So CNBC labors to pimp the latest employment numbers. (h/t: Memeorandum) Private-sector jobs surged by 325,000, according to ADP and Macroeconomic Advisors, while the government said weekly jobless claims fell 15,000 to 372,000 — still at an elevated level but consistent with recent data showing a consistent if grudging turnaround. However: But December 2010 also… Read More The Economy Bleeds More Slowly
Ye gods, but election followup is repetitive. Let’s see if there’s anything in this I haven’t heard a thousand times. 1. Negative campaigning works. It’s always refreshing the way pundits discover this anew every four years. 2. The rules of campaigning have changed. Except for the fact that negative campaigning still works. Otherwise, Internetz! 3.… Read More PJ Tatler Teaches Us the Same Things We Always Learn.
Romney wins Iowa by 8 votes. He got 25 percent of the vote. Which means GOP voters want anyone other than Romney by a margin of 3-1. THE FALLOUT BEGINS: Michelle Bachman calls it a day, although she’s late to her own press conference. THE KNIVES COME OUT FOR SANTORUM: As they would for any… Read More Iowa Caucus Result: Not-Mitt Wins
Get out of my head, man: Of course, Paul is a disaster as a candidate, and his ties with various unsavory types less careful about expressing their bigotry than he has been would sink him in a general election. But he does come across onstage as anti-establishment — while not carrying the “baggage” of faith… Read More Jeff Goldstein Explains Ron Paul
Michael Ledeen reminds us that the Iranian regime is weaker than it seems: This debacle coincides with an amazing confession of weakness from the highest level of the regime: Ali Saeedi is the supreme leader’s representative to the Revolutionary Guards, and since Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei commands the Guards, Saeedi’s words are authoritative. Asked why Mir… Read More All is not Well Behind the Ayatollah’s Robes
At Catholibertarian: Do the elements added by the U.S. bishops in 1983 to traditional just war criteria help in determining whether a particular war is just?. I always took the requirement of “a probability of success” to mean that there was a serious and thoughtful plan, in line with other principles, to bring about success quickly.… Read More Complicating Just-War Theory
Rick Santorum’s Catholicism runs to the fervent, and can discompose people whose faith is nominative at best. As one who believes in charity as a divine command, I’m going to offer that as an explanation for Alan Colmes’ cheap shot about Santorum bringing his dead son home in 1996 before taking him to the funeral… Read More Alan Colmes Loosens His Filter
I hate “Imagine” by John Lennon. Hate it. I hate it’s sappy, maudlin piano riff; I hate it’s dull, lazy structure. I hate the video featuring Yoko just off to the side like some soul-engulfing gargoyle. I hate the insipid cartoon image of Lennon that packages the song. But most of all, I hate the lyrics,… Read More Imagine All The People…Liking Better Songs: A Fisking of John Lennon
This much. (h/t Instapundit) John Stout served with the Irish Guards armoured division which raced to Arnhem to capture a key bridge. He also fought in the Battle of the Bulge, ending the war as a commando. On his return home to Cork, however, he was treated as a pariah. “What they did to us… Read More How Much Do The Irish Hate Great Britain?
“…yet we crave the virtuosity of the Satriani elite.” Smitty makes an excellent metaphor to describe the difficulty of the Tea Party and the Conservative blogsophere vis-a-vis the GOP establishment and primary field. Never forget that the Ramones, and the Sex Pistols, and the Clash, and the Dead Boys, and everyone else wanted to sell records.… Read More “We Are the Ramones in All Their Egalitarian Glory…”
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