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Archive for 2008
February 3, 2008
PAKISTAN’S INSURGENCY: Much worse than Iraq’s.
ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT for Hitler. First the Cowboys, now no chance to see the Patriots go undefeated. And I guess Der Fuehrer’s opinion of Eli Manning was mistaken, too . . . .
UPDATE: It’s not just Hitler who’s had his hopes dashed. Heh. (Via Rand Simberg).
HEH: “I did just hear Arlen Specter on C-Span radio talking about how Congress ought to investigate that cheating team because football is so important to America. My tax money is supposed to go into making sure some people playing a game don’t cheat? Why doesn’t he check out whether people playing Scrabulous on Facebook are using Scrabble Helper? God forbid he should confirm some judges or something more tediously congressional.”
PORKBUSTING goes prime-time.
We’ve already done our big get-to-know-you interview with Mitt Romney, but with Super Tuesday coming up in a couple of days and the race tight, we thought we’d catch up with him again. We asked him about gun control — he says he’ll veto any gun control bills that cross his desk as President, including a renewal of the “assault weapon” ban, which is more than George W. Bush ever promised — about the economy (and the Zubrin flexfuel plan), and about John McCain, and Ann Coulter’s promise to campaign for Hillary if McCain is nominated. Plus, whether Romney is mean enough for politics. Can he pull off a Turnaround?
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UPDATE: Romney charged with flip-flopping on guns, but his team responds with this. You decide.
ANOTHER UPDATE: More here. I’m beginning to question his sincerity.
REMEMBERING Blogroll Amnesty Day.
ACCUSED RED LIGHT SHOOTER SPEAKS OUT: “I think the public is really tired of the cameras, and they want someone to rise up and strike the cameras down, and I’ve filled that role vicariously for them, but they’re going to be disappointed when I’m found not guilty.”
MARIA SHRIVER endorses Obama.
IT’S ANOTHER WEEK AS A TOP-TEN BESTSELLER on the New York Times list for Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism.
BILL QUICK: “Why I won’t be voting for John McCain.”
AT THE NEW YORK TIMES, A COMPLAINT ABOUT THE INSTANET: Apparently, blogs are quick to pass on misleading quotes.
What’s funny, of course, is the New York Times is the source of the blog-term Dowdification which refers to just such behavior on the part of one of its star columnists. Pot, meet kettle.
INCENTIVIZING POLYGAMY in Britain.
THIS IS INTERESTING: ABA to Impose 75% Bar Passage Requirement as Law School Accreditation Standard. This doesn’t seem unfair, but it will undoubtedly impact affirmative action programs. Bar passage is closely correlated with undergraduate grades and LSAT scores (no big surprise there, it’s all about test-taking) and affirmative action, pretty much by definition, means reaching down into the pool and taking people with lower grades and LSAT scores, and hence a lower prospect of passing the bar.
THE RIAA’S war against college students.
MORE ON GERMANY VS. NOKIA, at Transatlantic Politics.
THOUGHTS ON “SILENCING” in academia.