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Category Archives: Political Commentary
Hilary Rosen And Deja Vu
The hilarious way that Jay Carney was trying to separate the White House from her reminds me a lot of their defense when his associateion with Bill Ayers came up. “He’s just a guy who lives in my neighborhood!” “Hey, she’s just this woman on the teevee! Pay no attention to those White House visitor logs. These aren’t the
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Here’s the video.
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A roundup of Hilary-related links.
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“Ms. Rosen’s remarks were criticized as being snide; the real problem is that they were stupid.”
Well, she is a leftist.
The Nork Missile Failure
Interesting that they launched on the anniversary of the Gagarin and first Shuttle flight. The joke tweets have started already. “Man, North Korean rockets break up faster than a Kardashian marriage.” “It didn’t crash into the sea — it was a successful attack on Aquaman.”
I’ll bet Hilary Rosen is happy that Twitter has found a new distraction. Except for the combined tweets: “That rocket had the same trajectory as Hilary Rosen’s PR career.
A Regulatory Breakthrough
Over at Open Market, I write about the recent news that Virgin Galactic has gotten some limited ITAR relief, so now it won’t have to get an export license for every furriner it flies from California or New Mexico.
Keystone
An Economic Cliff
An amazing chart.
Debbie’s New Job?
Be afraid. Be very afraid:
There’s been talk that the cabinet position Wasserman Schultz would be in line for would be the Secretary of Health and Human Services,which is currently under the direction of Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. C’mon, wouldn’t you all want Debbie in charge of administering government-run health care for over 300 million people?
Like we needed more reasons to not want Obama to be reelected.
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Link is fixed now.
Free Markets, Mr. Romney
I agree that Romney suffers, as do many Republicans, from confusion between being pro-business and pro-free enterprise.
The Syrian Rebels
Why aren’t we helping them? I think that politics in an election year is the most likely reason. And it’s infuriating, because just as Obama blew an opportunity to help the Iranians in their uprising, he’s now missing a strategic opportunity to take out a long-time linchpin of the enemy in the Middle East. We had no strategic interest in removing Khadaffi (or however his name was spelled) but we do in removing Assad.
Thoughts On The “Flat Earthers”
You know, the ones who work, or have worked for NASA.
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The right stuff: what some of the astronauts say.