Category: Links roundup

9/11/2001: In retrospect

9/11/2001: In retrospect

| September 11, 2011 | Reply

Here are our 9/11-related posts from this blog: In Memoriam: Ronald Paul Bucca (May 6, 1954 – September 11, 2001) In Memoriam: Robert David Peraza (May 26, 1971- September 11, 2001) “There are not many who remember…” A Day That Lives In Infamy Lest We Forget (2008) Lest We Forget (2007) Remembering the WTC Not […]

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Wednesday links

Wednesday links

| October 7, 2009 | 1 Reply

ITEM: I reported earlier one possible end-run by the Senate to pass the increasingly unpopular “public option” in healthcare reform.  Here’s another one: Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is weighing a plan to bring the final health care bill to the floor without a public option — making it much easier to get the 60 […]

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Monday economics roundup

Monday economics roundup

| September 28, 2009 | 1 Reply

ITEM: Milk prices have plummeted here in Denver over the past year. I used to spend close to $3/gallon for my favorite milk (Lucerne Skim Supreme Fat Free milk); now the price is around $1.60/gallon. It’s hurt the dairy farmers here in Colorado, and their response is to kill cows in order to reduce milk […]

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Friday roundup

Friday roundup

| September 18, 2009 | Reply

ITEM: See the guy weeping above? This is the ACORN community organizer (the paper’s phrase, not mine) in San Diego who offered to help smuggle underage girl into the United States for prostitution. Turns out that ACORN actually fired him. NATIONAL CITY – Local ACORN officials reversed an earlier decision Thursday afternoon and fired a […]

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Countdown to 9/12 — Thursday links

Countdown to 9/12 — Thursday links

| September 10, 2009 | Reply

9/12 UPDATE: Sandra and I are now here in DC, staying right downtown. We’re attending a meeting this morning over at the DC Armory and then will hit the National Gallery of Art. (It is sad how few times when went there during the nearly 8 years total that we lived in DC and the […]

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Countdown to 9/12 — Monday links

Countdown to 9/12 — Monday links

| September 7, 2009 | 1 Reply

MID-MORNING LINKS [updated as I run across them] ITEM: It turns out there’s at least one thing that the Communist Chinese government and I agree upon: China alarmed by US money printing The US Federal Reserve’s policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and […]

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Cool Tuesday

Cool Tuesday

| May 5, 2009 | Reply

OVERNIGHT LINK (note the singular) ITEM: The Onion has become so much better than Saturday Night Live at video humor: Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’ Well, that’s probably it for the day. I have work to do.  ..bruce w..

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Hot Monday

Hot Monday

| May 4, 2009 | Reply

MORNING LINKS — again, blogging will be light this week, due both to work and to hardware problems ITEM: If there’s any question whether the departure of Sen. Arlen Specter (ID-Ego) from the Republican Party is a good thing, he settled it this weekend: Mr. Specter continued: “If  [the Republicans] had pursued what President Nixon […]

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Saturday’s an ooze day

Saturday’s an ooze day

| May 2, 2009 | Reply

MORNING LINKS — such as they are ITEM: Warmists are realizing that when you’re losing the data debate, the  scientific debate and the popular debate — you should just change the terms of the debate! The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is “global warming.” The term turns people off, fostering images of shaggy-haired […]

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Friday’s a May day

Friday’s a May day

| May 1, 2009 | Reply

ADMIN: Yeah, I know today’s post title doesn’t rhyme with the others — but here’s a quick test of your own nit-pickiness: did the difference between Monday’s title and the rest of the week bother you? MORNING LINKS (and these are likely the only link you’ll get today). LINK: Speaking of workers, I’m going to […]

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