News and politics
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Wow! Down the (404) Memory Hole
DOTPOTUS Malia Obama and twelve of her friends are vacationing in Mexico (on our dime, no doubt), and it seems that stories about the trip are disappearing down the Memory Hole at an alarming rate. So far the Masters of the Universe haven’t been able to disappear Mexican reports. After all the travel advisories from the State Department and Read more
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Weekly geekery
Statistics Taking the bias out of crowd counting. (Tip from the Geek Press) A bad vita trumps bad statistics. (Outraged tip from The Endeavour) Doing statistical graphics? Worry about color. (Tip from the Endeavour) Security Typosquatting. (Tip from the Geek Press) Food and Drink We took my sister-in-law out to dinner at Il Sogno a Read more
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Congressional Reform Act?
The folks in my larger social circle have become disenchanted with our current national leadership. Check out this chain email I received recently: The only way this will work is if all of the people you send this to are registered voters and actually vote! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Read more
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That’s it, Obama’s toast…
…he’s lost the all-important Texas Jewboy vote. Kinky Friedman indorses Rick Perry: …I have a covenant with God. I leave him alone and he leaves me alone. If, however, I have a big problem, I ask God for the answer. He tells Rick Perry. And Rick tells me. So would I support Rick Perry for Read more
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“We need more Texans.”
Gary Jones sums up the recent discussion about Rick Perry and the Texas job market, and explains why working beats living on the dole: The chief defect is “social death”. You may have a safety net, welfare payments and rationed health care but you don’t have a job. You have no career, no status, no Read more
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Treat him ugly? How about tar and feathers?
Four days into his announced candidacy, and our rather rough-hewn Aggie governor is already ruffling feathers by suggesting that “Texans might want to treat the Republican economist ‘pretty ugly’ if he ‘prints more money between now and the election.’” And of course, the usual band of thumbsuckers from President Obama to this Emory University professor who Read more
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Flash mobs and flash robs
Walter Russell Mead talks about the mobs we don’t want to talk about. The Mayor of Philadelphia takes it to heart. Meanwhile, London burns, and this dingbat is in complete denial. Update (10 August). Aha. This isn’t random violence perpetrated by criminal layabouts. It’s a cry for social justice: Here are some of the demands Read more
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Time to panic?
One of the Instapundit’s readers has a frightening question about the current debt ceiling negotiations: And so maybe, just maybe, Republican strategy (what little there is of it) has badly misread the opposition. Obama tried to add 400 billion in taxes to a deal he had already agreed with Boehner at the last minute. Boehner Read more
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Getting punchy?
This seems to be the weekend for Democrats to get punch-drunk, at least in Wisconsin and New Jersey. I hope it’s just talk, ’cause if they start throwing those punches, they’re going to be whining about needing socialized dental care. Tips from the Instapundit. Read more
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Is there an echo in here?
Just spotted in my RSS reader, I saw a less than neutral headline about the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that the passage of the state’s law restricting collective bargaining by public employee unions was proper and within state law. Too bad neither CBS nor USA Today can afford a headline rewrite guy. Tip from The Read more
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