A CAMPAIGN SLOGAN FOR HILLARY: “Are you better off than you were 12 years ago?”
Archive for 2011
October 28, 2011
SHOCKER: Report: Fights erupt among Occupy Wall Street protesters. “Fights are erupting among Occupy Wall Street protesters, so much so that one corner of Zuccotti Park has emerged where protesters say they won’t go for fear of their safety, the New York Daily News is reporting.”
IT’S JUST WEALTH-REDISTRIBUTION, MAN: Somebody cleaned out the PayPal account of “Occupy Portland” and it looks like an inside job.
AT AMAZON, survival gear.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Second Amendment / Equal Protection Clause Victory for Legal Alien Gun Owners.
SHOCKER: Chicago Media Covers Darker Side of OccupyChicago.
Related: Flier at Occupy Phoenix asks, “When should you shoot a cop?” Anti-semitism and violence — it’s like they’re trying their hardest to live up to their own worst views of the Tea Party movement. Plus: “I’m curious to see how the media in Arizona and the rest of the nation approach this development. They went into convulsions retroactive to the Gabrielle Giffords shooting that killed six other people because Sarah Palin used crosshairs on a map once (as had Democrats on a number of occasions), which the media used to paint the Tea Party and conservatives as somehow responsible for the massacre conducted by a madman with no discernibly rational political posture. Will they hold the Occupy movement to the same ridiculous standard? I’m betting …. no.”
MEGAN MCARDLE: Can You Be Guilty Of Insider Trading Without Personal Gain? “Washington is a city built almost entirely on relationships that are fostered by a robust trade in confidential secrets.”
IS WILLPOWER-DEPLETION a bigger phenomenon among younger people?
POLITICAL THEATER UPDATE: National Law Journal says Obama’s Education Loan Reforms of Limited Help to Law Students.
A NOVEL APPROACH: GANG CONTROL, NOT GUN CONTROL.
E.P.A. DECIDES the Fisker Karma is a subcompact. “Look at the vehicle in the picture above. Does that look like a subcompact car to you? Well, if you peer at the Fisker Karma through the regulatory lens of the EPA, then it would.” Hmm.
TODAY ONLY: A 42″ Panasonic Smart HDTV for $549.99. We’ve got an older Panasonic Viera in our bedroom and it’s a great TV.
FROM DAVE FOULK, it’s the Foulk Minifesto.
AT THREE MONTHS OLD, the world’s youngest blogger. And so snappily dressed!
ROGER SIMON: Will Capitalism Save Obama? Specifically, domestic oil development.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Second Amendment Protects Felon Whose Convictions Were 30 Years Ago.
IF YOU’VE GOT A BIG-TICKET PURCHASE FROM ABROAD, IT MIGHT BE BETTER TO MAKE IT NOW: Dollar Decline In Full Swing. Or not — like I know what’s going to happen next. . . ..
HOW READY ARE WE for bioterrorism?
The vice president showed no reaction as O’Toole listed the officials who participated in the simulation, the complications they encountered as they tried to develop an emergency response and the arguments that broke out as they watched the disease spread beyond control. She concluded by telling the vice president that the country was unprepared for a biological attack.
Cheney nodded. “O.K.,” he said. “But what are we looking for? What does a biological weapon look like?”
At this, Larsen reached into his briefcase and pulled out a small test tube. “Mr. Vice President,” he said, “it looks like this.” Inside the tube was a weaponized powder of Bacillus globigii, almost genetically identical to anthrax. “And by the way,” Larsen said, “I just smuggled this into your office.”
At one of the most secure buildings in the world, in a moment of unprecedented alarm, the White House guards had searched Larsen’s briefcase — and never even saw the powder. “They were looking for the wrong things,” Larsen says now. “They still are.”
Not so sure it’s changed.
FROM SARAH HOYT, a free novel experiment.