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Archive for 2011
February 11, 2011
WELL, THIS IS A SAFE PREDICTION: “If Egypt turns out badly, Obama will deny any role. And if it turns out well, he will take the credit.”
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THE WEEK: Obama’s ‘Inept’ Handling Of Egypt’s Crisis. He may have been inept, but he was mostly just irrelevant.
WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS encrypt your smartphone.
THE WAGES OF IRRESPONSIBILITY: IMF Calls For Dollar Alternative.
PJTV INTERVIEWS SARAH PALIN AT CPAC. Well, sorta.
THIS ISN’T GOING TO HELP HAMPTONS REAL ESTATE VALUATIONS: Court: NY Can Tax All Income of Owner of NY Vacation Home Used 17 Days/Year.
EQUAL PROTECTION: Fed. Dist. Ct. enjoins South Dakota ban on concealed carry permits for legal resident aliens. “Not decided on Second Amendment or other RKBA grounds. Very straightforward application of existing doctrine on equal protection and legal aliens.”
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE: Breastfeeding Is A Deductible Medical Expense. I think this discriminates against men.
PADDLES: 64-Year-Old Kayaker Completes Trans-Atlantic Voyage. “These days, thanks to technological advancements in air and sea travel, crossing the Atlantic is usually no big deal. But crossing the Atlantic by yourself in a kayak? Now that’s still something worth celebrating. . . . And, of course, after arriving back on dry land, Doba did what any self-respecting Brazil-bound kayaker who’d been out on the ocean for 99 days would do: He had a Bohemia beer.”
FRUCTOSE ALTERS BRAIN METABOLISM, makes you hungrier?
SHOCKER: Public Worries About Unemployment Way Up. Highest in nearly 30 years. “The partisan breakdowns will surprise a bit, too. The reassuring talk from the White House has failed to assuage the concerns of their own party most of all. Forty-one percent of Democrats call unemployment the most important problem with the general economic environment second at 29%. Independents split 32/27, while Republicans break 31/32, putting the general economy slightly ahead of joblessness.”
A REAR-DRIVE ELECTRIC SPORTS CAR based on the Nissan Leaf.
BMW’S VISION of the roadster future.
IT’S A “COMPUTER GLITCH:” Baltimore Red Light Camera Photos Signed and “Verified” by Deceased Officer.
UPDATE: A reader calls this “government robo-signing.”
LIVE CPAC COVERAGE at PJTV.
MUBARAK has resigned.
UPDATE: Interestingly, the Shah of Iran was also forced out on February 11. Let’s hope this isn’t an omen.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Military coup. On Facebook, lawprof Eric Muller comments: “It’s interesting, and to this American pair of eyes a bit odd, to see a nation cheering deliriously at the prospect of military control of the government.” Well, when the military is your most respected institution. . . .
MORE: Thoughts from Donald Sensing.
MORE STILL: Reader Jason Muckenthaler writes: “Contrast Obama’s reaction to the military ‘coup’ in Honduras with the coup in Egypt – no wonder our allies are confused.”
Also, The Anchoress notes that February 11 is the day Nelson Mandela was freed.
And hey, it’s also Sarah Palin’s birthday. So there’s your omen roundup.
IN THE MAIL: From Roger L. Simon, Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine: The Perils of Coming Out Conservative in Tinseltown.
ROMNEY RAILS against Obama’s “Hoovervilles.”
MORE PIZZA-HACKING: The Skillet-To-Broiler Method.
ANDY GARCIA ON FACEBOOK: “Despite what you might have been told, the Tea Party movement is not about national groups based in Washington, D.C. or those who arbitarily claim to be its national leaders.”