Archive for 2011
May 26, 2011
SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE: What To Take Away From The Trustees’ Reports.
SOURCE UNKNOWN: Measles Cases Surge In Massachusetts. But the cause is low vaccination rates.
Related: Washington among states involved in country’s largest measles outbreak. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that most of the patients had brought the disease home from Southeast Asia or Europe, currently in the grip of a major epidemic. The vast majority – 89 percent – were unvaccinated.”
LADY GAGA’S NEW ALBUM still trading at a deep discount.
PLAIN SPEAKING from Dick Cheney.
REASON TV: THE GOVERNMENT’S WAR ON CAMERAS.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: As world burns, G8 leaders fiddle … with the Internet. Seriously? The Internet threatens their power and perks. That’s far more important than problems that merely threaten the world’s wellbeing.
IS THERE A genetic basis for prudent spending? And if so, should we send candidates to 23andme.com before the election?
WASHINGTON POST: What’s with Obama and Libya?
MORE ON BARNEY FRANK from Howie Carr.
HOUSING HATE: Survey Says, Owning A House Is “Dumb.” Based on my “zestimate,” it’s hard to argue.
DERSHOWITZ: Obama keeps getting worse on Middle East. Plus this from Jen Rubin: “Democrats are loath to admit the president doesn’t know what he is doing, so they are left trying to convince themselves and others that this is a fuss about nothing. The most honest defense I heard from a pro-Israel Democratic staffer was to acknowledge that Obama had made mincemeat out of the ‘peace process’ but to remind me that talks aren’t going anywhere anyway. . . . On one level, the last week has been reassuring to Israel and its friends. There is no significant constituency in the United States for Palestinian favoritism. (Sorry, J Street.) On the other hand, with his Thursday speech, his Sunday talk to AIPAC and now his comments in Britain, Obama has only reinforced the worst fears that he is either not well-disposed toward the Jewish state.”
UPDATE: Reader Jed DeHaven emails: “Maybe Obama’s stand on Israel was possible influenced by Rev Wright’s sermons? Nah…that can’t be, the press said 20 plus years in his church was nothing to do about nothing.”
GARY JOHNSON VS. RON PAUL, revisited.
HAS FACEBOOK peaked already?
FOR A MINUTE, I WAS AFRAID THEY SAID “CYLON SPACESHIP:” Hydrogen-Powered Skylon Spaceship Could Launch EU Into Space.
GOOD QUESTION: What Will Air France Flight 447’s Black Boxes Reveal?
THE QUICKEST WAY TO CHARGE A NISSAN LEAF: BY TOWING? “As one enterprising Leaf driver recently found out, towing the vehicle using a tow bar actually quickly charges the batteries thanks to the vehicle’s regenerative braking. Now, as you can tell from the video after the break, this may not be the best thing for the Leaf’s powertrain.”
WELL, HE BROKE THE 11TH COMMANDMENT IN A BIG WAY: Gingrich Implodes With Republican Voters. Perhaps others will take the lesson, perhaps not.
FROM NICHOLAS ROSENKRANZ: The Objects of the Constitution.
Also, from Larry Solum: What is Originalism? The Evolution of Contemporary Originalist Theory.
IN THE MAIL: From Robin Rohr, Tea Party: American Revolution 2.0: Silent majority, Silent No More.
SPIN: MSN Money: Quit grousing about $5 gas — it’s good for you, and America! This cries out for an IowaHawk parody.
UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark writes: “Are you sure that IowaHawk can improve on that post? Seems like a pretty good parody as it stands. Dress up the grammar and vocabulary, add a flourish or two spiced with tad more condescension and it might have been penned by T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII.” Heh.