Here is your overnight debt bomb defusing news:
My first reaction when I saw this was, Holy – - – - !
Thanks to reader Paul who took this photo in the parking lot of a golf course in Massachusetts yesterday.
That’s Rick Perry’s position on the NY same-sex marriage law:
Perry, who is considering running for president, at a forum in Colorado on Friday called himself an “unapologetic social conservative” and said he opposes gay marriage — but that he’s also a firm believer in the 10th Amendment, the Associated Press reported.
“Our...
Gunmen on motorcycles assassinated an Iranian nuclear physicist on Saturday, Iranian media reports said, in a killing that bore similarities to other slayings of scientists involved in the country’s nuclear work in recent years.
The semi-official ISNA news agency identified the victim as Darioush Rezaei, a 35-year-old physics professor involved in...
A recent United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report on Arab contributions to science has declared Moses ben Maimon (also known as Maimonides or Rambam), generally considered the greatest of medieval Jewish philosophers and theologians (and incidentally, among the most prominent physicians of his day) to have been a...
John Podhoretz notes that Obama is trying to talk the markets into a panic as part of Obama’s political strategy (emphasis mine):
An enraged Barack Obama just took to the nation’s airwaves to announce his ef...
The final shot from my trip to San Francisco has a number of stickers which are not obvious.
The trite “when fascism comes to America …” speaks for itself. But the two on either side of the license plate? Those apparently are related to a group called the Dresden Dolls. (Images here and here.)
And what’s with the hatred of Texas Oil? Well, that related to California Prop. 23, an attempt to roll back California’s global warming legislation. The ballot initiative was funded by two Texas oil companies (hence the “Texas Oil” on the bumper sticker), but the opponents rasied three times as much money and defeated the initiative. Texas Oil haters celebrated.
Quite a long explanation for some lousy bumper stickers.
In his news conference today, President Obama said:
As I said in the last press conference, if you’re a progressive you should want to get our fiscal house in order, because once we do, it allows us to then have a serious conversation about the investments that we need to make —...
The Norwegian car bombing and almost simultaneous shooting had all the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda operation. As the first reports emerged, I suggested a wait and see approach.
With the initial claim of responsibility from a known al-Qaeda group, the narrative seemed set and not particularly surprising; this looked like the London bombings. ...
John Boehner has given up, for now, trying to negotiate a debt deal with Obama because Obama is insisting on a tax increase as part of any deal:
“In the end, we couldn’t connect. Not because of different personalities, but because of different visions for our country,” Boehner said in a letter...
Consider me a fan of Norway. I traveled there extensively in my youth, and still have friends there. It is a beautiful country, with a traditionally pro-American foreign policy. It saddens me to see Norway have its version of the London bus bombings.
Former congressional candidate and nanoscientist Mike Stopa notes that ...
Please do not pull out your hair when you watch this video, via The Boston Herald.
As I have said before, this guy is an unusually good Bill Clinton. The debt has increased dramatically on his watch and that is a threat to our credit rating regardless of the debt...
The Senate, on a motion to table brought by Harry Reid, just killed the Cut, Cap & Balance Bill passed in the House without any floor debate.
Unlike a motion for cloture, which would have required a day of floor debate, Harry Reid managed to kill the bill without any television clips...
In an unsurprisingly dirty trick to avoid the optics of making his Democratic
caucus vote to filibuster a bill supported by two thirds of Americans and that includes a
balanced budget amendment they previously supported, Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid called a vote this morning to
simply table the House plan to...
Several readers have e-mailed me with links to the explosion in downtown Oslo, Norway, outside the Prime Minister’s office.
The explosion has all the indications of a car bomb, but reports are too preliminary to say. Rather than speculating, I’ll wait until more is known.
If it is a terrorist attack tied to...
