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This IowaHawk video spoofs Washington's takeover of Detroit. It's pretty funny; we might as well laugh as the bows of the ship sink beneath the waves:
Via InstaPundit.
[...]ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning.Stealing Scott Ott's line from Facebook message: "Sarah Palin Steps Down as Governor to Spend More Time with Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric"
(2009-07-03) — Sarah Palin today announced she would step down as Governor of Alaska in order to spend more time with CBS News anchor Katie Couric, ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson and several unnamed former staffers from John McCain’s presidential campaign.
“We all have our priorities in life,” said the [...]
Hats off to the New York Times for an inspiring profile of Lt. Ben Vargas, a New Haven firefighter who was one of the plaintiffs--the only Hispanic plaintiff--in the Ricci case. The Hispanic Firefighters' Association sided against him and he was hospitalized after being beaten up in the men's [...]
Here's a fairly dramatic encounter from this afternoon's Suze Orman Show. "Mike" works as a credit manager selling consolidation loans for a "major banking institution." A 22-year-old MBA, Mike calls people with substantial credit card debt (owed both to his own employer and [...]
""Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen" - Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Happy Fourth.
I guessed right, which I suppose reflects just how much time I've spent trying to figure what goes on in her head. I think the simple truth is that, as even Alaskan Republicans told us last September, she was far from able to be governor of Alaska, let alone [...]
Here's her statement. Joe My God:
Just watched Palin's press conference. Bizarre. No real reasons given, just a reference to attacks on her son, Trig, plus a rambling history of the acquisition of Alaska. Palin didn't appear to be reading from any notes and the Lt. Governor seems rather stunned. [...]
Jim Geraghty is shocked by Pailn's resignation:
David Schuster is offering a typical sneering tone, but it doesn't make it any less accurate: "If it's true that she's leaving the governorship before her first term is complete, her national political career is done."Ace of Spades has the same thought:
It's over. You [...]
KTUU reports:
Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor's Picnic at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks on Saturday, July 25, Palin said. There was no immediate word as [...]
Andrew Sprung responds to Frum:
If Palin is as ineffectual a campaigner as Frum...implies, there's nothing to worry about - except perhaps, from Frum's point of view, that she'd capture the lunatic rump of the Republican Party and then go down to crushing defeat in the general election. Some political partisans rub their [...]
I disagree with one of your readers who asserted that the ability to lie was fundamental to the fundamentalist?s mind. Her appeal has less to do with her personally than with those who follow her. She is simply an attractive empty vessel into which her followers pile grievances. Her followers feel [...]
Mike Pence offers a little pep talk to conservatives via YouTube. He’s ready to fight are you?
Parents of children at a primary school have been banned from taking pictures of their own children at the annual sports day. [...]Another parent, who did not want to be named, said: “Parents want to record achievements through their child’s life and not to be made to [...]
For those who keep a few MREs stashed at home, Stars and Stripes alerts to a recall:
A militarywide recall has been issued for Dairyshake powders found in Meals, Ready to Eat (MREs) and Unitized Group Rations-Express (UGR-Es).
Plainview Milk Products Cooperative in Minnesota issued the voluntary recall after a Food [...]
A blogospheric July Fourth celebration, possibly incuding links to some blogs you haven't read before.
From Darleen Click at PW.
When Wal-Mart and its bitter antagonist, union SEIU, issued a joint letter supporting Washintgon D.C. controlled healthcare, it was welcomed by the Left but little surprised those who have watched Wal-Mart feed the crocodile these past years.
"Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned," is a front page headline in today's Washington Post. Considering that the organic label is largely a marketing scheme (or perhaps it is better described as a marketing scam) designed to get consumers to pay more for products [...]
Foreign to America, that is. Suddenly we're the country that stands with dictators over small D democratic movements? The Honduras move is a disgrace. Just what we need in the WH, our own little Hugo Chavez. Everyday I trust this guy less and less.
With each passing day, the vapidness [...]
Do I belong in an insane asylum? Or should I be on the FOMC (with Hall, Thompson and Svensson?) Damned if I know. This blog is either grossly overrated or grossly underrated, but it ain?t average.
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“The biggest problem [in the report] was that the summer job market for teenagers was nonexistent,” says Joel Naroff, of Naroff Economic Advisors, in a note. “The 24% unemployment rate for this group was the [...]
No, it isn't the end of the world, but how many Americans can still remember attending their city or town's fireworks display as a child, recalling what a wonderful celebration of America and freedom it can be? Not to mention sharing the partcular experience with family, friends, and even the commuity [...]
Keep our Marines in your prayers as head off for the holiday weekend. [...] Read the rest »
Uh, nope. This won't be an entry like you're thinking about from the title above.
