Branding.
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The beginning and the end.
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A rose by any other name ...
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Death Stall.
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Tax cuts on a stick, 10-noon ET!
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Trends.
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Hope and stasis?
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Question for Obama: Hey, any regrets in hindsight about calling this “Recovery Summer”?
By Hot Air of Hot Air
Heh.
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Sloooow news day.
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Flop.
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"They give people a taste, get them further addicted."
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Eugene Robinson: These spoiled-brat voters are having quite the temper tantrum, aren’t they?
By Hot Air of Hot Air
"This isn't an 'electoral wave,' it's a temper tantrum."
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The Posterior Preservation Act of 2009.
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Fun new Iraqi TV prank show: Planting fake bombs in people’s cars at security checkpoints
By Hot Air of Hot Air
What could go wrong?
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Penalizing success.
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Well, yes, but...
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Fools.
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It begins.
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Audio: Hey, who’s up for Alan Grayson saying something incredibly obnoxious about conservatives?
By Hot Air of Hot Air
Aw.
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Beware the revenuers!
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Video: Chris Matthews reveals “tough, watertight” plan to get America back on track
By Hot Air of Hot Air
"This is the answer."
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Past, present, and future.
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So went the old investment advice: as the supply of land is fixed the price can only ever rise. This isn't of course true as those financing the housebuilders' land banks are finding out but we've also an illustration of a much larger point here. We're continually told that the earth is "running out of resources", that there's just no more out there for us to use. To which the economists keep saying, but, but, we create resources by inventing the technology that makes them available. Yes, even land is, in this sense, created.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not…
Tags: Environment
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Shaken out of its protectionist stupor by the dismal economic situation in the US, the Obama Administration has announced it is moving toward ratification of successfully negotiated free trade agreements (FTAs) with Colombia, South Korea, and Panama. Whether or not Obama will defy the Democrat base and follow through on this isn’t clear, but it is worth reiterating what a no-brainer these trade agreements are and what a shame it is that they have been languishing in Congress.
By the time the treaties, negotiated by the Bush administration, were complete and ready for ratification, the Democrats had seized congress and…
Tags: international
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The Ethics of Not Finishing, But Still Criticizing, Books
By Kenneth Anderson of The Volokh Conspiracy
(Kenneth Anderson) Althouse notes the following, in a discussion of Megan McArdle criticizing a book while only half-way through it:
A rule against criticizing books you haven’t finished would overprotect authors, since you shouldn’t finish a bad book, and it would also underprotect authors, since the critics wouldn’t disclose that they hadn’t read the whole thing.
I think Althouse is right; she goes on to talk about the difference between blogging and a formal book review, and I think that’s right as well — although there are blogs and there are blogs when it comes to (Read more...)
Tags: Literature
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7 WAYS TO PREPARE FOR AN EARTHQUAKE.
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KRUISER CONTROL: The Delusional Dynamic Duo: Olbermann’s Revisionist Histrionics & Matthews’ Pluper…
By Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit
KRUISER CONTROL: The Delusional Dynamic Duo: Olbermann’s Revisionist Histrionics & Matthews’ Pluperfect Love of Obama.
Also check out the PJTV Report for a roundup of programming.
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I notice that when you do a google search of Austrian economics, the very first entry is a wiki page redirect to Calculation Problem economics.
Was this always the case or was it result of the fracas, or is someone at wiki a tad invested in the debate?
out 447,000 results (0.15 seconds)
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Nets See ‘Mixed Picture,’ ‘Mixed Bag’ and ‘Silver Lining’ in Rising Unemployment Rate
By Brent Baker of NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
The Labor Department announced the unemployment rate rose a tenth of a point, to 9.6 percent in August so, as the AP noted, it “has exceeded 9 percent for 16 straight months,” while the economy lost 54,000 jobs. Yet, without avoiding the dire numbers, ABC, CBS and NBC managed to find a “mixed picture,” “mixed bag” or even a “silver lining” for President Obama and Democrats two months before election day.
“It's a mixed picture here, but it's giving some encouragement to those who are out there looking, some who are hanging onto their jobs and their businesses by (Read…
Tags: Brian Williams, CBS Evening News, David Muir, Erica Hill, NBC Nightly News, Obama Watch, unemployment, World News
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ILYA SOMIN: Errors In Jane Mayer’s New Yorker Article Attacking the Kochs. The thing to unders…
By Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit
ILYA SOMIN: Errors In Jane Mayer’s New Yorker Article Attacking the Kochs.
