SHOCKING REPORT: Saudi prince worried over increasing fuel economy standards and technology.
Related: Opponents to Natural Gas Make Very Strange Bedfellows.
And here’s more on alternative energy.
SHOCKING REPORT: Saudi prince worried over increasing fuel economy standards and technology.
Related: Opponents to Natural Gas Make Very Strange Bedfellows.
And here’s more on alternative energy.
DO VIDEO GAMES LEAD TO DIVORCE? Or are they a symptom of a bad marriage?
IN THE MAIL: From Ann Coulter, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America.
TURKISH LEADERS’ OTTOMAN FANTASIES: Michael Totten Interviews Claire Berlinski. “They are zealots, perhaps, but not quite in the way their critics are imagining. They’re zealots of delusional optimism and overconfidence. They have sincerely convinced themselves that they will be able to befriend Iran, dissuade it from going nuclear, and profit greatly from this relationship in the process. They refuse to entertain the idea that the Iranians view them as useful idiots. . . . What the AKP seems to be missing is this: Iran’s emergence as a nuclear state will overturn the entire regional power equilibrium. Turkey’s vulnerability to this is the most pronounced in NATO, and the AKP’s nonchalance about this is astounding. Neither a massive conventional army nor ‘strategic depth’ are of the slightest value against weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles, which is precisely why Iran wants them in the first place—obviously. . . . The mere announcement of the news that Iran has crossed the nuclear threshold will have an immediate, devastating effect on Turkey’s stature—that day will be the last we ever hear about a rising Turkey, Anatolian tigers, the Islamic-economic dynamo, or the revival of the Ottoman Empire.”
Read the whole thing.
PAUL REVERE UPDATE: Experts back Sarah Palin’s historical account. Money quote: “A lot of the criticism is unfair and made by people who are themselves ignorant of history.”
JOHN EDWARDS: ILLEGAL CAD?
More than anything I am having a hard time understanding why it was wrong for John Edwards to take money from Bunny Mellon but perfectly acceptable for him to take cash and benefits from UNC-Chapel Hill. The trumped up, made up Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity my alma mater provided Edwards between February 2005 and December 2006, specifically.
It was widely understood that the position of center director (annual state salary $40,000, funded by private gifts to UNC) and the entire multi-million dollar edifice itself was created solely to keep Edwards’ political career kicking in the wake of the 2004 election cycle. The association with UNC in turn permitted Edwards to set up non-profits which expressly aided him in his “presentation” to the public, to the tune of millions of dollars.
That’s silly. This is a university we’re talking about!
UPDATE: A reader emails:
I found it interesting that you posted about UNC’s Center on Poverty. While attending law school in Chapel Hill, some friends in the Federalist Society and I ran a program that provided presents for kids from impoverished families in the community. Thinking that it would be a good way to reach across the aisle, we asked the Center on Poverty’s coordinator if the Center would like to co-sponsor or otherwise participate in the effort. The response we received was classic — we were told that the Center on Poverty existed to facilitate discussion of the underlying issues of poverty, not to assist in the alleviation of poverty. Sort of flies in the face of the grand old state’s motto, esse quam videri, doesn’t it?
Plus this postscript: “Please don’t use my name, if posted.” And I’d say that John Edwards’ career has been all about seeming instead of being. . . . Something in which he received a lot of assistance from the press.
POLITICO: Dems Stay Quiet On Medicaid Cutbacks.
AT AMAZON, markdowns on lawn mowers.
JENNIFER RUBIN: The Liberated Sarah Palin.
SCOTT JOHNSON: The Real Unemployment, Cont’d.
TAD DEHAVEN: This Week In Government Failure.
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, WE’D SEE THE FEDS CENSORING SCIENCE: And they were right!
IT’S THE 67th anniversary of D-Day.
WHO KILLED MORE SYRIANS THIS WEEKEND — THE ISRAELI ARMY OR THE SYRIAN ARMY? Answer: the Syrian army. Shocking.
UPDATE: In a related note, reader Brian Alleman writes: “Which killed more Germans this weekend, organic farming or genetically modified farming?” Indeed.
DAN MITCHELL: Even World Bank Research Shows Economic Liberty Is Better than Government Dependency. “There are real consequences to bad policy.”
Related: Portrait Of A Failed American City.
I DOUBT WE’D SEE THIS “YOU GO, GIRL” ATTITUDE if it were an anti-Obama protest in the U.S. Senate.
IT’S THE “SYPHILITIC CAMEL” RULE: Tea Party Express chief: You’d better believe we’ll back Romney if he’s the nominee.
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