they were so left-wing that every question they asked of the Republicans was designed to embarrass and divide the Republicans. And every question they asked the Democrats was designed to make them look good. Well why would we participate in that?”
COLOMBIAN FARC LEADER confirmed dead.
GREEN AND DISAPPOINTED: Low Rolling Resistance Tires Don’t Meet Consumer Expectations. This seems a function of expectations, mostly. They do make a difference, though. Back when I was still driving the Passat wagon I switched from the Michelin Energy low-rolling resistance tires to the higher-rated XGTs and the difference was noticeable. (One indicator — when the car was in neutral in my driveway, it would roll backwards with the Energy tires, but stayed put with the XGTs). It was about a 1 mpg difference as far as I could tell.
GREG MANKIW: The blur between spending and taxes.
THE DECLINE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES: An interview with William McGowan, author of Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means For America. I talked recently to an acquaintance who just left the NYT and he said that however bad you think the management is from the outside, the view from the inside makes clear that it’s ten times worse.