ARTUR DAVIS: Why I’m Switching to Republican. “As I told a reporter last week, this is not Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party (and he knows that even if he can’t say it).”
UPDATE: Penn. Democratic leader defects to GOP, cites Catholic faith as reason. I think we need one more before it’s a trend, according to Kaus’s rules of punditry. . . .
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): WaPo: Job recovery is scant for Americans in prime working years.
The proportion of Americans in their prime working years who have jobs is smaller than it has been at any time in the 23 years before the recession, according to federal statistics, reflecting the profound and lasting effects that the downturn has had on the nation’s economic prospects.
By this measure, the jobs situation has improved little in recent years. The percentage of workers between the ages of 25 and 54 who have jobs now stands at 75.7 percent, just a percentage point over what it was at the downturn’s worst, according to federal statistics.
Recovery? What recovery?
THE RECOVERY THAT WASN’T: “The economic recovery that Obama has presided over has been far from extraordinary. It hasn’t even been ordinary. In fact, it’s come in well below average on several key indicators compared with the previous 10 economic recoveries, dating back to 1949.”
JAMES TARANTO ON CONOR FRIEDERSDORF ON BREITBART.COM. What’s wrong with “good old-fashioned shoe-leather investigative journalism?”
ROLL CALL: Obama’s To-Do List Finds Few Takers. “It fits on a Post-it note, but some lawmakers are still confused by what’s on President Barack Obama’s ‘to-do’ list — and so far, neither chamber has scheduled a vote on any of the five items the president has urged them to tackle ‘right now.'”
ANDREW MALCOLM: THREE OF MITT ROMNEY’S EMERGING STRENGTHS. I have to say, he’s proving nimbler than I expected so far.
SHOCKER: John Kerry’s Yacht Still Owes Massachusetts Taxes. Taxes are for the little people.
NOT VERY SUCCESSFULLY: Jay Carney explains the difference between Solyndra and Bain Capital.
TRANSPARENCY IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: California Pols Hide Public Workers’ Names. “Legislators in the California Assembly have approved on a 68-0 vote a bill that would exempt multiple categories of state and local government employees from having their names disclosed in public property records, according to Steven Greenhut.”
MICHAEL BARONE: Are Obama’s Campaign Aides Fooling Themselves?
THE TROUBLE WITH CHIPS? Cyber-attack concerns raised over Boeing 787 chip’s ‘back door.’
LISTENING FOR THE GOON’S FOOTSTEPS: Dave Foulk is blogging cancer.
THIS MUST BE MORE OF THAT “SMART DIPLOMACY” WE WERE PROMISED: White House: Obama misspoke on ‘Polish death camp.’
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: IBD At Kimberlin Hearing: Walker Handcuffed, 1st Amendment Muzzled. “Here’s what seems to have happened. Although Kimberlin’s first peace order against Walker was eventually thrown out on appeal, it appears that while it was in effect Walker wrote a blog post about Kimberlin. This triggered a Google Alert that Kimberlin had set up. Kimberlin filed criminal charges based on that, apparently claiming that constituted “contact.” The court apparently agreed, and Walker was arrested.”
Walker also made a major error by representing himself. No lawyer should do that in anything more than a minor traffic offense. This goes double for Yale Law grads. . . .
TEXAS TEA PARTY UPDATE: Ted Cruz Forces Runoff Against David Dewhurst.
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EUGENE VOLOKH: Aaron Walker, Brett Kimberlin and the Fog of Litigation.
RE-ENGINEERING HUMANS with smart bionic limbs.
THE WORLD’S LARGEST solar thermal power plant.
BEWARE THE zombie bees.
THOMAS SOWELL ON THE DANGERS OF “MEANINGFUL WORK.”
ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE LATEST IN ANTI-ROMNEY BIGOTRY:
Garry Wills, he’s not anti-Mormon. He just has questions. A lot of questions. Can’t blame a man for asking questions, can you? I’d say you can. This is an effort to smear Romney with some really silly insinuations.
That seems to be the strategy this week.
A SKY-DIVING CLOSE CALL: “A US woman’s 80th birthday nearly ended in tragedy when she slipped out of her harness during a parachute jump. . . . Fortunately, the instructor managed to cling on to Mrs Everett as the parachute opened and the pair managed to land, extremely shaken but unhurt.”
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