- January 6th, 2010
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So let me get this straight.Democratic candidates are bailing out all over, they are down in the polls, they have internal fighting, the economy is in the tank, they are confronted by problems at ever…
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From the NY Times: An Uneasy Feeling This is a society in deep, deep trouble and the fixes currently in the works are in no way adequate to the enormous challenges we’re facing. For example, an end…
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Volokh Conspiracy via Instapundit: Underfunded Public Pensions as “Stranded” Costs? Two Trillion Dollars? The Financial Times runs a story today by Francesco Guerrera and Nicole Bullock on the l…
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I find this somewhat interesting. The outgoing chairman was considered a moderate. He was forced out by conservative activists. The GOP is also having money problems in Florida. Florida Republican pa…
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Spiegel online: The West Is Choked by Fear The attack on illustrator Kurt Westergaard wasn't the first attempt to carry out a deadly fatwa. When Muslims tried to murder Salman Rushdie 20 years ago,…
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Politico: Nancy Pelosi takes swipe at President Obama's campaign promises Pelosi emerged from a meeting with her leadership team and committee chairs in the Capitol to face an aggressive throng of r…
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Roll Call: U.S. Remains No. 1 Economy, but Won't Be Without Change The truth is that the United States is still the world's biggest economy, with an expected 2010 gross domestic product of 13.2 tril…
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- January 5th, 2010
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I've always been a fan of science. Generally, American students don't get enough science and so, more often than not I push it on my kids. Science is fun and you occasionally get to set things on fi…
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d.eris at Poli-Tea is starting a new site, Third Party and Independent Daily. Our aim is to facilitate the growth and development of the nation's third party and independent movements by serving as a…
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Foreign Policy: The Carter SyndromeBarack Obama might yet revolutionize America's foreign policy. But if he can't reconcile his inner Thomas Jefferson with his inner Woodrow Wilson, the 44th president…
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I like what this author of the op-ed, below had to say, so a big excerpt follows. A lot of people are saying similar things. The our politics are not addressing our problems, and several solutions…
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Marketplace: The price of free ARIELY: Obviously, what other connections would you make? So think about it, pollution, carbon trade, or recycling, or whatever it is, is in the public goods domain. W…
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Houston Chronicle: Should drivers be taxed by the mile?Highway fund crunch has Texas ordering a study of that questionTexas transportation officials say the study is meant to help give lawmakers infor…
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Weekly Standard: Murtha-tied Company Wins Sole-Source Vaccine Contract PharmAthene is a company founded and run by Murtha cronies who have extremely close ties to O’Toole. In fact, O’Toole was hea…
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- January 4th, 2010
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I'm not creative enough to come up with better than the obvious "How can they run health care when they can't run a dinner party?"A Third Party Crasher Is Reported
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Christopher Hitchens in Newsweek: The Death of TheocracyTehran's thugs cannot last. But when the crops fail and the cities rot and the children's teeth decay and nothing works except the ever-enthusia…
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WSJ: Chinese Evade U.S. Sanctions on Iran Chinese companies banned from doing business in the U.S. for allegedly selling missile technology to Iran continue to do a brisk trade with American companies…
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Politico: GOP cash woes threaten House bids
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Telegraph (UK): Battle to save tigers intensifies with only 3,200 left on EarthConservationists say there are just 3,200 tigers left in the world... The world population of tigers has fallen by 95 per…
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If you think trying to start a new political party is hard, try getting people to reform the calendar.I have been interested in calendar reform for years. There are a lot of ideas on how to make our…
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The 'Californiazation' of America What worries me, looking ahead, is what might be called the "Californiazation" of America -- the growing tendency of our political system to make promises in socia…
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Salon: The degrading effects of terrorism fears Demands that genuinely inept government officials be held accountable are necessary and wise, but demands that political leaders ensure that we can l…
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The author of this article in the Houston Chronicle has a doctorate, is a long-time and well-known Houston meteorologist, and headed up the National Hurricane Center for thirteen years.Houston Chronic…
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- January 3rd, 2010
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The special effects were stunning. Visually amazing.But was I really supposed to cheer the death of humans at the hands of a bunch of tree-worshiping, blue skinned cat people? Ugh. I feel like I was h…
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Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. -- Henry Clay
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- January 1st, 2010
