DAN RIEHL: Sarah Palin Goes Where The Battle Is. “Until now, I’ve never ventured a guess as to whether, or not Palin is running in 2012. Tonight, for the first time, I think I can.”
Archive for 2011
April 16, 2011
THEY’RE NOT THAT BIG INTO PRIVACY, YOU KNOW: Google Holds Out Against “Do Not Track” Flag.
THREE POSTS IN ONE HOUR, ON A WEEKEND? Mickey Kaus is on fire. If that really is Mickey Kaus. . . .
PETER SUDERMAN: “Here’s why President Obama’s plan to cut $480 billion in Medicare spending over the next dozen years won’t work: Even members of his own party don’t support it.” Since it’s not really meant to cut spending, but just to let Obama claim to be trying to cut spending, the White House probably sees that as a feature, not a bug.
LIFEHACKER: Download Emergency Medical Manuals For Free. You might want to keep hardcopy of the stuff that looks most useful.
CLIVE CROOK ON Tim Geithner’s Reassuring Patter: “If true, it would vindicate Washington’s overarching view of the world. But I think your head would need to be very seasoned indeed, seasoned nearly to the point of mental illness, to believe it.”
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Palin In Madison: Veni, Vidi, Vici. “All it took was one powerful, pugnacious and presidential speech — just 15 minutes long — for Palin to again make herself completely relevant to the current political and policy battles raging across America.”
Plus, video from Ann Althouse.
UPDATE: Andrew Breitbart confronts an angry union mob in Wisconsin. Without spilling his coffee.
More from Breitbart at Big Government. “There may be those on the left who really want civil discourse. It’s possible there any some who realize that our national debt is, in fact, out of control. There’s a chance that sane debate is the actual goal of a number of self-proclaimed liberal activists. But I didn’t see any of those people in Madison on Saturday morning. I’m not going to pretend that I did. It was a mob, whipped up by the divider-in-chief and his cronies who live off of union dues and taxpayer funded handouts. And in case any of you in the back row missed it , I repeat – go to hell.”
And, speaking of Wisconsin: Walker plan holds down property taxes, delivers lowest structural deficit in 15 years. “Democrats controlled state politics for decades and left a legacy of overspending and debt, and Republicans were given an opportunity to fix it. It looks as though they’ve succeeded, and that’s very bad news indeed for unions and their Democratic allies.”
PRINTERS AND MORE, at the Office Electronics Outlet Sale.
LUDDITE OF THE WEEK: Jesse Jackson Jr. blames iPad for killing Borders book stores.
Plus, from the comments: “One wonders how long it’s been since JJ Jr. actually read a book.”
I’M QUOTED IN THIS ARTICLE ON TEA PARTY INFLUENCE in the Boston Herald. My take: “The Tea Party movement has already changed the dynamic to the point that Obama has to pretend — however unconvincingly — to be a budget-cutter.”
Plus, from Larry Sabato: “I think it’s foolish of any candidate not to reach out to them, because they make up such a large percentage of the voters.”
DICK CAVETT: Why worry so much if people are offended? “I’ve never quite understood why this word — ‘offended’ — is so horrifying. What doesn’t offend somebody?” It’s okay to offend somebody, so long as it’s the right somebody.
NATO IN LIBYA: James Joyner takes a surprisingly positive view.
THE CASE FOR MOVING U.S. NUCLEAR FUEL to dry storage.
RAZORS AND MORE: A sale on men’s grooming supplies.
IT COULDN’T DO WORSE THAN CURRENT MANAGEMENT: Why Google Should Buy The Music Industry: “Google should just buy the major record labels — all of them. It could afford them — people tend to forget that the music industry is actually relatively small in economic terms, but wields a disproportionate influence with policy makers. Buying them would solve that problem too.”
MADISON TEA PARTY PROTEST, live video. Andrew Breitbart and Sarah Palin are there. More here.
UPDATE: A reader on the scene sends this pic of the crowd:
Big crowd, especially considering the weather. Of course, for Madison this time of year, that might count as good weather . . . .
IT’S NOT THAT BIG A WAR TO BE HAVING THIS PROBLEM ALREADY: NATO runs short on some munitions in Libya. “Less than a month into the Libyan conflict, NATO is running short of precision bombs, highlighting the limitations of Britain, France and other European countries in sustaining even a relatively small military action over an extended period of time, according to senior NATO and U.S. officials.”
EVALUATION: How Japan Reacted to the Fukushima Emergency.
GOING GAGA over cool roofs.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Business School: Where Education Dies. “Group work is largely an academic joke, a process where the weaker members of the group rely almost exclusively on the stronger, more conscientious students to carry them all to the grade they want. (Of course, the same “weak rely on the strong” dynamic prevails in real-world group work as well.) Group work serves lazy students and professors quite well — the low-performing students can relax while their peers complete the task, and the professors have fewer papers or projects to grade.”
IN THE MAIL: From Tom Kratman, The Amazon Legion.
