OVERNIGHT LINKS — well, just one, really. I’m heading out to the Left Coast for some time to come, so blogging will be a bit more sporadic and light. For today . . . ITEM: Debra Saunders takes a look at Pelosi’s Tortured Explanation: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been pushing for a “truth commission” [...]
MORNING LINKS ITEM: Speaking of swine flu hysteria, this may be a good time to invest in pork belly futures – there may be a shortage soon. ITEM: Yet another way in which Western Europeans are looking for the US to help them financially. ITEM: Here’s a slideshow of items from the Michael Jackson Neverland [...]
MORNING LINKS (Yeah, didn’t feel like doing overnight links last night) ITEM: The photo above says more than a thousand op-eds on how unseriously the Obama Administration is taking the threat of terrorism. While the White House is scrambling to distance Obama himself from this idiotic stunt, a lot of people had to sign off [...]
MORNING LINKS — apparently, Monday’s also a snowy day ITEM: I went to bed with rain falling outside and woke up to about an inch of snow on the ground, with more falling. And apparently we could get more on Friday Morning (May 1st). ITEM: For about two years before things collapsed, my co-blogger, Bruce [...]
The rookie president is busy shredding the intelligence community, and my biggest gripe is I am not sure how much I should talk about it. But here is something from the UK press that indicates that one of the big names that the Obama administration may try to target with a show trial would be [...]
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OVERNIGHT LINKS ITEM: I figured that Janet Napolitano had some kind of security credentials beyond being a Democrat from a border state who was current on all her taxes. It doesn’t appear so (the credentials, that is; not the taxes; hat tip to the Drudge Report): In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. [...]
MORNING LINKS — yeah, I’m up early ITEM: Jim Lindgren over at the Volokh Conspiracy does the simple investigation that no news organization (except possibly Fox) seems willing or able to do. His finding: states with the highest unemployment rates have high tax and unionization rates, while states with the lowest unemployment rates have low [...]
[For those coming in from Ace of Spaces, here's the link to the "Atlas Shrugged" review] MORNING LINKS Item: I swapped e-mails this week with “S. Weasel” who runs one of my favorite blogs. She and her significant other (now husband) recently moved to England; she loves it there, but in her e-mail to me, [...]
[For those of you coming in from Ace of Spades HQ, here's the Atlas Shrugged review.] AFTERNOON LINKS ITEM: Visualization is always a good thing. The Heritage Foundation graphically illustrates the minuscule nature of Obama’s proposed — and far from realized — cuts (hat tip to Instapundit): MORNING LINKS — things are heating up a [...]
“Mr. Rearden,” said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, “if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling, but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater [...]
Continue reading about Atlas Shrugged: a brief review w/spoilers