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Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Other European Volcano
Thoughts on the impending collapse of the European Union.
The Oil Spill
The arguments never change:
Instead of moving the debate on energy policy forward, the spill is being used to grind preexisting policy axes. Unfortunately, those axes were none too sharp to begin with, and the grinding now in play does more to confuse than to enlighten.
Unfortunately, that’s usually the case.
The Democrat War Against Science
Leaving aside the issue of whether the federal government should be involved in our diets and weight, the BMI is junk science.
The Biggest Bailout In History
John Hare has some thoughts.
The Democrats’ Civil War
…and its consequences for the fall. It’s not going to be a good election year to be running to the left.
Freeing NASA
Alan Stern explains why it’s crucial for NASA to go commercial for earth to LEO.
The “John Yoo Trap”
…that might await Elena Kagan.
This is a little off topic, but the author is guilty of one of my pet peeves:
[Ed Note: or will she be called “General Kagan”?]
I sure hope not. Because a solicitor general is not a general. An attorney general is not a general. I cringe whenever I hear a reporter or pundit talking about “General Reno,” or “General Holder” (of all the people to not call a general, Eric Holder should be at the head of the line — he wouldn’t even rate as a PFC).
The “general” part of the title is not a noun. It is an adjective, modifying “solicitor,” or “attorney.”
I understand the urge to come up with a shorter means of address than “Solicitor General Kagan,” but it’s important to remember that she is a solicitor, and not a member of the armed forces.
[Update late morning]
Separated at birth? Now that’s just mean. Funny, but mean.
Barbara Boxer’s Anti-Bailout Fraud
A press release from Mickey. I’ll bet he’s having a great time.
[Update a few minutes later]
Mickey has Jonah Goldberg’s endorsement, at least for the primary.
How Much More Of This Should We Take?
I think that this is the most pathetic attorney general in the nation’s history:
If you thought Mr. Holder’s stubborn refusal to speak the words “radical Islam” was bad during yesterday’s House testimony, get this one: “I’ve just expressed concerns on the basis of what I’ve heard about the [Arizona immigration] law. But I’m not in a position to say at this point, not having read the law, not having had the chance to interact with people are doing the review, exactly what my position is.”
And yet, he was putting the Justice Department into motion to legally challenge it, and both he and the Secretary of State have been criticizing it. They’re both lawyers. It’s not a long bill. He should resign.
[Update a few minutes later]
Heather McDonald on one particularly idiotic claim about the bill:
It should not be necessary to rebut Councilman Reyes’s hysterical fabrications, but for his fellow members of the L.A. City Council, who compared Arizona’s law to Nazi Germany and to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and for all those other grandstanding politicians who are busily denouncing Arizonans’ racism, a primer is apparently needed.
If Mr. Reyes was planning to fly to Arizona from L.A. (pre-boycott, of course), he would need either his driver’s license or his passport to get on a plane. So we had better add the TSA to the list of Holocaust-in-waiting perpetrators. The only way he could be “deported” is if he is in fact an illegal alien, and before that happens, there will be plenty of “questions asked” and other legal wrangling, thanks to decades of work from the immigration-law industry. The only way the police would have a chance to discover that he is an illegal alien is if he has given them lawful grounds to stop him, such as running a red light, driving drunk, or acting suspiciously enough to suggest imminent law-breaking — and then has given them further ground to suspect that he is in the country illegally, such as possessing no valid identification.
If, on the other hand, Mr. Reyes presents any form of valid government ID during the course of a lawful police stop, he will be presumed to be in the country legally, and there will be no inquiry into his immigration status. So if, after getting through the brownshirts at LAX, Mr. Reyes continued to carry his California driver’s license, he would have nothing to worry about in Arizona.
Since Mr. Reyes and all the other boycotters are so convinced that the Arizona police are itching to abuse their rights under SB 1070, they would make a much better case against the law by actually traveling to Arizona and demonstrating to the world their mistreatment at the hands of the police. Until then, their unhinged denunciations of the law reveal only one thing: They are terrified that it will work.
Yup.
[Update a while later]
Holder profiles Arizona. Don’t hold your breath waiting for complaints from the New York Times, though.