The thing to understand is, this article isn’t about the Kochs at all. It’s about preparing a narrative for the New Yorker’s readers about why Obama has failed. It’s not because they were rubes who voted for an underprepared, under-skilled candidate who then proceeded to alienate the electorate. It’s because Obama was beaten by a right-wing billionaires’ conspiracy so vast as to defy understanding. That’s all. Relax, New Yorker readers. No need to feel bad about yourself for being overwhelmed with hope-and-change fever and voting stupidly. It’s (Read…
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From NFIB: Small Businesses Still Not Hiring William C. Dunkelberg, chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Business [said] “In August, most firms did not change employment, but for those that did, 11 percent (up one point from July) increased average employment by 2.3 employees, but 13 percent (down two points) reduced their workforces by an average of 3.5 workers. Job creation still has not crossed the 0 line in the small business sector....“Over the next three months, 13 percent plan to reduce employment (up three points), and 8 percent plan to create new jobs (down one (Read more...)
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Gotta love this headline:
Unemployment rate hits 9.6%; fewer jobs lost than feared
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Here: Will very high res teleconferencing substantially reduce the need for business air travel? My answer? It may, in some sense, reduce the need for such travel, but that doesn't mean that it actually will reduce it. Face to face contact has a way of proving stubbornly superior to all the other kinds, for all kinds of weird reasons that you never saw coming. I can remember people saying that the internet blah blah would...
Tags: Science & Technology
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Matthews: Obama Should Replace Rahm Emanuel With Bloomberg, Gates With Hillary
By Noel Sheppard of NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
Chris Matthews must really be getting tired of watching the man that used to give him tingles up his leg continue to get crushed in the polls, for on Friday he recommended a serious shakeup in the Obama administration.First, he want's Defense Secretary Robert Gates to be replaced by Hillary Clinton."With her at the Pentagon, he would forge confidence in Middle East policy," said the "Hardball" host.But the real surprise was Matthews calling for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to either replace Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner or Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (video follows with transcript and (Read more...)
Tags: Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Hardball, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, MSNBC, Rahm Emanuel, robert gates, Timothy Geithner
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Psycho: Schultz Wants Troops Withdrawn From Iraq Sent Into Chicago
By Mark Finkelstein of NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
Can you imagine the cries of police state, racism, incipient fascism and fill-in-your-favorite-epithet if a conservative pundit—let alone a Republican president—proposed the massive insertion of US military forces into American inner cities for law enforcement purposes?But that's precisely what Ed Schultz proposed on his MSNBC show this evening.Ed is apparently unaware that the use of the military for such law-enforcement purposes would raise serious issues under the Posse Comitatus Act. But beyond that, it would utterly distort the mission of our military, and provoke valid civil-liberty concerns. Schultz should try bouncing his brainstorm off the Joint (Read more...)
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From Thursday night’s Fox News All-Stars.
On why the Democrats are going down in November:
I'm not sure it's just Obama because he’s not on the ballot. I think it's about Democrats. Democrats Pelosi and Reid are not very well-liked. The House, the Senate are held in low regard on any of the polls. ...
It's not just that we have a bad economy. That obviously is the framework and the context. It's not just that they spent all the money on the stimulus and it hasn't helped.
I think it's the kind of arrogance and contempt that was…
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…but the rate of OSHA recordable incidents in the oil and gas extraction industry is considerably less than most industries, including retailing, libraries and tortilla manufacturing.
[As an aside, yesterday's fire on Mariner's Vermilion Block 380 A Platform sparked renewed calls for the higher levels of government regulation of the rigs (it wasn't a rig), with some calling for an outright end to offshore drilling (it wasn't drilling). It seems that there is a correlation between industry knowledge and holding the industry in a positive light. The industry's biggest detractors mainly traffic in fear, ignorance and misinformation.]
Before you (Read…
Tags: BOEMRE, Business & Economy, Government, OCS, The Agency Formerly Known As MMS, Vermilion 380
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Young foreign-policy types in DC will be interested in this new program of the recently founded (and already quite important) Foreign Policy Initiative:
The Foreign Policy Initiative is accepting applications from young professionals between the ages of 25 and 35 interested in foreign policy for its Future Leaders Program. FPI Future Leaders will participate in monthly dinner discussions with influential foreign policy experts, authors, and practitioners between October 2010 and June 2011. Information about the program and application instructions are available here.
Yuval Levin
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For his Labor Day weekend trick, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka leveled the charge of McCarthyism at former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. This is a bit rich from a guy with blood on his hands — and I don’t say that figuratively, either. At a September 2 meeting sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, Trumka claimed [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats, Economy, Election 2010, Government Waste, Legal, Liberals, Sarah Palin, Unions
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KITCARS OF YESTERYEAR: The King Midget.
