THE NLRB ENFORCES the Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Law.
Archive for 2011
April 21, 2011
MICKEY KAUS: “I suppose there is no way President Obama can lose California in 2012. But he’s giving it a shot tomorrow–attending two fundraisers that, with the usual level of presidential security, promise to immobilize the West Side of Los Angeles during evening rush hour. … P.S.: Some enterprising journalist should tote up the cost of the visit, in terms of lost work hours and productivity, and greenhouse gases emitted by motorists stuck in traffic, and compare it with the amount of money Obama raised. I bet the ratio is more than 100 to 1.” But the money Obama raises stays in his pocket, while the costs fall on others. It’s a metaphor. . . .
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT the ATF’s Mexican gunrunning scandal.
CRIME, GUNS, and the disabled.
KEVIN WILLIAMSON: The Four National Debts.
HEH: Obama: Mistakes? Can’t Think Of Any!
Seven years ago, in April 2004, President George W. Bush held a formal news conference in which he was asked, “What would your biggest mistake be…and what lessons have you learned from it?” Bush’s hemming and hawing answer — in several minutes of flailing about, he never managed to come up with a single mistake to cite — was widely criticized in the days that followed.
On Wednesday, President Obama held a town hall at the headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto, California, during which he was asked, “If you had to do anything differently during your first four years, what would it be?” Obama, it turns out, is no better at analyzing his own missteps than Bush.
Change!
ALTHOUSE TO KLOPPENBURG: You talkin’ to me?
Kloppenburg casts aspersions on bloggers as evidence of something worrisome going on.
Who are the bloggers? I’d like the links to the blog posts that support the statement! . . .
Kloppenburg is stirring up public suspicion of the vote-counting process. That is a very serious matter, especially for someone who aspires to a seat on this highest court in the state. She should be scrupulous about the way she presents facts and should not manipulate public opinion. If the evidence does not warrant mistrust, it is injudicious to stimulate mistrust.
Read the whole thing. It seems to me that Kloppenburg’s behavior throughout has demonstrated her unfitness for the bench. The voters of Wisconsin seem to have agreed.
UPDATE: From the comments:
It’s ironic that on election night when the totals showed her ahead by 200 votes, Kloppenburg instantly declared victory! 200 votes was enough to erase all doubt in her mind!
But after the official totals (not the erroneous AP-reported totals) came in, 7300 votes is too few for Prosser to have won.
Someone call her on this. Why was she so sure of the outcome when she led by so few votes, but now she demands a recount when she lost by 36 times that same amount?
Good question.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Advice from a fellow losing candidate.
ROBERT WEISSBERG: Capturing The Power Of The College Textbook.
SHOCKER: New York Times Company Profit Falls.
MAKING YOUR OWN ICE CREAM without turning a crank.
YOUR FLIGHT HAS BEEN DELAYED, and it’s Washington’s fault.
MEGAN MCARDLE: “Kevin Drum doesn’t think it will be so hard to solve our fiscal problems with tax hikes. . . . This is not true, and it’s important to point out why it’s not true.”
CONNECTED: G.E.’s Profit Jumps 77%.
MICKEY KAUS: Another Daily Beast Fizzle?
SO WHO DO WE SUE? Energy saving light bulbs ‘contain cancer causing chemicals.’ “Their report advises that the bulbs should not be left on for extended periods, particularly near someone’s head, as they emit poisonous materials when switched on.”
I mean, besides Ed Begley, Jr.
TRANSPARENCY: Obama Administration “Slow-walking” Document Requests.
REALLY? #1 on Amazon? I guess this issue has more legs than I thought.
CARTER WOOD: Attacking For-Profit Schools Threatens Training, Opportunity. But it defends a traditional Democratic constituency.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) has chaired a series of hearings by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to pummel for-profit, private colleges as exploiters of students and the working class. The hearings reinforce the Obama Administration’s regulatory “crack down” on the institutions, which attempts to deny their students access to federal financial aid.
One of the primary documents used to justify these attacks was a report delivered last August to the Senate HELP Committee from the Government Accounting Agency. As Mark Hyman chronicles at The Washington Examiner, the report, which lambasted the colleges’ financial aid practices, proved to so flawed — a “fraud” — that the GAO withdrew it and quietly reissued a new report. Still, the continuing attacks and Obama Administration’s regulations caused the educational companies’ stocks to drop. And now we learn of serious allegations of insider trading at the Department of Education.
As Hyman calls it, it’s “the biggest GAO scandal you never heard about.”
It hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves.
MORE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA’S FACULTY HATE-SPEECH SCANDAL AND THE TOLERANT LEFT, from Michael Walsh. “It’s practically Pavlovian; they are so invested in the myth of their own righteousness that their ‘tolerance’ fetish goes right out the window whenever they suffer the slightest affront to their delusional notion of how the world works. . . . This is why pushing back against them is so important: Like President Obama, they’re not used to real opposition. They’re unused to being questioned. They consider any challenge to their bogus ‘moral authority’ (based on what, one might ask?) to be tantamount to treason. . . . By the way, I love ‘Conservatives Coming Out Week’ As David Kahane argues in Rules for Radical Conservatives, turn their own tactics against them. Force the tolerance issue. Hit them with Alinsky’s Rule No. 4: ‘Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.’ Above all, celebrate diversity!”
UPDATE: A reader sends this: “Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.”
CHANGE: S&P Cuts Fannie, Freddie, FHLB, Farm Credit Outlooks After US Cut. “Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services cut its outlooks on Fannie Mae (FNMA), Freddie Mac (FMCC), the Federal Home Loan Bank system and the Farm Credit System in correlation with its recent move of lowering its outlook on U.S. debt.” (Via NewsAlert).
SHOCKER: Dollar Weakens Against Most Major Currencies.
Related: $6 Gas? Could Happen if Dollar Keeps Getting Weaker. “A dollar plumbing three-year lows is hitting Americans squarely in the gas tank, and one economist thinks it could drive prices as high as $6 a gallon or more by summertime under the right conditions.”