Archive for July, 2009

IG-Gate!

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Watching Obama’s Inspector General scandal!

The R Word

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Jennifer Rubin notes the obvious: The Democrats are plainly nervous about the “R” word. As they have shown more of their health-care plan, it has become increasingly obvious that the only way to make ObamaCare fly is to squeeze costs — and that means regulating and limiting care. Yes, that is rationing. The Democrats go [...]

Illegal to Arrest Illegals

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Just call it national suicide. PHOENIX – The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 72 people during a three-day crime sweep in Chandler and Queen Creek southeast of Phoenix. Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the operation started as an attempt to control illegal immigration, but new federal guidelines prevent deputies from arresting illegal immigrants solely for being [...]

Coward

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Andrew Breitbart on “Obama’s Accidental Gift on Race”: Sgt. Crowley, a proud and defiant public professional, played the moment perfectly and stopped his own assassination by media. Talk about a postmodern hero. Whether he likes it or not, Sgt. Crowley is a potent symbol of how the union has managed to become more perfect, a [...]

Getting the Data

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Steve McIntyre scores: OK, folks, guess what. I’m now in possession of a CRU version giving data for every station in their station list . In their refusal letter, the Met Office described adverse consequences of disclosing CRU station data, an event that apparently would let loose the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Tour de France

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

I’ll take the butterflies over the shark and other rotting carcasses. No, Damien Hirst does not do much for me — nor Australian art critic Robert Hughes: Calling Hirst’s famous shark in formaldehyde ‘the world’s most over-rated marine organism’, the critic will mount a lengthy attack on the artist for ‘functioning like a commercial brand’ [...]

Communion on the Moon

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

More for history lovers — Buzz Aldrin: “In the radio blackout,” he wrote later, “I opened the little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the [...]

Sooner or Later You Run Out Of Other People’s Money

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Margaret Thatcher via Professor Paul Rahe: In my opinion, therefore, a lot more will soon be possible than Mark Steyn or William Voegeli now imagine. This country is not going to accept a tax regime as onerous as the one that exists in France; and, if it were to do so, that regime would still [...]

The Desperate State of California Education

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Hot Air classic. You will have to decide yourself if you want to laugh or cry at the video.

Narcissism

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

It’s all about him: Krauthammer observed that Obama does not see himself as divine, but rather as merely “messianic, or, at worst, apostolic.” In the video below, Krauthammer asks: “Does the narcissism of this man know no bounds?” It’s a good question.