Archive for 2013
February 23, 2013
TEA PARTY FOLKS SHOULD READ THIS AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THE SAME THING, IN REVERSE: Progressive Tax-Exempt Group’s Secret Plan to ‘Eviscerate,’ ‘Cripple’ GOP.
Here’s the plan. Turnabout is fair play.
WOMAN FROM TOWNHALL: Biden’s questioner: His answer on shotguns was pretty sexist.
HAPPY SATURDAY NIGHT.
PAINT IT BLACK: Post-Mortem on a Sort-Of Race Riot.
IT’S PROBABLY WORSE, BECAUSE THEY DON’T GET AS MUCH SYMPATHY: Drone Pilots Are Found to Get Stress Disorders Much as Those in Combat Do.
PERSONALLY, I WANT TO BE A CRONY: The Best of the Liberty Video Awards.
VIRGINIA POSTREL: Why You Want To Escape With Denzel Washington.
14 THINGS successful people do on weekends.
JANICE FIAMENGO: How Well Does RateMyProfessors Rate? I don’t know how it performs in general, but my recent ratings seem to be mostly from people who have never taken my classes, but don’t like my blog. I doubt that problem extends to most of the people rated, though.
JAMES TARANTO: Charlie Cook Has a Problem: Sometimes conventional wisdom is not just unimaginative but self-serving. If by “sometimes,” you mean “usually.”
MEGAN MCARDLE: Could U.S. Debt Reach A Tipping Point? Yes. And while we may hit it later than some of us fear, we’ll probably reach it sooner than the powers-that-be hope.
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WHY GIRLS may be protected against autism.
WAREHOUSE DEALS in Grocery & Personal Care.
I’M IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TODAY: The Hollywood Tax Story They Won’t Tell at the Oscars: It’s easy to demand higher levies on the ‘rich’ when your own industry gets $1.5 billion in government handouts. It’s open to nonsubscribers.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Would You Care If Your Wife Earned More?
LAW DEAN CALLS FOR Charter Law Schools.
YOOHOO! MR. ADELSON? The Right should buy the Boston Globe…and staff it with conservatives. Somewhat different from my idea, but consistent. I think, though, that buying several smaller papers in swing states might be more effective.
A NEW SPORT: Wave Skiing.
WE WILL SELL NO WINE out of its depth. “Napa Valley-based Mira Winery is aging 48 bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon in the Atlantic Ocean. The winery said bottles of wine recovered from shipwrecks have a remarkable and unique flavor. Thus, the winemaker believes aging the 2009 Cabernet in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor will affect the red wine’s taste.”