Francis Fukuyama discusses the “Bad Emperor” problem. I had a meeting a couple of years ago in Beijing with a mid-level official heading a Central Committee office, who told me over a long lunch that I could not possibly understand contemporary China without appreciating what a total disaster the Cultural Revolution was, and how the… Read More Bad Times For the Communist Dynasty
At Ace’s Live Coverage thread, MSNBC has called it for Walker. Of course, the top aggregation on Memeorandum right now is about how the GOP cheated. They must have. Because Walker can’t win. Duh. UPDATE: Fox and CNN have chimed in as well.
Epic. (h/t Instapundit) As I said, it’s not about health. If it was, no one would mention the cost of obesity. It’s an issue only because the rest of us have to pay for it? If that’s the case, then there’s no end to the restrictions we can conjure up and impose with equal parts… Read More Lileks Roasts Bloomberg, and All His Flying Monkeys, Too.
Memeorandum links a long essay by Peter Wehner in Commentary, discussing the liberal explanations for “the unexpectedly shovel-ready high-speed intercontinental 57-state train wreck that is the Obama administration” (is that what they call a meme aggregation?). According to Wehner, they are as follows:
This is why I pretty much only read Batman. Because Batman is too completely messed-up a character to have a normal sexual life, his comic is also blessely free of this kind of horsefeathers. Green Lantern sucks. I know this because I have never read it. I have never read it because it’s a dude/series… Read More Gay Green Lantern is Gay (UPDATED)
I didn’t know, until this year, that Obama: ate dog snorted “a little blow” came from a line of polygamists had claimed to be born in Kenya in the first draft of his autobiography That’s a problem for Obama. Not because it denies him my vote; such was never going to be his anyway. But… Read More The Fundamental Weakness of Barak Obama
While Europe and America have spent the last thirty years adding untold trillions to their respective debts, Canada has done the exact opposite. (h/t: Instapundit) Witness this graph: How did they manage this?
David Hogbert of Investor’s Business Daily was at yesterday’s hearing in Rockville that got Aaron Walker sent to jail for blogging about a public figure. The magistrate who did so was semi-retired and clearly did not grasp how Google works. “I find that this is worse than harassment. It’s a nasty, dirty thing to do… Read More Judge Mortimer Cecil Ira Ogilvie McTavish Confused on What This Gosh-Fangled “Internet” Is… UPDATED
And how does it abrogate the First Amendment? According to WomensLaw.org, Peace Orders in the State of Maryland fall under three varieties:
Fascinating post at Medieval Musings about the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, and especially the coronation mantle of the first King, Roger II. I always thought Robert Guiscard a fascinating character; he erased the distinction between nobleman and bandit and established a new realm in the wake of the Moorish retreat from southern Italy. Well, actually it… Read More When Sicily had Kings
