New York Ain’t What It Used To Be
The New York papers were crazy yesterday over a little incident with Rex Ryan, coach of the almost-AFC-champion Jets. While in Florida for Super Bowl week, Ryan attended an MMA fight where during a half-time interview he told the raucous crowd, "Hey, I just want to tell everybody in Miami here: Hey we're coming to [...]
Sarah Palin on Harry Reid’s Unrepealable Death Panel
Sarah Palin takes aim at the health care bill’s provision to make it out of order for future Congresses to repeal or amend the section creating the Independent Medicare Advisory Board, which, writes Palin “is a panel of bureaucrats charged with cutting health care costs on the backs of patients – also known as rationing”:
Democrats [...]
No way to win a war
It’s official. The Ditherer-in-Chief has reached an “unprecidented” decision: Obama to Outline Plan to Send 30,000 Troops to Afghanistan Over Six Months.
The kicker:
In a speech to be delivered at West Point, the president also plans to discuss an end-game for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan that will have a specific timeline for withdrawing “surge” forces [...]
The Scozzafava Scandals
Ordinarily, I dote on every word writ by Rich Galen, cybercolumnist extraordinaire, proprietor of Mullings, my favorite non-blog blog (neg-blog?) Alas, I think he has really gone off the Newtonian end on the NY-23 race.
In today’s Mullings, Rich writes the following:
The Conservatives nominated a guy named Doug Hoffman who does not live in the [...]
Marjorie Cohn: Condi Channels Nixon: If the President Says So, It’s Not Illegal
On April 27, Condoleezza Rice had a brief Q & A with some Stanford students:
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijEED_iviTA.
Condi was extremely uncomfortable, defensive and nervous. She was rude to the first student, interrupted him and yelled at him.
When asked by another student about a recent report that she authorized waterboarding, Condi said, “I didn’t authorize anything. I [...]
Bill Chameides: Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun
Dr. Bill Chameides is the dean of Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs regularly at theGreenGrok.com.
Surprises in the climate system can very quickly make global warming a whole lot worse than predicted. Scientists have known that one such surprise could come from a sudden [...]
