Archive for 2010

ANN ALTHOUSE ON YALE AND THERMOSTATS. “If you actually thought cutting carbon emissions was important, your thermostats would already be at 62° or lower.” As I recall, whatever the numbers say Yale thermostats actually have only two settings: TOO HOT and TOO COLD. I doubt that’s changed in the intervening years . . . .

COOLING CITIES IN THE SUMMER with white roofs. We’ve been there before at Instapundit.

IN THE MAIL: From John Ringo: Live Free Or Die.

INSTAVISION: I talk with Marc Thiessen about waterboarding, Jack Bauer, and the Democratic Congress’s new enthusiasm for Guantanamo Bay.

DAVID BOAZ: Criminalizing Politics. Politicians who want to jail people for opposing them should be run out of town on a rail.

THE GITMO REBELLION. “By expressing full support for Graham’s measure, Webb and Lincoln are essentially moving into open revolt against the White House’s detainee policy.”

DONALD SENSING ON THAT VANDERBILT CHAPLAIN SCANDAL: “What Chaplain Binhazim said was that this hanging, and countless others in Iran and other Islamic countries, was dictated by the basic tenets of Islam and that he agrees with those tenets. Hence, these executions are right and proper and unobjectionable. . . . I absolutely guarantee that the university would fire a Christian chaplain who denounced homosexuality as merely abominable.” Well, sure, a Christian chaplain.

WHAT DOES THE PRESIDENT HAVE against Las Vegas?

TAKING THE HILLS OUT OF BICYCLING, with electric bikes.

DEADBEAT CLUB: City still waiting for reimbursement from Obama’s 2008 visit. “Obama’s presidential campaign was sent a bill for $68,139, and still owes the city $55,457, according to Ernie Slottag, the city’s spokesman. The city has been trying — unsuccessfully — to collect payment, Ken Crutcher, the city’s director of office of budget and management told aldermen recently.” (Via the Quincy News).

Unrelated: House faces tough vote on $1.9 trillion more debt.

JULES CRITTENDEN TO SCOTT BROWN: It’s business time. “This is the critical phase at which he stops being admired for simply having been elected and must now seek admiration through governance.”