Two retirements
The first is no surprise at all: Supreme Court Justice Stevens, who is nearly ninety, and as a liberal wanted to wait to retire until he knew another liberal would be appointed to fill his place. Now he can do … Continue reading →
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Cows off the hook–for now
This is not—I repeat, not—an April Fools joke. For quite a while scientists who study global warming have claimed that (and there is just no way to be delicate about this) cow flatulence and excrement—or what this article refers to … Continue reading →
Is Larry Summers leaving?
The answer is “yes,” if this report by Joshua Green at the Atlantic can be credited. I wondered about something similar last fall, in which I quoted this article by Charles Gasparino, who reported: I’m told that Treasury Secretary Tim … Continue reading →
Most intriguing and yet curiously disappointing headline of the day
“China Offers High-Speed Rail to California.” Just picture it: across the bridge to end all bridges or the tunnel to end all tunnels, the high-speed rail shoots off, flashing us straight from Shanghai to San Francisco in record time. But … Continue reading →
Obama the Great will settle the Middle East conflict
Obama’s grandiosity continues. All of the stubborn world problems that previous presidents—Democrat and Republican alike, none of them possessed of his transformative and inspirational qualities—grappled with and yet were unable to solve, Obama will settle. Like, for instance, Palestine and … Continue reading →
HCR: Pelosi tells the simple-minded American people not to worry our pretty little heads about it
What an oily, condescending, manipulative, lying piece of work she is. Referring to the HCR bill, Pelosi says: It’s like the back of the refrigerator. You see all these wires and the rest. All you need to know is, you … Continue reading →
Obama and Karzai: a foreign policy of schoolyard taunts
This WSJ editorial (hat tip: expat) points out once again that Obama seems to have a knack for making enemies of former friends, the latest being Hamid Karzai. No one says Karzai’s an angel. But if Obama can figure out … Continue reading →
CNN article tries to be fair to Tea Partiers—and nearly succeeds
See that pig flying overhead? It’s CNN’s relatively fair article about the Tea Partiers. The only flaw (and it’s a biggie; but hey, CNN’s just a news outlet, so we can’t really blame them for spreading undocumented “facts”) is that … Continue reading →
Krauthammer: Obama’s nuclear policy is “either insane or ridiculous”
Hey, why not both? And remember, Krauthammer is a psychiatrist, so he doesn’t use the term “insane” lightly. Krauthammer also asks a question: “If you’re an ally, what are you going to think about America as your defender and America … Continue reading →
Obama’s new policy on nukes: I guess he wants to earn that Nobel ex post facto
There’s a new thrill on the roller coaster ride that is the Barack Obama presidency: “Obama limits when US would use nuclear arms” [emphasis mine in the following excerpt]: President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy … Continue reading →
Are older people happier?
Do people get happier as they get older? I’d like to think so, at least. And if this sort of research can be believed, there’s a fair amount of evidence that it’s true. But it seems to me there’s a … Continue reading →
Looking back at Obama the narcissist
Here’s another trip back in time, to an article about Obama written before the election, in September of 2008. The author, Ali Sina is an ex-Iranian who remembers Khomeni’s ascension to power, and especially his effect on the people. Sina … Continue reading →