How he caught the West off guard.
To be fair, though, that “stupid” Sarah Palin saw him coming.
The Democrats’ Green-Energy Dream
…may be turning out to be a nightmare. But as Instapundit notes, it provided a lot of good opportunities for graft for years.
[Update a few minutes later]
The dark underside of big-money insider politics that dominates the green-energy movement.
Scott Walker
…could usefully break the national myth about our “Ivy League elites.”
Actually, it’s only a myth among the self-proclaimed “elites.” I don’t think the country at large has ever bought into it.
Jon Stewart
Kyle Smith isn’t as impressed with him as we’re supposed to be:
Though Stewart has often claimed he does a “fake news show,” “The Daily Show” isn’t that. It’s a real news show punctuated with puns, jokes, asides and the occasional moment of staged sanctimony.
It contains real, unstaged sound bites about the days’ events and interviews about important policy matters.
Stewart is a journalist: an irresponsible and unprofessional one.
Yes, as Jim Treacher put it, the “clown nose off, clown nose on” schtick got pretty tiresome. The tears of all those bewailing his departure are delicious.
Automation
When all these technologies are in place, what will we need the people for?
We are already seeing serious issues for low-skilled labor. And of course, the official “unemployment rate” is a lie.
ISIS Beheading Christians
…in Libya.
Probably caused by an Internet video. Hillary and Susan Rice were unavailable for comment.
[Update a while later]
Denmark’s turn, and looking back at the Rushdie fatwa:
It’s not at all difficult to see the roots of now in what happened then. It’s not that Westerners weren’t already alarmed back then, though; they were. They just didn’t see the depth and breadth of what this phenomenon represented, and they didn’t quite know what to do. Nor do they now. And although political correctness was much weaker back then it already very much existed, and probably helped to hamper recognition of the dangers of this strain of Islam to the West itself. Those dangers are still not fully recognized by the governments of the West, in part for the very same reason.
Yes, Glenn is right. We should have nipped this in the bud in 1979, but we had the wrong president.
But it’s not in fact too late. We shouldn’t be droning Al Qaeda/ISIS leaders, we should be capturing and interrogating them. The people we should be droning are mullahs who issue fatwas (like the ones who stirred up all the rage over the cartoons). It would probably discourage them, at least somewhat. And dead mullahs don’t issue fatwas.
A Hate Crime In Wisconsin
…that police can’t figure out whether it’s a “hate crime.”
But remember, Islamaphobia is always about to break out any minute.
The Tulsa Totalitarians
This is outrageous:
Without affording him the hearing he was entitled to under TU’s University Student Conduct Policies & Procedures, and despite his husband’s affidavit, Tanaka found Barnett responsible for “harassment.” Tanaka also found Barnett guilty of retaliation and violating confidentiality requirements for speaking about the disciplinary charges with his husband—who was also his exculpatory witness.
Less than two months before Barnett was set to graduate, Tanaka not only suspended him until at least 2016 but also permanently banned him from receiving a degree in his major even upon his re-enrollment. Barnett was forced to wait two months for TU to respond to his appeal, which the university summarily denied on January 9 without explanation—leaving Barnett unable to earn his theater degree as planned.
I don’t think a theater degree is worth all that much, but he probably paid a lot for it, and he should at a minimum be reimbursed (though one can’t give him back the lost years of his life). But actually, as Glenn notes, this insanity won’t end until universities suffer legal and financial severe pain for it.
The Islamists
…need to learn from the history of Dresden. Because they are the modern-day equivalent of the Nazis. But the Left refuses to recognize that. Or worse, sympathizes with them (as it did then, until Hitler violated the pact).
The Sunk-Cost Fallacy
…in love, and automobile manufacturing.
This is a big problem for space enthusiasts. “Oh, we can’t cancel SLS/Orion! We’ve already spent so much on them, all that money would just go to waste!”
Well, since the purpose was really never anything except to maintain the work force, it wouldn’t really have gone to waste, and continuing them would waste even more, if our actual goal is to do useful things in space. We need to cut our losses as soon as politically possible.