The usual round of books and look-backs on the War of 1812 commenceth. Austin Bay seizes upon a book on the naval war between the US and Britain: In 1812, Great Britain presented U.S. war planners with a very challenging strategic problem, one with contemporary irony given America’s 21st century military might: How do you… Read More Scrapping With the British Navy
I’m sure this is just an outlying bureaucratic perversity… Cutting staff and reducing hours, that’s kinda what “Hope and Change” means, right?
The other night I was in the emergency room with my spouse. Some kind of cellulitis. We’ve been in Florida on vacation, and hopefully will return tomorrow. All of which is apologies for the light blogging that will be going on. See you on the other side, Ray.
…and Hot Air asks the obvious question “So what are we planning on replacing it with? I mean, there’s Mitt’s drill-down of various reforms, some of which are clearer than others. Are we going with that?
Ace links and discusses Zombie’s review of Proggie bellyfeeling goodthinker George Lakoff’s Little Blue Book. The essence of this elegantly fascist tome is that conservatives are mindless scum who do not deserve to be engaged in civil debate. In other words, what most died-in-the-wool, Portlandia-aspring progs already think. Which is why I will quote only… Read More Lakoff’s Paradox: Why Progressives Fail
Ripping the newsblogs, and the whole profession of journalism, a new one, with the same joke. My point is that there is nothing wrong with 21st-century journalism except (a) the continued existence of the Columbia Journalism Reviewand (b) the shortage of good, cheap mescaline. And if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. IYKWIMAITYD. Journalists are… Read More Stacy McCain is Funnier Than a Chimp on Phenobarbitols
Protein Wisdom has the skinny. Basically, they’re going to spend billions of state bond debts and federal grants to build high-speed rail. Of course, in order to get people on board with this, they’re going to throw a bunch of money at existing local light-rail infrastructure, because that will create jobs. By the way, Trains are… Read More California and Trains: A Match Made in the Smoke-Filled Rooms of Sacramento
Via A Checquerboard of Nights and Days, The Obama Campaign complained about FactCheck’s call about whether Romney “sent jobs overseas” while he was head of Bain Capital. They tell him he’s still wrong. For all these reasons, we respectfully reject the Obama campaign’s request that we amend our original story. We re-state our conclusion that… Read More FactCheck Spanks the Obama Campaign…
I didn’t mind The West Wing. Didn’t watch it a whole lot, but I didn’t mind it. The hero was a Democratic President, who was smart, sophisticated, and occasionally gutsy. The politics were blatant, but in a show about politics, they should have been. And Sorkin usually gave the Right its State of the Union Response.… Read More At the New York Post, Kyle Smith Affirms Everything I Could Have Expected About “The Newsroom.”
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