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AT AMAZON, Countdown To Black Friday Deals in MP3 Players, Portable Speakers, and More.
Also, the 2013 Cycling Gift Guide. Goodies galore for bicyclists.
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Is Mike Lee The GOP’s New Idea Man?
ED DRISCOLL: Rules For Radical Republicans. “Say, a Whittle-Palin ticket? Wouldn’t that be a breath of fresh air compared to the two failed Democrats we’re currently stuck with?”
HOW TO BUILD A HOVERCRAFT WITH YOUR KIDS.
Or a Trebuchet, if your ambitions go beyond the kit.
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EUROPE: Young and Educated in Europe, but Desperate for Jobs. Plus, what passes for entrepreneurialism: “To gain experience, she was making plans to form a cooperative to study social issues like gender equality and sell reports to public institutions.”
Plus, an idiot who thinks the problem is “massive population growth.” Actually, in Europe it’s the lack thereof that’s contributing to the stagnation.
WHY EVERYONE thinks Seattle is crazy.
WELL, YES: ‘Teen Mom’ Jenelle Evans Is the Last Person Who Should Diss Miley Cyrus. Except maybe for that Amber chick.
WHICH LIGHT BULB SHOULD YOU PICK TO REPLACE INCANDESCENTS? “Starting Jan.1, 2014, manufacturers will stop making 60- and 40-watt incandescent light bulbs to comply with new federal energy efficiency laws. Should you choose halogens, CFL-halogen hybrids, or LEDs to replace your old household bulbs?”
Alternatively, you can stock up on incandescent 60 watts and hold out until the technology improves.
REASON TV INTERVIEWS VIRGINIA POSTREL, about her new book, The Power of Glamour: Longing And The Art of Visual Persuasion.
THE CASE OF KIRSTEN POWERS’ HEALTH INSURANCE: When ObamaCare Mugs A Liberal.
WELL, MARRIED WOMEN VOTE REPUBLICAN. SINGLE WOMEN VOTE DEMOCRAT. SO: The Marriage Penalty In ObamaCare.
IN THE MAIL: From John R. Lott, Jr., Dumbing Down the Courts: How Politics Keeps the Smartest Judges Off the Bench.
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 191.
ISN’T THIS KIND OF AN ADMISSION THAT THE OBAMA “RECOVERY” STINKS? “The Obama administration on Friday came out strongly in support of extending long-term unemployment insurance past its current expiration date.”
PAUL RAHE: The Great Prevaricator.
In David Maraniss’ largely hagiographical account of Barack Obama’s family and his upbringing, there is a chapter entitled “The Moviegoer,” which deserves careful attention. In it, Maraniss limns one crucial aspect of the man’s character—his propensity to stand back, aloof, and observe his own conduct and that of those about him as if he was the director of a film. He is, in fact, our first postmodern President, and he is always looking in the mirror. He believes that thinking makes things so. He believes that the most important part of the universe within which we live is the imagination. And when things go amiss, he is apt to tell his aides not that he or they have blundered in their deeds, but that they have “lost the narrative.” Everything is always about the man his aides call “Obam-me.” He is the Prophet of “Change We Can Believe In.” Belief is the operative word. . . .
Sooner or later, however, reality bites. Sooner or later, something happens that touches the material interests of individuals in a way they cannot willfully ignore. Sooner or later, something happens that causes all but the most blind partisans to step back, pay attention, and rethink. It is like that moment in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy sees behind the curtain. You and I have long been aware that the country is being conned. We knew that the President was lying when he told Americans on 24 occasions, in no uncertain terms, that they could keep the health insurance that they had. We knew as well that he was perfectly aware that he was peddling a whopper, and everyone in our larger political class knew so as well. The mainstream media knew, and they helped him sell his lies.
The Republicans in Congress knew, which is why, two years ago, they proposed a bill guaranteeing that one could keep one’s insurance and, at a brief moment of strength, forced every single Democrat in both the House and the Senate to go on record voting against it. You may want to think that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are fools, and they are certainly not above criticism. But they do not lack cunning.
The only ones who did not know were the ordinary folks out there. Most of them are relatively apolitical, and they took a certain pride in electing our first black President and were willing to cut him a great deal of slack.
Unfortunately for Barack Obama and the Democrats, reality has begun to bite, and the lies they told are coming back to haunt them.
Indeed they are.
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INSTAVISION: Now on YouTube, my interview with Gregory Zuckerman about his new book, The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters. It’s a fascinating American success story — in a decade where there aren’t a lot of those.
UPDATE: Wow, a lot of fracking-hate in the comments over at YouTube. Did Greenpeace target this or something?
TRAIN WRECK UPDATE: UnitedHealth drops thousands of doctors from insurance plans.
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