BARACK O-BOMB-A: U.S. Cruise Missiles Rain Down: Pentagon: 112 Missiles Fired at More Than 20 Targets Inside Libya.
UPDATE: I’ve seen this movie before: At Qaddafi Compound, A Human Shield.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Hey, it’s exactly 8 years to the day since Bush started bombing Iraq! If you voted for change, this is the change you voted for. . . .
MORE: Reader Jeff Carlson writes: “Ah, is it just me or would those 112 cruise missiles have been much more effective 2 weeks ago?” It’s not just you.
NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY: Sex Outside The Ivory Tower. “There seem to be at least two attitudes worth examining here. The first is the perpetual belief among the elites that their lives are just so much more interesting and, of course, their sex lives must be too. But the second seems to be almost a sense of disappointment that for all the ranting about how college is a time to experiment and gender is a social construct and we need to fight back against the patriarchy, that our non-college educated peers are actually more adventurous.”
FOLLOWING THE 99-CENT KINDLE BOOK TREND, Michael Walsh’s Exchange Alley.
AMERICA — JUNIOR PARTNER ON LIBYA: “That would be a very strange posture for the US: engaged in a military intervention that Washington is not directing. I wonder what the US public would make of it. Perhaps it is a sign of things to come: the difference that Obama makes; a US that goes along to get along; the kind of America the world thinks it wants, sometimes. Alternatively, it might be a formula for disaster. In any event, it’s new.”
JOB HUNTING: Twelve Sites That Will Put You To Work Now.
CANADIAN OIL TECHNOLOGY GOES GLOBAL:
It took a decade for the Bakken play, centred in North Dakota and Saskatchewan, to evolve from a wild idea to one of North America’s most significant new sources of oil.
Now the technology that made it possible, a combination of horizontal drilling and targeted hydraulic fracturing — much of it developed and proven by Canadians — is on the cusp of global oil field deployment.
While it may not mean relief from high oil prices today, it could delay the sunset of the fuel if it’s as successful in the oil sector as it has been in the gas side of the business, where it made fields so much more prolific the flood of new supply has overwhelmed North American markets.
Adding to its promise is that this new type of unconventional oil involves a renewal of mature oil fields, many located outside politically risky places like the Middle East, where only a fraction of the oil has been recovered using old drilling methods.
Expect environmentalists to try to shut it down, as they do with pretty much all alternatives to Middle East oil.
REVOLVING DOOR: Washington Post Reporter Named Biden Communications Director. “Murray succeeds Jay Carney, a former reporter for Time magazine, who left as Biden’s chief spokesman to assume the same role for Obama.” Forget church and state — can we get a wall of separation between journalism and PR? Not in this administration.
RESPONDING TO LAW SCHOOL FRAUD: ABA to Change Employment Data Reporting; U.S. News to Adopt in 2013 Rankings.
SARAH PALIN’S Passage To India.
WHY THE U.S. MAY BE AHEAD OF JAPAN in disaster preparedness. I’d say we’re somewhat less well-prepared on a government level, but somewhat better prepared on an individual level.
FRENCH WARPLANES bomb Khaddafy.
UPDATE: Jets Over Libya As Hillary Clinton Assumes Presidency.
MORE: Austin Bay: French Fighter-Bombers Destroy Gadhafi Tanks; Sarkozy and Cameron Earning Nobels.
Plus, Hillary Will Be The Fall Guy If Libya Goes Badly.
STILL MORE: In Wisconsin, A Quick Switch From Protesting Walker’s Bill To Protesting Obama’s War.
IMPORTANT THOUGHTS: Food, Radiation, And You. Plus, vital advice: “Remember this, my friends: life is too short to drink bad wine.” Unless that’s the only wine available . . . .
WHY THE LAW-SCHOOL BUBBLE IS BURSTING.
REX MURPHY: When Crisis Strikes The World, Obama Falls Silent. “There’s a great vacancy at the top of the world: A retreat by the American government from its global leadership role.”
NETFLIX PLAYS THE LONG GAME.
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, we’d have a President that leftists demonstrated against when he made foreign trips. And they were right! Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio. “They wore the ubiquitous Che Guevera T shirt and carried American flags that said Go Home Obama. Most of the protests had been peaceful until two home-made molotov cocktails were let loose in the direction of the Consulate. A guard at the Consulate was partially burned and was sent to the emergency room at Souza Aguiar Hospital. Fourteen protestors have been arrested.”
UPDATE: A reader emails:
I am pretty astonished the Brazilians are protesting Obama. I mean, they got the Olympics, right?
I guess the world cheering for an Obama presidency was really just a desire to make us weaker.
Our international policies are so distressing now. I fear the real storms are still to come.
Yeah, me too.
SURVIVALISM: Empty Store Shelves As Japanese Hoard. “You know all that advice you hear about stocking up before a disaster? Events in Japan demonstrate the wisdom of advanced preparation. Even in Tokyo Japanese shoppers are cleaning out grocery stores by buying everything. . . . This is highly advanced, affluent, and civilized Japan. People in Tokyo fear a full reactor meltdown followed by winds blowing radioactivity into the city. They want to have supplies if the stores stop getting deliveries.” Everybody should be prepared to go at least a week or two without having to shop for supplies.
All that Duck And Cover / “shelter in place” stuff may not require a nuclear attack to be relevant. . . .
UPDATE: Hoarding not so bad, according to this report. But Peter Payne is farther away. (Thanks to Steven Den Beste for the tip.)
ECONOMY: DIY ecomod turns Geo Metro into 214 mpge Dolphin. There were a few tradeoffs.
ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL JURIST, I’m One Of 23 Law Professors To Take Before You Die. Of course, Brian Leiter is another one. But in fairness, though his online personality is execrable he’s reputed to be excellent in the classroom. Ann Althouse is on the list, too.
REJECTION LETTERS: You Are Not The One.
TIMID MEN, STEP ASIDE: A feminist milestone: Our male President has been pulled into war by 3 women. “It’s the opposite of the Code Pink idea that women bring the peace. How long have I heard this feminist plaint: If only women had the power, we would have peace, not phallocratic war. But no.”
Plus, from the comments: “Obama is implementing the Palin Doctrine, for sure.” You betcha.
PJTV: The Real March Madness.
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