Monthly Archives: August 2013

Jonathan Chait Really Upset Over Voter Suppression In Obama’s Illinois

Oh, wait, sorry, Jonathan Chait, another in a long line of Liberal race baiters and grievance mongers, doesn’t bother to mention Obama’s homestate and their voting restrictions, but instead whines about North Carolina in completely raaaaacist terms Modern Vote Suppression Better Than Jim Crow, Still Pretty Bad A pervasive sense of racial victimization has afflicted […]

Obama Admin Concerned About Repairing Sound Barrier

This is of particular concern for them as Mankind raises the global temperature (Townhall) This past Thursday, the Obama Administration quietly introduced a new endeavor intended to address the environmental effects of manmade objects that travel at supersonic speeds.  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney revealed the program, adding that, “In the eight years preceding […]

What Say To $60k For Bulletproof White Boards For Schools?

Because nutjobs hell bent on murder can’t shoot around them (via John Hawkins) (BizPacReview) While some say arming teachers or placing armed guards in schools is the best way to keep students safe, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is taking a different approach to security — by purchasing bulletproof whiteboards. “UMES is the first university […]

If All You See…

…is a sea rising up to swallow the seaboard all the way to the mountains, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is Right Wing News, with a post illegals wanting in-state tuition here in NC.

Hooray! Obama To Hit The Road To Talk About Affordable College

Remember when he said that he would spend every waking moment working on the economy? Then gave a couple speeches before heading out on a 1%er vacation? Now that he’s “back”, what does he do? (Daily Caller) With his poll ratings down, President Barack Obama is taking a two-day road trip to show sympathy for […]

Rubin: NSA Error Rate Nothing To Be Troubled Over

Many of you know that Jennifer Rubin is the Washington Post’s token “Conservative”, and I put Conservative in quotation marks because she is really representing the Establishment, inside-the-beltline, squishy Republican school of thought that anything approaching Reagan type Conservatism. On Friday we learned about the NSA violated privacy rights 2,776 times at their D.C. area […]

AGW Today: Social Justice, Wood Pellets, And Hotspots

Two of the three come via Junk Science, which actually all deserve their own longer post, but, hey, Sunday. The first is about the urban heat island effect making globull warming worse for the poor (Toronto Star) Mitigating the Urban Heat Island effect — which can be as easy as switching roof colours — is […]

If All You See…

…is an awesome alternative mode of transportation that Everyone Else should be forced to take, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is Director Blue, with a post noting that Obamacare will help 3 people, per the CBO (I may or may not write my own post on this, but I […]

Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the once and future nation of America. This pinup is by Fiona Stephenson with a wee bit of help. BTW, someone asked what the headline that I use for these posts every Sunday means. Well, it goes back to the mid-2000’s, where many in the blogosphere decided that Sunday […]

NY Times: Hey, What Happened In Egypt Really Isn’t Obama’s Fault

It must be the fault of Other People, you know How American Hopes for a Deal in Egypt Were Undercut For a moment, at least, American and European diplomats trying to defuse the volatile standoff in Egypt thought they had a breakthrough. As thousands of Islamist supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, braced for […]

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