June 17, 2010 – 3:13 pm
So says Hillary Clinton, via The Right Scoop Hillary Clinton was interviewed by NTN24 out of Quito, Ecuador on June 8, and was asked about how the Obama administration was handling the Arizona law. She answered frankly, that the justice department, under Obama’s direction, will bring a lawsuit against the Arizona law. I thought they […]
June 17, 2010 – 11:30 am
Van Helsing covered this story yesterday, something I never got around to, lazy bum on a day off (OK, we were drinking and golfing in afternoon): Sperm whale poo helps planet SPERM whale poo helps remove carbon from the atmosphere, a study shows. Southern Ocean sperm whales offset their carbon emissions by defecating – or […]
June 17, 2010 – 9:30 am
I’m going to have to disagree with Pence, and probably some of you readers, on this one The Tea Party movement and its grassroots political activists are defined by loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, limited government and individual liberty — not social issues such as abortion. That’s what one analyst argued at a gathering of conservatives in […]
June 17, 2010 – 8:29 am
Well, that’s CNN’s headline, to a degree, but not what she actually said. Which is good for Obama, because, really, he is doing the best he can, which is about as poor as we on the Right pre-election said he would be. Kinda like a high school football player being the starter for the Detroit […]
June 16, 2010 – 1:09 pm
Someone make sure to ask Matthew Yglesias if he is cool with this idea next January, when Republicans have regained Congress There’s nothing wrong, per se, with coherent parties and polarized politics. Lots of democracies get on fine with them. But they don’t work well with the particular institutions we happen to have. In particular, […]
June 16, 2010 – 9:53 am
For a change, the blamee is not Bush. Mexican President Calderone goes further An explosion of drug violence in Mexico has killed hundreds of people in the past five days and prompted the country’s president to issue a 5,000-word manifesto warning that the fight against organized crime must continue “or we will always live in […]
June 16, 2010 – 9:25 am
And, Obama swings and misses during his first televised speech from the Oval office. Fifty five plus days out, and Obama still has no plan. He offered absolutely nothing new other than a few seemingly offhand remarks about “Doing Something.” He talked about lawsuits and holding BP accountable. Threw lots of blame around while claiming […]
June 15, 2010 – 10:40 pm
Raleigh CBS affiliate WRAL has a really farcical headline: Will Bob Etheridge’s confrontation damage his re-election campaign? Pardon me, “confrontation?” How about “assault”? Were he a Republican, we all know damned well that the headline would have been radically different. Of course, what the liberals at WRAL are worried about is not tanking a fellow […]
June 15, 2010 – 11:00 am
Via The Hockey Schtick According to a paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews 29 (2010), new high-resolution ice core data from two sites in eastern Antarctica show temperature proxies more than 4°C higher during the last interglacial (~130,000 years ago) than the present interglacial…… Doomsday news reports and the IPCC have claimed that rising CO2 […]
June 15, 2010 – 9:00 am
“If you like your health insurance, yada yada yada” The White House on Monday outlined broad new rules designed to prevent employers from dropping health insurance benefits for their workers or shifting huge new costs onto them. The regulations empower the administration to revoke the so-called grandfather status of businesses that shift “significant†new burdens […]
