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Archive for 2010
July 28, 2010
IN THE MAIL: From Jessica Stern, Denial: A Memoir of Terror.
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: “Hysteria over Shirley Sherrod last week unfortunately overshadowed a sensible, courageous and long overdue analysis of racial politics by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.”
BRUNO BEHREND: Swapping a VAT for failing income tax is good policy. So much for the “devil you know” theory.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE NEWS: Will NYC’s College Building Boom Bubble Pop? “New York’s universities have grand expansion plans, but could the economy–and online courses–doom them to failure before they’ve even begun?”
WELL, THIS SHOULD OVERCOME ALL THE CLAIMS THAT HE’S A CORRUPT TOOL OF LOBBYISTS: K Street goes to the defense of Charlie Rangel.
Related: Report: Meeting on ethics charges involving Rangel’s lawyers may have been, er, unethical.
COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW, LIKE TAXES, IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: IRS Continues to Use ‘Tax Protester’ Label Despite Congressional Prohibition.
LOOKING FOR OPTIMISTS? Try the folks who project California pensions’ rates of returns.
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FROM AMAZON, new releases on DVD and Blu-Ray.
THE ESTATE TAX: Can George Steinbrenner Change The Debate?
JOHN FUND: YEAR OF THE TEA PARTY VOTER. “Republicans are winning over voters who are disgruntled with both parties.” Well, there should be plenty of those.
WELL, THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG: In speech to Turkey, David Cameron goes full idiot.
JONATHAN TOBIN: House Democratic Memo Is Another Blow to J Street. “Ever since November 2008, leftists have been trying to assert that the Jewish vote for Obama was proof that J Street and not AIPAC or other mainstream pro-Israel groups truly represented Jewish opinion. But if that were so, why would Obama be trying so hard to convince everyone that his administration was as reliable a supporter of Israel as any of its predecessors?”
DER SPIEGEL: The Shared Extremism of Neo-Nazis and Migrant Youth. By “extremism” they mean “anti-semitism,” and by “migrant,” they mean “Muslim.”
WHEN SECONDS COUNT, THE POLICE ARE ONLY MINUTES AWAY: “The District police department policy on forcible entry caused a ‘deadly delay’ as officers waited for a supervisor outside an apartment while a mother and her two young sons were being stabbed to death inside, according to a lawsuit filed by the woman’s family.” Breaking down doors for drug raids is bad. Breaking down doors to prevent murder is good. Guess which one the cops hold back on . . . .
I PREDICT THAT IF THIS SPREADS TO WASHINGTON, THEY’LL BRING BACK DDT: Bedbug Crisis Sparks Offensive in New York. Some background here.
RAND SIMBERG ON CONGRESS AND SPACE: Is NASA Being Set Up To Fail (Again)? “Congress is putting pork before progress by micromanaging NASA, asking them to do too much with too little, and, once again, setting America’s space agency up for failure.”
IF THEY THINK THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH IT: Will Obama’s Deficit Commission Call for $26.7 Trillion Tax Increase?
Here’s a hint: When they say “everything’s on the table,” they don’t really mean “everything, including elimination of the Department of Education, and privatization of Social Security, and a 15% across-the-board cut in federal payrolls.”
OBAMA TO THE RESCUE, at Patty Murray fundraiser. “It is a sign of the seriousness with which the White House is taking Murray’s reelection race. Polls show her in a potentially tight contest with Republican Dino Rossi, the other candidate likely to emerge out of Washington’s Top Two primary.”
WILL COLLIER: Get Ready For The Charlie Rangel Coverup.
GAY PATRIOT: “I hereby withdraw the apology to Mrs. Sherrod.” “The edited video was unfortunate, but the true racist stripes of the NAACP, the Sherrods, and the Obama Administration have certainly come out over a week’s time. So bravo, Mr. Breitbart. You hit the target.”