Amazon proves their fraudulent nature.
The market will work, if you let it. All we have to do is to elect people who are inclined to let it.
The Syrian Revolution
How Obama bungled it.
I agree that historians will view this with much more opprobrium than the Libya mess.
A Good Word For Arlen Specter
He was a staunch opponent of voter fraud.
Fresh Scapegoats
President Obama’s top spokesman — and Vice President Joe Biden, in last week’s debate — have been busy pointing fingers of blame at State and the IC.
It won’t work. Neither Foggy Bottom nor the intel community’s legion of spooks, analysts and secret-keepers is likely to go quietly.
Indeed, State has already started the pushback. It has pointedly released the transcript of an Oct. 9 media briefing in which Brad Klapper of the Associated Press asks what “led officials to believe for the first several days that this was prompted by protests against the video?”
Someone described only as “Senior State Department Official Two” answers, “That is a question you would have to ask others. That was not our conclusion.”
I don’t think they’ll be able to contain this internecine war until November 6th. I sure hope they can’t.
[Update a while later]
Rudy Guliani: “The White House is trying to run out the clock.”
Plus this: “Am I debating with the president’s campaign?…If this weren’t a Democratic president, I think you people would be going crazy.”
No kidding.
[Update a few minutes later]
You know, per Rudy’s comments, if this were a Republican administration, I’d be just as outraged. In fact, I’d be even more so, because I’d have higher expectations. But the usual suspects come along in comments to pathetically try to defend the indefensible, and blame the Republicans.
Respect
Thoughts from some Tigers on Derek Jeter. I wanted Detroit to win, but it was very sad to see him carried off the field like that. I don’t tend to worship sports heroes, but it sounds like he’s a class act, despite the fact that he’s a Yankee. Here’s hoping that it’s not a career ender.
Meanwhile, unless the Yankees can pull off a miracle in Detroit, it’s looking like it may be another Tigers-Cards World Series. But the latter still have to wrap up their pennant.
J. K. Rowling
…and the Deadly Tedium.
I have to confess that I’ve never read a word that she’s written.
This Is Why Los Angeles Can’t Have Nice Things
Arlen Specter
Leave it to Ann Coulter: “Arlen Specter just switched to the Dead Party.”
De mortuis nil nisi bonum, so having nothing good to say, I have no comment.
The Soft Bigotry
…of low expectations:
Nothing works to destroy self-esteem quite like telling a black child he will be held to a far lower standard than whites, Asians, or Hispanics. Recognition that poverty plays a role in lower test scores is one thing; codifying that difference by telling students that you are expected to underachieve compared to other children is tantamount to surrender. The problem is too large and too complex to solve so we will hide our failure by simply dumbing down the standards by which we judge our own progress.
The bigotry actually isn’t all that soft.
Baumgartner Bleg
Does anyone know what regulatory hoops Red Bull Stratos had to jump through to do the flight, other than getting the air space from the FSDO?