Archive for July, 2011
Me at Human Events: Murdoch Versus WikiLeaks
I haven’t written much about the growing News of the World scandal, mostly because it’s still a very new story and there is no way for anyone to know how it will play out based on how it’s played out thus far. I don’t doubt that people will go to jail; it’s obvious that quite [...]
The Delivery Presents – Blowing Up the Debt Ceiling…and Other Things
Well, this has certainly been a busy week hasn’t it? Between some headachy illness that laid me low for a day and a half and a whole bunch of extra work hours for SMP Mike, we’re a bit fortunate that Episode 103 got made at all. I’m not griping, mind you. I love making the [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – End of a Vision Thursday Edition
Forty-two years ago Tuesday, a brave American named Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Today, most likely by the time you read this, we will no longer have a manned spaceflight program once the Shuttle Atlantis lands after a mundane delivery and trash-hauling run to low Earth orbit. Perhaps our elected officials will listen [...]
The Scary Economic Chart of the Day and Tom Coburn’s Puzzling Plans
When we conservatives said that the President’s big government madness were sucking job-producing dollars out of the economy, even before we feel the full effects of programs like Obamacare next year and the year after and the year after, we really weren’t kidding. Note that the much-ballyhooed Gang of 9 super-compromise plan does [...]
I’d Say the Biggest Cause of Bachmann Migraines is Hack Reporting by The Daily Caller
It boggles my mind that Michele Bachmann was so pressed by the scurrilous Daily Caller story on her migraines that she felt the need to bring a note from her doctor. This is from a press-release I received today from her campaign. Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann released a letter today from The Attending Physician [...]
Oh, Mr. Summers, I’m Sure You’ve Encountered that Swagger Plenty
This struck me as funny today. What did Larry Summers really think of the Winklevoss twins? “Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind,” the former president of Harvard said in an interview at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were at Harvard at the same time that [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Turkey, Peas, and Lying Weasels Wednesday Edition
So now we have a new entrant in the “Who can generate the most convoluted and ineffective economic plan that still raises the debt ceiling” sweepstakes: The Gang of Six. I poured out my derision on the gullible Republican Senators who think the Democrats aren’t lying through their teeth when they promise some non-specific spending [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Afternoon Crashed Browser Edition
Never let it be said that I don’t know when to quit. I was on a hard deadline last night for a writing gig that miraculously appeared in front of me on Sunday, so I had to put off today’s Clearing the Browser Tabs post until the morning. Then my computer turned on me. I’ve [...]
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