The Unbearable Blandness of Elena
(Please try not to fall asleep while reading this post.)There is something profoundly depressing about the nomination of Elena Kagan.Kagan has an impressive resume. But ...
(Please try not to fall asleep while reading this post.)There is something profoundly depressing about the nomination of Elena Kagan.Kagan has an impressive resume. But ...
We all know how carefully the Obama administration touts the mythical "jobs created or saved" (or is it "saved or created"?).We also know how many jobs have been lost since the Stimulus Plan passed (well over 2 million, even including expansion of government jobs).But,is anyone...
As I posted before, Harry Reid's campaign is attempting to create the appearance of a groundswell of opposition to Sharron Angle by staging purportedly independent protests against Angle's alleged plan to eliminate social security (Angle's actual position is here).The protests are organized by the Nevada...
...[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO13_tJ6x44]Update: A reader e-mailed me as follows:While Biden’s remark demonstrates the hubris of the Governing Class, Obama’s Ex-Im Bank Board takes the food off their tables.See: http://www.jsonline.com/business/97225544.htmlWherein, for POLITICAL and IDEOLOGICAL reasons alone, a Milwaukee success story may lose 1,000 employees AND a $600++ million...
Gen. Stanley McChrystal was relieved of command in Afghanistan after an article in Rolling Stone magazine.The article widely was described as evidencing McChrystal's insubordination by criticizing the political leadership, but as I demonstrated, such explanation did not make a lot of sense. There were almost...
Ohio Republicans Propose Ban on Asking for Preferred Pronouns on Applications to Public Universities
Last week I posted about the Bumper Sticker of Change, which I saw while walking in Rhode Island.I returned today to Ithaca:-------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube ...
Kelly Steele is Harry Reid's campaign spokesman and one of the chief strategists.According to reports, Steele is credited with taking down Sue Lowden, and is in charge of the early efforts to paint Sharron Angle as an extremist and crazy:And that's where Steele factors in--to...
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Last week I featured a "Breaking News" video of NY Freedom Party leader Charles Barron, a New York City councilman, insisting that attempts to ban the blowing of Vuvuzelas...
The latest meme being pushed is that Sarah Palin somehow, someway, compared Obama to Hitler. Think Progress started it off with:Palin encourages followers to read column warning that the BP escrow fund could lead to a Nazi-like dictatorshipGreg Sargent at The Washington Post promptly took...
A tweet from Ed Driscoll linked to this photo of an IBM 350 5 Megabyte data storage unit, circa 1956, part of a system which leased for $3200 per month:Here is what a 5 Gigabyte flash drive looks like now, costing about $50:Identifiable jobs were...
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Conservatives are a dying breed and the Republican Party needs to move to the center, according to a paper published by the liberal Center for American Progress, sugar daddy of Think Progress and other liberal media message outlets. CAP published this report because it really,...
No really. Milk is Oil according to the EPA, EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers:Having watched the oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, dairy farmer Frank Konkel has a hard time seeing how spilled milk can be labeled the same...
Yesterday I posted about a speech by Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) in which Whitehouse accused Republicans of having no compassion for the unemployed. The speech was classic Whitehouse, painting anyone who opposed his view as morally inferior and heartless.And it is a theme hit not only...
It has just been announced that Sarah Palin has entered into a settlement with the Alaska Personnel Board regarding the Alaska Fund Trust, which was established to help Palin defend ethics complaints by political opponents.Under the agreement (embedded below), Palin will not use any of...
Sheldon Whitehouse has taken to the floor of the Senate again to accuse everyone who opposes driving the country further into debt of being against people who are suffering financially.But that accusation, much like Whitehouse's accusations against opponents of ObamaCare, is based on a false...