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Archive for 2011
April 17, 2011
ROGER KIMBALL: Thoughts On Palm Sunday.
ZERO TO SIXTY IN 3.3 SECONDS in a Cadillac Escalade.
MASSACHUSETTS: State’s Home Sales Worst In 20 Years. “Single-family home sales fell 15.7 percent and condominium sales dropped 18 percent in February compared with the same month last year, according to Warren Group, a Boston company that tracks local real estate.” And it’s not like last year was so great.
A DOCUMENTARY ON the short-lived State Of Franklin. “Its creators named it for a founding father, and it could have become young America’s fourteenth state. That didn’t happen but the State of Franklin’s four-year existence did change the United States Constitution. . . . Formed after the American Revolution, the State of Franklin existed before the State of Tennessee. When North Carolina ceded its western land to the federal government in the 1780s, pioneers in the area formed their own state. Named for Benjamin Franklin, the area included much of upper East Tennessee and spread from what’s now the Tennessee-Virginia border to present-day Sevier and Blount counties. While it failed its statehood bid by two Congressional votes, Franklin existed from 1784 to 1788.” I use the Franklin state constitution in my Advanced Constitutional Law class.
WELL, HERE’S AN IDEA FOR ADDRESSING THE DEFICIT: Put America up for rent. I’m sure we could get more money than Liechtenstein.
KEITH HENNESSEY: What will the 2012 election mean for fiscal policy?
IN THE MAIL: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
THE MANOLO: Hey Anna Wintour! Great Timing on That Mrs. Assad Profile! “So, the Manolo imagines that it was not especially difficult to convince the famously power-mad Anna Wintour that the glossy feature on the strikingly beautiful and cultured wife of Bashar al-Assad was the excellent idea. All that was needed was being able to ignore those pesky blood stains.”
MICHAEL BARONE: President Whatever finds things not going his way.
WILL BUILDING HUMANLIKE ROBOTS promote Friendly AI?
TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE (CONT’D): Eric Holder, Tax Deadbeat.
ON SALE, TODAY ONLY: A Black & Decker cordless electric lawn mower. With a removable battery. Kinda cool, but I like my Scott’s Classic reel mower better. It doesn’t need batteries or gas! And it’s as quiet as an electric.
UPDATE: Or quieter. Reader Walter Knox writes: “I have one of those cordless electric mowers — not the Black and Decker, but rather a Neuton (my neighbor has a Black and Decker), but contrary to what you say, they are not quiet like your reel mower. Admittedly, mine and my neighbors mowers are quieter than a gasoline-powered mower, but not nearly as quiet as a self-powered mower similar to yours.”
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE: An amusing higher education bubble cartoon.
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: A 14-year-old girl speaks at the Tea Party rally in Madison and is drowned out by chants, boos, and cowbells.
Related: Arizona: Protesters and anarchists harass a peaceful Tea Party event; use sirens to drown out event.
They’re afraid of the voice of the people, so they try to silence it.
UPDATE: Channeling Nixon in Green Bay?
Green Bay police are investigating after the office seeking to recall Democratic state Sen. Dave Hansen appeared to be broken into last week.
Police say petitions, a computer and T-shirts were among the items reported stolen.
Hey, the Watergate burglars just planted bugs.
CHANGE: Red Flags Popping Up All Over Bank of America. “The largest bank by deposits just lost its chief financial officer and just hired one of the most connected regulatory lawyers in the U.S.”
IN DEFENSE OF FRACKING: Neither new, nor particularly dangerous.
FROM EVIL WAR CRIMINAL TO DEMOCRATIC HOPE: TX Senate Dem recruit once object of scorn for military interrogations. “A 2004 panel that investigated prisoner abuse found Sanchez, once the nation’s highest-ranking Hispanic officer, was derelict in overseeing Iraqi detention. According to a classified report by three Army generals, Sanchez approved the use of harsh military interrogation techniques that were once limited to prisoners held at facilities in Cuba and Afghanistan. The irony that Democrats who once raked the lieutenant general over the coals now view Sanchez as their savior will no doubt be a hallmark of the campaign.”
It’s like they never cared about this stuff except insofar as they could score cheap partisan points. Gobsmackingly vile.
UPDATE: Various readers expect to see Andrew Sullivan, Josh Marshall, etc. flacking for this guy. Well, stay tuned.
THEY DON’T CALL IT THE “RAINBOW COALITION” FOR NOTHING, I GUESS: Jesse Jackson Accused of Sexually Harassing Gay Staffer?
April 16, 2011
I FIND THEIR LACK OF FAITH IN BERNANKE DISTURBING: University Of Texas Endowment Storing $1 billion In Gold Bars. “The University of Texas Investment Management Co., the second-largest U.S. academic endowment, took delivery of almost $1 billion in gold bullion and is storing the bars in a New York vault, according to the fund’s board.”