OBAMA REINVENTION EFFORTS FACE A PROBLEM: “Something more fundamental is going on here: Obama seems not to respect his fellow citizens — the uninformed rubes who crashed the health-care town halls — nor care what they think. All his energy now is devoted to disregarding their strong aversion to his idea of health-care reform and forcing through a vote on something the public doesn’t want. It’s hard to bond with the American people, which is what Myers is suggesting, when your agenda conveys disdain for their concerns.”
Archive for 2010
March 12, 2010
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Mickey Kaus’s campaign commences.
IMPORTANT dating advice for women.
THE COFFEE PARTY: Doing the research that CNN didn’t.
DAVID BROOKS applies for a job.
VACCINE UPDATE: Mercury-Autism Link Rejected.
TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN: Humans Outcompeting Killer Whales For Food.
FINALLY: A Tiger Woods Love Doll.
GERMANY TO GREECE: We’re In Charge, So Shut Up.
“SMART DIPLOMACY:” Holbrooke pulls a Biden in Afghanistan. “A recent comment by Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, that ‘almost every Pashtun family has someone involved with the [Taliban] movement,’ has caused an outcry in Afghanistan and strained the already tense relationship between Kabul and Washington.”
TIM CAVANAUGH: Five Lies About the American Economy.
THIS MIGHT BE USEFUL: Nanoelectromechanical Sensor Can Instantly Detect Pathogens And Toxins.
MARK LEVIN CALLS FOR Louise Slaughter’s expulsion from Congress.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND through the ages.
AN INTERVIEW WITH California Senate candidate Mickey Kaus. “I don’t have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer’s position has to spout and has to endorse. She’s sort of a state of the art Democratic senator and that’s a problem. The state of the art Democratic party has some positions that depart from common sense and also undermine, in practice, the ideals that the party stands for.”
TRYING TO REINVENT OBAMA.
SHIKHA DALMIA: THE OBAMACARE DEBACLE: “Even if Democrats extract the votes to put ObamaCare over the top, it will at best be a Pyrrhic victory for them. Regardless of the outcome, this monstrosity might cost the Democrats the Congress this November, ruin the party for a long time and prematurely render Barack Obama a lame duck president for the rest of his term. . . . In fact, the real reason why ObamaCare is so unpopular is that it is proposing a giant expansion of the entitlement state precisely when this state everywhere is coming apart: here and abroad; at the federal level and the state; in the public sector and the private. Suggesting a giant government takeover of a sixth of the economy can’t be a popular selling point in a country whose DNA has a programmed hostility to Big Government.”
DAVID HARSANYI: Colorado should repeal the Amazon Tax. But what’s going on here is Colorado legislator’s anger that there’s something they don’t control:
Actually, if anyone ever needed an obvious illustration of how government overreach can damage an economy, they need look no further than the Colorado legislature’s foolish attempt to wheedle a few extra bucks out of consumers via an Internet sales tax. . . . One only wishes that citizens could boycott irascible and intrusive state legislators — with their knee-jerk, ill-informed, anti-capitalist sentiment — who are willing to risk the jobs of thousands of citizens for a couple million bucks in the state’s coffers.
And follow the link for the sputtering anger of Colorado Senate Majority Leader John Morse. It’s not even about the money. It’s about the control.
HUGH HEFNER, Teenage Cartoonist.
DON’T WORRY — ONCE THE GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER, THAT WILL STOP: Death Rate Dropping For Cancer.
OF LYNDA BARRY, HEAD LICE, and Ira Glass.
POPULAR MECHANICS: Driving Hazards More Dangerous Than Unintended Acceleration.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND advertising for legal prostitution.