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Archive for 2012
August 22, 2012
WELL, HE WOULDN’T FIT VERY WELL WITH THEIR UP-WITH-WOMEN THEME: John Edwards Stiffed, Not Invited to Dem. Convention.
On the other hand, Bill Clinton is being showcased . . . .
NICK GILLESPIE EMAILS: “Unbelievable! Even for those of us who hate Michigan.” Kindergartener Banned from Wearing U of Michigan T-Shirt in OK City. “An Oklahoma City kindergartner was forced to turn his University of Michigan shirt inside out last week because it violated a city ban on any apparel not supportive of the state’s college teams.” Really, have we reached the point where it’s parental malpractice to entrust your kids to public schools?
GRAPHIC: Skyrocketing Gas Prices Under Obama’s Energy Policy. Ends in 2011, but it’s not as if things are better now.
USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE to examine mutant worms.
ROMNEY ON OBAMA: “Bless his heart.”
I DIDN’T KNOW JOE SWUNG THAT WAY: Joe Biden: “I’ve known eight presidents, and three of them intimately.”
IT’S JUST GOING OUT TO LAW REVIEWS, BUT THROUGH THE MIRACLE OF THE INTERNET, YOU CAN READ IT NOW: Brannon Denning and I have an article on the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare decision and what it means: National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius: Five Takes. Download early and often! (Bumped).
A NATION ADRIFT from the Rule of Law? Ask any Chrysler bondholder.
NIALL FERGUSON Responds To His Critics.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Washington Monthly: Obama Should Fire The College Loan Repo Men. “Our current system for collecting student loans makes no distinction between deadbeats who cheat and the much greater numbers of people who just don’t have the money to repay. As predatory debt collection agencies ruin the lives of more and more Americans, we are ignoring an easy and fair solution.”
Just be sure to give the colleges some skin in the game.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: CU-Boulder: Profs have no right to cancel classes over gun-carrying students. I’m glad to see someone standing up to the hate. When will these professors learn that you don’t have to fear people just because they’re different?
I’M GOING OUT ON A LIMB HERE, BUT THIS DOESN’T SOUND GOOD: New immune-system disease found in Asians; causes AIDS-like symptoms in people without HIV. On the other hand, there’s this: “Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The patients’ immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. What triggers this isn’t known, but the disease does not seem to be contagious.”
Let’s hope that’s right, and that there’s a treatment.
ALPINE HIKERS URGED TO YODEL. “The idea is to get people to be less reserved and release themselves.”
RICH LOWRY RESPONDS TO LAWSUIT THREAT: “Get lost!” “If Mann sues us, the materials we will need to mount a full defense will be extremely wide-ranging. So if he files a complaint, we will be doing more than fighting a nuisance lawsuit; we will be embarking on a journalistic project of great interest to us and our readers.”
Mann’s been doing his best to hide his email. That won’t work in discovery. If he backs down, it’ll be further suggestive of him having something to hide.
STEPHEN GREEN: Wargaming The Electoral College.
WHAT CAR DO THIEVES LIKE MOST? The Honda Accord, again.
BASEBALL: More Dangerous Than Football? “Why might baseball, the gentleman’s game, be more deadly than football over the long term?”
SCIENCE: Comfort Foods Chemically Similar to Rx Mood Stabilizer. “Molecules in chocolate, a variety of berries and foods containing omega-3 fatty acids have shown positive effects on mood. In turn, our studies show that some commonly used flavor components are structurally similar to valproic acid.”
IT’S JUST GOING OUT TO LAW REVIEWS, BUT THROUGH THE MIRACLE OF THE INTERNET, YOU CAN READ IT NOW: Brannon Denning and I have an article on the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare decision and what it means: National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius: Five Takes. Download early and often!