I really don’t understand the affection so many people have for the United Nations. It has its uses — mainly in giving a floor for countries to spew words, as opposed to bullets, at each other.
But the UN human rights record is atrocious, with a bunch of gangsters using the floor to throw praise at Cuba. And their peace-keepers are notoriously ill-behaved, allowing violence to go on, raping women and, recently, taking food from starving kids.
We need to see the UN for what they are not what we wish they were.
What is it with the libs and measuring the wrong parameters when it comes to looking at the economy? At this stage, after so much debunking, I have to believe that it is a deliberate deception.
War of the Worlds in reverse. Are our landers killing the very life they are trying to find?
The destruction of federalism continues apace. As part of cap and trade, the Feds may impose building codes. This will work out just fine. The building codes appropriate for Alaska are obviously appropriate for Florida. Right?
An anonymous blogger gets outed for honking off one of the neocons. NIce. Makes me want to just give up blogging. A look at the potential consequences here.
George Will on the Gm debacle. Brilliant, as always.
Homeless man shines shoes to lift himself out of the gutter. Bureaucrat reads about it in paper. You know what happens next.
The economic stimulus is making states fight over the scraps from the government table. Charming.
The IRS wants to license tax preparers. I might be prepared to countenance this if the IRS could fill out tax forms correctly.
The city of Austin, never one to pass up an opportunity or stupid feelgoodism, mandates energy audits for new home sales. ‘Cuz, you know, the home market is too brisk right now.
The GOP has decided that the only reason they are losing is media bias. Apparently having no ideas and thoroughly betraying everything about conservatism isn’t their problem.
Newsweek tackles Oprah in a hard-hitting piece about her promotion of quackery. About damn time, too. Now if only they would review her suggestions for Presidents…
One of the things I’ve become fascinated by are way the government could stimulate the economy without spending a penny. Tax reform is the obvious point, but regulatory reform is another. There’s absolutely no reason our regulatory environment should be imposing over a trillion dollars in compliance costs on the country.
Glenn Greenwald has a great post on the Gitmo detainee who just killed himself. Read the whole thing. Kudos to Greenwald for holding Obama’s feet to the fire on the detainee question.
The WSJ on empathy. The reason we have laws and a Constitution is precisely so that people don’t make decisions based on emotion — which is an unreliable guide at best.
Obama and the Democrats are contemplating an outrageous expansion of federal discretionary power. Kudo to Greenwald for not selling out to the Hope and Change Express.
Why does Bill Kristol still get media appearances? He’s a disgrace. He’s just wrong about everything. If a blogger were as wildly ignorant as Kristol is, his traffic would crater.
Sweeeet. Taxpayers are auditing school districts — and finding millions in waste. That’s change we can believe in.
Isn’t this sort of thing how we got an economic crisis in the first place?
Lithwick defends Clarence Thomas. The meme in liberal circles that Thomas is an idiot puppet of Scalia is one of the most ignorant — and quietly racist — of the movement. The thinking seems to be that since he’s black and not liberal, he must be a moron.