It’s about to move into commercial real estate (emphasis mine): Investors who bought into the deal were confident that real-estate manager Tishman Speyer would be able to greatly boost profits by raising rents in Manhattan’s sizzling apartment market. But today, the 56-building, 11,000-apartment property is suffering from a slowing New York economy, a lawsuit that […]
From Minnesotans for Global Warming via American Thinker, we have the following quote (Discover Magazine, 1989) from Warmist Stephen Schneider: On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means that we must include all […]
Matt Welch over at Reason reminds us of a critical historical event that, curiously, we don’t celebrate: November 1989 was the most liberating month of arguably the most liberating year in human history, yet two decades later the country that led the Cold War coalition against communism seems less interested than ever in commemorating, let […]
Hat tip to American Digest. IMPORTANT UPDATE! You can help Pres. Obama to get an actual vote for the Heisman Award! Vote early and vote often! ..bruce w..
Well, the quotas have won, and the Nobel committee was happy to award this years Peace Prize to President Obama. While I admit its cool that the US has a black president, what has the guy done? It’s like some kind of affirmative action quota imposed on an award that used to represent true accomplishment. […]
Got up a bit earlier than usual this morning with hopes of dragging out my telescope and seeing the LCROSS lunar impact first-hand. I was encouraged because when I went to bed last night, the sky had mostly cleared after raining and then snowing all day (final accumulation about 1/2″ of snow on the ground). […]
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 […]
. . . and things are already getting interesting. ITEM: Obama throws the Dalai Lama and the entire country of Tibet under the bus (emphasis mine): In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama’s summit […]
Paula Ollie, a 27-year-old resident of a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas, heard someone trying to break into her house the other night. Her response was both inventive and very direct (emphasis mine): The 27-year-old mother collected several pool balls and placed them in her son’s bicycle helmet. “The pool balls just looked like the […]
