Archive for 2011
August 11, 2011
IS WAR BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CHINA “INEVITABLE?” Would we know when it started?
TONY KATZ liveblogged the GOP debate.
Plus, this open thread.
AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Business & Investing.
SUDDENLY, Hillary Clinton is getting new respect.
I have to say, though, that while I understand Democrats wishing they’d nominated her now, her performance as Secretary of State has been something less than stellar.
THE GENERIC REPUBLICAN’S best ad yet.
JAZZ SHAW: Canadian Oil Sands And America, Part 2.
ON THIS WEEK’S INSTAVISION, I celebrate 10 years of blogging and talk about where the blogosphere has been, and where it’s going.
PETER WEHNER: Civilization, Barbarism, And The Burning Streets Of London. “What is happening in Great Britain has also happened, to one degree or another, in Greece, in France and in other European nations. One can sense a growing fear that what is occurring is not isolated but a deeper discontent afflicting the West.”
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama vs. Obama. “Barack Obama is now at war with Barack Obama. It is not just that the public has fathomed that what Obama says one day will change the next. It is more troublesome than that: Americans are catching on that what Obama now insists is true usually proves at odds with what Obama once asserted. So the nation is insidiously tuning him out—a novel and annoying experience for the president, who heretofore had received little criticism over his habitual inconsistencies and had assumed his formidable powers of rhetoric and his own landmark heritage would trump any scrutiny from nit-picky critics.”
PROF. JACOBSON: Dear Wisconsin Democrats: Please keep doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results. “Walker will win the recall, but more important, it will set a nice stage for the 2012 presidential election with the relative good fortune of a business friendly conservative Republican administration in Wisconsin contrasted with the dismal performance of Obama and national Democrats. A victory by Walker after Democrats and the unions once again throw everything they have into the race will have another upside. It will set Walker up as a potential Vice Presidential nominee, someone from the heartland who has taken the necessary steps to turn his state around and who withstood the onslaught.”
MICKEY KAUS: “We’ve reached the stage in Obama’s presidency when he can’t seem to do anything right. Even his summer house is on fire. At a similar point in Jimmy Carter’s presidency Carter collapsed in a road race. (I urge Obama to refrain from strenuous athletics until his approval rating gets back above 44%.)”
PAUL RAHE: Learning From London. “The article – written by Guy Chazan and Jeanne Whalen with help from Peter Evans – is a nice piece of reporting. It tells you everything that you need to know – right down to the crucial fact that the police wanted to arrest one man for punching a thug intent on stealing his property. What is happening right now in London and in cities to the north could best be described as a self-inflicted wound.”
Plus, why the British political class should be reading Joyce Malcolm.
MORE HERESY IN BRITAIN: UK Prime Minister David Cameron: “This is not about poverty, it’s about culture.”
MOB VIOLENCE: Eric Holder vs. Winston Churchill.
JENNIFER RUBIN: Ten Things To Look For In Tonight’s Debate. I’m on travel and probably won’t be able to watch it, but I’m sure there will be lots of coverage at The Tatler.
AT AMAZON, it’s the Home & Garden outlet.
WHAT TO DO when your hybrid car’s battery dies.
A VINTAGE GUIDE to summer vacations.
RICK PERRY WILL OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE HIS CANDIDACY SATURDAY.