Archive for 2010

IN THE MAIL: From Greg Gutfeld, The Bible of Unspeakable Truths.

UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!

CHRIS CHRISTIE 2012? We could do worse. And probably will.

HMM: “In Kagan, it seems to me we have reached a new level of utter blankness.” Making her “Souterific?”

THIS IS THE QUALITY OF ANALYSIS I EXPECTED FROM HIM: Holder admits: No, I haven’t read the Arizona law I’ve been dumping on. “Here’s the money question, prompted not just by Holder’s ignorance but the fact that Hillary criticized the statute without having read it either: Are they deliberately not reading it so that they have an excuse to walk back their criticisms later if this gets too hot politically?”

UPDATE: “The Most Transparently Irresponsible Administration in American History.” “How could the Attorney General of the United States malign a state law as raising profound constitutional questions, imply that the lawmakers who drafted it are racists, and direct a Justice Department review of the law without having read the law?

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Michael Alexander writes: “Why does this surprise anyone? After all, this administration doesn’t seem interested in reading the laws they write and pass themselves, so why should they be expected to take the time to read someone else’s?”

THE SACRAMENTO BEE on Mickey Kaus’s candidacy. Kaus: “I don’t understand why a whole lot more people don’t run for office.”

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Can We Quit The UN Yet?

Why on Earth are Americans, unlike their enlightened comrades in Europe, so skeptical of the United Nations? I haven’t a clue, though I suspect that, as Tim Cavanaugh noted a few weeks ago, it might have something to do with Iran being nominated to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. This was Tehran’s Plan B, having been pressured into abandoning its bid to sit on the UN Human Rights Council. Hilarious, right? After slaughtering demonstrators in the streets, filling the torture chambers at Evin prison with students, they wanted to adjudicate on human rights violations in other countries? Silly Mullahs, those spots are resevered for countries like Switzerland, Spain, and…Libya.

Good grief.

TAXPAYERS TO PAY DAMAGES, over BP oil spill?

THE ACHILLES’ HEEL of the U.S. News rankings. “Only 48 percent responded, and that included an unspecified number of non-responsive “responders” who returned the questionnaire but said they didn’t know enough about other schools to judge them fairly.”

NASA’S RESEARCH OPERATION: In Decline.