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Archive for 2010
May 25, 2010
SO DOES THIS MEAN OUR PRESIDENT IS A RACIST? Obama to Deploy 1,200 National Guard Troops to the US-Mexico Border.
PANTS: A sale on Dockers.
BRING BACK DDT (CONT’D): More on Florida’s dengue fever outbreak. “Last August, an alert doctor in upstate New York realized that one of his patients, whose only recent travel had been to Key West, Fla., had dengue — a mosquito-borne virus that causes joint pain so severe it is nicknamed “break-bone fever” in Latin America and Asia. According to last week’s report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Florida health authorities have since found 27 more cases, all in Key West, the last in April. . . . Although there have been outbreaks along the Texas-Mexico border since 1980, the disease had not been seen in Florida since 1934. Unlike malaria, which is caused by a parasite, dengue is a virus, and there is no cure.”
BUT OF COURSE: Rear-end collisions jump at red-light camera intersections in West Palm Beach. “Rear-end collisions more than doubled and accidents increased overall in the first 70 days of red-light cameras in West Palm Beach compared to the same period of 2009, traffic records reviewed by The Palm Beach Post show.”
A TOYOTA PRIUS minivan? “Microvan?”
SOME BASEBALL CUES on sibling behavior.
NICHOLAS ROSENKRANZ on The Subjects Of The constitution. Randy Barnett calls it “a stunner,” something you seldom hear about articles on constitutional law.
ELECTRIC CARS ARE COMING, but where are the fast chargers?
IN THE MAIL: Zev Chafets’ Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One, which comes out today.
JENNIFER RUBIN: The Sestak Stonewall Isn’t Working.
HEH: “Andrew Sullivan is furious he didn’t think of this.” Another precedent set, another have-you-no-decency line undercut.
Related: She sees something worse than Russia from her back yard.
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Top Ten Lessons of the Global Economic Meltdown.
ROGER SIMON: The Culture Wars Are Turning.
SEEMS FAIR: Court of Appeals Upholds $16 Million Award for Framing Father for Alleged Child Molestation. “The case is White v. McKinley (8th Cir. May 17, 2010), and the damages award was $14 million in compensatory damages, $1 million in punitive damages against the plaintiff’s ex-wife, and $1 million in punitive damages against the police officer who was the ex-wife’s secret lover; the ex-wife and the police officer were found to have conspired to hide the relationship, and to get rid of a possibly exculpatory diary written by one of the children.”
MICHAEL ROSTON: “As Alaska’s occasional governor, Palin actually took a rather populist position on how oil companies should be dealt with.”
SESTAK STORY MUTATES from scandalous to depressing. “Oh, right. If the Obama administration broke the law, that’s not really the issue. Well you brought it up, Sestak. We’re going to keep asking.”
BOB OWENS: Calderon Fibbed About Assault Weapons.
WHILE AMERICAN’S 401(K) PLANS SHRINK, Congress wants to bail out unions’ overgenerous and underfunded pension plans.
OUCH: Stocks Plummet On Economy Fears. Dow currently at 9819.
GREAT COMMERCIALS: “Joyride Dream.”
TAKING ON DEVAL PATRICK’S hateful eliminationist rhetoric.