CLUB FOR GROWTH responds to Sen. Bob Bennett: “When three-term incumbents who outspend their opponents 20 to one don’t even make a primary, they have no one to blame but themselves.”
Archive for 2010
May 12, 2010
MUSLIM STUDENT TO DAVID HOROWITZ: Bring on the second Holocaust!
RON RADOSH responds to Andrew Sullivan.
BELLESILES UPDATE: Jim Lindgren: Michael Bellesiles And The Bogus NRA Conspiracy. “The idea that the NRA had anything substantial to do with the Bellesiles case is utter nonsense.”
JUDGING FROM THE PICTURE, SHE’S LUCKY TO GET ANY AT ALL: Wife Stabs Husband Over Bad Sex.
THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Charcoal grill, or gas? When I blogged on this a while back, I got a lot of recommendations for the Big Green Egg. But I think I’m going to try to get another season out of my current gas grill. I’ve had it over 6 years, but it still works fine.
POLITZOID: MONEY FOR NOTHING.
ELENA KAGAN AND THE GAY: In which I agree with Andrew Sullivan. “Nobody believes that we are naming people to the Supreme Court because we are picking the best judge. We are talking about empathy and personal stories. Once you do that, you open the whole person up to consideration.”
On the other hand, friends say she’s straight — not that there’s anything wrong with that. “The intense scrutiny that comes with a Supreme Court nomination leaves ample space for curiosity – particularly intense in the gay community— on a question that even leading Republican Senators have dismissed as irrelevant to the job. But Kagan’s friends’ desire to ‘out’ her as straight has been complicated by their hope to avoid offending gay friends by implying that there would be any problem if she were a lesbian.” Who knew identity politics could be so much fun?
Related item here.
And Jules Crittenden notes another diversity problem:
I’d add that President Obama seems bent on packing the court with people who never had children, and would suggest that if you haven’t had your sleep disturbed for years on end; haven’t subjugated everything in your life to someone else’s interests … as opposed to subjugating everything to your career interests … and never changed a diaper except, say, as a boutique experience; if you haven’t seen your hopes and dreams grow up, charge off in their own direction and start talking back to you; if you haven’t dealt with abuse of authority and human rights issues sometimes encountered in dealings with obtuse school officials, class bullies and town sports leagues; then there’s a high risk your understanding of life may be somewhat … academic.
It’s a humbling experience, parenthood. As well as an inspiring one that gives life meaning. It also, as a friend of mine once put it, makes you sane. Even while it drives you crazy. Put another way, it’s part of the maturation thing.
Doesn’t the president know any soccer moms who went to a state school?
Doubtful. But maybe Barbara Boxer will give Kagan grief for being childless.
The US government suffered a wider-than-expected budget deficit of 82.69 billion dollars in April, the Treasury Department said Wednesday.
It was nearly four times the deficit chalked up a year earlier and the largest ever recorded in April.
Most analysts had expected the April deficit, the 19th consecutive month of federal red ink, to be about 52 billion dollars.
Unexpectedly, it was over half again as high as expected. Go, analysts!
NOEMIE EMERY: Oil Spill Makes No Case For Big Government.
WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WORK AT Media Matters.
UPDATE: JammieWearingFool: “You have to imagine some day the blithering idiots financing these clowns might realize they’re not quite getting any return on their investment considering my own little website that costs nothing gets more traffic than their operation that costs millions.”
UNEXPECTEDLY: Mortgage applications drop 9.5% after end of tax credit.
THE GAY-RIGHTS DISCONNECT: “I further hope my friends on the left note that now we have members of the Bush, Cheney and McCain families in support of marriage, but no Obamas or Bidens.”
OUR MATURE, CIVIL political leadership.
PANAMERA ALREADY THE best-selling Porsche in the U.S. It’s quite a nice car — we saw one a while back and Helen liked it a lot — but rather pricey, especially for an impecunious law professor. Or, heck, even a pecunious one.
THINKPROGRESS BLOWS IT: ‘Secret’ telecom anti-Net neutrality plan isn’t.
ANOTHER CHEAP EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. Back up, people. One of my students had to make an emergency run to the Apple Store to get her paper off the hard drive of a suddenly-dead MacBook. Get an external drive, or — if you’re working on a single important document like a paper — just email yourself a copy as a backup using gmail or hotmail or some web-based service that keeps a copy on the server. Otherwise, you’re cruising for trouble.
DRAWING A MORAL LINE AGAINST OFFICIAL RACISM IN ARIZONA: “It’s Just Like the Old South, and It’s Long Past Time That We Prohibited It.”
RON RADOSH: New Apologias Emerge For Judge Goldstone And His Report. None is so evil that defenders will not emerge on the left, so long as he bashes Israel. . . .
IT’S NOT A SEXUAL PREFERENCE, it’s an “emotional orientation.” Well, okay then.
REASON TV: Sweden’s March Towards Capitalism. “Bergh says that despite popular mythology, Sweden is not a socialist success story but instead owes its economic growth to the lowered tax rates and deregulation of the early 1990s, which allowed innovation and investment to flourish. Bergh also discusses how Sweden’s national voucher program revitalized the country’s educational system and warns that Americans who are hoping to emulate Swedish success by growing the public sector are learning the wrong lessons from Sweden.”
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL: “Given that Justices’ personal histories have become such a significant part of the confirmation process, and the Justices themselves are followed like rock stars, star athletes, or prominent politicians–all of whose romantic entanglements frequently find their way into the media–it’s little wonder that curiosity has been piqued about Kagan’s romantic life.”
LIKING THE Ford Escape Hybrid.