…and her space fantasy.
Gary Johnson
Will he give the election to Obama?
Not if there are a lot of other people who think like Conor Friedersdorf. I’ve always thought that he’d be likely to pick up as many, or more disillusioned Democrats as Republicans, or even libertarians.
An Idle Thought On The Polling
In this economy, I wonder how many people aren’t answering calls from pollsters because they’re afraid that the calls are from creditors? And how that demographic would skew?
The War On Science
…by progressives.
Government contractors have similar problems.
A New Bumper Sticker For Joe Biden
Chris Stevens is dead, Al Qaeda is alive.
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Surprise! The Nobel Peace Prize winner has not earned his award.
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Dispatches from the war that nobody wants:
As everybody knows, there is no such thing as a global war on terror anymore. Instead we live in a harmonious world of interfaith comity with only the occasional criminal act that is quickly and competently handled by law enforcement officials. As a result we can cut our defense budgets and get on with the real business of life, which is to say watching TV, going to the mall and voting to re-elect the strategic geniuses whose wise decisions and firm but thoughtful leadership gave us this tranquil world order.
As we celebrate this new age of peace, understanding and joy, here are a few stories that might matter if we didn’t have such a wise and level-headed government in Washington that was bent on soothing and quieting what might otherwise be an aroused and worried public opinion.
Unfortunately, it’s not true that nobody wants it. The enemy does. They know that you can’t win if you don’t fight.
Lunar Resources
Paul Spudis has a new blog.
Obamacare
Time to euthanize it:
Obama-care lays waste to half of this “double security” by funneling almost unimaginable levels of power and money to Washington. What’s more, in its startling delegation of de facto lawmaking power to the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other unelected figures in the executive branch, it also severely undermines the separation of powers among the branches. For example, Obama-care is making it illegal for anyone in America (with the narrow exception of houses of worship) to freely sell or buy an insurance plan that fails to offer free birth control and sterilization. But this ban is nowhere to be found in the 2,700 pages of the law itself. Rather, it came as a decree from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, exercising her newfound power. If Obama-care isn’t repealed, examples of such rule by fiat will proliferate.
This brings us back to Romney, the only man who stands in the way of Obama-care’s taking root from coast to coast. Over the next five weeks, Romney would do well to repeat at every turn what he said in Ohio. He should seize this golden opportunity to paint for voters the picture of their future under Obama-care. This has to be a key point in next week’s debate.
Yes. He has to make it a big-government, separation of powers, federalism issue, because that’s the only way he can defend his actions in Massachusetts.
The Climate Vulnerability Monitoring Report
…is science fiction. The people who write these things know nothing about economics, and when making decisions like this, that’s at least as important as the science.
The Obama Recession
…may show up just in time for the election.
Really, if he wanted to create a recession, what would he have done differently?
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The coming recession.
I do think that it can be staved off, or at least mitigated, if the Republicans take over both branches next year, just by suspending all of the job-killing regulations, including ObamaCare.