Archive for 2013
January 30, 2013
RAHM EMANUEL’S GUN CONTROL WORKING AS EXPECTED: Teen Who Attended Obama Inauguration Gunned Down Near Obama’s Chicago Home. “Maybe it’s time for that national conversation about Chicago, huh?”
OOPS: New Republic Embraces Fiction of California’s Balanced Budget.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
THE HILL: Reid declines to endorse Feinstein’s assault-weapons legislation. “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday declined to voice support for Democratic legislation that would ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips. Reid said he would bring gun-violence legislation to the floor and open it to a lengthy amendment process. But he declined to endorse the assault weapons ban introduced last week by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), which has the support of the 2nd- and 3rd-ranking Senate Democratic leaders.”
THERE, FIXED IT FOR YOU: Civil Rights Organization To Confront Shameless Emotional Bullying At Senate Gun-Control Hearing.
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Watchdog questions Treasury’s exit plan for Ally Financial. “In the four years since the federal government pumped billions into the nation’s financial firms to stave off economic collapse, virtually all of the biggest companies have repaid their debts. But Ally Financial, once one of the largest auto lenders in the country, still owes the government $11.4 billion. Now a government watchdog is pressing the Treasury Department to develop a plan for Ally to repay taxpayers, who own 74 percent of the company. In a report to Congress being issued Wednesday, the special inspector general for the Troubled Assets Relief Program criticizes Treasury for being slow to get Ally into line.”
EUGENE KONTOROVICH: Hans Kelsen On Occupation of Non-Sovereign Territory.
A REPORT FROM THE LIBERTY GUN SHOW. And here’s part two.
EGYPT: Egypt’s protests reveal deficit of trust in Muslim Brotherhood. It’s deficits all around in Egypt, but I’m actually quite encouraged by these protests.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Sen. Maximus Cronius Baucus rewards ex-staffers with tax breaks for their clients.
SHOCKER: Unions, Hollywood open to bankrolling Obama’s advocacy arm.
Yet another reason to repeal the Hollywood tax cuts!
TOM BLUMER: Obama’s Economy: The Excuses Begin.
I’LL BE ON BILL BENNETT’S SHOW IN A FEW MINUTES, talking about The K-12 Implosion. Listen live here.
MEET RYAN MOORE: “Carrying A Gun Saved My Life.”
January 29, 2013
CONFESSIONS OF A LEFTIST GUN OWNER.
AT AMAZON, Coupons Galore in Home & Kitchen.
Plus, Valentine’s Day markdowns on watches for men and women.
ROGER KIMBALL ON THE PLEASURES OF GRATIFYING HYPERBOLE, in the form of praise for his new book.
DENIAL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: My Dying Father Is America.
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, WE’D HAVE A CABINET MADE UP OF OLD, RICH WHITE MEN. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! John Kerry Confirmed As Secretary of State.
I believe that this is the first time since at least 2001 that there’s no woman or minority on the presidential-succession shortlist: After Obama, it’s Joe Biden, John Boehner, Patrick Leahy, and John Kerry.
MORE BOGUS EDITING FROM MSNBC: Outrageous: How the left-wing media lied about Newtown ‘hecklers’.
Related: The Week: The bogus news story about the Sandy Hook ‘hecklers’: Outrage erupts on liberal sites, but the video tells a different story. “The problem is that Heslin wasn’t really heckled. The Connecticut Post seems to have exaggerated what happened, since video of the incident shows that Heslin asked a question, waited for a response, and received one.”
Via Twitter, I understand they’re still lying about it on CNN.
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Firms Increasingly Relying On Internal Referrals, Leaving Long-Term Unemployed Out In The Cold.