Quick. Somebody fetch Madeleine Albright, and tell her to bring her bestest dancin’ shoes! North Korea has positioned a Taepodong-2 missile on the launchpad at its facility in Musudan in the east of the country, U.S. officials told NBC News on Wednesday. Pyongyang has said it intends to use the missile to launch a satellite into space. The North Koreans issued an international notice that the launch may occur sometime
March 2009
March 25, 2009
“Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing Through Congress”
Good Man? From Fox News: In 2000 and 2001, while Barack Obama served as a board member for a Chicago-based charitable foundation, he helped to fund a pioneering carbon trading exchange that is likely to fill a critical role in the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme that President Obama is now trying to push rapidly through Congress. During those two years, the Joyce Foundation gave nearly $1.1 million in two
March 25, 2009
AIG scapegoating: the pushback begins
With gusto. Quips Joy McCann on the deplorable populist scapegoating: “I think some in the administration/legislature just dug out old Nazi propaganda, crossed out ‘Jews,’ and added ‘people in the financial sector whom we dislike.’” More here.
March 24, 2009
This post has now become the “look, over there! Bunnies!” post
Not here. I said over there. Jesus. It’s like some people just don’t understand English.
March 24, 2009
A Tuesday evening musing that, taken out of context, could conceivably be viewed as a death threat. Or at least a threat of violence. Or perhaps something that, should it be allowed to continue on until it potentially becomes an actual threat of violence would then be, you know, a threat of violence of the actual kind. Or possibly even a death threat.
Never mind. I just wanted to write that headline. Making this whole “post” something of an empty gesture. — Which, if you don’t like the way I run things here, you know where I am. Why not just drop on by and file a complaint? Anytime, anywhere, bitches.
March 24, 2009
“Lefty Foes Attempt to Bankrupt Palin Family”
It’s a brave new world, people — one where threats are asserted more by partisans and their lawyers than jackbooted thugs breaking down the doors of Cuban refugees. Which, it turns out, wasn’t particularly media friendly, from a standpoint of visual impact, to those who deployed that method. Think of this improved tactic as fascism with a smiley face. (h/t CJ Burch)
March 24, 2009
“Go back into hiding, GOP begs Dick Cheney “
From the Hill: Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input. Displeased with the former vice-president’s recent media appearances, Republican lawmakers say he’s hurting GOP efforts to reinvent itself after back-to-back electoral drubbings. The veep, who showed a penchant for secrecy during eight years in the White House,has popped up in media interviews
March 24, 2009
Intellectual elitism and the case of the missing author
Over at Edge of the West, where SEK’s critically flawed post on my engagement with Patterico has been subsequently removed, there remains a number of comments that I find troubling for a number of reasons. First, there is an peculiar, but obvious, attempt there to try to dismiss my intentionalist argument without addressing it at all; second, there is the desire to strengthen this dismissal by diminishing me, either by
March 23, 2009
Just in
…by way of Amazon, Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole. Somehow, the story of an amoral newpaper reporter who manipulates the news for his own selfish benefit seems so…fitting, in these days of the JournoList… Perhaps I’ll watch it nude, as a kind of metaphor. And because, well, I’d get to be nude. OUTLAW!