Archive for 2010
April 5, 2010
TOM BLUMER: Why Real Revenue Will Lag CBO Forecasts.
BORAT GETS LAST LAUGH? Financial Health: California vs. Kazakhstan.
“COLLATERAL MURDER?” Bill Roggio says not so much.
GATEWAY PUNDIT: A Thousand Rain-Soaked Patriots Welcome the Tea Party Express to St. Louis. Doesn’t look like the weather was too bad.
UPDATE: A report from the St. Charles, Missouri Tea Party.
ROBERT SAMUELSON: The Poisonous Politics Of Self-Esteem.
THOUGHTS ON STUDENT/FACULTY SEX, from Ann Althouse.
Related: Glen Whitman on the new paternalism.
ENDS TONIGHT: DVD and Blu-Ray sale.
IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS BILL WHITTLE VIDEO today, take a few minutes and watch it.
Plus, Bill observes in the comments: “What we need is the opposite of a miracle. What we need is the simplest, most do-able, everyday occurrence. We need to get out and vote, and we need to take a few friends with us. Nothing could be less miraculous. I think if we understood how easy it is, we would be more likely to do it.”
EDUCATION POLICY: “Money is raked out of the states and then dangled in front of them to entice them to do things they don’t want to do and couldn’t be forced to do by direct regulation. And the ultimate, ironic slap in the face is they don’t even get the money. Let that be a lesson!”
OH, GOODY: S.F. Chronicle: National debt seen heading for crisis level. “This year, the debt will reach 63 percent of GDP, a ratio that has ignited crises in smaller wealthy nations. Fiscal crises gripped Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Ireland when their debts were below where the United States is shortly headed.”
A ROUNDUP OF TEA PARTY HEADLINES, from Ben Cunningham.
JAMES TARANTO: Tea Party Gets Strange New Media Respect. “There was a time, oh, a week or two ago, when the mainstream media portrayed the tea-party movement as an assortment of crazed angry extremist redneck racist idiots. What changed?”
HOW NEW METRICS are changing baseball.
AVERAGE HUMAN LIFESPAN GROWING BY SIX HOURS PER DAY.
ON THE CUTTING EDGE.
RICK MORAN: Media’s Tea Party Narrative Just Jumped The Shark. “Gallup actually gives better numbers for party affiliation than the GOP leaning Winston Group; 48% Republican and 43% independent with 8% self identified Democrats. And did Gallup really measure 32% of all Democrats in America supporting the tea partiers? Ooops. There goes the narrative.”
More on the narrative, here.
MANAGING THE power costs of electric cars. “The upcoming Chevy Volt, for instance, is expected to increase the energy draw of the average U.S. home by 13 percent. The Nissan Leaf comes in at 19 percent, according to EPRI.”
FANNIE AND FREDDIE: THE SOVEREIGN DEBT that dare not speak its name. “This is exactly the sort of nudge-nudge, wink-wink, now-we-guarantee-it-now-we-don’t behavior that allowed the companies to get themselves (and by extension us) in so much trouble in the first place. If we want companies that get the attractive low borrowing rates available to the US government, we should make them a government agency and be done with it. If not, we should sell off their assets and dissolve the companies.” I’m for Option Two, but yeah.
Plus, from the comments: “Let’s just rename the government ‘Enron’ and get it over with.” But another commenter suggests that’s unfair to Enron.
THE GREAT PROTON SMASHUP: A Primer.
IN JAPAN, a new smiling female android.