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Iran’s Thug-In-Chief predicts removal of "the Zionist regime from the world scene"
By Robert of Jihad Watch
Imagine the international outcry, the furious denunciations, the hand-wringing over "Islamophobia," if a Western leader spoke this way about Iran. But about this, the world yawns. "Ahmadinejad predicts the removal of 'Zionists' from the world," from the Telegraph, September 3:
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has predicted the failure of the Middle East talks and the removal of "the Zionist regime from the world scene".
The hardline leader told the annual Palestinian solidarity day rally in Tehran that a popular revolt by the people of the Middle East would extinguish the Jewish homeland even if the governments reach a peace…
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Do progressives believe in States’ Rights and the idea of Federalism? Not Ezra Klein of the Washington Post.
During a discussion today about the Filibuster sponsored by the American Political Science Association, and shown on C-SPAN, Ezra Klein made a very radical assertion about the issue of States’ Rights and one that should worry conservatives who treasure the idea of federalism.
Ezra Klein states at about 1:30 into the discussion the following odd statement:
I am a Californian so I have some radical views on how the Senate is constructed and the (Read more...)
Tags: "Ezra Klein", 1, 17th Amendment, C-SPAN, Federalism, Founding Fathers, progressives, progressivism, Solutions for America, States' Rights, Washington Post
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“You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you.”
— Ludwig Von Mises to Ayn Rand
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KIDS PROVE THEY’RE MoonBot Masters.
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A COOL NEW MARS IMAGE GALLERY.
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(Orin Kerr) On August 19th, Justice Kennedy gave an address that included an interesting passing remark about the role of blogs. Justice Kennedy was talking about how law review case comments generally come out too late to be of use to the Court (especially in the context of deciding whether to grant certiorari in a case). As a result, when Justice Kennedy asks his clerks to look to see what the law reviews have said about a particular case, there isn’t any commentary yet. Justice Kennedy adds: “I’ve found, what my clerks do now, when they have interesting cases —…
Tags: Metablogging
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Alleged Comedian Lizz Winstead Fantasizes It Would Be ‘Awesome!’ to Electrocute Glenn Beck
By Jack Coleman of NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
Give the woman credit -- liberals are seldom this candid about their impulse toward totalitarianism. Usually it takes a bit of prodding before you'll hear that voice of the guard in the gulag.Lizz Winstead, co-founder of The Daily Show and alumna of the late, hardly lamented Air America Radio, revealed her pathological side while appearing on Ed Schultz's radio show yesterday, as described by Brian Maloney over at The Radio Equalizer -- WINSTEAD: Ed, I've always wished that somebody would invent, maybe you and I could go into business and do this, if somebody would invent, you know those (Read…
Tags: Ed Schultz, Glenn Beck, Liberals & Democrats, Lizz Winstead, Radio
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New Hampshire apparently tries to hard in Presidential years to have its primaries first, that it tires and has to have its Senate primaries last. So we’re still on primary watch for that state, and it looks like the Republican race has shifted again.
Kelly Ayotte still leads the primary race to decide Democrat Paul Hodes’s opponent, but it appears the race for second is wide open now.
Before the big news was that Bill Binnie, from the left wing of the Republican Party, had surged and become the clear second place opponent to Ayotte. But according to Magellan…
Tags: 1, 2010, Bill Binnie, Jim Bender, Kelly Ayotte, Magellan Strategies, new hampshire, Ovide Lamontagne, Senate
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Many RedState readers probably remember 1994.
The GOP launched its “Contract with America” six weeks before the mid-term elections and took back Congress with a 54-seat swing on Election Day.
While the Contract had many good ideas, a family values agenda was left in the dust, and was ignored once Congress convened. Protecting women and unborn babies from the violence of 4,000 abortions per day was put on the back-burner.
Fast forward to today. The GOP is busy crafting a legislative blueprint much like that of the Contract and are expected to release the document to the American (Read more...)
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(Orin Kerr) Three important voices in national security law — Jack Goldsmith, Bobby Chesney, and Benjamin Wittes — have launched a new blog: LAWFARE: Hard National Security Choices. There’s a bunch of interesting content up already. Here’s the intro to the blog from Ben’s first post on Wednesday:
Welcome to Lawfare, a new blog by Robert Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, and myself. For those readers familiar with our prior writings, our subject will come as no surprise: We mean to devote this blog to that nebulous zone in which actions taken or contemplated to protect the nation interact with the (Read…
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