Can We Save Ourselves?

Hanson nails it, this monring, writing in Pajamas Media, from Greece:

Take the economy: the liberal attack on Bush as a reckless spender who increased the debt by $2 trillion is now replaced by ‘stimulus’ groupies, who are silent

Last January the 22nd, I posted a piece on Pajamas Media that suggested:

For all the vitriol that has been coming from the left, and specifically out of President Obama’s mouth during the campaign, there’s a difference in tone coming

We’ve gotten word of  Obama’s first USSC appointment this morning. The SCOTUSBLOG said this morning it’ll be Sonia Sotomayor. 

 I’ve not read enough about Sotomayor’s rulings to get a clear picture on what she’s about, but I think it

From the Palm Treo:

I’m sitting in the back yard, watching over some steaks and a little corn on the cob.

I have a question that I dare say will make some of you rather uncomfortable.

To set this up,

Glenn Reynolds, today:

AT CNBC, SKEPTICISM ON BIG BANKS:

 

Mega institutions (financial institutions and insurance companies come to mind) that become TOO BIG TO MANAGE are likely to become TOO BIG TO FAIL.

It is impossible for top management

From John Hawkins:

It was disappointing to many Republicans to see the National Republican Senatorial Committee get involved in the Charlie Crist vs. Marco Rubio primary in Florida.

We’ve had the leadership of the Republican Party saying we need to

I’ve given Michael Steele every chance. I’ve held my tongue, while I watched him bumble around as, I reasoned, newcomers to any position will.  But this Politico column of today is the final straw.

First, the Republican Party will be

Some amazingly succinct comments from Carol Negro at The American Thinker this morning:

Growing government is the real reason Progressives are pushing socialized medicine. They know perfectly well it doesn’t work. They are neither blind nor stupid. They don’t care

Arthur Brooks, at  The Wall Street Journal suggests that there’s a bit of a culture war going on about the future of capitalism.  The headline suggests that “The Real Culture War Is Over Capitalism “

There is a major cultural

Apparently, that FOIA demand from Fox News did the trick, at least partially:

The White House plans to soon release a photo from the controversial Air Force One-style flyover of Manhattan last week, despite claiming earlier that there was

Let’s look this situation over, shall we?

  I dunno about you, but on the face of it, I’m going to take a great deal more seriously, the pronouncements of someone who looks like this, and think it looks good…

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Dom DeLuise, a face well known for many decades to most Americans died today, at age 75. The New York Daily News is reporting it this way:

Brooklyn-born Dom DeLuise, the roly-poly movie foil to best buddy Burt Reynolds during

I am disturbed, but not surprised by some of the comments made by Barrack Obama as regards the role of a Justice of the Supreme Court and thereby, what we will get in the replacement for Justice David Souter, who

If Mario Armando Lavandeira b/k/a Perze Hilton was trying to stiffle free expression on the Internet and to put a halt to beiing used for sport, like the one’s promise to slow the raise of the oceans, Lavandeira has utterly

This is rich.

In my view, this oughta be required viewing in any PolSci class.