EXAMINER: Time For Sunshine At Fannie And Freddie.
Archive for 2010
March 11, 2010
WAR ON PHOTOGRAPHY UPDATE: UK minister aims to reassure photographers. “The UK Policing and Crime Minister has reasserted that anti-terrorism should not be used to stop photographers and photojournalists. In a meeting with a Parliamentary photography group and journalists, David Hanson MP said the Sections 44 and 58A of the 2000 Terrorist Act should not be ‘used to stop ordinary people taking photos or to curtail legitimate journalistic activity’. He also said guidance to that effect has been provided to the UK police forces, advising that these powers should not be used to stop innocent members of the public, tourists and journalists.”
OBAMA TO BUSH: My month of deficits beats your year.
MASSACRES: Why don’t Christians care? “What I do know is that it is much more dangerous to publish a cartoon of Mohammed than to slice apart a Christian with a machete.” Time for a new version of the Knights Templar?
OBAMA IN MISSOURI: Thoughts from Erick Erickson.
NO PORK, NO TAXES. Sounds like a deal. . . .
MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Whatever happened to free trade? “You know America what needs in an economic downturn? Lunkheaded congressmen trying to restrict trade!”
HOW THE MEGACAMPUSES helped ruin California’s economy. To be fair, that project had a lot of help. Still note this: “The irony here really cries out for attention: a large state university system needs a free market economy that hums along in top gear so that the revenue needed to support it can be generated. But California’s two unusually well developed state university systems provide enormous local voting power in many Assembly districts for a bitterly anti-capitalist ideology that sabotages the California economy.”
FALLING IN LOVE with cast-iron cookware. In my house, that stuff inevitably gets put in the dishwasher and ruined, so I’ve given up. Your results may vary . . . .
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? ObamaCare Meets Obama-Ed.
ANNIVERSARY: Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week. Who can forget Whoopi Goldberg’s Flooz.com?
MICKEY KAUS, aiming to “break the dam” in California politics.
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Don’t Blame the Jews.
IT’LL GO HIGHER WHEN THOSE NASA LAYOFFS KICK IN. . . . Florida Unemployment At 35-Year High.
WATCHDOGS WITHOUT BITE: “After a 14-month investigation, the Senate ethics committee decided it was OK that corrupt Sen. Christopher Dodd took sweetheart mortgages from Countrywide Financial, despite his role as a congressional overseer of the nation’s lenders. The committee accepted his implausible explanations because the ethics code is a massive gray area, intentionally so. The code mostly exists to give the public the impression senators are serious about weeding out corruption. They are not.”
SCOTT BROWN: Still the 41st Vote.
POWERING UP with Bottled Wind. “In the abandoned mines and sandstones of the Midwest, compressed-air storage ventures are trying to convert the intermittent motions of the air into the kind of steady power that could displace coal.”
UH OH: Climategate Stunner: NASA Heads Knew NASA Data Was Poor, Then Used Data from CRU. “New emails from James Hansen and Reto Ruedy (download PDF here) show that NASA’s temperature data was doubted within NASA itself, and was not independent of CRU’s embattled data, as has been claimed.”
DAD BLOGGER: Why I Am Not A Male At-Home Mom.
REIHAN SALAM: Biden’s Disastrous Israel Trip.
March 10, 2010
I DON’T THINK THE RACE CARD IS TRUMPS ANYMORE: Menendez, NJ Dems Call Tea Party Movement Racist. “In an effort to protect NJ Senator Robert Menendez, under attack from NJ Tea Party groups, several prominent NJ Democrats are playing the race card, actually labeling the movement as raaaacist. This is an issue for Menendez now. If he doesn’t step up, denounce these statements and tell NJ Democrats to chill, he may soon find himself the target ofTea Party and grassroots activists from around the country, not just his home state!”
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Club Med: Are Dems Using Medicare Payments To Silence Doctors?
Automatic Medicare physician rate cuts loom, lawmakers suspend them for another year. But with a 21% cut set for March 1, Democrats only delayed it for a month. And Senate Dems only plan to extend that through August. What’s going on? Some Republicans and doctors say Democrats are using the “doc fix” to keep the AMA supporting the health overhaul.
Good luck with this.
CALIFORNIA UPDATE: Teachers union tops list of state political spenders.