Posts Tagged ‘Charles Murray’
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
LinkSwarm, or EuroDoom? LinkSwarm, or EuroDoom? Well, the first link has some of each, but with Davos just starting up, I imagine their will be a nice helping of EuroDoom ready to serve tomorrow, so let’s put up a LinkSwarm today:
Mark Steyn looks at the Costa Concordia sinking and smells a metaphor.
Myth: Newt Gingrich told his first wife he was divorcing her on her hospital deathbed. Fact: They had already agreed to a divorce, Newt was just visiting her, the tumor was benign, and Jackie Battley Gingrich is still alive. But who are you going to believe: Online liberal trolls, or the daughter who was actually in the hospital room at the time?
Borepatch says that Gingrich is particular effective at demolishing the Left’s Thought-terminating cliches.
Larry Elder lists all the things Gingrich can nail Obama and the media on.
Jonah Goldberg discusses Newtzilla, but his best barbs are reserved for his opponent: “Romney seems like a creature put on Earth to blend in with the humans and report back what he finds. He clearly likes earthlings, and they in turn find him pleasant enough and surprisingly lifelike.”
Maureen Dowd on on Obama’s cocoon of self-aggrandizing victimization. Like all Dowd’s columns, it focuses on the trivial minutia of the-personal-as-political…and is all the more devastating for it. “The man who came to Washington on a wave of euphoria has had a presidency with all the joy of a root canal…The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They’ve forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House. And after four or eight years of public service, you are assured membership in the 1 percent club.”
After 12 months, what has the Arab Spring wrought in Egypt? Cairo Winter: “The reality of the past twelve months, however, has undone whatever high hopes one might have held. Egypt is now headed for radical theocratic, rather than liberal democratic, rule. And a befuddled Obama administration has failed to do anything to stop the coming disaster.” (Hat tip: Michael Totten, who adds: “I know a few Egyptian intellectuals and activists who are authentic liberals, but they’re not remotely a majority. The percentage of Egyptians who genuinely support most or all the tenets of Western-style liberal democracy is in the high single digits at best.”)
An interesting quiz that ties in to Charles Murray’s new books asking how thick is your bubble?
A roundup of State of the Union reactions from the Texas congressional delegation.
Japan suffers its first trade deficit since 1980. Remember all those stories from the 1980s about how Japan was going to take over the world? They were very similar to the ones we were getting about China just a few years ago…
Hat tips: Ace, Insta, The Corner, and the usual suspects.
Tags:Arab, Charles Murray, Costa Concordia, Egypt, Jonah Goldberg, LinkSwarm, Mark Steyn, Maureen Dowd, Michael Totten, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, unrest
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
The year winds down, and I have a bunch of more-or-less lengthy posts in various stages of completion. You know what that means? That’s right! LinkSwarm!
Even profitable firms are leaving California for Texas.
Charles Murray concludes that more prisons means less crime. “Higher imprisonment was the necessary condition for 100 percent of the reduction in violent crime.”
Riot at the Mall of America.
My amazing psychic powers prove accurate again.
Some good news: ethanol subsidies have finally expired. Now let’s make sure to keep them dead.
That’s a Heller of a lot of money.
Michigan men: Are you living with someone who’s pregnant? Congratulations! If this proposed law passes, you’ll be a slave.
“”The Occupy movement is alive and well and kicking, and doing precisely what it was intended to be: The Re-Elect Obama Campaign. Period.”
Hat tips: Insta, and a smattering of others.
Tags:Andrew Breitbart, California, Charles Murray, Crime, DC vs. Heller, flash mob, Gary Johnson, Guns, LinkSwarm, Michigan, Occupy Wall Street, Texas
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
Like everyone else, I’m a little slow getting back into the post-Thanksgiving swing of things, so here’s a collection of links:
- Good to see Harry Reid spending all his time
focusing on the economy trying to force right to work states to unionize policemen and firefighters. Because those of us in red states suffer so terribly from a lack of strikes…
- Son of Kyoto is effectively dead, mainly because there’s no way in hell the Senate will approve the U.S. doling out tens of billions of dollars in subsidies for the likes of Iran, Cuba, and North Korea.
- One contributing factor may be than many view the media as hopelessly biased on environmental issues.
- Contrary to popular belief that Arizona’s immigration law would alienate Hispanic voters from the Republican Party, Republicans candidates actually did better among Hispanic voters in 2010, garnering 38% of the vote compared to 29% in 2008 and 30% in 2006. “Many Hispanics indeed voted for the very Republican candidates most identified as having a pro-enforcement or anti-amnesty stance. And these Republicans generally did as well as, or better than, the Republicans running for the same positions in the previous election.”
- I knew about Fredric Wertham’s campaign against “immoral” comic books in the 1950s, but until I read this George Will piece about the current moral panic over video games, I never knew he was a left-winger who named a clinic after Karl Marx’s son-in-law and testified on behalf of Ethel Rosenberg.
- Charles Murray on the new elite. Not sure if I linked to it before, but Murray is always worth a second read.
Tags:Border Controls, Charles Murray, Communism, environmentalism, Ethel Rosenberg, Fredric Wertham, George Will, Global Warming, LinkSwarm, moral panics
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