Archive for April, 2011
Clearing the Browser Tabs – New Heights of Fecklessness Saturday Edition
Just when you think the President can’t sink any lower, he hauls out a shovel and digs like there’s a campaign donation ten feet under his feet. In 2008, Candidate Obama waxed sanctimonious about President Bush’s occasional use of signing statements (find a useful definition of those here). He claimed that, as a teacher of [...]
Naval…Lasers? Yes, Please and On A Battleship!
Oh, United States Navy, you had me at “lasers” and “pirates”. The US Navy’s MLD system, designed and built by defense contractor Northrop Grumman, is a bit different in nature. The MLD is a 15 kilowatt laser specifically designed to handle the pitch and roll of a ship deck without losing track of its target. [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Welcome Back to the Shire Friday Edition
Peter Jackson is one of my favorite directors. He makes movies I truly enjoy and I consider him a careful and diligent craftsman. The Frighteners is one of the most underrated suspense movies of the past twenty years and, well, I can’t pile enough superlatives on how he handled The Lord of the Rings. As [...]
The Problem With the Left Is Not that They’re Lemmings but that They’re Hijackers
I used to think the progressive left was little more than a bunch of lemmings, determines to leap en masse off the cliffs of fiscal insanity. The more I think about it, though, the more I realize that comparison just doesn’t work. Here is a recent example (via memeorandum) If President Obama’s deficit-reduction speech today [...]
The Essay that Finally Killed the Church of Global Warming
It’s no secret, I consider the entire issue of global warming dead beyond any possible resurrection. However, I do recognize that someone, somewhere may be capable of performing a miracle and rescuing the Church of Global Warming from its Dark Age of corruption and pseudo-scientific folderol. If that person ever comes forward, their very first [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – The President Votes Present Thursday Edition
Today, the President unveiled what we can charitably call his budget plan. Actually, it wasn’t so much as plan as it was a wicked partisan attack on Paul Ryan’s budget plan that is long on taxes, short on spending cuts, entirely without any mention of entitlements, and packed full of talking points that would [...]
My Partial Mea Culpa on the Budget Deal
Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that I’ve defended John Boehner’s budget deal. It looks, today, like Boehner played a lot of silly games to get cuts that, while still cuts, won’t perform as advertised. As such, I’m going to have to eat a little bit of crow. I’m not the only [...]
The Delivery Presents – Jim Pethokoukis on the Budget and A Delivery Fundraiser
Can I brag a bit here? I had James Pethokoukis on Episode 88 last night and I’m just a little bit proud that I could get someone that engaging, accomplished, and flat-out smart on the show for a whole half-hour. I told the folks in the chatoom (available only during the live show, so you [...]
That’s What You Said