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Archive for 2010
January 8, 2010
TALIBAN TERROR TACTICS backfire?
FREE SPEECH: Student Wins “Nobama” Case. “Arrested and suspended for one day for wearing a ‘Nobama’ shirt outside a pre-election speech by Michelle Obama in his high school gym, a Colorado high school student has won a $4,000 settlement with his school district and the sheriff’s office. The speech was scheduled for after school hours.”
BYRON YORK: Another Homeland Security Fiasco.
IT’S A WAR: Where’s The Strategy?
ROBERT COSTA: Palin Scoops Politico.
January 7, 2010
DETAINEES PREFER GITMO TO ILLINOIS? Well, Cuba is a tropical island, and Illinois is too cold even for Oprah.
VACATION’S ALL I EVER WANTED: CBS: Panetta didn’t interrupt his vacation either after Flight 253 plot.
UPDATE: Reader C.J. Burch writes: “These people don’t think they have any skin in the game.”
BIG JOURNALISM, LOCAL EDITION.
DEMOCRATIC-CONTROLLED NEW JERSEY STATE SENATE votes down gay marriage. Bigots.
DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT GATES WILL stay for another year.
TEA PARTY UPDATE: Robert Mayer of the Tucson Tea Party, which flooded a City Council meeting a few months back, emails that there’s now a recall campaign. Here’s the website. People are rightly focused on health care and the 2010 Congressional elections, but there are a lot of other bloat-graft-and-incompetence targets scattered throughout every level of government.
I’M PRETTY SURE THE FEELING IS MUTUAL: GOP Insiders Sour On Palin.
OKAY, THIS IS COOL: On this day in 1610, Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter’s moons, naming them Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. My daughter learned their names at 2. She immediately declared that Callisto was her favorite.
CODE PINK’S HEAD-SCRATCHING WAR ON DRONES: “Shouldn’t the concept of a less violent war with minimized civilian casualties be exactly what the ‘pacifist’ group wants?” I dunno. Are they anti-war, or just on the other side?
UPDATE: Video.
MORE SIGNS OF Coakley trouble.
SOME C.E.S. cellphone news.
JOHN TABIN takes the time to explain. I thought about doing that, but it spoils the pithiness when you have to help people who don’t catch on. This blog is for serious blog readers. The rest will have to keep up if they can. Hang on tight!
ED DRISCOLL: Strange Populist Omens.
SCOTT BROWN NEEDS HELP THAT DOESN’T COST MONEY.
Plus, more from that one-woman electoral army, Sissy Willis.
UPDATE: Steele, RNC raising money for Scott Brown.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Josh Dunn writes: “Here’s betting that a lot of Democrats in the House and Senate secretly want Brown to win so Obamacare can be euthanized.” Yeah, it would get a lot of folks off the hook.
MORE: Reader Andrew Solovay writes:
And could there be a more fitting memorial to Ted Kennedy, than to have his successor be the one who drives Obamacare off a bridge?
Heyo! I’ll be here all week!
Be sure to tip your bartenders and waitresses . . . .
STILL MORE: Reader Barry Dauphin writes:
The president sounded firmer on this than he previously has. However, he said he didn’t want to point fingers for the mistakes but wanted to learn from this. Fair enough by itself, but he is always pointing fingers at messes he “inherited”. Apparently not messes he supervises.
Good point.
MORE STILL: Reader Dave Zellers writes:
Just wanted to chime in with my experience.
I live in Massachusetts and did something I’ve never done before. I donated money to a political candidate- Scott Brown.
When I mentioned to my wife that I was going to log on to his website and donate $20, even though she is less political than me, she said, “Make it $50! I’m tired of this nonsense!”
Hoping for change…
Heh.
MEN: Expected to produce more than they consume? What if they stop?
NEW RELEASES on DVD and Blu-Ray.
OBAMA: The Buck Stops With Me. “John Ziegler says in an e-mail that Barack Obama sounded a lot more like Dick Cheney than himself in this crisp and broad statement. This was an all-business, no-nonsense rundown that gave a solid impression of action, as opposed to the low-key approach to the terrorist attack attempt over the last two weeks.”
UPDATE: Less favorable review from John Lehman, here.