Guy Benson reports on the president’s latest press conference, so you don’t have to have had to suffer through it:
In summary: Pass this bill. It’s paid for. Republicans have no ideas. Mitch McConnell controls Congress. Independent economists love it. Millionaires and billionaires. Fair share. Not my fault. Japanese Tsunamis. I didn’t know. Bush. Pah-kee-stahn. Pass this bill.
What is it he wants us to do with the bill again?
Sharyl Attkisson has a reassuring tweet about her Fast’n’Furious coverage.
…never dies. It’s unfortunately a basic feature of human nature that requires logic to overcome, and it’s a battle for every generation.
Because it’s likely to prevent an intervention where it really matters:
If we are going to bomb Syria, it will have to be the way we bombed Serbia, or worst case the way we invaded Iraq: with cheaper, lower grade holy water sprinkled by the less sacrosanct NATO priests on the bombs as in Serbia, or with just some Potomac water hastily and unconvincingly sprinkled by Pentagon chaplains on the bombs as in Iraq.
But for the foreseeable future, as long as he is reasonably discreet and possibly even if he isn’t, President Assad can murder as many of his subjects as he wants with no fear that the UN will do anything about it. We stopped a relatively small scale massacre in a country that posed little threat to our interests (and from which we were getting some excellent intelligence cooperation I am told) at the cost of enabling what looks ultimately like a much larger bloodbath in a country where our vital interests are much more engaged, and whose government actively supports some of our most dangerous enemies in the region.
As Glenn often says, a replay of the Carter administration is a best-case scenario.
Over at Pajamas Media, I have some thoughts this morning on Steve Jobs and people who really change the world.
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The business of Apple was business, not politics.
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Did Jobs die from quackery?
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Here’s the WSJ obit.
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More thoughts from Lileks.
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Michael Malone remembers Steve Jobs.
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How his philosophy changed technology.
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The Onion says we’re doomed.
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Rob Long: The right kind of tyrant.
That’s the working title of a piece I’m working on for Reason magazine. It will be part of an issue dedicated to space.
A response.
This is the sort of thing I was referring to when I said that Democrats and the left are anti-economics.
Is CBS news silencing its own reporter over her “Fast’n’Furious” coverage?
They’re having a telecon this evening. Check in if you want to find out what they’ve been up to.
A Wisconsin judge rules that dairy farmers have no right to drink milk from their own cows.
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The judge is defended here, but I agree with commenters that the real problem is the reach of government.