RASMUSSEN: Romney 49, Obama 47.
Archive for 2012
October 14, 2012
IN THE MAIL: The Annotated Brothers Grimm.
OPERATION DEMORALIZE CONTINUES: Pollsters: 1/5 of Ohio Vote Already In! Me: Bull by CAC over at Ace Of Spades Headquarters.
HOW LINCOLN EMERGED IN THE STRATOSPHERE OF GREATNESS: As Daniel Day Lewis’ portrayal of the 16th president is about to hit the silver screen, Conrad Black offers an assessment of the original.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Global Warming Stopped Sixteen Years Ago. RELATED, IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT: The Coming of the New Ice Age: End of the Global Warming Era? And yeah, the ice age thing was in my books in middle school and it’s why I’ve never taken AGW seriously. Opposing trends shouldn’t have exactly the same proposed remedy. Unless the hot/cold stuff is an excuse to drag us into socialism and scarcity.
SO MUCH FOR CELEBRITY “COMPASSION:” Wyclef Jean’s highly-hyped Haiti charity defunct and in debt, surprising approximately nobody.
IN VAIN I HAVE STRUGGLED, IT WILL NOT DO: Curse you Michael Walsh for posting the Ryan girl video answer to Obama girl. If my husband and kids get me committed for going around the house singing “Let’s get fiscal” it’s all your fault.
A RANT ON SUPPOSED RACISM: “You want to talk racism? Well, let’s talk about this.”
NO MORE BONHOMIE FOR BUBBA AND BARRY? “It appears that the Obama administration has a death wish,” Michael Walsh writes.
BY ALL MEANS, LET’S TALK RACISM: A Rant on Supposed Racism
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Predicting “The Withering Of The Affluent Society.”
Hmm. In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, he talks about globalization smearing things out “into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani bricklayer would consider to be prosperity.” I don’t see that as our future, assuming technology and free markets are allowed to flourish. But should we have a further run of the past four years’ “bad luck,” well, then we just might see the withering of the affluent society. There’s no limit to how long a redistribution recession can last . . . .
AT AMAZON, markdowns on bestsellers in Coffee, Tea & Espresso Makers.
BARACK TO THE FUTURE: Michael Barone: Biden and Obama run a campaign fit for the 1980s.
RELATED: Bill Whittle, “Old School:”
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TOMORROW’S POST-ELECTION MSM APOLOGIAS TODAY, REDUX: On Twitter, Washington Post reporter calls Ryan ‘Law & Order: SVU’ ‘perp of the week.’
Rather nice of him to inadvertently prove our point.
IS THE BENGHAZI ATTACK OBAMA’S MADRID TRAIN BOMBINGS? The parallels bode ill for the Obama administration, writes Brad Thor and Robert C. O’Brien.
STEWART BAKER: RATs and Poison: Can Cyberespionage Victims Counterhack?
“MY CUT-RATE RESURRECTION:” Gerard van der Leun writes: “When people find out I dropped dead on October 13 of 2011, they often ask me if I saw ‘the white light.’ They are disappointed when I tell them I did not. They’ve come to believe in the light, believe in it in a very literal way. They’ve heard it is seen and they’d like continuing confirmation of this sighting. My report always, as I said, disappoints.”
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN MORE OF A CLAUSTROPHILE THAN A CLAUSTROPHOBE: Conquering Claustrophobia.
I SUSPECT THE PROLIFERATION OF HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL IS INVOLVED: More Young People Suffering Strokes.
HMM: Both Israel and Hezbollah deny that Hezbollah’s chief financial officer fled to Israel with a bunch of documents, cash, and maps as reported by Al Arabiya.
JEFF JACOBY: A True Moral Giant And A Dogmatic Leftist Creep.
UPDATE: Read the whole thing, but here’s the key bit:
Imagine that Hobsbawm had fallen in love with Nazism as a youth and spent the rest of his career whitewashing Hitler’s atrocities. Suppose he’d refused for decades to let his Nazi Party membership lapse, and argued that the Holocaust would have been an acceptable price to pay for the realization of a true Thousand-Year Reich. It is inconceivable that he would have been hailed as a brilliant thinker or basked in acclaim; no self-respecting university would have hired him to teach; politicians and pundits would not have lined up to shower him with accolades during his life and tributes after his death.
Yet Hobsbawm was fawned over, lionized in the media, made a tenured professor at a prestigious university, invited to lecture around the world. He was heaped with glories, including the Order of the Companions of Honour — one of Britain’s highest civilian awards — and the lucrative Balzan Prize, worth 1 million Swiss francs. His death was given huge play in the British media — the BBC aired an hour-long tribute and the Guardian led its front page with the news — and political leaders waxed fulsome. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair called him “a giant … a tireless agitator for a better world.”
Such adoration is sickening. Unrepentant communists merit repugnance, not reverence. Compared with a true moral giant like Nguyen Chi Thien, Hobsbawm was nothing but a dogmatic leftist creep, and the toadies who worshiped him were worse.
They were, and they’re still around.
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Do black people support Obama because he’s black? Yeah, pretty much. Next question?
FIDDLING WHILE THEIR ECONOMY DIES: A Grand Experiment to Rein In Climate Change — in California.