Archive for the 'Around the Web' Category
ChrisB on Oct 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Financially according to the Financial Times. Check out this interactive map of the states and their comparative rankings in different financial categories.
(HT: Megan McArdle)
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Keith_Indy on Oct 09 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Well, with any luck our voter ID law will weed out anyone not legitimately registered to vote.
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ChrisB on Oct 08 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
from Megan McArdle.
Don’t look.
I looked yesterday, but I’m just going to pretend I didn’t.
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MikeR on Sep 22 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Outside the Beltway“It’s quite possible, though, that we’ve simply created a culture that values sparing hurt feelings over individual freedom of expression.”
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MikeR on Sep 22 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Stop the ACLU“but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest.”
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Consumers get credit for their part in the debacle
MikeR on Sep 20 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Washington PostThis is not good news for consumers. Reminds me of Phil Gramm’s “whiners” comment. “Wall Street has lived beyond its means, but so has Washington. Both did so, in part, because consumers and voters on Main Street wanted it that way. They craved cheap credit to spend on imported goods, and they resisted tough [...]
Against all of that stand these two.
MikeR on Sep 20 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
InstapunditBill Whittle talks about McCain and Palin and their stand against a Legion of Narcissists and a Confederacy of Despair - the Liberal Left.
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More Electoral College Prediction
MikeR on Sep 18 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
American Digest
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Shine on Richard Wright
Lance on Sep 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
The keyboardist for Pink Floyd, responsible for the texture of the bands surreal sound, passed away on Monday.
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Hacks & Hackers
Lee on Sep 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Sarah Palin’s personal email account gets hacked by an anonymous operative and Farhad Manjoo blames Palin for “Rovian tactics.” Indifference to irony isn’t a new thing in Palin reporting, but there’s a certain amusement about the event in liberal circles which is amusing in itself. That is, if you have the imagination to picture the [...]
Palinmania Snippets
Lee on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Like so many others, Elizabeth Johnson is out for that Palin look.
Sarah always has such choice footwear…and eyewear retailers are getting explicit in their advertising.
In case you were curious, this is where you end up when your anti-Palin hysteria finally hits rock bottom.
Finally, the sad sight of an ideologically indoctrinated childhood, at an anti-Palin protest [...]
Sarah vs. Joe
Lee on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Who would win in a head-to-head contest of the Veeps for the presidency? Palin, according to Rasmussen, by 47%-44%.
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Changing Themes in the GOP
Lee on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Had the radio on driving to get coffee. Rush Limbaugh was denouncing sexism and patriarchal privilege. McCain ad comes on pitching expanding embryonic stem cell research. Boy, haven’t things changed in the Republican party? For the better, says me.
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Dems Turn to Outside Groups
Lee on Sep 15 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Senior Democrats gave a conference call briefing to their top outside donors last week. Things are pretty grim according to them. Obama had once signaled that he didn’t want support from 527 type PACs, but with his support eroding rapidly in most swing states that’s changed.
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Wireless Power Transmission Making Progress
MikeR on Sep 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Impact Lab“A new long-range energy transmission experiment opens the possibility of sending solar energy from space to earth.”
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Dilemma of Modern Technology
MikeR on Sep 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Astute Bloggers
Who would have thought that Skype was a bad thing? “Taliban fighters targeting British troops in Afghanistan are using the latest ‘internet phones’ to evade detection by MI6, security sources said last night.”
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Eating Their Own
MikeR on Sep 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Stop the ACLU“Dontcha ya hate it when Old Media outlets beat up on other Old Media outlets?”
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Deafening Silence at Columbia
MikeR on Sep 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Say Anything“A pretty sad commentary if you ask me.”
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Long Term Effects of “Chamberlain” Thinking
MikeR on Sep 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Commentary“More complacency will only feed Russia’s ambitions.”
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Poneco Parties in Chile
Lee on Sep 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
There’s a teenage sexual revolution underway in Chile, that is animated by the emergence of a rebellious new generation of kids born after the 1988 referendum and democratic transition. A generation with no memory of the moral strictures of a conservative dictatorship. One of the bar games, called poneco, invites kids to kiss as many [...]
Earmark Battle Continues
MikeR on Sep 13 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Instapundit“Senate Democrats promised more open government. This is not it.”
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The Economic Message is Bad - Not the Economy
MikeR on Sep 13 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
The Chronicles of the Conspiracy“What does it say about our nation that it has become political suicide to state the good news that our economy is not in recession?”
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Comprehensive Energy Policy Emerging
MikeR on Sep 12 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
IBDPerhaps we are making progress.
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Déjà Vu Obama
Lee on Sep 12 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Obama’s “new” tactic to regain the initiative in the election is to portray McCain as out of touch with ordinary Americans. Hmm. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t this the old tactic? Patrician wife, seven houses, price of milk, Salvatore Ferragamo footwear and so forth. I seem to remember that being the heart of [...]
Talk about your free markets
MikeR on Sep 12 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
neatorama“We live in a capitalist society,” she tells us. “Why shouldn’t I be
allowed to capitalize on my virginity?” Is this a hoax or just free markets?
