In one of Glenn Reynolds’ posts today, he quoted what is probably the best-known line from “Serenity”: “I am to misbehave.” So I dug up the trailer for “Serenity”, thinking to excerpt that quote and post it here. Except . . . the whole trailer reads eerily (in hyperbolic mashup terms) like the growing conservative […]
Track-a-‘Crat tracks down this diagram that sums up current Leftist thinking. Meanwhile, Paco Enterprises offers up the following: Finally, Gov. David Paterson (D-NY) is introduced to the Chicago Way: President Obama has sent a request to Gov. David A. Paterson that he withdraw from the New York governor’s race, fearing that Mr. Paterson cannot recover […]
ITEM: Lacking actual support for health care reform, Congress and the Obama Administration looks to manufacture it in order to give the mainstream media cover for how poorly they’ve covered the whole issue: The plan for a series of grass-roots demonstrations Tuesday to promote President Obama’s health care agenda calls for tightly scripted events and […]
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 […]
Sandra and I are sitting here in the DC Armory, a venerable (not aging well) structure out by RFK Stadium. This is where this morning’s kickoff meeting for the 9/12 Taxpayer March on the Capitol is taking place. This meeting is only for the truly committed. First, it’s taking place Thursday morning, even though the […]
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 […]
In the first part of this three-part series, I briefly outlined the parallels between developing software and crafting legislation, while pointing out the great risks and issues in the latter. I also indicated what I felt were some of the general structural flaws in HR 3200, the House bill on health care reform — not […]
ITEM: My co-blogger, Bruce Henderson, has a post over at the New Ledger about the proposed legislation to give the President “emergency control of the Internet”: S773 makes no attempt to outline and describe what form of emergency would trigger the use of these broad new powers to limit communication, nor any means by which […]
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 […]
