Support Dartmouth United
In addition to Dartmouth’s trustee elections, which I wrote about here and here, alumni are also electing the executive committee of the Association of Alumni. My friend Mike Murphy has assembled a fine slate which, this time around, is unencumbered by the presence of a certain cranky conservative blogger. The slate is called [...]
White House insiders say…
Iowahawk compiles recent media reports conveying the deep thoughts of “White House insiders.” He even rounds up one or two that you might have missed, such as the Highlights for Children scoop that “Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s BFF!” and Iowahawk’s more deeply sourced report suggesting that a reclusive Iowa blogger is the key [...]
What Next for the Tea Parties?
More, Glenn Reynolds writes in The Examiner. More power; more influence; more respect:
So far the Tea Party’s record is looking pretty good. But what happens next? Many people — er, well, many pundits, anyway — complain that the Tea Party movement is entirely oppositional: For a brief moment, the key buzzword was “nihilistic,” though [...]
ObamaCareGate?
Now we know why some prominent economists came out swinging so strongly for ObamaCare, notwithstanding its economic stupidity:
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of health care reform, is taking heat for failing to disclose consistently that he was under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while he was [...]
Brit Hume on Tiger Woods, no big deal
Ramesh Ponnuru and Peter Wehner have both posted defenses of Brit Hume’s expression of hope that Tiger Woods will convert to Christianity because Christianity offers a forgiveness and redemption that cannot be found in Buddhism. Woods, apparently, is a Buddhist.
It seems to me that there are at least two issues here: (1) [...]
Who’s the "mass murderer" now?
The Senate Democrats, along with Joe Lieberman who caucuses with them, held a meeting this evening to figure out how to salvage health care reform legislaton. The answer, apparently, was to jettison Harry Reid’s ridiculous Medicare expansion approach. According to ABC News:
Senators emerging from the special Democratic caucus confirmed that the Medicare [...]
