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Archive for 2011
May 9, 2011
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Texas Senate approves handguns-on-campus amendment.
BUSH AND MUSHARRAF MADE A SECRET DEAL permitting the U.S. to enter Pakistan to get bin Laden, says the Guardian.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, DESCRIBING BIN LADEN’S “PIGSTY,” gets freaked by the threat of a feminist attack.
STILL ASIA’S TRUE POWER: Japan after March 11.
MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP: Gray Lady publishes Nerdiest. Correction. Ever.
Moe Lane responds, “Jeebus, what do they teach people in J-School these days?”
SOUTH CAROLINA TAKING LIGHT BULB BAN INTO ITS OWN HANDS.
TODD ZYWICKI: “As an unaccountable bureaucracy with a single head, the [Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection] will be susceptible to bureaucracy’s worst pathologies: a tunnel-vision focus on the agency’s regulatory mission, undue risk aversion and agency overreach. While a more coherent consumer-protection regime is needed, consumer-protection goals often can conflict with other goals, such as promoting competition, lower prices and expanded choice for consumers; and ensuring safety and soundness.” Read the whole thing at the Washington Times.
ORRIN HATCH: “We’re going to win” against NLRB in South Carolina.
Stay tuned.
“BOB RUBIN JUST WANTS TO BE CUDDLED” — Well, there’s a headline I never thought I’d see; as Roger L. Simon writes at the Tatler, “Robert Rubin and the financial crisis unveiled — literally.”
ACOLYTE OF REV. WRIGHT TO COMPLICATE OBAMA POETRY NIGHT?
SEN. BOB CORKER (R-TN) ON THE CAP ACT: “The only real way to place America back on a path to solvency is by imposing what amounts to a fiscal straitjacket. To that end, colleagues from both sides of the aisle and both houses of Congress have joined me in offering the CAP Act, legislation that, for the very first time, would establish an across-the-board, binding cap on all federal spending.”
THE MYTH OF MOTHER LOVE Stephanie Coontz argues that housewives didn’t get much respect in the fifties, either.
ALL HAIL AMERICAN CAESAR!
This news should please the head of the NEA, at least.
THE CONCEPT OF A WRITER’S “VOICE,” reflected upon by a writer who is losing his voice to cancer — Christopher Hitchens.
GLENN GREENWALD AT BLOGGINGHEADS.TV: Democrats owe Bush and Cheney an apology!
RELATED: Michael Walsh on “Getting Rid of the PC Shackles” in the GWOT, or whatever it’s called this week.
BARRY RUBIN SAYS the situation in Egypt is deteriorating badly and rapidly. And I’m sorry to say that I’m not surprised. It was fashionable to cheer the downfall of Hosni Mubarak, and I, too, took pleasure in seeing him go, but Egypt is, I think, the least likely of all the Arab countries to emerge from a revolution in decent shape. I know some terrific Egyptians who would build a wonderful country if given the opportunity, but they are outnumbered.
MULTINATIONALS DUMP U.S. WORKERS FOR FOREIGN LABOR:
Small companies are heavily dependent on spending within the U.S. at a time when domestic demand, especially by consumers, is fighting strong headwinds, as households shed debt and rebuild their savings. Since the recession ended nearly two years ago, U.S. domestic demand, which includes imports, has not regained its pre-recession peak. Neither have small business payrolls. Meanwhile, big global companies are taking advantage of strong demand in fast-growing economies outside the U.S.
All this suggests that Washington policies that support small businesses, both directly and indirectly by strengthening overall demand, would pay big dividends for U.S. job markets. Likewise, if the U.S. is going to get its share of global growth and new jobs, policies that enhance the attractiveness of America as a place to invest will be imperative, as the structure of the global economy continues to shift.
In the meantime, expect continued bad economic news.
Unexpectedly, of course.
BREAKING NEWS FROM 2009: “Attorney General vows to close Guantanamo.” Again.
SEALS IN THE STYLE SECTION: “For readers, Navy SEALs are superheroes without the spandex,” said Pamela White, a journalist and romance novelist whose pen name is Pamela Clare.”
ANNOUNCING THE POWER LINE PRIZE:
Power Line, in conjunction with the Freedom Club, is offering a grand prize of $100,000.00 to whoever can most effectively and creatively dramatize the seriousness of the federal debt crisis. Any medium of communication is eligible: video, song, screenplay, television commercial, painting, Power Point, essay, performance art, or anything else. The runner-up will receive a $15,000.00 prize, and two third-place finishers will receive $5,000.00 each. Entries must be submitted by midnight on July 15, 2011.
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TANKING GAS PRICES PREDICTED? “Analysts expect $.75 dip by summer,” the Boston Herald reports.
“Which means it’s time to — raise taxes!”, Ed Morrissey quips at Hot Air.