Some readings.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
“Smart Diplomacy”
The administration is throwing away an opportunity in Syria.
You Are Not Allowed To Defend Yourself
…in Cinemark theaters. Yeah, the guy was armored up, but someone could still have gotten in a head shot, if they’d been allowed to have a gun. I wonder if any of the victims has CCW, and can sue?
Obama’s “Gaffe”
Some history and context. It’s nothing new. He was raised as a Marxist, and he’s never changed.
[Afternoon update]
No, Adam Gopnik, Adam Smith would not have agreed with Barack Obama.
Good News For Those Worried About China In Space
If this is true, they’re wasting their money on a heavy lifter.
That Didn’t Take Long
It hasn’t been twelve hours since the latest massacre, and people in the media are already using it to call for gun control that would be very unlikely to have prevented it. And of course, it goes without saying that it’s Rush Limbaugh’s and the Tea Party’s fault. I predict that Sarah Palin will be fingered by the end of the day.
Idiot demagogues and rhetorical ambulance chasers.
I will say that it might be useful not to allow costumes in movie theaters, though. Something like this was inevitable.
[Update a while later]
ABC News: “Oops, sorry about that.”
Note that their first instinct is always to blame “right wingers” and (more recently) the Tea Party, whereas they always go to ridiculous lengths to downplay any possible connection to jihad. And if the guy turns out to have connections to the Occumorons, we’ll never hear about it. Most likely, though, it will just turn out to be a nut, like Jarred Loughner.
Not Just A Pseudoscience Guy
Bill Nye is also an Obama guy. But I guess pseudoscience and pseudoeconomics go together.
As Long As We’re Talking About Mitt’s Tax Records
Here are the top ten things that Obama refuses to release.
The double standards are amazing, particularly considering all the Bravo Sierra the administration makes about “transparency.”
If Climate Models Can’t Predict The Past?
Credentialed, Not Educated
Employers have finally caught wise to the academic scam:
Employers, because they realize that many college graduates aren’t really educated, now routinely quiz job seekers on what they majored in and what courses they took, a practice virtually unknown a generation ago. Good luck if you majored in gender studies, communications, art history, pop culture, or (really) the history of dancing in Montana in the 1850s.
They themselves got scammed by con artists like Barack Obama, who told them that they had to get a degree, even if they have to go into unaffordable debt undischargable in a bankruptcy, while not bothering to tell them that what they get a degree in matters out in the real world.
[Update a while later]
“This is a terrible social policy. It is deeply destructive.”
Unfortunately, that’s been true of many, if not most of our social policies over the past eighty years, and particularly over the past twenty. And we’re starting to reap the whirlwind.