THE SECRET SERVICE’S REPUTATION certainly seems to have taken a hit.
Archive for 2012
November 6, 2012
STEPHEN HAWKING: “Humans Have Entered A New Stage Of Evolution.”
A SIGN STEALER caught in the act.
GLAD TO SEE THEY’RE FINALLY MAKING THE RELATIONSHIP OFFICIAL: “The press pass for Obama’s Election Night event looks kinda like a wedding invitation.” Photo at link.
In contrast, as Glenn noted earlier: Making the Press Pay.
AT AMAZON, TODAY’S KINDLE DAILY DEAL IS The American Patriot’s Almanac. Fitting.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE STEAM ENGINE.
HEH: Reporter: DC poll workers given photo of ‘the real Eric Holder.’ Apparently they’re worried someone might try to impersonate him — since, you know, photo ID isn’t required. . . .
Related: Voter fraud: People go to vote, ballots already cast in their names; Others vote more than once.
If Romney loses this thing, it’ll only be because of fraud. Yeearrgh!
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Ricki Lake Tackles An Openly Gay Man Married To A Woman.
BRENDAN O’NEILL: The Obama administration has been a colossal failure. Who in good conscience could vote for him again?
Well, nobody. Note this from O’Neill: “His administration has been as illiberal as Bush’s, if not more so. And far from reinvigorating politics, Obama has overseen an era in which political discourse in America has become coarser, more vindictive and more personality-based than it has been at any other point in history.”
JENNIFER RUBIN: If he wins. . .
SLEAZE: Election Judge Wears Obama Cap While Checking in Voters in Obama’s Chicago Ward. “The voter who took the photo says: ‘Woman in front of me also given an extra ballot.'”
MAN WITH BIONIC LEG climbs Chicago skyscraper.
A VERY POSITIVE REVIEW of Roger Simon and Sheryl Longin’s new play about Stalinism and the American press, The Party Line.
JOURNALISM: A CBS News Obama-Libya scandal? Certainly. “Critics will elevate CBS News’s selective video publishing to a prime exhibit in their brief that the mainstream media is protecting Obama. Barring a better explanation from CBS News, that’s a hard case to contradict.”
Related: Making the press pay.
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TAXPAYER-FUNDED ELECTIONEERING: Chrysler Workers Given Day Off To Vote.
WE’RE ALREADY IMPORTING DOCTORS: Voting Obamacare: Health Care Law to Drive Doctors to Retirement. We’re already importing doctors, because our process is so onerous that we then bring in people trained in India and the Arab countries, by completely different processes. With Obamacare we won’t be able to import enough doctors.
IN THE MAIL: From Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance. I read it in an advance copy. Very good!
BLACK PANTHERS AT POLLS IN PHILLY AGAIN: Here we go again. At least this one doesn’t have a night stick like the ones filmed in 2008. But still, can you imagine the outcry if members of the KKK showed up in their white garb to “stand” in front of polling places in the South? This is frankly no different, as the Black Panthers are not only Marxist, but have a long history of racism and violence. Can you say “voter suppression and intimidation”?
TWO DISTURBING REPORTS: Philly GOP: Poll inspectors being ousted for Dems. (And of course there are black panthers, but we expected that!) And there’s shenanigans in my state. (I bet there are in every swing state!)
UPDATE: THIS is what terrifies me. Guys, if they win this time, with the lack of enthusiasm on their part, based on massive, unchecked fraud, you might as well give up. The Chicago Machine — the Combine — will make sure that no one ever votes against their candidates again. This is our last chance, that means both voting and calling the fraud number for stuff like this. Vote Fraud: Who You Gonna Call? And if we win motor voter must go and our voter rolls must be cleaned. We’ve almost given the store away already.
MORE CRONY CAPITALISM: Damon Root over at Reason notes that rapper Jay-Z, who recently endorsed Obama, is a crony capitalist who, as part-owner of the N.J. Nets, profited from the use of eminent domain to take the homes of low-income folks so that the Nets could have a new b-ball arena. Now that’s social justice!
LAST CHANCE TO STOP OBAMACARE: An editorial from Investors’ Business Daily reminds us:
Tuesday’s decision is about many things, but none may be more important than stopping ObamaCare from wrecking the greatest health care system in the world.
Even if the Republicans take the Senate, any effort at repeal would be vetoed by a second-term Obama.
I DON’T KNOW HOW I’LL SURVIVE TODAY: Apparently I’m not alone. There is Not Enough Coffee and/or Booze in the World.
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Soda Wars Spread to California, Point to Future of US Politics.
New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg concentrated on monitoring soda sizes in the months before Hurricane Sandy turned large stretches of his city into dark and freezing refugee camps.
At least one city in California shares the mayor’s sense of what matters. The New York Times reports that Richmond, California is now preparing to become the first city in the country to tax businesses for selling sugary drinks, rather than simply taxing the drinks themselves. The ballot initiative has become a contentious issue, and the rhetoric is already getting rather heated . . . The measure has its share of supporters, but it has drawn the ire of the city’s minority communities, who worry that the proposal could seriously hurt minority-owned businesses. . . .
The 2012 presidential election has brought the coalition of white “progressives” and African American and Hispanic groups together into a powerful force that may well re-elect President Obama. But that coalition is more fragile than it looks; many liberal white “progressives” scoff at the economic growth agenda that minority communities desperately need. Win or lose tomorrow, GOP operatives and policy wonks should think deeply about what is happening in Richmond; the biggest long term divide in America may be between those who think we need more growth and those who think our economy is too big and too vulgar already.
Indeed.