Somebody tell Mayor Bloomberg…
…that the large-soda ban isn’t even likely to work. So saith the economists who did the study he cited to justify the ban.
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Continue reading →SCOTUS and HCR: thinking it over
Not yet, but soon, the Supreme Court finally will be issuing its long-awaited ruling on HCR. When? By the end of the month, and speculation abounds. I won’t even try to predict what will happen; I’ve discussed the legal issues … Continue reading →
Juliet Poynz, changer?
About a week ago marked the 75th anniversary of the disappearance of Juliet Poyntz. She’s hardly a household word, but her story is not atypical of those highly-placed Communists who turned on their former colleagues. Poyntz was a Barnard history … Continue reading →
Happy Father’s Day
[NOTE: This a slightly edited version of a previous post of mine.] It’s Father’s Day. A sort of poor stepchild to Mother’s Day, although fathers themselves are hardly that. They are central to a family. Just ask the people who … Continue reading →
Dance: three genres
A friend sent me two videos of the precocious preteen dancer, Israeli Gaya Bommer. The first featured Bommer in the sort of weird, techno, robotic, gymnastic sort of choreography that’s known as “contemporary” but that I don’t quite get and … Continue reading →
Obama and illegals: is it constitutional?
So, who’s right about Obama’s announcement that, at least on his watch, we won’t be deporting any more illegals who came here as children with their illegal-immigrant parents: Utah’s Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who says it’s well within the president’s … Continue reading →
Obama has a Dream…
…Act.
Continue reading →Obama: it seemed hot to me
Obama’s speech on economics yesterday was remarkable in that it failed to impress even the sycophants at MSNBC: And Dana Milbank of the WaPo was not the least bit happy with Obama, either: I had high hopes for President Obama’s … Continue reading →
What killed Alexander the Great?
What I take from this article is that we still don’t know what killed Alexander the Great, whose death puzzled me so much in the Richard Burton film I saw as a child. And I doubt we will ever know. … Continue reading →
Europeans liking Obama less, too
Don’t get too excited about reports that Europe is starting to like Obama less. Europeans have become more disappointed in Obama over time, it’s true—but that’s because he’s not been leftist enough. There’s just no pleasing some people.
Continue reading →Obama: still pissed about the dinner tab
Obama offered quite the witticism at a fundraiser on Wednesday: “I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion dollar deficit!” he said. Obama compared Republicans to a person who orders a … Continue reading →