News is breaking that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring. There will be a fight over his replacement, for sure. And Arlen Specter switching may have given Republicans a trump card to block an unacceptable replacement.
Everyone, including me, has been blogging about how Specter defecting to the...
I was critical of Senator Susan Collins of Maine for her support of Obama’s stimulus plan. But Collins did not deserve to be charged with contributing to the possible swine flu pandemic, which is a charge leveled against her and spread throughout the internet and mainstream media.
The charge against Collins started...
UPDATE: Alan Colmes e-mailed me to indicate he meant no offense, and said “C’mon Professor, we’re BOTH blowhards.” Well, that may be going a bit too far, but thanks for the note. I take back what all those people said about him.
From YouTube, h/t you know who you are:
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It would be very easy to fall into a depression over Arlen Specter switching political parties, giving Democrats a likely filibuster-proof Senate majority. The result will be that Obama will be able to push through much of his agenda without meaningful debate.
Not that I will miss Specter personally. Specter h...
Reports indicate that the deal the United Auto Workers has struck with Chrysler will include majority Union ownership of the company, and a seat on the Board. This is the single best news the American auto industry has heard in decades.
I have been a harsh critic of auto unions, which have...
In what should go down in internet history as one of the most embarrassingly misleading posts, John Nichols of The Nation authored an article titled “GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness.” The joke was on Nichols, because Nichols and the nutroots bloggers who ran with his piece were proven to be the...
Former Congressman Tom Tancredo was shouted down and bullied off the stage a couple of weeks ago at the University of North Carolina by protesters opposed to Tancredo’s stand on illegal immigration. Tancredo espouses the apparently radical view that we should enforce immigration laws; in other words, he is for the...
The Nation has run a post, “GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness,” which seeks to blame the opponents of the Stimulus Plan for lack of preparedness for the swine flu outbreak. The post, like most big lies, has a kernel of truth, but twists reality for political purposes. And like most big...
Republicans are not Obama’s worst policy enemies. At least Obama knows that Republicans do not support Obama’s agenda. Democrats who are fixated on getting revenge on the Bush administration are Obama’s real problem, and are handing Republicans a policy gift by pushing hard for a congressional investigation and/or Justice Department prosecution...
From
The Telegraph via Powerline
(emphasis mine):
If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United...
Bill Roggio, who runs a great website, The Long War Journal, has been reporting for months on the steady increase in the power of the Pakistani Taliban, who are approaching the capital of Islamabad. What is most frightening is that the Taliban also are approaching Pakistani nuclear weapons storage areas:
The Taliban...
A letter from NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to (h/t Instapundit via Sec Law Prof Blog) reveals that then Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson intervened to prevent Bank of America from backing out of its deal to buy Merrill Lynch when BofA learned of enormous previously undisclosed loses.
Paulson threatened to...
Britain has solved the problem of burning coal without emitting
“greenhouse gases.” According to
The Independent, cutting edge technology called Carbon Capture
and Sequestration (CCS)
will be fitted on every new coal burning power plant:
CCS, which takes power stations’ carbon dioxide waste gas, liquefies it and stores it permanently deep underground,...
