More than five years ago, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman assailed President Bush’s proposal for partial privatization of Social Security and promised a “real plan to strengthen Social Security.” I created a banner, and some other bloggers put it up on their sites in the vain hope of shaming Krugman into delivering on his […]
James Cameron, director of “Avatar,” doesn’t like people who challenge the anthropogenic global warming orthodoxy. He's famously said he: “want[s] to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads.” Cue Brave Sir Robin: From Not Evil, Just Wrong: It looked like James Cameron really was a […]
Anthony Watts has a piece over at his blog on a new paper that’s been accepted by the Annals of Applied Statistics that turns Penn State climatologist Michael Man’s hockey stick into little more than a bent branch. Here’s the new graph. Not so scary now is it? However, the more interesting graph comes via […]
Via Ramesh Ponnuru, from The New York Times editorial page: “But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.” It’s a good thing lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize moronic editorial writers, we’d have to drastically expand federal prisons.
Six hours on planes this week going to and from Texas for a business trip gave me the opportunity to catch up on my reading. Edward J. Larson's "A Magnificent Catastrophe" is a unique look into what was really the first American political contest for the presidency. The book revolves around the 1800 election and […]
Count me with the overwhelming majority of Americans who believe that they have the right to build that mosque just two blocks from the site of one of the worst mass murders in history made in the name of their religion, but that they shouldn’t. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Ever since […]
Unbelievable. Embattled Rep. Maxine Waters on Friday blamed the Bush administration for her ethics problems -- saying she had to intervene with the Treasury Department on behalf of minority-owned banks seeking federal bailout funds -- including one tied to her husband -- because the Treasury Department wouldn't schedule its own appointments. Frankly, I’m surprised they’re […]
Ed Whelan over at National Review’s Bench Memos blog demonstrates that the judge who overturned the votes of 7 million people (and plaintiff’s counsel Ted Olsen) both lied about the evidence presented in the case. On a related note: John Eastman notes that Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself. An honest judge would throw […]
Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens died in a plane crash Monday afternoon. I was never a big fan of Stevens, his penchant for pork represented the worst of the Republican Party. Stevens also held the distinction of being the only senator I ever pissed off in my previous life as a reporter. An article I […]
Q: Democrat or Republican? A: Democrat. How bad is this fall’s races shaping up for the Democrats when they’ve got their own people running ads like this one?