This one is about...cars.
Like my bio in the right-hand column states, I'm an avowed gearhead. Motorhead. Bleed Signal-orange 10-weight Valvoline. Permanent grease under the fingernails. It's the one diversion I have that [...]
Apparently at KFYR they’re not in to diversity in thought.
Eugene Graner works for Heartland Investments and had a regular gig on KFYR commenting about markets. Until he decided to question liberal economic dogma on the air.
During a recent on-air commentary on energy and ag markets Mr. Graner pointed [...]
George Stephanopoulos updates from "just outside" of Baghdad*:
Biden spent a couple of hours this morning getting briefed by the Commanding General here in Iraq, Ray Odierno, and the new Ambassador, Chris Hill.
After the meeting he told me the reports were more optimistic than he expected.
*In [...]
It's on now, as Salter jumps in. He's right: Schmidt was one of Palin's defenders at first, which just goes to show how she can alienate anyone.
Mr. President, you’ve made quite a thing of late of running around the world “apologizing” for one perceived past sin of America after another.
But it does no credit to a man - nor to his native manliness - to continually apologize for things in which he was not involved.
It’s long [...]
As Barack Obama's trip to Moscow next week draws near, there is much talk of a fresh start—or, as Vice President Joseph Biden put it earlier this year, "pushing the reset button"—between the United States and Russia. But "reset" to what? A partnership based on shared democratic values, [...]
Greg Weeks tries to establish some points about Honduras. Can you remember a story where pundits have varied so widely on the basic facts? Jamie weighs in here.
My latest column for the American Issues Project focuses on a surprising phenomenon: while the mainstream media keeps asking how the GOP needs to change to survive, Republican candidates are leading in a host of races around the country. In fact, if you set aside for a moment the [...]
Let’s begin revealing the RedState agenda.
For the next 14 days we’ll roll out the agenda, revealing a bit more each day.
You can still register and stay at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead for a super low price.
Registration will be cut of on July 15, 2009.
When Wal-Mart and its bitter antagonist, union SEIU, issued a joint letter supporting Washintgon D.C. controlled healthcare, it was welcomed by the Left but little surprised those who have watched Wal-Mart visit site to read more]
[...]The intrepid twitterer tweets:
Source: Protest is mutating into a more subtle but potent form. It's changed from the 1st week, but it's definitely not over
Rooftop Allahu Akbars still on, despite Basij raids - 1 case where all residents of a 5-floor apt building were bused to Evin
Full statement from [...]
[...] Like most intelligent human beings, the more I look at Waxman-Markey the more dismayed I am. If you thought Obama could actually stop lobbyists writing legislation, you missed the audacity of whatever gets past Pelosi and Reid. I take Gerson's view that it's a start. But after so much procrastination, [...]
There’s talk in DC about how the current stimulus isn’t working, so we really need another stimulus to really get the economy going. In yesterday’s Kansas City Star, columnist E. Thomas McClanahan commented about the thought of another “stimulus”:
Former Clinton Treasury man Roger Altman had a troubling piece the [...]
Lara gets a letter from Tehran:
When I was at the Ghoba mosque thing on Monday, a large number of [the demonstrators] were religious, chador-wearing women. middle aged, wearing wrist bands. to them that's like going against the leader, who is the prophets deputy. It's interesting that they have continued [...]
Dan Riehl points out some interesting facts about the teary, photo-op at Obama’s stage-managed “townhall” … [visit site to read more]
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[...] Robert D. Kaplan examines the successful COIN effort by Sri Lanka and concludes that, yes, it "represented the culmination of a counterinsurgency campaign that the U.S. could only dream about," but that we should draw no lessons from it.
Why? Because it was immoral.
The Sri Lankan government fought through human [...]
You know I said a lot of tough things about Steve Schmidt in the rough and tumble of the campaign, but the more we find out about what actually went on, the more you realize he was actually one of the few sane people with [...]
What prior administration does the Obama administration most resemble? In its early days, there is a surprising contender: that of Richard Nixon.
Helen Thomas sounded the theme in an interview with CNS News that followed a Robert Gibbs press conference:
The Following a testy exchange during Wednesday's briefing with White House [...]
Omar Jamal of of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center played a walk-on role when prosecutors indicted Somali pirate Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse in New York. He made contact with family members of the pirates during the hostage standoff and spoke up on their behalf.
Jamal announced that Muse's family members [...]
RCP rounds up some analysis. Here is Jesus Rios of Gallup:
The international community has unanimously condemned Zelaya?s ousting, and the latest indications point in the direction of his imminent return to Honduras. Whether he will be reinstated in office is still a question, but what seems clear is he will face important [...]
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