Ham Slam

I think it’s fair to say that belief in Geithner’s mishandling is now officially unideological:

Mary Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard, quiped after Ann Coulter and Bill Maher agree.

I note via Glenn Reynolds, an article on Time’s website:

Dodd is looking increasingly vulnerable. The silver-haired father of two young girls is facing his toughest re-election fight ever, and he doesn’t even have an opponent yet. (Though CNBC

There’s a rumbling below decks on the good ship Obama.

Geithner’s choice as his deputy has pulled out of the running.  Sanjay Gupta  has also withdrawn his name as Surgeon General. Charles Freeman is about ready to give up

On the morning of February 17th,I was standing in line getting coffee at the little cafeteria at  my day gig. Behind me were two guys that had obviously been in heated discussion for some time. I don’t know either of

 The names?  Well, they’re ones you’ll want to keep tucked away, because in my estimation,

After years of planning and billions of dollars spent on new equipment, including those $50.00 digital TV converter boxes, the government is currently trying to figure out whether not actually wants to follow through on the timetable it originally proposed

Millions are without power in Kentucky, forty-three are dead.   Does Barack Obama care?  Is Obama even vaguely aware of the situation?

More, Anchoress

Addendum: (Bit)

So much for global warming.

And where is FEMA? Bob McCarty writes:

Five days after

Remember, the architects of the grossly over-expensive and incompetently managed DTV transition also want to run health care, the auto industry, the oil industry, and everything else. Feel better?

Doug Powers, American Thinker.

I remakred the other day  about “Baby P”

As an update for you…

The BBC dryly reports what little consequence has come out of this horror

Three people have been suspended on full pay from Haringey Council after a “damning”

To a conservative, anyone who advocates building an ideal society by the use of reason-based theories is a ‘Utopian liberal’ because following Burke and Russel Kirk they do not believe in the unlimited power of reason.
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Some of Clark’s

James at OTB this morning examines an issue which the price of oil has been bringing to the fore, called “The Future of Suburbia”.   Now, look; I admit I pushed this one a bit off James’ intended thrust. I

There is an interesting poll out that confirms this is a center-right nation at least in terms of fiscal responsibility in government.

Conducted in late June, the poll surveyed 800 voters and had a margin of error of plus or

The Ottawa Citizen reports that former Ambassador Joe Wilson lied:

A Canadian company has purchased more than 500 tonnes of yellowcake uranium, once controlled by the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

The Saskatoon-based Cameco Corp., negotiated the purchase from the

Bruce explains the reaction of Congress to our gas prices very well, indeedL

Why do you suppose Congressional leaders are spending all their time blaming current oil prices on speculators, price gougers and OPEC?

Because if they addressed the

From the Daily Mail:

George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. ‘One sometimes gets the impression,’ he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, ‘that the mere words socialism and communism draw towards them with