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A Journey from Left to Right
MikeR on Sep 12 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Redstate“And I will love her despite her flaws, instead of hating her despite her greatness. It is the very least I owe to those who perished to wake up a foolish, foolish young man.”
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Local Nuclear Power
MikeR on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Next Big FutureThis looks pretty interesting.
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Chavez Expels the US Ambassador
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
In solidarity with fellow Marxist anachronism Evo Morales in Bolivia, Hugo Chavez has ordered the US Ambassador out of Venezuela for being an agent of the “imperial aggressor, the genocidal U.S. empire.” He has also recalled the Venezuelan ambassador to Washington, in a complete break of formal diplomatic relations.
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Democrats Need to Relax
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Panic grips the Hill, with Democrats planning to distance themselves from Obama and/or abandon criticism of McCain. Geez. Snap out of it guys. You have the most compelling presidential candidate you’ve had since perhaps John F. Kennedy. Almost every conditional variable in the election is heavily slanted in your favor. If you can’t win this [...]
I Take it Back
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Well, I thought it was a clever button. But it’s pretty preposterous on the House floor. Context counts.
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Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Seth Weinberger picks up Foreign Policy’s “10 Worst Policy Ideas” for Obama and McCain and adds some commentary. What’s immediately striking to me is how few objections FP offers to McCain’s foreign policy proposals. A peculiar thing, if you’re familiar with the doctrinal tilt of the pub. There’s really only one they single out against [...]
Failure of Empathy
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
It was early and he’s modified his views somewhat (and somewhat not), but young state senator Barack Obama couldn’t have been more mistaken about the causes and conditions of the 9/11 attacks.
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Surrogates Happen
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Here’s a lovely message.
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Obama’s Energy Plan for Sale
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Not so encouraging.
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Governor & Community
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Credit given where due, this is a clever leftist button.
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Immunizing Palin Redux
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
StubbornFacts picks up on the political immunization effect of throwing every farcical slander you can find or invent at Sarah Palin: “I suspect that eventually, they may find something that really does hit Palin square amidships. By the time they find it…it falls on deaf ears.” Yup.
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Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
According to an expose in Japanese magazine Shukan Taishu, Kim Jong Il instituted a training program in sexual espionage for the DPRK’s female secret agents. They’ve been used to seduce and entrap everyone from foreign government officials to defectors.
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I’m sorry if I offended anyone
Keith_Indy on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Generally the better man takes that tact when they say something that has offended others.
Just a thought.
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Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
This is pretty lovely.
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Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Some thoughts on why Barack Obama’s effort to portray Sarah Palin as “Pat Robertson with ovaries” (as Andrew Romano inelegantly puts it), isn’t working out so well.
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Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Ah, “community agitator.” I remember those. Berkeley, SDS, that sort of thing. Dissenting, QuakerDave shows the mostly good side (no Tom Hayden). All said for and against, it’s still a damned strange thing to put on your resume.
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Sarah Palin’s Google Bounce, Part II
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Last week I noticed that Sarah Palin had exceeded Joe Biden slightly in Google returns. Understandably, that has now become an avalanche (Biden: 5.6 million | Palin: 22.4 million). Although it plainly doesn’t exceed John McCain or Barack Obama’s returns as Robert Legge strangely argues.
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Diluting Obama’s Financial Advantage
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Democratic consultant Doug Schoen: “Their 50-state strategy is insanity. If they don’t use their financial advantage where they need it most, and put every thing there and blow it out, they are at deep risk of losing.”
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Jason Linkins is a Crazier Guy
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, Election 2008, MikeR's Page, Religion and theology
Jason Linkins takes exception to my reading his Huffington Post editorial about the silly ‘lipstick’ controversy as a suicide fantasy. He protests in his defense that he didn’t want to shoot himself, he wanted to shoot other people. Wonderful. How about nobody gets shot and you lighten up Jason.
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Urban Poverty
MikeR on Sep 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Wolf Howling“Does anyone detect a pattern here?”
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The End of the Anti-Bush Economy
Lee on Sep 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
The impending collapse of the anti-Bush merchandise market spells doom for the national economy: “We need to develop totally new products for marginally politically active liberals to throw their money away on.”
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Jason Linkins is a Crazy Guy
Lee on Sep 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
I would agree that the ‘lipstick on a pig’ controversy is a manufactured bit of political silliness, expressly designed to fill a news cycle. But that’s pretty much all it is in my view. Jason Linkins on the other hand is taking it way too seriously. How seriously? He writes that if he owned a [...]
Biden: Clinton Better
Lee on Sep 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Joe Biden says Hillary Clinton would have been a better pick than himself. A little amusing naturally, but I’m impressed by the candor and humility of it. Fine characteristics for a serving vice president who is expected to exert substantial influence on foreign policy.
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Keith_Indy on Sep 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Since he’s gone through the trouble of making a list (and, I assume, checking it twice) here you go…
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ChrisB on Sep 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Now this may color some people’s opinon of me, and I don’t mean to put any spin on it, but the last panel of this comic is hilarious. It’s my kind of flavor.
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