A JetBlue flight that landed at JFK (New York) airport around 9 pm ET tonight would not let its passengers off for nearly half an hour, until two police offices went on board. The plane, which landed at gate 3 and was scheduled to turn around and go to Denver at 9:05 pm, instead sat […]
Cartoon by Nate Beeler at the Washington Examiner. And now from S. Weasel over at, well, S. Weasel: On the road for the next few days; postings may be light. ..bruce w..
From Ace of Spades comes this clip (above) of MS-NBC making a real-time “correction” based on an e-mail from the White House. Upon watching it, my immediate thought was of the scene in “Broadcast News” where Albert Brooks (the brainy but uncharismatic journalist) is feeding background information for a breaking crisis to William Hurt (the […]
Headline: Obama’s War on Fox News Becomes a Quagmire THE WHITE HOUSE – Despite the President’s promise of a swift and decisive victory, Obama’s War on Fox News has developed all signs of an unwinnable quagmire, making the White House even more isolated in its unilateral attempts to crush the growing media insurgency. As the […]
xkcd hits it again. Click on the comic to see the original (larger) version. ..bruce w..
Wondering just where that $1.4 trillion deficit comes from? Veronique de Rugy over at the Corner at National Review Online presents the breakdown: To be sure, the recession caused lower than expected tax revenue — $419 billion lower. But the bulk of the deficit is made of spending. A lot spending since it amounts to […]
Big Government offers this chart of unemployment trends in post-WW II recessions. Nice to see that the massive deficit spending on ‘stimulus’ has paid off so well. ..bruce w..
From this morning’s Washington Times: KINSTON, N.C. | Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party. The Justice Department’s […]
Philip Klein over at the American Spectator analyzes the Baucus Healthcare Bill and finds (surprise!) that the Democrats are playing fast and loose in order to get a favorable estimate from the Congressional Budget Office: Given that the CBO only puts a price tag on the first 10 years of a piece of legislation, Democrats […]
![The Loma Prieta quake — 20 years (and a few days) later [updated]](http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2005/15/images/fig27.jpg "The Loma Prieta quake — 20 years (and a few days) later [updated]")
Yeah, I should have written and posted this yesterday, but I didn’t realize it was the 20th anniversary until today (thanks to this post). Sandra and I, with seven of our nine kids, had moved to Soquel, California in early 1988. Actually, we were five miles outside of Soquel; we bought a home in the […]
