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Archive for 2011
November 17, 2011
WHY NOT? WE’VE GOT THEM EVERYWHERE ELSE: Obama Dispatching Troops To Australia.
JAMES TAYLOR: Corruption And Election Tricks Are Adding To The U.S.’ Energy Troubles. “The first example of the administration putting its own political interests ahead of the interests of the nation occurred last Friday, when it announced that it would decline to make a decision on a proposed pipeline to carry oil from western Canada to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast. The Keystone XL pipeline would put Americans to work building the pipeline, would create additional jobs along the Gulf Coast where the oil would be refined.”
WAR ON TERROR UPDATE: Former SEAL stands by account of bin Laden raid, says administration out to get him.
November 16, 2011
MORE OF THE NEW ANTISEMITISM: Subway Sign Defaced in Bias Incident: Vandal renames Avenue J station ‘Avenue Jew.’ How’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for ya?
HOUSE PASSES CONCEALED-CARRY RECIPROCITY BILL. “A state permit to carry a concealed firearm would be valid in almost every other state in the country under legislation the House passed Wednesday.” I like the way the AP manages to bring up Gabby Giffords in the second sentence. No propaganda here. . . .
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Maxine Waters Shrugs Off Occupy Violence: ‘That’s Life. It Happens.’ “Waters had a much less sanguine opinion of the Tea Party.” Which wasn’t even violent.
WHY ZUCCOTTI PARK NEEDED TO BE CLEANED UP. An infestation of scabies and lice?
You know, all those “dirty smelly hippy” jokes I’ve heard all my life aren’t just jokes . . . they seem to be coming true.
MICHAEL WALSH: “Now here’s another shocking story from the New York Times: ‘A Fund-Raiser for Liu Is Arrested on Fraud Charges.’ File and forget this one in your bulging Democratic-fundraising-scandals folder, along with that lady in California, and the various Clinton scandals.”
Funny how that works.
FROM THE EVERYTHING’S-BETTER-WITH-BACON DEPT.: Bacon-Flavored Lube. From the makers of Baconnaise.
POLITICO: An Occupy shooter? “If confirmed, this will likely be a much, much bigger image problem than the reports of crime in Occupy encampments.”
PETER INGEMI ON “THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT DRIVER OF THE 2012 ELECTION:” Barack Obama is a president so horrible that democrats around the country are running from him like the plague. “Every single one of the GOP candidates, no matter what their failings, is more than capable of beating Barack Obama in 2012. Some of them will beat him like the Saints beat the Colts a few weeks ago, the worst of them will beat him like the Saints did the Falcons this week, but they will all beat him.” From your blog to God’s ear. Er, monitor. Whatever.
FRANK J. FLEMING beats Bill Maher like the proverbial drum. Yeah, Bill, you’ve been pushed down to #2. By Frank J. . . .
UPDATE: Reader Blaine Miller notes that Maher is caught in a squeeze play, with Frank J. at #1, and Scott Ott at #3.
SPRINGER PUBLISHING digitizes its entire catalog.
WISCONSIN BOGUS EXCUSE UPDATE: Medical board reprimands the doctors who wrote sick notes for Wisconsin protesters. “I wonder if you can get a note if you need to stay out of work because your wrist got slapped.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Los Angeles Review Of Books: The Education Lottery. “On average, students socialize more than 40 hours a week but attend and prepare for class only 26 or 27. Only half of the sophomores in a recent study said they had had a class during the last term that required them to write 20 pages or more during the term, and one-third said they had taken no class that required them to read as much as 40 pages a week. Even among English majors in the University of California, half say they do less than 80 percent of the assigned reading in their courses. If English majors do not read, what can we expect of business or communications majors?”
PICKING A FIGHT WITH GUN OWNERS? Obama Pushing Shooters Off Public Lands. “Gun owners who have historically been able to use public lands for target practice would be barred from potentially millions of acres under new rules drafted by the Interior Department, the first major move by the Obama administration to impose limits on firearms.” If he’s this desperate to shore up his base . . .
TODAY: Thanksgiving dinner a costlier endeavor than last year. “The price of your holiday meal is up 13 percent from last Thanksgiving.”
A year ago today: Sarah Palin: Inflation Is Coming. Which shows she’s just as dumb as all those lefty pundits say — because food prices aren’t counted in inflation. Which is lucky for us, because if they were, we’d have a big inflation problem now. . . .
UPDATE: Killjoy Tom Maguire writes: “Re your comment about Sarah Palin, the CPI, and food – food prices are included in the standard CPI. Because food and energy prices are volatile, a second “core” CPI excluding food and energy is also commonly bandied about.” Yeah, I know, I was just trying to emulate the style of bestselling political humorist Frank J. Fleming. I suppose that kind of thing should be left to the professionals.
PETER SUDERMAN: Is Partisanship Responsible for the Success of Constitutional Challenges to ObamaCare?
When the Obama administration formally requested that the Supreme Court hear the case in 2012, I predicted that if any part of the law is struck down, the Obama administration will blame the loss on excessive judicial partisanship. Chemerinsky appears to be doing some of the advance work for this potential talking point.
Hopefully it’s on a strictly volunteer basis, though, because his confidence in the mandate’s obvious legality isn’t very convincing. It’s not just that several judges have already ruled against the mandate; it’s that the mandate raises constitutional questions that don’t have obvious answers—and that the Supreme Court has never clearly decided.
Claims that the Second Amendment protected an individual right were met with the same substanceless condescension — until the Supreme Court ruled. And Chemerinsky’s volunteering, but probably in the hopes of a Supreme Court appointment.
AN UNUSUALLY CLEAR EXAMPLE of the cost of the FDA. “There is the research that is not funded because the end results cannot be brought to the clinic under present FDA rules.”
TODAY IN HISTORY: Nov. 16, 1904: Vacuum Tube Heralds Birth of Modern Electronics. “For his work, Fleming received a knighthood in 1929 and was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Institute of Radio Engineers (now the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) in 1933. Fleming lived long enough to see the fruits of his labor literally save Britain during World War II. Radar sets using Fleming’s diodes proved decisive in the Battle of Britain, allowing a relatively small number of British fighter planes to effectively turn back the Luftwaffe’s onslaught against the home island.”