Archive for 2012
April 27, 2012
HELPING THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE ALONG: Millenials’ Financial Illiteracy.
BALLOT DIRTY TRICKS in Wisconsin? The old corrupt machine certainly has pulled out all the stops. And the press is mostly helping. It’s almost as if the press is part of the old corrupt machine.
IT’S TIME TO PLAY NAME THAT PARTY! This story in the New York Times about the sentencing of New York State Senator Carl Kruger for corruption omits any mention of his party affiliation. And, sure enough, it turns out he’s a Democrat. Thanks to reader Thaddeus Perry for pointing this out.
SCIENCE: Women exercise less than men, study finds. “On average, women in the study did 18 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise daily, while men did 30 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise daily, according to the study.”
DON SURBER HANGS IT UP. “After 7 years of blogging, I am quitting. I am exhausted. It was simply too much work.” You were damn good at it, too, and we’ll miss you. But I understand.
OBAMA’S STUDENT LOAN DEBT CLAIM not looking so good.
DO TELL: Twitter Becomes A Key Real-Time Tool for Campaigns. Just ask Jim Treacher, who has been crowned Twit-In-Chief.
PUSHBACK: Boehner: Obama should pay back taxpayers for campaign-style trip costs. Well, when even the friendly media is joking about Obama’s travel, it’s an issue.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DEMOCRATIC MODERATES?
One of the favorite themes of mainstream media, the Obama campaign (when not accusing Mitt Romney of being a flip-flopper) and liberal pundits is that the Republican Party is in the grips of the right wing. But the irony is rich here: While the GOP is nominating the least right-wing of the presidential candidates, the Democratic faithful are purging moderates from their party.
If you don’t believe me, go read the New York Times.
No, really.
ABOVE THE LAW: When Will We Stop Punishing Children For Being Children? When adults start being adults.
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ILYA SOMIN: The Potential Impact of the People’s Rights Amendment Goes Far Beyond Restricting Freedom of Speech. It’s a horrible idea. And the name sounds like something from the 1968 SDS. Which is pretty fitting, actually . . .
ANDREW KLAVAN AND BILL WHITTLE: Barack Obama: The Road We Really Traveled. Hey, this reminds me of Mystery Science Theater.
UNEXPECTEDLY: GDP Growth Comes In At Only 2.2%. More here. “Politically speaking, this makes the White House’s ‘we’re on the right track’ argument a little more difficult to make. A 2.2% GDP rate won’t be a disaster on the stump, but the trend is going once again towards another Stagnant Spring. If it gets revised downward in the next two months, Obama will have a tough time talking about the economy. Expect a lot of discussion of dog carriers and condoms in the weeks ahead.”
DOG BITES MAN: Biden says something incredibly stupid. “I know, I know: ‘You should assign that phrase to a macro!’ How do you know I didn’t? You know what, though? I don’t think he was making a joke. I don’t think he understood why they were laughing. I’m not even sure he even knew what planet he was on. I can’t wait until he’s elected president in 2016.”
PARALLEL UNIVERSE: What if Obama mocked himself instead of his opponents at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? He doesn’t do self-deprecating humor. But, then, he doesn’t really do humor. Unless you count, you know, jokes about auditing people’s taxes.
MICKEY KAUS: When The Narrative Becomes Fact, Print The Narrative.
Washington Post‘s Rosalind S. Helderman tells her readers that Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law, S.B. 1070, is “deeply unpopular with Latino voters.” Really? A very recent Quinnipiac poll found that 49% of Hispanics oppose the law, but 47% approve of it. If thats “deeply unpopular” I wouldn’t want to be President Obama. … A similarly slim majority of Hispanics actually wants the Supreme Court to uphold S.B. 1070.
I’m beginning to feel as if I can’t trust the mainstream media. Plus: “In general, the Arizona law has actually been getting more popular in recent months. A 68-27 majority of all the nation’s voters now approves it, according to Quinnipiac. How much more lopsided does public opinion have to get before the national Dems quietly drop the S.B. 1070 issue?”
“SO WHERE’S THE REST OF THEM?” “The Democrats supposedly think (warning: FDL link) that Paul Ryan’s budget plan is a hideous liability for the Republicans – that is, those Democrats that actually know what the word ‘budget’ even means, which apparently excludes the entire Senate Democratic caucus* – so you would think that this speech by Ryan would and should have been a media circus. Watch the speech: in it Ryan went into how his own Catholic faith informs his fiscal conservatism (Georgetown, remember?), and how his current proposals are not in fact contrary to the Church’s principles when it comes to helping the poor. Given that this is genuinely subversive of the remaining links between American progressives and the Roman Catholic church hierarchy, it seems amazing that progressives weren’t trying their best to, well, at least show up. Or did they?”
Plus: “This is not 2007. We now know what a populist movement looks like; in late April 2010 the Tea Party was putting thousands in the streets in protests on a regular basis. I count… twelve?… in that above picture.”
PETER FERRARA: Wisconsin’s New Aristocracy Is On The Ballot. “A recall election for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is scheduled for June 5. But on the ballot that day will effectively be whether we should establish in law after all these years a new aristocracy in America, not subject to the democratic will of the people like everyone else, with special legal privileges, including the right to plunder the taxpayers with virtual impunity. That new aristocracy is state and local government public employee unions.”
#NARRATIVEFAIL: Mitt Romney Once Saved A Dog From Drowning.
Big deal. If Obama had been there, he would’ve done the same thing. And he wouldn’t need a Jet Ski, either. He’d just walk over.
Why do I get the feeling that when the lefties get hold of this story, they’re going to focus more on the fact that Romney owns a lake house and Jet Skis than the fact that he saved a family of 6 and their dog from drowning? Maybe our good friends on the left will surprise me. I should probably give ‘em a chance, right? Right.
Romney once kept a terrier from drowning. Obama once drowned a terrier in ketchup.
To be fair, I think it was actually chili sauce.