WELL, THEY NEVER CALLED HIM “JESSE THE BRAIN:” SEAL Sniper Punches Jesse “The Body” Ventura.
Archive for 2012
January 7, 2012
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Chaos On The Shores Of Tripoli. “Libya may be in a better place without Muammar Gaddafi, but the country is certainly not out of the woods quite yet. Nobody expected a functioning government by now, but the liberal interventionists who supported the war were hoping for something better than what we now have.”
I’VE MENTIONED UTAH TEA PARTY LEADER DAVID KIRKHAM BEFORE, and now there’s this news: Tea party leader Kirkham ready to run for governor.
David Kirkham, who organized Utah’s first tea party two years ago, said he is “99.99 percent” sure he will run against Gov. Gary Herbert, and that he could make a decision “any second.”
“I have been on the sidelines as a dissident for two years now,” he said in an interview with The Tribune. “I have come to realize that in order to really affect the change that needs to happen you have to, at some point, become a player.”
Indeed. I hope he wins!
UPDATE: Reader Tom Scott writes: “I haven’t made a political contribution since the Contract With America slid quietly into oblivion not even trying to live up to its promises. This is a campaign that would bring me back into the fold. And a governorship would be the ideal spot to begin. I remember Kirkham’s various interviews and contributions to your blog and I was impressed by his integrity and honesty. If you have the opportunity to provide him more coverage I would certainly appreciate it.”
I’ll do my best.
MORE: Ronnie Schreiber writes: “My only dealings with David Kirkham have been automotive, writing about Kirkham Motorsports and his quite capable metal forming skills. He’s made absolutely stunning Cobra replicas out of copper and bronze and he always is gracious when responding to queries. If he got elected, I bet he’d be the only sitting governor that knows how to weld, let alone knows how to use an English wheel to shape a fender. I think that Kirkham is a great example of what Matthew Crawford wrote about in Shop Class As Soul Craft and he’s probably a throwback to an earlier day when even professional politicians had day jobs.”
RACIST CARTOON APPEARING IN LEFTWING BLOG BASED ON GONE WITH THE WIND: Did I say Leftwing blog? My bad; I meant the L.A. Times.
THEY TOLD GLENN REYNOLDS THAT IF HE VOTED FOR JOHN McCAIN, he’d see Donald Rumsfeld’s vision for the military finally come to fruition…and they were right!
BYRON YORK ON WHY GINGRICH TANKED: “As a political tactic, the brilliance of the Paul and Romney ads was that they provoked Gingrich to anger — and into hurting himself. That allowed Romney supporters to follow up by accusing Gingrich of being in a state of perpetual anger, and therefore unfit for the presidency.”
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: “How Can I Survive This Job I Hate?”
KYLE SMITH ON CORPORATE GREED:
It’s a classic American saga of top hats against hard hats, lions versus sheep, the one percenters and the forgotten 99. It’s a story about fundamental unfairness, corporate excess, and naked greed. There are exploited workers seething in revolt and spoiled plutocrats floating along on clouds of happy oblivion.
Somebody get The New York Times on the story. Wait a second – The New York Times is the story. So never mind.
Read the whole thing.™
MARK STEYN ON THE LEFT’S SO-CALLED EMPATHY: “The Left’s much-vaunted powers of empathy routinely fail when confronted by those who do not agree with them politically.”
RICOCHET’S 100th PODCAST IS NOW ONLINE: With two-thirds of the troika (James Lileks and Rob Long) on location in New Hampshire.
(Glenn is laundering his vast blogging revenues giving a speech in Grand Cayman, and has asked me to add a few new items in-between the posts he has scheduled.)
FIXING DEPRESSION with deep-brain stimulation.
AT AMAZON, markdowns on bedding.
ISN’T THIS KIND OF AN ADMISSION THAT ECONOMICS IS KIND OF A VOODOO SCIENCE? Revolutionary Conflict Of Interest Disclosure Principles from the American Economic Association. I mean, if it were really scientific, you could rely on replication and data-sharing and . . . oh, who am I kidding?
WELL, GOOD: Researchers successfully treat previously lethal doses of radiation. “Scientists working on a DARPA-funded research effort have determined that an antibiotic and a protein fight radiation sickness more effectively when they are combined than when used separately. While doctors already use antibiotics to treat radiation sickness, researchers have found that adding bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI), a protein found in immune systems, allowed them to increase the survival rates of mice exposed to toxic levels of radiation to nearly 80 percent. More important, this treatment with BPI and antibiotics was effective up to a day after exposure to radiation.” Faster, please.
MEGAN MCARDLE: Can Credit Unions Replace “Predatory” Lending?
AMERICA’S WORST-RATED AIRLINE.
AT AMAZON, markdowns in the Home Improvement Value Center.
Also, today only, 50% off on H&R Block Income Tax Software.
WHAT AMERICA NEEDS: A Sons of Guns Drinking Game.
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Moody’s lowers Illinois credit rating, again.
DATECHGUY REPORTS on Ron Paul in New Hampshire.
IS IT RACIST to require a photo ID to buy drain cleaner? Yes, and if there were right-wing public interest lawyers like there are left-wing public interest lawyers, someone would be suing. . . .
ROCK ME LIKE AN ELECTRIC EEL: Chevy Volt has best month ever, but Nissan Leaf still wins 2011 plug-in sales contest.