Inaugural Costs: Transferring Wealth, Not Wasting It
Though I am oversimplifying in the service of brevity, there is more truth than fiction in the notion that money spent on inaugural festivities represents a transfer of wealth from big corporations and individuals of decent income to men and women who work for caterers, restaurants, hotels, the D.C. convention ...
Retirement Security Crisis: Real and Bigger Than Just Social Security
This stark essay by Robert Samuelson in the January 14 Washington Post goes much further than does the White House in saying that our federal senior citizen entitlement programs need reform. Now. Contrasting sharply with liberals who claim entitlement programs are not in crisis and claim the Administration is peddling ...
Dana Dillon: Tsunamis Do Not Trump Sovereignty
The Heritage Foundation has a calm perspective on the Indonesian government in light of recent events related to tsunami relief efforts ...
what if?: Payola Confessions
Peg at what if? has a shocking confession about what she would do for a $1,000 payoff. Rather than wonder what a $240,000 contract would get me, I'm off to look for the baby pictures she says she posted -- wherever they are. (I'm a sucker for baby pictures.) ...
ProfessorBainbridge.com: Free the Tomatoes
I don't see why one need become a libertarian to be outraged by this. As a conservative, I certainly am. Professor Bainbridge is right on the money with this one. If you like, or even buy, tomatoes, read the Professor's post about how Florida farmers are conspiring to keep us ...
Prince Harry: German Ancestry Does Not Make Him a Nazi Sympathizer
I noted a bit of unintentional irony in this New York Times article about Prince Harry wearing a swastika. On the one hand, the piece notes some observers lamenting the possibility that history is not being properly taught to young people: ...the debate provoked some introspection about whether the memory ...
Heritage Weblog: Social Security Polls
The Heritage Foundation's Heritage Policy Weblog has posted results of several recent polls on Social Security reform, and provides an analysis that, Heritage says, "illustrate(s) that how pollsters ask questions about reform can make a big difference." Among other results they cite, 82 percent of Americans, according to Gallup, say ...
Pittsburgh Steelers Resource
As the Pittsburgh Steelers continue their all-but-inevitable acquistion of the Vince Lombardi Trophy, folks might find it handy to have this list of Pittsburgh-area blogs. Meanwhile, kudos to Pittsburgh's rookie quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, who announced Tuesday he will donate his first NFL playoff paycheck (January 15, Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New ...
AP Rewrites History
The AP Begins a report today saying: The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quietly concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President Bush cited as justification for going to war, the White House said Wednesday... So subtle, so wrong, and so damaging. The war ...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Letter from a Russian Prison
Mikhail Khodorkovsky writes from a Russian prison, as published by the International Herald Tribune: The destruction of Yukos is almost done. I did everything I could to prevent the authorities' personal animosity toward me from harming minority shareholders, ordinary employees and the country as a whole. Half a year ago ...
SinclairAction: Intransigent, But Why?
While preparing for a talk radio interview about the Staples - Sinclair - Media Matters issue, husband David noticed that the liberal activist group SinclairAction still has this graphic up on its website: This seems at odds with the facts. I commented about this graphic on January 8. To my ...
Iraq: Stay Determined by Joe Roche
Joe Roche has a message for anyone gloomy about election prospects in Iraq: Our country is fortunate to have the orderly and time-honored traditions of elections and transfers of power. These are the most important events in democracy. I spent fifteen months in Baghdad, Iraq, deployed as a soldier in ...
No WASPs Need Visit
Maybe if you are white, middle-class, middle-aged and don't use a wheelchair the British government will still let you in if you pretend to need a wheelchair? Which does add an ironic twist to the fact that these programs are called "walks..." ...
Staples – Sinclair – Media Matters: Who’s on First?
A very brief update on our coverage of Staples - Sinclair - Media Matters... This article on the Staples affair ends on a funny note: ...As for how the issue will eventually be settled between Staples - which now says it will advertise during Sinclair's newscasts - and Media Matters, ...
Peter Roff: Torture and Gonzales
Peter Roff of UPI has a standout opinion column out tonight on torture and Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales. It begins: "Your college-age junior comes to you with plans to spend mid-winter break in Florida rather than come home. Against your better judgment but recognizing that all children eventually grow up ...
France: Hopeless Even When It Means Well
If the official French attitude toward the United States and the American military has frustrated you, you will very much appreciate this post on Bloggledygook. Appreciate, that is, in a sad and perhaps pitiful kind of way. (It would be much nicer to appreciate competence and brilliance.) If you like ...
Everything I Know Is Wrong in Philadelphia Inquirer
Congratulations to Sean at Everything I Know Is Wrong for being cited by the Philadelphia Inquirer as a resource on global warming. Despite all the snow at the top of his blog, Sean has had some mighty good posts on global warming ...
Child Free
I know I just linked to Eric Berlin yesterday, so I probably should not do it again so soon, but he has an eye-popping post up about people who seemingly hate children. He's not kidding, either. I visited the website he mentioned and the very first post I saw urged ...
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