TWEET OF THE DAY: Would Obama for America have been more effective as a union shop?
Archive for 2012
December 11, 2012
IT’S NOT SCIENCE, IT’S CNN: “Any dope could fix a cable news network. Except guys like Jeff Zucker.” You want a boost in ratings for CNN? Give Dana Loesch her own show. It’s that simple.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Obama’s Free Market Space Exploration Success.
DANIEL LIN: Why Is Higher Education So Expensive?
Related item here.
LOOKING FOR WAR ON TERROR NEWS? Fred Pruitt’s Rantburg has got you covered.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: The Sebelius Coverup. “It gets worse. HHS has contracted with a subsidiary of a private health care company to help build and police the very exchanges in which that company will be competing for business. The person who ran the government entity that awarded that contract has since accepted a position with a different subsidiary of that same company. An insurance industry insider (speaking on the condition of anonymity) says that HHS, in an attempt to hide this unseemly contract from public view until after the election, encouraged the company to hide the transaction from the Securities and Exchange Commission.”
Plus this: “One critic familiar with the business rivalries of the insurance industry compared UnitedHealth Group’s purchase of QSSI to the New York Yankees hiring the American League’s umpires.”
NEW FROM MICHAEL BARONE — and just 99 cents on Kindle — Can Big Government Be Rolled Back? As a huge Barone fan, I of course bought it immediately. (Bumped).
BLUE HADES WERE PROBABLY INVOLVED: Mysterious mass whale graveyard unearthed in the Chilean desert.
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): The Mysterious Case Of America’s Negative Real Wage Growth. “Wages have risen below the rate of inflation for 22 consecutive months, with real wages printing their last positive number back in January 2011 and negative ever since!”
LEARNING TO COOK in Costa Rica.
THE BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF DELAYED PARENTING.
Related: Study says college students think 25 is right time to tie the knot.
December 10, 2012
SCANDALOUS: No Shots Fired: State Department’s Benghazi Security Force Unarmed. That’s just pathetic. Under a Reynolds Administration, they’d have flamethrowers. #Reynolds2016.
PRAGER UNIVERSITY: If Good And Evil Exist, God Exists.
Just ask Arthur Leff.
AT AMAZON, Coupons Galore in Toys.
Also, coupons in Electronics.
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BLUES MAGOOS: We Ain’t Got Nothing Yet.
JIM TREACHER ON CNN’S RESTRUCTURING: Is Soledad O’Brien about to go flyin’? You want a ratings boost, Mr. Zucker? Give Dana Loesch her own show.
A SYRIAN GENERAL WHO DEFECTED talks to PJ Media.
FASTER, PLEASE: A breakthrough against leukemia using altered T-cells. Though the use of modified HIV virus as a carrier puts me in mind of some horror movies. . . .
THIS MAY BE WHY RIGHT-TO-WORK PASSED EVEN IN MICHIGAN: “According to union documents, ‘representational activities’ (money spent on bargaining contracts for members) made up only 11 percent of total spending for the union. Meanwhile, spending on ‘general overhead’ (union administration and employee benefits) comprised of 61 percent of the total spending.”
THIS SEEMS LIKE A BAD IDEA: US sending 20 more F-16s to Egypt, despite turmoil in Cairo.
BABIES: The Value of Iron Supplementation. “Iron supplements may help boost brain development and ward off behavioral problems in babies who are born a bit on the small side, a new study from Sweden suggests.”
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Obama’s Free Market Space Exploration Success.
TEN YEARS AFTER: Working On The Road.
AT AMAZON, it’s the Home Audio & Video Outlet.