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The New York Times has called for voting out all New York state legislators. All of them. But that would only be a start.While replacing everyone might help in the short term, it doesn't get to the co…
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The Caucus: Democrats Revisit Presidential Race Rules A group of Democratic leaders said Wednesday that it has recommended revamping the party’s presidential primary calendar and eliminating the m…
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Excerpts from Huffington Post: We Need More Parties But what if both parties split at the same time? What if we ended up with four parties instead of two? This could avoid the zero-sum nature of attem…
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Make a resolution this year to find a political effort that you agree with and go join it. Stop turning a blind eye to the failures and corruption of the Democrats and Republicans.Modern Whig, Liberta…
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- December 31st, 2009
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Washington Post: U.S. takes majority stake in GMAC, giving lender $3.8 billion more in aid The federal government said Wednesday that it will take majority control of troubled auto lender GMAC and p…
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I like this guy's attitude. It is both more realistic and more robust than the official line:Via Denim and Tweed, from The Atlantic: Bruce Schneier on TSA Absurdity and the Need for Resilience I want…
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). As reported in The Wall Street Journal, a study reported in Science magazine makes the observation that taxes make people unhappy. Not…
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WSJ: Iranians Want Regime Change Khamenei is losing the support of the clergy and military. What's at stake here are not only the lives of the Iranian protesters and the future of the country, but glo…
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MSNBC: What Americans might face next: inflationConsumers increasingly uneasy about possible loss of purchasing power Yet beneath the weak economic backdrop keeping prices in check, economists and…
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This is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. This whole commission idea is a cover to ditch the term limits that apply to city government. The term limits were put into place to remove entrenched polit…
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While we were down, I was unable to link to some excellent analysis over at Poli-Tea. May I suggest:You Have a Choice: there is another option besides the two evils. which links to Settling for the Le…
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MSNBC: Somali held last month with chemicals, syringe‘We caught him red-handed,’ official says after arrest in Mogadishu airport
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Excerpt from the NY Times: There’s Only One Way to Stop Iran . The author of the piece is Alan J. Kuperman, the director of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Program at the University of Texas at…
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NY Times: TSA Subpoenas Bloggers, Demands Names of Sources As the government reviews how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, t…
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- December 30th, 2009
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So while I was out last week, there was an attempted terrorist attack on an airplane. Maybe you heard about it. Or maybe you did not turn on a TV, a computer, open the paper, or talk to anyone. Comin…
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"If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done."THE WHIG is back up, where have I been today? As an attorney, I am required to endure a certain amount of Continuing Legal Education…
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- December 29th, 2009
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Hope you had a Merry Christmas and I hope you will have a Happy New Year!THE WHIG is back!The blog was taken down by blogger back on December 21st because of an erroneous false positive for a spamblog…
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- December 25th, 2009
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- December 21st, 2009
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Barack Obama emerged from his meeting with Senate Democrats this week to claim Congress was on the "precipice" of something historic. Believe him. The president is demanding his party unilaterally ena…
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With the 2000's winding down, the end of the aughts, or whatever you want to call it, this is a time where we can look back at the last ten years and see how much we've packed into this decade. It's b…
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Octopuses have been discovered tip-toeing with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides, then reassembling the halves and disappearing inside for protection or deception, a new study says."W…
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- December 20th, 2009
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Business Week: A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to WasteThis should have been the year of radical financial reform In 2009 we wasted a perfectly good financial crisis. With disastrous economic events a…
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Whisky hangover 'worse than vodka, a study suggests' Drinking whisky will result in a worse hangover than vodka, according to research by US scientists. The reason might lie in the number of molecul…
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BBC: Iran's government 'will not last', says Mehdi Karoubi The Iranian government is being kept in power by force and will not last its four-year term, one of the opposition presidential candidates…
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I hope you like what is in there, because it is going to pass.Huffington Post: Obama hails 60th Senate vote for health care Jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th and decisi…
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