No Good Can Come of This
President Obama is going to become the first U.S. president to physically chair the U.N. Security Council. A sort of “President of the World” for a day or two. No wonder Chris Matthews’ Leg is tingling.
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Some Economic Cheer for Your Labor Day Weekend
John Hindraker over at the he Powerline blog has a fascinating, if troubling, post about the long term economic implications of the policies of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi government. It’s titled “What’s In Store, Inflation or Default?” It makes for sobering reading. The silver lining? The end of the welfare state is coming . . . one […]
My Reading List
Arriving yesterday: The End of Secularism by Hunter Baker. This goes in the “Waiting” pile that includes recent acquisitions: Money, Greed and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem by Jay W. Richards Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity by Garrett Gunderson Power in the Name: […]
Un-Blinding Them With Science (or Not)
The National Geographic Channel . . . or “NatGeo” is the new hip new name, I believe . . . is running a great little special over the next few weeks. It’s called “9/11: Science and Conspiracy.” In it, a team of scientists in various specialties examine the key elements of the major conspiracy theories […]
Kenya Update
We had a good, long Skype webchat with our girl in Nairobi this weekend–with both audio and video. Seeing her face and hearing her voice was like water to a parched desert traveler for her mother. Actual water continues to be a precious commodity there in Kenya. Our former homecoming queen mentioned that she had […]
Behold . . .
. . .the online gallery of “Crappy Taxidermy.” There’s 65 pages of this stuff. I don’t advise viewing it right before bedtime, though. It’s high-octane nightmare fuel.
How Bad is CNN?
Conservative writer Roger Simon has been traveling in Europe and reports that he’s finding the Al-Jazeera news network less biased and more professional than CNN. Except for those stories when the “I”-word was prominent (you know, that little country south of Lebanon), Al Jazeera was clearly better, more honest, more informative and more entertaining than CNN […]
The Day Civil Discourse Died
It’s the day for remembering the achievements of Ted Kennedy, it seems. Here’s a shining moment: If a young person ever asks you when it was that America’s public discourse began to rapidly devolve into the fetid, polarized mess we have today, point them to this day–when Kennedy, backed by NOW, People for the American […]
Random Tuesday Musings
Sorry for the sparse posting lately. I volunteered to work on a special project for my daughter’s school and it’s ended up sort of owning me and my business over the last few days. In the spirit of making restitution, the following are some things I should’ve/would’ve noted: 1. The Suite Life Last Friday night […]
More on "the Recovery"
Mark Steyn makes pretty much the same point I was attempting to make below . . . except he does a much better job because . . . well, he’s Mark Steyn, for crying out loud: Meanwhile, in Brazil, India, China, Japan and much of Continental Europe the recession has ended. In the second quarter […]