Archive for 2012
March 29, 2012
MATT DRUDGE EXAMINES THE CONTRADICTIONS:
INSTAVISION: Obama at War: Can the President Kill with Absolute Impunity? Plus, the Education Bubble Grows. I talk with Walter Russell Mead.
NANNY STATE UPDATE: San Francisco Plastic Grocery Ban To Go National?
THREE MEN and a moonbox.
SARAH HOYT: Circles In Thinking. “Yes, I have a vagina. I checked this morning. It was still there. . . . Leaving all that aside why would you presume I have more in common with a single woman working in a factory somewhere in the Midwest than with a married man with sons who writes articles for a living a hundred miles away? What earthly sense does that make?”
LAW IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: A wristslap for Charlie Rangel.
A FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD: Ed Morrissey: Shameless! Cheating Is Now Mainstream in America.
TOP TEN ATTEMPTS to build a flying car.
NARRATIVE-TENDING: ABC News doctors Zimmerman video to peddle false story in Trayvon Martin case. As I keep saying, stay tuned. Here’s the Daily Caller story.
CONN CARROLL: Breyer’s unhinged Commerce Clause ramblings. I was really hoping that one of the four lefty Justices would manage to overcome prejudice and blind party loyalty in this case. Doesn’t look like it’ll be Breyer if it happens.
DETECTING LIARS with eye-movement analysis.
A CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY IN NORTH CAROLINA, as the state’s emergency weapons-ban law is overturned. Opinion here (PDF). Key bit: “It cannot be seriously questioned that the emergency declaration laws at issue here burden conduct protected by the Second Amendment. Although considerable uncertainty exists regarding the scope of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, it undoubtedly is not limited to the confines of the home.”
A MAJOR MEDIA MATTERS FAILURE: #StopRush turns into #MediaMattersStopped. What I notice is that they keep starting these things up, then people on the right run with them and don’t let them change the subject or bring things to a close. In the old days, they could stir up a three-day media storm and people on the right would just sort of hunker down. Now it’s pushback every time, and the old strategies don’t seem to be working as well.
Key bit: “The biggest damage has been to Media Matters, which put its reputation for intimidating advertisers on the line, and failed. Media Matters wasn’t defeated by Limbaugh. Media Matters was defeated by tens of thousands of conservatives who recognized that this was not about Limbaugh or what Limbaugh said.”
UPDATE: Steve Hayward: The Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Month for the Left.
MICKEY KAUS: “The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has left a decades-long swath of urban destruction in its wake. It has been hampered, in part, by the peculiar disabilities legalistic liberals have imposed on government agencies they claim to support–including a relative inability to get rid of bad tenants without special court-enforced procedural rights (on the grounds that a government benefit is ‘property’ under the Constitution). If a farsighted liberal President were looking for a way to cut back government bureaucracy to a sustainable level, this ‘mid-sized’ agency (9,000 employees) would be a good place to start.”
Well, I’d go for the TSA first, but yeah. Only who is this “farsighted liberal President” you’re talking about?
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? British Leaders Suggest Panic Buying Of Gasoline To Avoid Panic Buying Of Gasoline. It’s a good idea to keep your tank at least half-full at all times, just in case.
INEFFECTUAL AND OUT OF TOUCH? Consistency: Obama budget fails to get a single Democratic vote … again. “Budgets are all about the numbers. If the President wants to keep proposing massive deficits, increased spending, and higher taxes, those policies are the numbers. Democrats are just embarrassed that the numbers add up to old-school tax-and-spend policies, and that they didn’t have a chance to obfuscate by declaring that Republicans are engaging in a war on left-handed Basque women who use marshmallow Schnapps for medicinal purposes. This is the second year in a row that Obama’s budget couldn’t win a single Democratic vote in Congress. In parliamentary systems, that would be a vote of no confidence and the party would be looking for new leadership. Perhaps it’s time for the country to do what Democrats won’t do for themselves and look for leadership who can produce rational numbers in budgets, or at least budgets that can win a vote from its own party.”
STONEWALLED: Lawmakers push to interview ex-White House aide in ‘Fast and Furious.’ “Two top Republican lawmakers investigating the Fast and Furious controversy are demanding the White House make a former aide available for testimony to see whether the scandal reached the upper echelons of the administration, according to a letter obtained by Fox News.”
A TENNESSEE CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Safe Commute and Employee Protection Bills Advance out of Senate Committees.